President Trump on Tuesday named Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York Mayor and longtime Trump ally Rudy Giuliani, as head of the White House task force overseeing the 2026 World Cup.

President Trump's desire to reopen long-shuttered Alcatraz prison and cut bonuses for correctional staff became targets Tuesday for Democrats who, like their Republican colleagues, agreed the Bureau of Prisons suffers from crumbling facilities, overworked guards and sinking morale.

Ed Martin, nominated by President Trump to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, is teetering on the edge of defeat in the Senate, where a key Republican said his all-out defense of the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters disqualifies him for the role.

A federal appeals court upheld the racketeering convictions of former Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and an ex-lobbyist on Tuesday in a $60 million bribery scheme that a prosecutor had described as likely the largest corruption scheme in state history.

A PULITZER INJUSTICE. You probably remember when you first saw the photo of President Donald Trump last year, moments after being shot in an assassination attempt, blood on his face, his fist raised, shouting, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Without any doubt, it was the photo of the year and probably the decade.  There were certainly other dramatic […]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said he will work to curb chaos at Newark Airport this week after Tuesday's delays.  “We're rolling a plan out on Thursday. We're going to need a lot of money from Congress to do this. It's not going to take 10 years, like Pete suggested,” Duffy said during his Tuesday appearance...

India struck Pakistani-controlled territory early Wednesday in response to a massacre of tourists in an Indian-controlled territory last month. The missile attack left eight people and one child dead, as well as multiple others wounded, according to The Associated Press. The Indian government, in a press release, claims it was striking infrastructure used by militants,...

Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday said one controversial proposal to cut federal Medicaid funding was off the table and another would likely be excluded from the bill containing President Trump's domestic policy priorities. Both had been red lines for a number of moderate and vulnerable Republicans, leaving the GOP closer to an agreement on...

A federal jury in California ordered Israeli cyberintelligence firm NSO Group on Tuesday to pay Meta and WhatsApp nearly $170 million for hacking about 1,400 users on the instant messaging platform.  The spyware vendor, which created the Pegasus surveillance tool, has to pay $167,256,000 in punitive damages and another $440,000 in compensatory damages. The verdict,...

The National Security Agency (NSA), the U.S. government's electronic spy agency, is looking at cutting up to 2,000 civilian jobs as part of the Trump administration's effort to greatly reduce the federal workforce. The NSA, which is within the Defense Department, must eliminate 8 percent of its civilian roles, or between 1,500 and 2,000 positions,...