Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the U.S. Navy to rename a ship honoring late LGBTQ rights hero Harvey Milk — in a move intentionally set to coincide with Pride Month.

According to a memo from the Office of the Secretary of the Navy reviewed by Military.com, officials have already drawn up a plan for the USNS Harvey Milk to be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators from both parties challenged Education Secretary Linda McMahon about her agency’s detailed fiscal 2026 budget proposal Tuesday, with a focus on cuts to the bipartisan federal TRIO programs.

Senate Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, who co-chairs the TRIO Caucus, said at a Labor-HHS-Education Appropriations ...Read more

MIAMI — In a Venezuelan election, running as an incumbent gives you the sort of edge that any unscrupulous and power-hungry leader around the world can only fantasize about.

You are down in the polls? You start arresting the campaign leaders of each state your rival visits. You are still behind? You charge your rival’s campaign manager and ...Read more

In a media landscape clouded by cynicism, one name shines through as the most trusted brand in news: The Weather Channel, according to new polling.

The latest YouGov survey found that — for the fourth year in a row — the Weather Channel ranked as the most trusted news source in America, easily putting its many competitors to shame.

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SAN DIEGO — Tensions remain high in San Diego after last week’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement work raids at two Italian restaurants that ended with federal agents using flash-bang grenades against residents protesting the operations. Elected officials reacted with outrage.

The incidents occurred Friday when heavily armed ICE and ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County commissioners unanimously pledged $5 million today to support the city of Orlando’s plan to build a memorial to Pulse, honoring its victims and survivors at the site of the former LGBTQ nightclub as the ninth anniversary of the horrific massacre approaches this month.

The decision followed a presentation of the...Read more

Another nationwide protest against President Donald Trump is coming up. This time, it will take place on his birthday.

The “No Kings” rallies are planned for June 14 and will focus on Trump, his policies, and his spending.

The Saturday events, which are scheduled en masse across the country, will coincide with Trump’s birthday and his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The family of a 4-year-old Bakersfield, California, girl with a rare medical condition has been granted humanitarian protection from deportation, allowing her to continue receiving lifesaving treatment in the United States.

The plight of the girl, who the Los Angeles Times has identified by her initials, S.G.V., drew public ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security put up a website last week with a warning that it would name and shame officials in sanctuary jurisdictions, but they started removing some jurisdictions within days and have now taken down the list completely.

DHS announced the list in a social media post on Thursday that said the identified ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — For Matt Chipperfield, the request seemed like any other.

Since the St. Johns County fishing charter captain first learned last month the state could trade away 600 acres of his community’s pristine wilderness preserve, he’d been speaking to reporters and podcasters to spread information that he hoped would block the deal.

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NEW YORK — The number of shootings and homicides in the city dropped to record lows over the first five months of the year — down to levels not seen in more than three decades, NYPD Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Tuesday.

Last month was also the safest May the city has ever seen, with shootings and homicides not this low in May ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will meet Thursday with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz as the conservative European leader tries to cool tensions between Berlin and Washington that have worried congressional lawmakers from both parties.

Over the first four months of his second term, Trump has publicly mused, often without explanation, ...Read more

The staff of U.S. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., is shrinking again.

Krysta Sinclair Juris, who has been Fetterman’s chief of staff since April 2024, is leaving his office. The news was first reported by Axios.

Cabelle St. John, Fetterman’s deputy chief of staff, will replace Juris, becoming his third chief of staff in a little over a year. ...Read more

NEW YORK — Harvey Weinstein’s defense lawyer slammed the disgraced mogul’s sex assault accusers as “grifters,” mimicked one breaking down in tears, climbed into the witness box to do an impression and used his personal sex life as a frame of reference during animated closing arguments Tuesday.

Arthur Aidala told the Manhattan jury ...Read more

NEW YORK — Believing it would “ruin” him, Sean “Diddy” Combs went to extreme lengths to ensure that hotel footage of him brutally beating his ex-girlfriend, Casandra Ventura, never saw the light of day by incessantly pressuring security staff to provide it to him in exchange for a brown paper bag filled with $100,000, a Manhattan jury ...Read more

DENVER — Federal immigration authorities are detaining the wife and five children of the suspect accused of burning a dozen people at a demonstration in Boulder that sought the release of Israeli hostages held in Gaza, U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said in a video posted on social media Tuesday.

Mohammed Sabry Soliman, 45, ...Read more

Most Americans support authorizing the government to screen the social media content of potential immigrants — though many have doubts about whether this process would be fair, according to a new YouGov/Economist poll.

The survey, released on June 3, comes as President Donald Trump’s administration has ramped up online monitoring of ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing the University of Pennsylvania of mishandling antisemitism complaints.

The suit was filed in December 2023 by current and former Penn students Eyal Yakoby, Jordan Davis, and Noah Rubin and the group Students Against Antisemitism Inc. based on allegations of the school’s actions...Read more

SEONGNAM, South Korea — South Korean President-elect Lee Jae-myung has always described his politics as deeply personal, born of the "wretchedness" of his youth.

In his last presidential run three years ago, when his conservative opponent Yoon Suk Yeol, a former prosecutor, appealed to the rule of law, Lee told a story from his childhood: ...Read more