A year ago, Paul Whelan stepped foot on American soil for the first time in 51/2 years and joined a small but "distinguished" club of returned detainees who, like Whelan, were held abroad against their will.

That club is growing with 71 Americans brought home just since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to State ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is doubling down on its trade war against much of the world despite increasingly harrowing economic numbers emerging at home, with stock markets and Treasury yields tumbling Friday on news of the most significant slowdown in job growth since the pandemic.

Government data showed the U.S. economy added 73,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday he had ordered the firing of Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics who was appointed by his predecessor Joe Biden, hours after her office released data showing sluggish job growth over the past four months.

The bureau’s latest report put job growth for July at 73,000, ...Read more

About 10 times each day, giant freight trains pass along a narrow section of track along the Sacramento River in far Northern California where engineers on the locomotives regularly tense up with stress.

"Every single time, it's a near miss" of a train hitting a person, said Ryan Snow, the California State Chairman of the Brotherhood of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Queens Councilwoman Tiffany Caban and Queens Assemblywoman Claire Valdez were among dozens of protesters arrested Friday at a pro-Palestine demonstration at the Manhattan offices of New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, according to city and police officials.

The demonstration, organized by the Jewish Voice for Peace...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas.

The move, first reported by The New York Sun on Friday, comes a week after Maxwell’s meetings with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche — President Donald Trump’s former ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday lashed out at the official who oversees government employment reports after its regular monthly report showed the job market softening significantly this summer in a possible warning sign of an impending recession.

Trump said he ordered the immediate firing of Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Juana Lozano’s phone buzzes with more than a dozen alerts each day: police stopping a truck with construction workers, dark-windowed vans near a shopping mall, a mother asking if it’s safe to drive down a certain road.

Lozano says the alerts are part of her routine. She’s a community leader in Central Florida and a member ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the U.S. is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements are more...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should be put “out to pasture” and called on the central bank’s board to “assume control” if interest rates were not lowered, escalating an ongoing feud.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, a stubborn MORON, must substantially lower interest rates, NOW. IF HE ...Read more

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it’s beginning an “orderly wind-down” of operations that will result in that the majority of staff positions being eliminated by Sept. 30. A small transition team will remain in place until the start of the new year to finish the process.

The CPB blamed the passage of a federal...Read more

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting said Friday it was shutting down, about one week after President Donald Trump signed legislation stripping its funding.

The group, which administers funds for PBS TV affiliates and NPR radio stations, said it would "begin an orderly wind-down of its operations." A majority of staff positions will be cut ...Read more

A coalition of liberal-led states sued the Trump administration Friday over efforts to end gender-affirming care for transgender, intersex and nonbinary children and young adults nationwide — calling them an unconstitutional attack on LGBTQ+ patients, health care providers and states' rights.

The lawsuit was brought by California Attorney ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s varying explanations about his fallout with Jeffrey Epstein have raised more questions than answers as he struggles to move on from his days of partying in Palm Beach with the late financier.

A variety of reasons have been given as to why the two men stopped being friends: Epstein “stole” his female...Read more

BALTIMORE — U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright issued an emergency order that authorized an Anne Arundel County power plant to operate more often than typically allowed, including areas served by the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company — a feat that Maryland conservative lawmakers called “a major win.”

PJM Interconnection, which ...Read more

Controversial attorney Alan Dershowitz says he is suing a Martha’s Vineyard farmers market vendor for allegedly refusing to serve him pierogi because of his political views.

The polarizing defense attorney, whose famous clients include Jeffrey Epstein and President Donald Trump, described the incident on Thursday’s episode of his podcast, �...Read more

Ghislaine Maxwell has reportedly been moved from a low-security federal prison in Florida to the minimum-security Federal Prison Camp Bryan in southeast Texas.

The move, first reported by The New York Sun on Friday, comes a week after Maxwell’s meetings with U.S. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, President Trump’s former personal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation redacted President Donald Trump’s name and those of other high-profile individuals from government files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The redactions were made by a team of FBI employees tasked with reviewing the Epstein files for potential ...Read more

Five people have been charged in connection with a New Jersey car crash on New Year’s Day 2024 that killed a Princeton woman who worked in the governor’s office.

The mega-crash unfolded on Route 1 in Plainsboro around 1:56 a.m. It “involved six vehicles and was touched off by a drunken driving crash,” which culminated in the death of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said the United States is moving two nuclear submarines to respond to what he called “highly provocative statements” from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

“I have ordered two Nuclear Submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions, just in case these foolish and inflammatory statements...Read more