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ICE puts vulnerable Republicans in a bind weeks before midterms

Battleground Republicans across the country are on defense as ICE operations keep finding their way into local headlines.A flurry of ICE activity in four rural Kansas towns this week...

Trump’s Greenland obsession isn’t random. Here’s what’s at stake

Greenland's untapped rare earth minerals, oil and gas reserves could reshape U.S. energy security as Trump's Denmark deal expands military presence.

Trump reaffirms ICE arrest policy after confusing guidance sparks alarm among agents

Trump told officials that anyone in the country illegally remains "on the table" for arrest and deportation after internal ICE guidance caused confusion.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—September 27

2019—Federal district judge Ketanji Brown Jackson issues a nationwide injunction (in Make the Road New York v....

Watch live: Artemis II crew holds press conference from space

The Artemis II crew will give remarks from the Orion spacecraft on Thursday evening, just days after the four astronauts traveled further into space than anyone before them. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — embarked on the 10-day lunar flyby mission...

Van Hollen: Trump ‘genocide’ post shows Republican Party is ‘bankrupt’

Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) on Wednesday went after the Republican response to President Trump’s recent post threatening Iran in which he stated that “a whole civilization will die." “It says something about just how bankrupt the Republican Party has become under Donald Trump, that none of them said a peep. And so, the reality...

Wisconsin mayor who removed ballot drop boxes won’t face charges

A Wisconsin mayor who removed an absentee ballot drop box from city hall ahead of the 2024 presidential election will not face charges, a special prosecutor said Wednesday. Doug Diny, the mayor of Wausau, has maintained that he did nothing wrong when he carted away the city’s lone ballot drop box in September 2024, according...

Sotomayor says AI forecasting Supreme Court decisions a ‘bad thing,’ shows ‘we’re way too predictable’

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday called artificial intelligence models that have found success in anticipating how the high court will rule in upcoming cases “a very bad thing.” “It shows we're way too predictable,” Sotomayor told students while speaking at the University of Alabama School of Law. “And we may not be stepping...

Trump slams conservative media figures over splitting with him on Iran

President Trump on Thursday tore into several right-wing media figures who had been reliably supportive of him during his second term until the U.S. war in Iran broke out. The president attacked several of the hosts and commentators personally, dismissed their viewpoints on the war and defended the military operation in the Middle East. "I...

State Department to hold ceasefire talks between Israel, Lebanon

The State Department will host a meeting next week in Washington, D.C., to discuss ongoing ceasefire negotiations with Israel and Lebanon, a department official confirmed Thursday. The official gave no further details on the talks, which will be focused on ending current hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, which Israel has targeted in...

Silicon Valley turns to new media to sell AI 

{beacon} Technology Technology   The Big Story Silicon Valley turns to new media to sell AI Silicon Valley is embracing nontraditional media to pitch its vision of technology as concerns mount over artificial intelligence’s impact on the workforce, economy and environment. © Illustration / Samantha Wong; and Adobe Stock Tech and business leaders are turning...

Petraeus: Iran could emerge from war ‘militarily weakened’ but ‘strategically strengthened’

Retired Gen. David Petraeus, the former commander of U.S. Central Command, said there is a “paradoxical question” about the future of Iran amid its conflict with the U.S. and Israel.   “We can only answer it when the ultimate resolution is achieved here, but that is whether Iran will emerge militarily very weakened,” the retired general...

Khanna: Netanyahu in Situation Room ‘a betrayal of the American people’

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Wednesday slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for reportedly being in the White House's Situation Room weeks before the U.S.-Israeli joint military operation in Iran began. "Let's start with this pledge," Khanna, a possible 2028 White House contender, wrote on the social platform X. "The next Democratic President will never...

StubHub to pay customers $10M in settlement, FTC says: Do you qualify?

Ticket exchange and resale giant StubHub has agreed to pay $10 million to customers to settle a deceptive ticket pricing case, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said Thursday.

Trump tells Netanyahu to pull back on Israel’s barrage on Lebanon 

President Trump on Thursday confirmed he told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to scale back on a barrage of strikes Israel is conducting in Lebanon, as that operation stands to threaten a fragile ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran. Iran has indicated that a two-week ceasefire agreement reached Tuesday with the U.S. includes the halting...

Watch live: NASA officials give update on Artemis II as mission enters final stretch

NASA officials are set to give their daily update on the historic Artemis II mission, as the four astronauts aboard the Orion spacecraft are on their way back to Earth. The crew — Cmdr. Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, mission specialist Christina Koch and Canadian Space Agency mission specialist Jeremy Hansen — are expected to splash down...

Fertility rate drops to new record low: CDC

The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The general fertility rate, which covers women between the ages of 15 and 44, was about 53.1 births per 1,000 females with...

Rutte says NATO allies ‘were a bit slow, to say the least’ on Iran war

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday that the alliance’s members were “a bit slow, to say the least,” on assisting the U.S. when President Trump launched the war against Iran, but he noted they were not aware of the kinetic action against Tehran beforehand.  "When it came time to provide the logistical and other support...

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