Since Donald Trump unceremoniously asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to resign from her post as U.S. ambassador to Greece, because her corruption scandal apparently proved too much for even him to ignore, people have felt emboldened to air their grievances against the former first lady of San Francisco-turned conservative firebrand, who brazenly sought ...Read more

In Washington, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall has criticized colleagues for steering federal tax dollars to local projects without going through the standard appropriations process.

Earmarks, also commonly known as pork-barrel spending, allow lawmakers to advance pet projects in their districts with little oversight. Marshall has described them as ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Katie Zacharia will no longer serve as President Donald Trump’s press secretary after spending less than a week on the job, thrusting the White House’s communications operation back into a state of chaos.

Zacharia was out of the role as of Friday, according to people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Fire crews across Southern California were on full alert Friday as they braced for the most extreme window of Santa Ana winds forecast in the ongoing red flag event.

Crews continued to battle two fires that ignited Thursday. The Bryson fire in Malibu was 146 acres and 17% contained by Friday morning, while at Camp Pendleton in ...Read more

A gunman shot and killed three children and a teacher at a school in Bend, Oregon, on Oct. 15, 2026, the 52nd school shooting this year, according to CNN. The children’s ages were 5, 8 and 11; a 7-year-old and another teacher were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. The 16-year-old shooting suspect was shot and killed by a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The sun-soaked crowd had been listening to President Donald Trump for just over an hour in Arizona on Wednesday. When some often-used lines about congressional Democrats and taxes got virtually no response, the president decided to go to a dark place.

“They want to mutilate — cut — your children. It’s unbelievable what ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Southern California braced for another day of Santa Ana winds as firefighters battled a fire burning in Malibu.

The Bryson fire had burned 200 acres as of Thursday night. It erupted shortly before 5 p.m. and sparked evacuation orders for the Encinal Canyon area near Trancas Canyon. A larger swath of Malibu was under an ...Read more

NEW YORK — Sean “Diddy” Combs has been moved out of New Jersey’s Fort Dix Federal Correctional Institution amid allegations he’d been living a life of luxury behind bars.

The disgraced music mogul is now being held at FCI Allenwood, a low-security prison in Pennsylvania, a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed to the New York ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued 16 people from the sea about 120 miles off the coast of Ensenada Friday morning, and crews were continuing to search for additional victims reported to still be in the water.

Someone aboard the boat put out a distress call about 1 a.m. reporting that the vessel was taking on water and that 27 people ...Read more

SEATTLE – Seattle City Council members disagreed Thursday about how much the mayor's proposal to increase the Police Department's budget by 13.9% would actually grow the agency.

Mayor Katie Wilson's proposed 2027-28 biennium budget includes a $68 million boost for Seattle police. Most of the money would go toward increasing salaries and ...Read more

CHICAGO – As the Chicago school board elections creep closer and the city prepares to vote for its first fully-elected school board on Nov. 3, the candidates for president – Hilario Dominguez, Jessica Biggs and Victor Henderson – have been vocal about how best to improve Chicago Public Schools. One issue in particular is student success: ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries and over 100 other New York elected officials implored New York City parking lot owners to shut their lots to ICE in a letter sent Thursday.

The letter, directed at parking lot and garage owners and operators in the five boroughs, asks them not to provide spaces to ICE ...Read more

Civilian casualties in Ukraine jumped by 85% in September as Russia increased drone and missile attacks, according to the United Nations.

At least 328 civilians were killed and 2,105 injured in attacks last month, U.N. human rights monitors said in their monthly report on Friday. It was the highest September total since the start of Russia’s...Read more

At the last major summit, Scott Bessent worked hard to tag China as the cause of dangerous fault lines in the world economy. With the U.S. Treasury chief absent from Bangkok this week, it was America and its allies in the spotlight.

Steep borrowing costs were top of mind for government and business leaders at the International Monetary Fund ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The billionaire wealth tax started with a Zoom call.

Dave Regan, the hard-charging president of a healthcare union, wanted to raise $100 billion to address looming federal healthcare cuts. What about a one-time wealth tax on billionaires?

He’d come to the right group: a quartet of academics led by UC Berkeley economist...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — After a top aide to Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal confirmed in court last month that her scandal-plagued office had been sitting on nearly $20 million meant for public coffers, reformers renewed calls to abolish her position.

But for City Council, which has the power to initiate such a change, eliminating the antiquated ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier wears his faith on his sleeve and shares it in legal opinions and threatening missives on state letterhead.

In the 20 months since he was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, Uthmeier, who is Catholic, has made religion a centerpiece of his work, expanding protections for religious organizations and ...Read more

Three children and a teacher were killed in a shooting believed to have been committed by a 16-year-old at a Bend, Oregon, elementary school Thursday, according to Bend police.

The children were 5, 8 and 11. Officials said two people, including a 7-year-old student and a 54-year-old teacher, were taken to a nearby hospital with critical ...Read more

A wildfire forced evacuations in Malibu as California endures several days of dangerously dry and windy conditions.

The Bryson Fire in Los Angeles County was 102 acres (41 hectares) at 7:07 p.m. local time, according to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.

The largest fire in Southern California is the Henderson ...Read more