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Midwestern Residents Enter 11th Day Without Power After Severe Storms and Tornadoes

Thousands of residents across Indiana and surrounding Midwestern states are facing an eleventh consecutive day without electricity after severe storms and tornadoes caused extensive damage to regional power infrastructure.

U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee Warns Israeli Settlers Over Palestinian American Property

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has publicly warned Israeli settlers against taking property owned by Palestinian Americans in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, threatening possible economic sanctions over violence and the...

Trump Nominates Anti-Abortion Advocate Heidi Overton to Lead FDA

President Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to become commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a vocal opponent of abortion access to oversee federal policy on abortion medication and vaccines during a broad...

Trump to Host Crypto and Prediction-Market Executives Amid Ethics Scrutiny

President Donald Trump is preparing to meet executives from cryptocurrency and prediction-market companies as his administration faces ethics criticism over his family’s financial interests in decentralized finance ventures including Wor...

Trump Administration Prepares Tougher Foreign Agents Registration Act Rules

The Justice Department signaled plans to finalize long-running revisions to Foreign Agents Registration Act enforcement, preparing stricter compliance requirements and greater federal oversight for people lobbying in the United States on...

Trump Administration Proposes AI Border System to Detect Customs Transshipment Fraud

The White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy has identified more than forty countries associated with elevated customs-evasion risks and proposed an artificial intelligence-enabled border initiative to help federal agents ide...

Pentagon Fires Publisher and Editor of Stars and Stripes

The Department of Defense has dismissed the publisher and editor of Stars and Stripes, raising concerns about the editorial independence and future of the congressionally mandated military news organization serving deployed American pers...

Justice Department Seeks Interviews With FBI Agents Involved in 2022 Mar-a-Lago Search

Justice Department investigators working under Trump ally Joe diGenova have requested interviews with federal agents who carried out the 2022 search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, intensifying scrutiny of personnel involved in earl...

Justice Department Sets Corporate, Healthcare and Tax Fraud Priorities for New Enforcement Division

The Justice Department has outlined the initial priorities of its newly established National Fraud Enforcement Division, focusing on large-scale corporate misconduct, healthcare fraud and complex tax evasion schemes.

Federal Agents Search Former Congressman Eric Swalwell’s California Home in Civil Rights Investigation

Federal agents executed a weekend search warrant at the California home of former Representative Eric Swalwell, seizing a laptop and cellphone as part of an ongoing civil rights investigation stemming from sexual assault allegations.

Trump’s Political Committees Hold $850 Million War Chest for Midterm Campaigns

President Donald Trump said his allied political operations hold about eight hundred fifty million dollars in cash reserves and promised to deploy the funds to defend favored Republican congressional candidates and majorities in the comp...

Supreme Court Temporarily Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Continue

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order allowing the Trump administration to continue above-ground construction on a four hundred million dollar White House ballroom and underground bunker project while legal appeals proceed,...

Trump Administration Resumes Deportation Flights to Haiti After Ending Humanitarian Protections

The Department of Homeland Security has resumed deportation flights to Haiti, with the first flight arriving in Port-au-Prince after the Trump administration ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and began large-scale removals of...

U.S. Sanctions 15 People Linked to Cocaine Trafficking Network Operating From Ecuador

The Treasury Department has imposed financial sanctions on fifteen people accused of involvement in an international narcotics network, targeting a cocaine trafficking corridor linking armed cartels in Ecuador to the United States.

Trump Administration Targets Cuban Mining and Construction Companies With New Sanctions

The State and Treasury departments announced sanctions against nine Cuban state-owned mining, metals and construction companies, increasing financial pressure on Havana and targeting the leadership of the Cuban Institute of Friendship wi...

Trump Administration Plans to Deny Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas U.S. Visa

The State Department intends to deny Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas a diplomatic visa, preventing him from addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York next month as the administration seeks to retaliate agai...

U.S. Treasury Imposes New Sanctions on Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Networks

The Treasury Department has imposed new sanctions on Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard networks, designating the Lebanese militant group as a direct proxy of the Quds Force as the conflict involving Iran expands across the Middle...

Trump Pushes for Fall Summit With North Korea’s Kim Jong Un to Revive Nuclear Talks

The Trump administration is seeking to arrange a summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as early as this fall, aiming to restart direct nuclear negotiations that have been stalled since the two leaders ...

U.S. Navy Helps Commercial Oil Tankers Evade Iranian Threats in Strait of Hormuz

The United States Navy is assisting commercial vessels moving through the Strait of Hormuz by directing some ships to turn off their transponders, helping about ten million barrels of oil reach global markets while avoiding detection dur...

U.S. Escalates Economic Pressure on Iran With Threat of Unprecedented Financial Isolation

Vice President JD Vance and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a new phase of the conflict with Iran centered on financial pressure, with Bessent warning that Washington would coordinate what he called the greatest economic isola...

U.S. National Debt Surpasses $40 Trillion Milestone Ahead of Forecasts

The United States national debt has crossed forty trillion dollars, reaching the unprecedented level months earlier than economic forecasts had projected and intensifying concerns over persistent deficits and rising government borrowing ...

U.S.-Canada Trade Talks Collapse as Trump Imposes 50% Tariffs on Canadian Exports

Trade negotiations between the United States and Canada broke down ahead of a midnight deadline, prompting President Donald Trump’s administration to impose fifty percent tariffs on about twenty-eight billion dollars of Canadian exports ...

Trump Says Pro-Israel Groups Have Lost Political Influence in Washington

President Donald Trump said pro-Israel organizations have lost significant political leverage on Capitol Hill over the past two decades, pointing to growing polarization and declining support for Israel among younger Republican and Democ...

