President-elect Donald Trump will nominate financial technology billionaire Jared Isaacman, a longtime SpaceX astronaut, to serve as the next NASA administrator.

If confirmed, Isaacman would oversee a U.S. agency with a roughly $24.8 billion budget and a suite of human and robotic space exploration programs, including the flagship Artemis moon ...Read more

New Jersey released its annual statewide standardized test scores Wednesday, with good and bad news on how public school students are performing in math, language arts, and science.

The state Department of Education presented the statewide results to the Board of Education for third through ninth graders who took the New Jersey Student Learning...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said he will nominate former U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler to lead the Small Business Administration, a move that catapults one of his most loyal Georgia allies to a key position in his administration while jumbling the state’s political landscape.

“Kelly will bring her experience in business and Washington to reduce...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump tapped Peter Navarro as his senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, elevating the formerly incarcerated adviser back to a role similar to the one he played in the previous Trump administration.

“During my First Term, few were more effective or tenacious than Peter in enforcing my two sacred ...Read more

ATLANTA — If Young Thug hadn’t pleaded guilty to gang, drug and gun charges on Halloween night, the rap superstar might have walked free, two jurors said after the lengthy trial ended this week.

The trial, the longest in Georgia history, concluded Tuesday as the two remaining defendants were acquitted of murder, gang and racketeering ...Read more

A man is recovering after he leapt onto a polar bear to prevent it from mauling his wife in their driveway in Canada, police said.

It worked — and the bear attacked the man instead, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service said on Facebook on Tuesday, Dec. 3.

The couple had left their home before 5 a.m. to find their missing dogs when they ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he is selecting former U.S. Rep. Billy Long to serve as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, enlisting a Republican who served in Congress for an incoming administration aiming to renew and expand a broad package of tax cuts.

“Since leaving Congress, Billy has worked as a Business ...Read more

San Diego County last year saw its GDP rise 1.4% to $261.7 billion — bigger than half the states in America.

In data released Wednesday by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, the U.S. gross domestic product grew 2.9% to $22.7 trillion — by far the largest in the world.

Slower GDP growth was common across the U.S. in 2023 in the bureau’...Read more

Finally, some good news for Haiti courtesy of the United Nations cultural organization and its annual list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity.

The group, which previously recognized Haiti’s famous unifying freedom soup, soup joumou or pumpkin soup, as a contribution to humanity, on Wednesday paid homage to another traditional Haitian...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday that he would not run for the ranking member position on the House Judiciary Committee and instead endorsed Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., for the spot.

Nalder, in a letter to Democratic colleagues circulated on social media by The New York Times and other outlets, said Raskin has, in a...Read more

A hooded gunman who was lying in wait for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot and killed the executive outside a Manhattan hotel Wednesday in what police say appears to be a brazen, targeted attack.

Thompson, 50, was fatally shot outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown where video evidence indicates the gunman waited about five minutes, as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An embattled Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, trudged through meetings and appearances on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as he fought to assuage senators’ concerns about his past behavior and push back on the steady flow of negative press that has followed him in recent days.

In his...Read more

BOSTON — The City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to reaffirm Boston’s status as a sanctuary city “to protect” immigrants amid President Donald Trump’s vow to carry out mass deportations when he takes office for the second time next month.

The 13-0 vote was to reaffirm the Boston Trust Act, which, per the Council’s approved ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Banking ranking member Tim Scott, R-S.C., didn’t waste any time Wednesday afternoon praising Paul Atkins after President-elect Donald Trump tapped Atkins to chair the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Atkins, a former SEC commissioner, would take over from SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who said last month that he will step ...Read more

ATLANTA — One of the 12 remaining defendants awaiting trial in the “Young Slime Life” case took a plea deal Wednesday.

Jimmy Winfrey pleaded guilty to violating the state’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations act, a drug and gun charge. A gang charge was dismissed as part of the plea deal.

He was sentenced to 10 years, ...Read more

President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter Biden was deeply unpopular, new polling reveals. However, a pardon granted by his predecessor — and now-successor — was just as disliked.

In a recent YouGov poll, 50% of respondents said they strongly or somewhat disapproved of Biden granting clemency to his son. A much smaller share...Read more

WASHINGTON — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly vowed during his presidential campaign to send troops to the U.S. southern border, authorize lethal force against migrants attempting to cross between ports of entry, and even consider firing missiles into Mexico — an extraordinary use of U.S. military power that has since been endorsed by ...Read more