Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry is projected to win the state's gubernatorial race, according to The Associated Press, handing Republicans control of the top executive office there for the first time since 2016. Landry competed alongside more than a dozen other people in the jungle primary, in which candidates appear on the same ballot regardless...

A journalism organization on Saturday reported the deaths of at least 12 journalists due to the fighting between the militant group Hamas and Israel. “As of October 14, in the first eight days of fighting, at least 12 journalists were killed, two were missing and eight injured,” the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on...

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) called for the ouster of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on Friday. Blackburn sent a letter to President Biden highlighting her reasons for why she thinks Sullivan can be removed from the role, saying he “has routinely misled the entire government about the status of security threats around the world.” “Just...

FBI Director Christopher Wray warned of a rise in violent extremism in a Saturday speech amid fighting between the militant group Hamas and Israel. “History has been witness to antisemitic and other forms of violent extremism for far too long. Whether that be from foreign terrorist organizations, or those inspired by them, or domestic violent...

The United States announced they are sending a second carrier strike group to the Eastern Mediterranean to act as a deterrence amid concerns that foreign aggressors could engage in the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The USS Gerald Ford was the first group to head to the region, and now the...

Arizona Republican Senate candidate Kari Lake said that world leaders are taking advantage of the U.S.'s “feeble” president amid fighting between militant group Hamas and Israel in a recent interview.  “[S]ome of these world leaders are like sharks,” Lake said in an interview on One America News Network (OAN). “They smell blood in the water....

Republicans have won the race for Louisiana's next governor, avoiding a runoff and flipping the Democrat-held seat in the first major contest ahead of the 2024 elections.