1552 articles in the US News category.
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump signed an executive order Friday at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston creating a Presidential Commission to design a United States Space Academy, a proposed NASA-led federal school modeled on the service academies. The order does not open a campus or fix a...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper heard nearly two hours of argument Thursday on whether the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts may add President Trump’s name back to the building after a prior order forced it off. Cooper did not rule from the bench. Later...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded a $16.7 million no-bid contract to buy 6,000 pairs of gloves that deliver an electric shock when activated, according to a federal procurement notice posted Thursday. The six-month deal with Compliant Technologies LLC of...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department and FBI announced Wednesday they seized internet domains used by two complementary hacking platforms that prosecutors say were built and operated by a People’s Republic of China state-sponsored group and used against U.S. government networks, including...
By Tommy Flynn
Prosecutors told a Los Angeles County judge Wednesday that Jeanine John Taele, the armed man arrested at Trump National Golf Club Los Angeles days before President Trump’s visit, possessed first lady Melania Trump’s schedule and detailed notes on Secret Service personnel. The...
By Tommy Flynn
The State Department has postponed immigrant visa interviews at U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide while consular officers complete training on how to decide whether an applicant is likely to become a public charge. Applicants who had reached the interview stage received...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani in Boston on Wednesday vacated her remaining nationwide injunction against the Postal Service rule implementing President Trump’s mail-voting executive order, two days after the Supreme Court lifted a separate stay in a related case. The same...
By Tommy Flynn
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Tuesday aboard a U.S. military C-17 for talks with Russian intelligence officials, the first known visit by a sitting CIA director since William Burns met Vladimir Putin in November 2021. The trip was not announced in advance....
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump and Vice President JD Vance will headline the Republican Party’s first-ever midterm convention Sept. 9–10 in Dallas, a two-night production the RNC is billing as a primetime showcase of the administration’s record and a turnout machine for November. Vance...
By Tommy Flynn
The Trump administration has transmitted a 30-year civil nuclear cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia to Congress, starting a 90-day review that will decide whether U.S. firms can build reactors in the kingdom and whether Riyadh gets a path to enrich uranium on its own soil....
By Tommy Flynn
The U.S. Secret Service confirmed Tuesday it is aware of an Iranian state-media video that frames Barron Trump as a target and claims a $10 million bounty, and said it investigates any perceived threat to its protectees. “The U.S. Secret Service is aware of the video and...
By Tommy Flynn
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday formally rescinded Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, ending a listing that had stood since December 1979. The same announcement delisted Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, also known as the Nusrah Front, as a Specially Designated...