1365 articles in the US News category.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday formally rescinded Syria’s designation as a State Sponsor of Terrorism, ending a listing that had stood since December 1979.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...
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...