1552 articles in the US News category.
By Tommy Flynn
President Trump announced Tuesday that the U.S. Navy has removed or detonated all mines in the international waters of the Strait of Hormuz and warned Tehran that any vessel caught laying new ones will be destroyed. “I have just been informed by the United States Navy that all...
By Tommy Flynn
Sen. Darline Graham defeated five-term Rep. Ralph Norman in Tuesday’s Republican Senate runoff in South Carolina, securing the nomination to succeed her late brother Lindsey Graham after President Trump put more political and financial capital behind her than any other Senate...
By Tommy Flynn
Dolly Parton, the beloved country music legend, songwriter, actress, and philanthropist, died Tuesday at age 80 in Nashville, Tennessee. Her family announced the news in a video posted to her social media accounts by her nephew Bryan Seaver, son of her sister Cassie Parton and...
By Tommy Flynn
La Crosse County District Attorney Tim Gruenke announced Tuesday he will not file election-bribery charges against Elon Musk over March 2025 social-media posts and a Green Bay event tied to Wisconsin’s Supreme Court race. Gruenke, a Democrat appointed as special prosecutor after...
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 49,571 people in July, the highest single-month total of President Trump’s second term, according to agency data provided to the University of California, Berkeley’s Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the Associated Press....
By Tommy Flynn
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 1,328 illegal immigrants across Virginia and Maryland in a two-week operation that federal officials described as one of the agency’s most successful to date, working largely out of public view in jurisdictions that limit...
By Tommy Flynn
The Justice Department on Monday opened the National Fraud Detection Center, a prosecutor-led multi-agency team built to generate criminal leads against the most damaging fraud targeting taxpayer-funded programs, including schemes that jump across agencies and those run from...
By Tommy Flynn
The State Department, working with the Department of Homeland Security, is preparing to revoke B-1 business and B-2 tourist visas issued between 2016 and 2026 whose holders later filed for asylum, a step officials say could affect as many as 200,000 people and would constitute...
By Tommy Flynn
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Monday the formal start of Operation Economic Outcast, describing it as an unprecedented campaign to sever every remaining revenue lifeline sustaining the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Speaking at the...
By Tommy Flynn
CNN political commentator and longtime Republican strategist Scott Jennings on Sunday shrugged off reports naming him a leading contender to succeed outgoing White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, declining to engage the speculation while lavishing praise on her...
By Tommy Flynn
The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a temporary emergency waiver that will allow the nationwide sale of higher-volatility winter-grade gasoline beginning September 1, ending federal summer fuel requirements roughly two weeks ahead of schedule in a move aimed at...
By Tommy Flynn
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf delivered an unusually blunt assessment of his country’s economic crisis, declaring that military strength alone cannot sustain the Islamic Republic if its people go hungry, as the Trump administration’s intensified sanctions...