Texas Attorney General and United States Senate nominee Ken Paxton faces scrutiny after an investigative report revealed major errors and omissions in his federal financial disclosures. Published jointly by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune, the review indicates that Paxton reported owning seven properties across Texas, Florida, and Oklahoma while claiming...
President Donald Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, are traveling to Moscow and Kyiv for high-level diplomatic talks aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war. This marks their first visit to Kyiv since the administration returned to office, following repeated Ukrainian concerns that U.S. negotiators focused heavily on meetings...
Three Vietnam War veterans and an architectural historian filed an emergency motion for a temporary restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to halt excavation work on a planned 250-foot triumphal arch. The legal action follows announcements by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum indicating that preparatory...
The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines to allow the construction of President Donald Trump's 400 million dollar White House ballroom project to proceed. The majority justices determined that a coalition of plaintiffs challenging the architectural addition lacked legal standing to bring the lawsuit. The decision removes...
US President Donald Trump has dismissed security concerns regarding a potential Russian attack on NATO territory, asserting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of striking the alliance. Trump's remarks came amid heightened European security tensions after the German government formally blamed Moscow for an attempted explosive drone attack...
A federal judge has rejected former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s challenge to North Carolina jurisdiction, allowing an alienation-of-affection lawsuit filed by Heather Ammel to proceed. U.S. District Judge David A. Bragdon ruled Friday that nine messages Sinema sent to Matthew Ammel while he was in North Carolina established sufficient contacts...
The Education Department has released the 2023-24 Civil Rights Data Collection, but gender-identity and nonbinary information is suppressed in the public files. The department says the collection covers virtually every public school and includes civil-rights indicators including harassment and bullying. Its 2023-24 survey had required gender-identity bullying data and expanded...
New York City officials and community members are mounting a campaign to prevent the permanent closure of the AMC Kips Bay 15 multiplex in Manhattan. The theater, operating since 1999, faces shutdown by the end of the year after NYU Langone Health acquired the underlying property. Congressman Jerry Nadler and...
The Federal Communications Commission asked a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Walt Disney Co. seeking to block early reviews of broadcast licenses for eight company-owned ABC television stations. The FCC argued in court filings that halting its inquiry would impede ongoing investigations into alleged unlawful...
Federal prosecutors have charged Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer Christian Castro with making false statements to investigators about a January shooting in Minneapolis, according to a person familiar with the case. Castro allegedly shot Venezuelan immigrant Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in the leg during Operation Metro Surge, a federal immigration enforcement...
