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Twelve state parties spent two days this week asking a Democratic National Committee panel to let them vote early in the 2028 presidential primary. Their pitches, whether intentional or not, added up to a single answer to a harder question:…
The United States is on track to implement the first comprehensive housing legislation in decades. For the past several years, housing affordability has been a significant subject across the country, with many young people struggling to achieve the dream of…
In a video generated using artificial intelligence, flames lick the Los Angeles night sky as the famous Hollywood sign burns brightly. The scene shifts to a Gotham-inspired building where Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, cast as the Joker, sits atop…
The top officer in charge of U.S. military operations across Latin America met with senior Cuban military leaders in Cuba on May 29, marking a rare meeting at a moment of rising U.S. pressure on the communist-led state. On Friday,…
President Donald Trump rescinded two executive orders Friday from the 1970s that had governed off-road vehicle use on federal public lands, directing agencies to dismantle a regulatory framework he called vague, burdensome, and an obstacle to legitimate access. The order…
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth on May 30 called for allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region to bolster their armed forces to help counterbalance China’s military expansion. “When we look across the region today, there is rightful alarm…
Competitive Congressional GOP primaries for an open seat in northern Nevada and for November berths to challenge Democratic incumbents in three Las Vegas-area U.S. House districts have Republicans outpacing Democrats in early voting tallies. Nearly 119,000 Nevadans—including 46,800 Republicans, and…
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles, and British Secretary of State for Defense John Healey announced on May 30 that they would jointly develop Unmanned Undersea Vehicles, under the AUKUS partnership, to improve the three…
Demonstrations in support of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are expected on the morning of May 30 outside Delaney Hall, an ICE detention facility in New Jersey. ...
President Donald Trump was listed in “excellent health” after his annual medical examination at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, according to a White House memo released on May 29. The 79-year-old president demonstrated strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall…
President Donald Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette for governor of South Carolina on Friday. In a Truth Social post Friday evening, Trump praised Evette’s loyalty and record while positioning her as a clear choice in the Republican primary to…
The U.S. Navy has warned commercial shipping that “dangerous military activities” will take place in and around the Strait of Hormuz, cautioning that vessels suspected of supporting mine-laying operations could be targeted and that the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports…
WASHINGTON—Texas’s costly Senate primary season is over. Now, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and State Rep. James Talarico are getting ready for the big fight—the general election. Buoyed by an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Paxton beat Sen. John Cornyn…
WASHINGTON—Texas’s costly Senate primary season is over. Now, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and State Rep. James Talarico are getting ready for the big fight—the general election. Buoyed by an endorsement from President Donald Trump, Paxton beat Sen. John Cornyn…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on May 29 directing agencies to align with a scientific assessment that recommended fewer childhood vaccines. Trump’s order references a scientific assessment by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that compared…
In the 1990s, New Orleans schools provided little respite from the lockdowns, the arrests, the drug use, and the violence seen and heard at home, Oscar Brown recalls. Brown grew up in what was then among the poorest, most densely…
President Donald Trump wants to transfer all operations of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to Congress after a federal judge blocked a two-year closure of the venue for renovations. “The Kennedy Center, which was going to…
U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks at the Shangri-La security dialogue in Session 1 at 8:30 p.m. ET on May 29 on the “United States’ strategy for peace in the Indo-Pacific.” ...
A federal district judge who is considering reopening President Donald Trump’s recently settled lawsuit over alleged IRS leaks of his tax returns indicated on May 29 that she is probing allegations of fraud. An Anti-Weaponization Fund was created as part…
A federal district judge on May 29 ordered that President Donald Trump’s name be removed from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and blocked officials from shuttering the venue for two years for renovations. Washington-based Judge Christopher…