On “Liberation Day” on April 2, Donald Trump gushed about how trade was finally going to tilt in America’s favor after decades of its workers and companies being “plundered.” For the president, unfettered tariffs would soon make the U.S. “an entirely different country.”

Spelling out his policy of so-called reciprocity with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Someone pretending to be Secretary of State Marco Rubio used AI-generated voice technology and a fake Signal account to contact foreign officials and at least one member of Congress, the latest case of impostors mimicking senior U.S. officials.

A State Department cable dated July 3 said an unknown person left voice and text ...Read more

All passengers will soon be able to keep their shoes on during TSA airport security screenings, the White House confirmed Tuesday.

TSA offices nationwide received an unexpected memo last week informing them of the change, sources told ABC News. The memo said the new policy was to begin on July 6.

“Big news from [the Department of Homeland ...Read more

While North Carolinians wait for state lawmakers to pass an already late budget, Democratic Gov. Josh Stein said the federal government is just “dumping expenses onto the state.”

The state’s fiscal year began more than a week ago, but raises for state employees and teachers are on hold until there’s a new state budget. This is week two ...Read more

NEW YORK — Four high-ranking former NYPD chiefs are suing Mayor Eric Adams, claiming they were forced to retire from the department after complaining that his “unqualified” friends were being placed in prestigious police positions, sometimes after allegedly bribing their way into the jobs.

The lawsuits, filed late Monday, also name former...Read more

The Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission is recommending lawmakers amend the state ethics code to explicitly define and prohibit “sexual harassment” as a form of “ethical misconduct.”

Ahead of its July 8 meeting, the Legislative Ethics Commission has formally called on lawmakers to pass a bill during the 2026 General Assembly to amend...Read more

Search crews slogged through thick mud and debris Tuesday in central Texas, where more than 100 people are confirmed dead after catastrophic flooding. Pressure is growing on local officials to explain why more people weren’t warned in time to escape.

Authorities described the search as grueling and slow-moving, with unstable rubble piles and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Cars with shattered windows have been left behind in streets and parking lots, lawn mowers left running on front lawns, and ice cream carts abandoned on sidewalks.

A growing inventory of deserted belongings have been left scattered across Southern California amid the Trump administration's aggressive immigration sweeps. In each ...Read more

CHICAGO — Less than 10 months after reporting to federal prison, Edward Burke was expected to begin spending the rest of his sentence in the Chicago area Tuesday, according to sources close to the once-powerful alderman who have knowledge of the matter.

Burke was expected to report to a halfway house as soon as midday. It was not clear ...Read more

BOSTON – Massachusetts Senate Democrats were preparing to advance legislation Tuesday that requires all public schools to implement a “bell-to-bell” ban on student access to personal electronic devices like cell phones during the school day.

Supporters of the proposal argued that students perform better when they are not distracted by ...Read more

All flights at Milan Bergamo Airport were temporarily grounded after a man was sucked into the engine of a departing plane and died, according to reports.

The aircraft involved, an Airbus A319 operated by the low-cost Spanish airline Volotea, was preparing to takeoff from Bergamo for Asturias, in northern Spain, when the incident occurred ...Read more

Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffman has been released from intensive care more than three weeks after he was shot and wounded in a politically motivated attack, that also left fellow Democratic lawmaker, state Rep. Melissa Hortman, dead.

“I can confirm John is out of the ICU and at a rehab facility,” Bess Ellenson, a spokesperson for the ...Read more

BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey approved a $5 million legal defense fund for immigrants as part of the fiscal year 2026 state budget she signed Friday, a pot of money supporters say helps people fight deportations but critics knock as providing protections to those in the country illegally.

The decision by Beacon Hill Democrats to provide state-...Read more

ATLANTA – The Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, the organization’s Lawrenceville chapter and two Gwinnett County men have appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court their lawsuit over the county’s removal of the Confederate monument from the square in downtown Lawrenceville.

The filing came days after the Georgia Court of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs may have been acquitted of federal sex trafficking and racketeering charges last week, but the Harlem-born mogul is already being accused of additional sexual misconduct in yet another in a long line of civil lawsuits, this one claiming he masturbated into a shirt owned by the Notorious B.I.G. and threw it ...Read more

On “Liberation Day” on April 2, Donald Trump gushed about how trade was finally going to tilt in America’s favor after decades of its workers and companies being “plundered.” For the president, unfettered tariffs would soon make the U.S. “an entirely different country.”

Spelling out his policy of so-called reciprocity with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The reconciliation law signed by President Donald Trump last week will provide greater compensation to more victims of radiation exposure from America’s nuclear weapons programs through 2028, putting an end to a yearslong lobbying effort.

The language in the fiscal 2025 law spearheaded by Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., would expand ...Read more