In already one of the strongest Pacific hurricane seasons on record, with monster Hurricane Polo making landfall in Baja California Sur several weeks ago and several impacts to Hawaii over the past 2 months, another storm is now setting its sights a bit closer to home.

Tropical Storm Rachel is expected to impact Southern California and Baja ...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the firing-squad execution of Nidal Hasan, a former Army major who killed 13 people in a mass shooting in 2009, would be visible to the public.

“He’s going to get a firing squad of soldiers, as it should be,” Hegseth said on the Real America’s Voice network on Thursday. “We’ll make sure that ...Read more

Two years ago, Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., published a book about restoring the so-called talking filibuster and repairing what he describes as a “broken” system in the Senate. Now he’s forming an unlikely duo with Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., to push a sweeping proposal to overhaul the chamber’s rules.

“America today is larger, busier ...Read more

President Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally in Wasilla, Alaska, on Tuesday, on the heels of a visit by his vice president, in the GOP's effort to support Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan and Rep. Nick Begich and hold on to majorities in the U.S. House and Senate.

Trump will headline the rally at the Curtis D. Menard Memorial Sports Center, ...Read more

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man in a car on a bustling New York City street Thursday afternoon, narrowly missing a child who was seated in the vehicle and sparking a heated confrontation between the feds and outraged citizens, officials said.

ICE agents opened fire on the silver Honda Civic at about 4 p.m. on ...Read more

Flávio Bolsonaro said he would work with the U.S. and China if he becomes Brazil’s president, after a surprise election performance left him poised to join a wave of conservative leaders pushing Latin America closer to Washington.

“I’m not going to pick sides,” Bolsonaro said at an event in Brasilia on Thursday. “My side will be the ...Read more

California Volunteers, the agency within Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office that oversees AmeriCorps and other volunteer programs, failed to properly supervise seven organizations that received federal grants. One organization mishandled $11 million, according to a watchdog report, which recommended that the federal government claw back some of the ...Read more

Mayor Mamdani, after facing anger from multiple sides for his response to the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attacks in Israel, said Thursday he was “proud” to have attended a vigil honoring the victims.

The mayor faced criticism on Wednesday both from Jewish groups for his focus on Israel’s military campaign in Gaza on the anniversary ...Read more

For generations, presidents have come to South Florida to escape Washington without leaving the presidency behind.

Now, President Donald Trump wants to make that tradition official.

Trump on Wednesday publicly embraced a proposal to create a Camp David-style presidential retreat on the grounds of his Trump International Golf Club in West Palm ...Read more

The arrest of an 18-year-old who planned a mass shooting at the Mall of America has Minnesotans wondering: How safe is the mall?

Federal authorities this week arrested Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud and charged him with knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition to commit an act of terrorism. The arrest followed a two-year investigation that ...Read more

The Trump administration is launching waves of ICE immigration operations across California over the next 45 days, the Washington Examiner reported this week. Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted the statewide raids weeks before November’s midterm elections as a “campaign of fear.”

Dubbed internally as “Operation Safe California,” the Examiner ...Read more

Around 30 Alaska Native students who died more than 100 years ago at boarding schools designed to sever connections to their culture are returning to be reburied in their homelands.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, Alaska Native and Indigenous youths from across the U.S. were sent to boarding schools or other institutions operated by the federal...Read more

Lindsay Clancy’s attorney is demanding an evidentiary hearing to support her post-mistrial motions that allege undue influence on the jury and argue her charges be thrown out on double jeopardy grounds.

“Ms. Clancy requests that the Court hold an evidentiary hearing on all motions set for November 2, 2026, or, in the alternative, to ...Read more

More than 10 months after sailing away from San Diego on what would turn into an arduous and twice-extended combat deployment — one that included launching some of the first attacks in the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, and spending 264 straight days at sea amid troubling reports of food shortages and low crew morale — the USS Abraham Lincoln ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Sean "Diddy" Combs' release date has been pushed back following allegations of a plush prison lifestyle.

The disgraced music mogul is currently serving a 50-month sentence after he was convicted of transporting prostitutes across state lines for drug-fueled sex performances known as "freak-offs."

While earlier October reports ...Read more

Kimberly Guilfoyle’s breakup from Donald Trump Jr., announced after the 2024 presidential election, may not have been her idea. But his father, incoming President Donald Trump, reportedly wanted to reward her for her hard work on his campaign and offered her a consolation prize: He nominated her to be his U.S. ambassador to Greece.

Guilfoyle,...Read more

Federal authorities have arrested an 18-year-old man from the Twin Cities who is accused of plotting to carry out a mass shooting at the Mall of America.

On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that Sheikhdoon Abdullahi Mohamud, of Richfield, was charged with one count of knowingly receiving a firearm and ammunition in order to ...Read more

NEW YORK — The suspect wanted for pushing his estranged girlfriend and her infant daughter off their 15th-floor Bronx balcony, killing the woman, has been arrested — after his brother alerted cops the suspect was hiding out in the brother’s home, police said Thursday.

Angel Carrasco, 31, is accused of killing 23-year-old Nathaly Ramirez, ...Read more