WASHINGTON — Not since the dark day at Pearl Harbor that drew America into World War II has there been so much trouble in paradise, as the U.S. naval base on the Hawaiian island of Oahu is sometimes described.

A gusher of jet fuel that leaked into the base’s drinking water in November 2021 led to a lawsuit that forced the Navy to admit it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she’ll call for a vote to oust Speaker Mike Johnson the week of May 6, escalating her long-running feud with the speaker over his bipartisan dealmaking and decision to put a Ukraine aid package on the House floor.

Greene’s move has been expected for weeks since the Georgia Republican...Read more

MIAMI — Former President Donald Trump is backing a Republican candidate in the race for Miami-Dade elections supervisor, wading into the contest after years of falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

Trump used social media to post an endorsement Tuesday night of Florida state Rep. Alina Garcia, who represents a ...Read more

Americans are increasingly concerned about China's power abroad and want to combat that influence, according to a new poll by the Pew Research Center.

Some 42% of respondents indicated that they consider China an enemy of the United States — up from 34% in 2021 when the Washington-based research organization began asking the question.

The ...Read more

NEW YORK — More than one in 10 young LGBTQ people in the U.S. attempted suicide last year, while only half of those who wanted mental health care were able to access it, according to a survey released Wednesday.

Findings from the 6th Annual National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ+ Young People show that the shocking, yet expected, high ...Read more

Following the nearly three-hour oral argument about presidential immunity in the Supreme Court on April 25, 2024, many commentators were aghast. The general theme, among legal and political experts alike, was a hand-over-the-mouth, how-dare-they assessment of the mostly conservative justices’ questioning of the attorneys who appeared before...Read more

As the U.S. Secretary of State worked toward a Gaza cease-fire on a visit to Israel Wednesday, a major Tel Aviv newspaper offered a front-page summary of his challenge: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with key cabinet colleagues and the headline “Who’s in charge here?”

On one side was hard-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben ...Read more

A day that began with three dozen demonstrators arrested or cited on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus ended with another arrested after an altercation between pro-Palestinian demonstrators and police at N.C. State University.

The protest at the Raleigh campus began peacefully around 6:30 p.m. at the Memorial Belltower, reported ABC11, The News & ...Read more

NEW YORK — Cops including two high-ranking NYPD officials pulled down and tossed away a Palestinian flag and proudly hoisted an American flag after evicting protesters encamped at City College in Harlem, video posted by the department shows.

Kaz Daughtry, the NYPD’s Deputy Commissioner for Operations, posted the video early Wednesday.

In ...Read more

NEW YORK — Over 100 pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested when an army of NYPD cops stormed Columbia University to end the seizure of a school building where all the doors had been barricaded with bicycle locks, officials said Wednesday.

“This is what we encountered on every door inside Hamilton Hall,” NYPD Deputy Commissioner of ...Read more