Can President Trump make Alcatraz a prison again? It’s an intriguing idea. The president’s fiscal year 2027 budget proposal, sent to Congress on Friday, requested $152 million to restore...
A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s effort to force public colleges and universities in 17 states to hand over detailed race-based admissions data. U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor found that the Department of Education likely has the authority to “collect, analyze, and make use of the data,” but...
Multiple people were injured during a Saturday parade in Louisiana, where police say a vehicle drove into a crowd, hitting several parade participants.
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NASA officials on Friday afternoon will update reporters on the progress of the Artemis II mission, the U.S.'s first crewed lunar mission in roughly five decades. The 10-day test flight is expected to orbit the moon. The crew includes three U.S. astronauts and one from Canada. At approximately 6:32 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, NASA launched...
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has labeled a recent data breach, which reportedly targeted an FBI surveillance system, a “major incident” and notified Congress about the cyber intrusion, the agency confirmed to The Hill on Friday. “The FBI identified anomalous activity on an unclassified network and quickly leveraged all technical capabilities to remediate the...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshal Service detained a mosque president from Milwaukee who advocated for Palestinian rights, causing local and religious leaders to accuse the agency of detaining him for political reasons. The Islamic Society of Milwaukee also confirmed that ICE detained the man, "our beloved community leader" Salah Sarsour, after...
Democrats on Friday blasted the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request, warning that it fails to address the needs of Americans and undermines critical domestic programs and priorities. The request, prepared by White House budget chief Russell Vought and unveiled Friday morning, calls for $1.5 trillion in defense spending, a roughly 42 percent increase from...
Many Americans continue to hold negative views of both the Democratic and Republican parties ahead of the midterm elections, according to a new poll. In a CNN survey released Friday, nearly a quarter of U.S. respondents said they have negative perceptions of both the Republican and Democratic parties. The respondents, however, preferred Democratic candidates in...
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito sought medical attention after feeling ill at a March event in Philadelphia, the court confirmed Friday. The rare statement about the justice's health comes after CNN reported the incident. The outlet said he was taken to a hospital. "Out of an abundance of caution, he agreed with his security detail’s recommendation to...
A retired master sergeant in the Air Force on Wednesday pleaded guilty to inflating the cost of information technology contracts for the Pacific Air Forces by at least $37 million to enrich himself and co-conspirators, according to the Department of Justice. Alan Hayward James, 51, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, bribery and...
A federal judge on Friday said he won't reconsider his decision blocking Justice Department subpoenas of the Federal Reserve and its chair, Jerome Powell. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, the chief judge of Washington’s federal trial court, said the government "did not come close" to persuading him to reconsider his ruling that quashed two subpoenas...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to boost security at the NFL draft set to take place in Pittsburgh later this month as the conflict in Iran persists. “This is the first time since 1948 that the NFL will host the Draft in Pittsburgh. It is expected to draw...
President Trump released his budget request for fiscal 2027 on Friday morning, including a whopping $1.5 trillion ask for the Pentagon. This year’s defense budget request is a $441 billion increase from the $1 trillion approved by Congress last year. The request includes $1.1 trillion in “base discretionary” spending and $350 billion for “critical Administration...
The opioid crisis has resulted in over 700,000 overdose deaths since its beginning, and in response, pharmaceutical companies and distributors have agreed to roughly $57 billion in national opioid settlements, but a report has raised concerns about how some jurisdictions are using these funds, suggesting that transparency and accountability are needed to ensure the money is used to save lives and strengthen recovery.
Rep. Rich McCormick (R-Ga.) on Thursday said he will “immediately” look into Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's recent decision to fire Army chief of staff Gen. Randy George. “That would be very surprising to me,” McCormick told Newsmax's Ed Henry, seemingly perplexed by the news. “I would look into it immediately because those are people I...
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) on Thursday denied a claim that Attorney General Pam Bondi was fired for leaking information to him about a decade-old investigation into his relationship with an alleged Chinese spy. “The attorney general did not tip us off. No one in her orbit tipped us off,” Swalwell said in an interview on MS...