More Than 70 Members of Congress Announce They Will Not Seek Reelection

More than seventy voting members of Congress, including sixty House representatives and eleven senators, have decided not to seek reelection as both parties confront partisan polarization, redistricting battles and an increasingly volati...

Iran Conflict and Stalled Diplomacy Complicate Trump’s Foreign Policy Message Ahead of Midterms

The Trump administration is facing growing political pressure from the prolonged conflict with Iran, rising domestic inflation and stalled diplomatic efforts involving Ukraine and Gaza, complicating the White House’s effort to present fo...

Trump Pledges $850 Million Campaign War Chest to Defend Republican Congressional Majorities

President Donald Trump said allied political committees have about eight hundred fifty million dollars in reserves and pledged to deploy the funds to protect vulnerable Republican lawmakers in the increasingly competitive midterm elections.

Trump Faces Ethics Scrutiny as White House Prepares to Host Crypto Industry Leaders

President Donald Trump is preparing to meet cryptocurrency and prediction-market executives on federal regulatory policy as his administration faces ethics criticism over the Trump family’s investments in digital assets and decentralized...

Trump Nominates Anti-Abortion Advocate Heidi Overton to Lead the FDA

President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to become commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, putting a vocal opponent of abortion in charge of an agency overseeing abortion medication and vaccine policy after an extensi...

Trump Administration Seeks $87 Billion for Iran Military Operations and Domestic Economic Support

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff testified before a Senate panel on an eighty-seven billion dollar supplemental funding request to support ongoing military operations against Iran and offset ec...

Supreme Court Allows White House Ballroom Construction to Continue Temporarily Without Congressional Approval

Chief Justice John Roberts issued a temporary order allowing the Trump administration to continue work on a four hundred million dollar White House ballroom while the Supreme Court considers the case, pausing lower-court rulings that had...

Iran Claims Victory After Six-Month Conflict as Trump Escalates Economic Pressure

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran had successfully resisted the United States during their six-month military conflict, while President Donald Trump announced an “economic D-Day” strategy designed to pressure Iran through i...

China and Indonesia Deepen Military Cooperation With Defense Pact and Planned Naval Exercises

China and Indonesia held their first joint foreign and defense ministerial dialogue in Jakarta and agreed to expand defense technology cooperation and conduct naval exercises in waters east of Taiwan.

Canada Plans Retaliatory Measures After United States Imposes 50 Percent Tariffs on $20 Billion of Imports

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada will introduce retaliatory economic measures from September 8 after President Donald Trump’s administration imposed 50 percent tariffs on nearly $20 billion of Canadian goods, escalating tensions ac...

Gold Rallies as Inflation Fears and Geopolitical Conflict Drive Global Bond Sell-Off

Gold climbed to a three-month high as government borrowing costs rose worldwide, with investors concerned about persistent inflation, the economic fallout from the United States conflict with Iran and mounting pressure on the US bond mar...

United States National Debt Surpasses $40 Trillion as Deficits and Defense Spending Add to Fiscal Pressure

United States Treasury data show that national debt has crossed the $40 trillion mark, reflecting decades of accumulating budget deficits alongside heavy spending linked to recent crises and military operations.

Russian Drone Strikes Kill 15 in Central Ukraine as Civilian Casualties Rise in Dnipropetrovsk Region

Ukrainian authorities said large-scale Russian drone strikes on Kryvyi Rih killed at least 15 people and injured 130 others, including 23 children, underscoring the continuing danger to civilians in the central Dnipropetrovsk region.

Tesla Leads China’s Largest Automotive Recall, Covering 4.3 Million Vehicles Over Door Safety Risks

Tesla and eight other electric vehicle manufacturers have begun China’s largest automotive recall to address software and mechanical flaws that could make doors difficult to open after crashes and potentially trap occupants.

The rise and fall of Hui Ka Yan, China’s richest man

The former richest man in Asia, Evergrande Founder Hui Ka Yan, lost his fortune and all remaining personal assets after a Shenzhen court Sentenced to Life in Prison, convicted him over large-scale financial fraud, bribery and misuse of f...

Britain's Public-Service Productivity Remains Below 2019 as £80 Billion Output Gap Fuels WFH Debate

Official estimates put public-service productivity 2.5% below its pre-pandemic level in 2025, while EY calculates that UK GDP would have been 3% larger if public-sector productivity had kept pace with the private sector from 2019 to 2024.

Mandelson Epstein Case in Jeopardy as U.S. Files Stay Out of Reach

Scotland Yard's investigation remains active, but detectives may struggle to charge the former cabinet minister without original unredacted records from the United States, while the Justice Department says it has not refused cooperation.

Prince Harry and Six Others Ordered to Pay £9.5 Million After High Court Defeat

The Duke of Sussex, Sir Elton John, Elizabeth Hurley and four other claimants face a major interim legal-cost payment after losing their case against Associated Newspapers.

White House Defends Legislative Agenda and Foreign Policy During Daily Briefing

White House press officials addressed questions on congressional negotiations, executive actions and foreign policy developments during the administration’s daily briefing.

US Employment Growth Remains Resilient Across Manufacturing and Technology

Bureau of Labor Statistics data showed continued job gains across manufacturing, technology development and professional services in the latest monthly employment figures.

US FAA Establishes Temporary Restricted Airspace Over Washington Region

The Federal Aviation Administration has imposed temporary flight restrictions across the national capital region to strengthen security around major federal facilities and government installations.

House Oversight Committee Opens Broad Investigation Into Federal Contracting

House oversight investigators have launched a wide-ranging inquiry into federal procurement practices, focusing on contracting efficiency and oversight of government contractors.