Just five weeks and one day after Sen. John Fetterman took his oath of office, the Pennsylvania Democrat was hospitalized. While doctors maintained that the senator, who nearly died from a stroke last summer, did not suffer a second, Fetterman’s team, as usual, has remained radio silent.
The U.S. military on Friday took down an object flying over Alaskan airspace days after shooting down a Chinese spy balloon along the South Carolina coast, the White House confirmed. John Kirby, a national security spokesperson for the White House, said the Defense Department was tracking a “high-altitude object” over Alaska at 40,000 feet that...
President Biden will travel to Poland on Feb. 20 to 22 to mark the one-year anniversary since Russia invaded Ukraine, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced on Friday. Jean-Pierre said Biden will deliver remarks ahead of the one year anniversary of the invasion, which will involve “addressing how the United States has rallied the...
In large part due to the U.S. military’s shift to great power competition and other national priorities, counterterrorism will face further pressure to get leaner, more flexible and less reliant on the budgeting largesse of the post-9/11 era.
Extended power outages that gripped Austin last week are raising questions about trees and urban power infrastructure — and leaving the city manager fighting for his political life. Unlike the winter storm crisis that rocked Texas in 2021, the recent outages weren't related to the grid. They stemmed from untrimmed limbs from the city's canopy...
A New Jersey council member has been shot and killed for the second time in just over a week in what officials are calling a “dreadful coincidence.” Authorities responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a shooting in a parking lot of the electric utility company PSE&G just past 7 a.m. on Wednesday and found 51-year-old...
The Coast Guard has launched an investigation into the deaths of multiple U.S. citizens on cruises near Antarctica toward the end of last year. A release states that the Coast Guard Activities Europe, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and international flag administrations are looking into the death or injury of citizens on other countries’ ships...