Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa's largest city and driving away fish and livelihoods for some of its poorest people.
Federal prosecutors have charged one of the illegal immigrants shot by Border Patrol in Oregon last week with assaulting a federal officer, saying he repeatedly rammed his pickup truck into a government rental car, forcing officers to react.
The difficulty of tracking the death toll from Iran's nationwide protests has been compounded by the government's decision to cut off the internet and international calling to the country, but some information has still been getting out.
Democratic former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola said Monday that she would challenge Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan in this year's midterm elections, vowing to shake up the establishment to make life more affordable for Alaskans.
After a frenetic few months of congressional redistricting efforts, President Donald Trump's plan to reshape voting districts for partisan advantage ahead of this year's midterm elections stands at an important juncture.
California is going broke, the state is losing even more tax revenue, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) still wants to spend even more taxpayer dollars that the state just does not have. According to KCRA News’s Ashley Zavala, Newsom is proposing increasing California’s budget to $348.9 billion, up from the previous budget of $321 billion. […]
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s U.K. government is facing a test of its commitment to European security and the United Kingdom’s special relationship with the United States. The test is expensive, coming in at $38 billion. Both the Sun and the Times newspapers reported that Gen. Richard Knighton, the U.K.’s equivalent of the chairman of the […]
I’ve lived through enough President Donald Trump-related freakouts over the years to have learned an important lesson: It’s usually wise to wait for the facts before rushing out definitive declarations. For example, when an indictment came down against John Bolton — a former Trump official turned Trump critic — accusations of retaliatory government thuggery came […]
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday that there is no "timeline" for the U.S. to acquire Greenland, but she said it was a “priority.” “[President Trump] has not set a timeline but it’s definitely a priority for him,” Leavitt told reporters at the White House. “I think the president was very clear...
Rep. French Hill (R-Ark.), chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, on Monday became the latest Republican in Congress to speak out against the criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. In a statement Monday, Hill called the Justice Department probe “an unnecessary distraction,” as he underscored his confidence in Powell’s integrity. "I've known...
Sen. Mark Kelly sued the Defense Department on Monday after Secretary Pete Hegseth sought to censure the Arizona Democrat over a viral video urging servicemembers to disobey illegal orders from this fall. “His unconstitutional crusade against me sends a chilling message to every retired member of the military: if you speak out and say something...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) filed a lawsuit against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday over efforts to censure the senator and lower his retirement rank after he participated in a video calling on service members to reject unlawful orders. Kelly argues the Pentagon’s bid to reduce his retirement rank and military pension would “trample on protections” the Constitution lays out for legislative independence, contending the executive branch has never...
