News stories about campaign finance are frequent in any election season, and this year is no exception.

In Ohio, for instance, NBC reported in August 2026 that there had been over US$130 million in outside spending in the state’s U.S. Senate race. The story also summarized how much money the two candidates had raised from different ...Read more

When President Vladimir Putin imposed harsh censorship laws in the wake of his 2022 invasion of Ukraine, a major Russian publishing house took drastic action.

Faced with trawling through the thousands of volumes it had published over the previous twenty years in light of the new restrictive criteria, the Eksmo-AST group trained an AI agent to ...Read more

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen proposed Canada becoming the first associate member of the European Union, forging a novel transatlantic alliance as President Donald Trump tears apart the old one.

She offered the invitation during her state of the union address in Strasbourg, France, Wednesday, with Canadian Prime Minister ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center on Wednesday reined in the chances a system in the Atlantic could become the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

As of the NHC’s 8 a.m. tropical outlook, the trough of low pressure located several hundred miles east of Bermuda was continuing to produce disorganized showers and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Three people were killed when an NBC4 news helicopter crashed and burst into flames Tuesday night in Chatsworth not far from a serious accident involving a Metro bus that also left three people dead.

The area was already swarming with police, fire officials and the news media because of the bus crash when there was a fireball ...Read more

A mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in South Dakota, a single unknown particle separated from light, air and cosmic rays collided with the nucleus of a xenon atom, causing electrons to be knocked free in a flash of light — and confounding scientists.

This subatomic interaction captured as part of the LZ ...Read more

CHICAGO — More than a month after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers halted work on the Brandon Road Lock and Dam near Joliet, part of a $1.15 billion project to keep invasive carp out of the Great Lakes, the agency announced last week it would resume construction.

The Army Corps’ Rock Island District — the main federal sponsor — issued a...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — As her children start second and third grades in the Colonial School District, Elise LaChapelle expects they will spend no more than 20 to 30 minutes a day on their Chromebooks — limits the Montgomery County district has announced to parents.

Colonial also no longer allows elementary school students to take their laptops home...Read more

CHICAGO -- The new headlines seem to pop up daily.

The Flock cameras were allegedly used by a former sheriff’s deputy in Wisconsin’s Kenosha County to stalk his then-girlfriend, who also worked as a deputy sheriff. In McHenry County, a police chief allegedly searched their vast network of automated cameras nearly 250 times to track former ...Read more

Maryland state agencies are being asked to prepare for potential budget cuts of up to 10% next year as Gov. Wes Moore’s administration looks for ways to close a projected $3.1 billion shortfall, which is nearly double the amount for fiscal 2027.

The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) asked all executive branch agencies and state ...Read more

NEW YORK — A man who pleaded guilty to attacking an Israeli tourist in Times Square smiled and flashed a peace symbol to photographers at his sentencing Tuesday.

When Judge Althea Drysdale asked Yehia Amin why he was smiling, the defendant replied through an interpreter that he wanted to look good for the cameras.

Amin was sentenced to 90 ...Read more

The City of Boston dumped a Flock camera program over privacy concerns after learning that the data it collected was not shared exclusively to Boston Police as intended, but was accessible to outside law enforcement nationwide.

What the city called a “vendor error” in the Boston Police Department Automated License Plate Recognition System ...Read more

Prospects for an extension to the U.S.-China trade truce are solidifying as the two sides discuss slashing tariffs on goods including American energy and agricultural products ahead of the leaders’ summit next week.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday he’ll meet this weekend with his Chinese counterpart, He Lifeng, ahead of the ...Read more

It remains illegal in California for a school district to force teachers and other staff to alert parents about their child's gender identity, but parents must be told when they ask about it, a judge ruled Tuesday in a widely watched case dealing with parental rights.

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Michael Sachs, weighing both state...Read more

HONG KONG — Hong Kong leader John Lee is taking the unprecedented step of outlining a five-year vision for the Asian financial hub. The question is whether he’ll be the chief executive to see it through.

On Wednesday, Lee will unveil Hong Kong’s first five-year plan, a blueprint his administration has spent much of the year crafting as it...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Tuesday ruled in favor of an Ohio House Democrat who is seeking to block efforts to add President Donald Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center.

In his ruling, Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that the Trump-led board of the Kennedy Center could not add ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Todd Blanche on Tuesday said the Trump administration would not be slowed in its efforts to oversee the midterm elections by a Supreme Court decision blocking an unprecedented mail ballot rule.

During a press briefing in the Rose Garden, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney defended his former ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Did Gov. Henry McMaster exceed his authority in sending 500 South Carolina National Guard troops to the District of Columbia at President Trump’s behest?

That was the question Tuesday before state Supreme Court justices as they first heard from a lawyer from the S.C. Public Interest Foundation argue no, followed by an ...Read more

Florida Democratic members of Congress sent a letter Tuesday to state and federal officials seeking more information about findings in a recent report that people held at the now shuttered immigrant detention site known as Alligator Alcatraz were sometimes kept in small metal cages and subjected to other inhumane treatment.

The letter said ...Read more