The Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power plant reconnected to the electric grid Sunday morning after a short shutdown, just in time to power air conditioners during a heat wave forecast for parts of Washington, Oregon and Idaho.

The Columbia Generating Station came back from its biennial refueling outage on June 16 after the nuclear ...Read more

Chilean communist Jeannette Jara won the primary vote for left-wing presidential candidates on Sunday, vaulting past a more moderate favorite in a surprisingly strong last-minute surge.

Former Labor Minister Jara got 60.5% of the vote, followed by onetime Interior Minister Carolina Toha with 27.7%, electoral body Servel reported with 93.7% of ...Read more

China’s envoy to Canberra urged Australia not to be “incited” by NATO’s support for U.S. demands to sharply raise defense spending and instead cooperate with Beijing to resolve regional disputes.

Ambassador Xiao Qian, in an opinion article published in The Australian newspaper Monday, wrote that both Australia and China rely on the same...Read more

Presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor Zohran Mamdani declared he doesn’t believe billionaires should exist during a wide-ranging interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press”.

“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,” he told interviewer Kristen Welker. �...Read more

The kids at the Academy at Palumbo loved Ashley Matias Matos, a school counseling intern at the Philadelphia public school.

Many related to her story: a child of North Philadelphia who found champions to help her on her own educational path, a first-generation college student who overcame obstacles to reach the Ivy League.

So when a counseling...Read more

A last-ditch effort to allow sales of federal land – sales that could affect millions of California acres – was finally struck from the “Big, Beautiful Bill” this weekend.

The plan had drawn opposition from members of both parties, and the Senate parliamentarian last week had ruled a more ambitious plan didn’t belong in the budget ...Read more

With just 10 days to go until President Donald Trump’s country-specific tariffs are set to resume, the White House appears poised to fall short of the sweeping global trade reforms it promised to achieve during the three months they were on hold.

Agreements with as many as a dozen of the U.S.’s largest trading partners are expected to be ...Read more

McDONOUGH — It only took Ed Albin a few steps Sunday to spot it as he wandered onto an empty construction site in Henry County about 45 minutes southeast of Atlanta.

“Oh my God,” he said, crouching down to take a look at his find, “Oh my God.”

Perched on the dirt like it just fell from the sky isn’t just any old rock. It’s a ...Read more

For years after his service in Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. Army Special Forces veteran Joe Hudak fought a daily battle against a voice inside his head screaming anxious, dark and dangerous thoughts.

He lost multiple team members in combat during his two-decade career in the Green Berets and tried everything he could to treat his post-traumatic ...Read more

The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending measure would add nearly $3.3 trillion to U.S. deficits over a decade, according to a new estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO score for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill reflects a $4.5 trillion decrease in revenues and a $1.2 trillion decrease ...Read more

Rick Williams, the leader of an American Indian group called People of the Sacred Land, reacted with disbelief this month upon learning signs were posted at the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site in southeastern Colorado that critics are taking as a threat to whitewash history.

The signs, which were posted June 13 at all National Park ...Read more

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rushing to meet President Donald Trump’s July 4 deadline for pushing through his massive tax and spending bill, but first he has to work through a list of approximately eight Republican senators who have expressed opposition to portions of it.

Within the next two days, he needs to find a way to appease ...Read more

While Tropical Storm Barry formed in Gulf waters off of Mexico on Sunday, the National Hurricane Center began forecasting the season’s next potential tropical system could form and threaten Florida.

In its 8 a.m. tropical outlook the NHC said an area of low pressure from a remnant frontal boundary could develop near the end of this week near ...Read more

Throughout 2019, Chicago police officers made nearly 80,000 arrests before scaling them back significantly during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic the following spring.

Now five years later, that drop appears not to be just a COVID-era blip: In recent years, arrests have rebounded slightly, but annually police still are recording tens of ...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested he might back eventual sanctions relief for Iran “if they can be peaceful,” combining threats and the prospect of diplomacy after U.S. strikes aimed at destroying Iranian nuclear sites.

“We have the sanctions on,” Trump said in comments on Fox News’s "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo. “...Read more

The Legislative committee responsible for working out the kinks between the House and Senate budget proposals have come to agreement on a $61 billion spending plan, they announced on Sunday.

House Speaker Ron Mariano and Senate President Karen Spilka said in a joint statement that the fiscal 2026 budget represents their “shared commitment to ...Read more

The Senate version of President Donald Trump’s tax and spending measure would add nearly $3.3 trillion to U.S. deficits over a decade, according to a new estimate from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.

The CBO score for the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill reflects a $4.5 trillion decrease in revenues and a $1.2 trillion decrease ...Read more

Elon Musk slammed the U.S. Senate’s latest version of President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax bill Saturday, warning that the cuts to electric vehicle and other clean energy credits would be “incredibly destructive” to the country.

Musk, the chief executive officer of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX, posted on his social media platform ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t think he’ll need to extend the July 9 trade deadline he has imposed on countries to secure deals with the U.S. to avoid higher tariffs.

“I don’t think I’ll need to,” he said in an interview on Fox News’s "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo that was taped Friday. He then added, “I...Read more