Voting by mail remains an option for the upcoming November elections, but recent efforts by the Trump administration to tighten mail-in requirements have left questions among some voters, particularly U.S. military and overseas citizens who rely on the method.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday blocked a new U.S. Postal Service rule that would ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng will lead talks on trade and other pressure points Sunday in New York ahead of next week’s summit between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies.

The negotiators will lay the groundwork for a high-profile meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he would name an artificial intelligence czar as he continued to push tech companies to race ahead with development despite growing fears safety.

He rejected concerns that the quickly evolving technology may pose risks to humans as a hoax, comparing it to the alarm over climate change and the scandals that led to his...Read more

Carrot Top, the mop-topped prop comedian who has entertained audiences since the early 1990s, was taken to a Las Vegas hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, according to a report by TMZ.

In a statement to the entertainment website, a representative for the 61-year-old entertainer — whose real name is Scott Thompson — said that he was ...Read more

Carrot Top has been hospitalized following an alleged suicide attempt, according to a report.

The comedian, whose real name is Scott Thompson, was rushed to the hospital ahead of his performance at the Luxor Hotel & Casino on Friday night, TMZ reported, citing sources. His show, part of his long-running Vegas residency, was canceled as a result...Read more

WASHINGTON — MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets ...Read more

In a conservative win, campus members of an education advocacy organization may refer to transgender people using names and pronouns that are not consistent with that individual's gender identity, according to a federal court ruling that restricts University of California anti-harassment policies.

The ruling issued by U.S. District Judge Fred W...Read more

Tropical Depression Six formed in the far eastern Atlantic on Saturday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

As of the NHC’s initial 11 a.m. advisory, the center of the storm was located about 525 miles southwest of the Azores, moving north at 2 mph with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph.

“This system is expected to generally move ...Read more

Public health officials are sounding the alarm after an unvaccinated Amtrak passenger who traveled across the U.S., including a stop at Union Station last weekend, was hospitalized with measles.

The person traversed the state on trains and thruway buses with transfers in six counties: Alameda, Butte, Kern, Los Angeles, Sacramento and San ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance plans to visit Greensboro on Monday for a midterm rally as Republicans seek to hold control of the state’s open U.S. Senate seat.

Senate candidate Michael Whatley welcomed Vance’s visit in a social media post on Friday, writing “North Carolina needs a fighter in the Senate who will stand with VP Vance and President...Read more

Oil and liquefied natural gas shipments through the Strait of Hormuz in the past two weeks reached the highest level in six months, signaling that U.S. naval protection and mine clearance efforts are “paying off,” a regional U.S. commander said.

“Clearly, momentum is building,” Admiral Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said in ...Read more

The U.S., Denmark and Greenland struck a security deal that expands Washington’s role on the Arctic island, ending for now a long-running diplomatic spat without ceding land to the U.S.

President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration had reached an agreement handing the U.S. “permanent control over security” in Greenland. ...Read more

MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets.

CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets pledged to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Flock cameras are under new scrutiny in the Senate as a privacy backlash against the law enforcement technology grows.

The Senate Judiciary Committee’s panel on Crime and Counterterrorism will hold a hearing on Wednesday focused on the automated license plate readers, subcommittee Chairman Josh Hawley, R-Mo., announced Friday. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Proposition 5 would overhaul how successors are picked during recall elections, something California politicians have frequently faced in recent years.

Since 1913, state elected officials in California have faced 182 recall attempts according to the Secretary of State’s Office. Only 11 received enough support to qualify...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Open government advocates spent the last six months pushing a Leon County circuit court for records related to the Hope Florida grand jury, convinced the state is covering up one of the biggest scandals in its history — the diversion of $10 million in Medicaid settlement funds to Republican political activities.

They are...Read more

LANCASTER, Pa. — Amish families peer into Roberta Devers’ Honda Passport as she drives between prenatal checkups along the rolling hills of Lancaster County. They ask her increasingly frequent questions about the vaccine: Do you have some measles in your car?

Devers, 63, works as a traditional midwife in communities at the epicenter of ...Read more

California community colleges will be able to offer bachelor's degrees that duplicate programs at California State University and University of California schools, clearing the way for the biggest change in decades to degree-granting authority at the state's public university systems, under legislation approved Friday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

The ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A bill that could pave the way for many state workers to have a more flexible telework policy has been vetoed by the governor.

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday vetoed the bill. The Legislature could overturn it with a two-third vote in each chamber that is a threshold it met earlier this year when it originally passed in the ...Read more