1152 articles in the US News category.
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump will travel to Beijing May 13-15 for a state visit with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first by a sitting U.S. president in nearly a decade, amid ongoing U.S. sanctions on Chinese firms aiding Iran and efforts to stabilize bilateral trade....
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed executive orders Monday suspending tariff-rate quotas on all beef imports for 200 days, clearing the way for more foreign beef to enter the U.S. at lower rates and ease record consumer prices. The move targets the smallest U.S. cattle...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump, entered a not guilty plea Monday morning in federal court in the District of Columbia. Allen faces charges of attempted assassination of the president,...
By Tommy Flynn
DUBAI — Three very large crude carriers successfully transited the Strait of Hormuz last week and over the weekend with their automatic identification system (AIS) transponders switched off, shipping data from Kpler and LSEG showed Monday. The vessels were carrying roughly 6...
By Tommy Flynn
VATICAN CITY — Secretary of State Marco Rubio met privately with Pope Leo XIV on May 7 and later revealed that he updated the pontiff on the U.S. perspective regarding Iran, emphasizing the dangers the regime poses to global security. Rubio spoke to reporters after the roughly...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Sunday the Trump administration is open to suspending the federal gas tax to provide relief for American drivers facing higher prices tied to the conflict with Iran. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Wright stated, “All measures...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Sunday dismissed Iran’s counterproposal to the latest U.S. peace offer as “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE,” signaling continued deadlock in efforts to end the 10-week conflict in the Middle East. Iran sent its formal reply through Pakistani...
By Tommy Flynn
HILLSDALE, Mich. — Erika Kirk, CEO of Turning Point USA, delivered the keynote address at Hillsdale College’s 174th commencement ceremony on May 9, where she and her late husband Charlie Kirk received honorary doctorates of public service. Hillsdale President Larry Arnn...
By Tommy Flynn
MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin stated Saturday that the war in Ukraine is “coming to an end,” hours after presiding over a scaled-back Victory Day parade in Moscow and as a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine began. Speaking to reporters,...
By Brett Rowland | The Center Square
(The Center Square) – The Trump administration's $1.5 trillion military budget request would rewrite how the Pentagon buys weapons – forcing contractors to fund their own factory expansions and penalizing them for missing production targets – in a bid to fix what officials...
By Tommy Flynn
ORLANDO, Fla. — Joel Rufus French, a former NFL tight end who played for the Seattle Seahawks and Green Bay Packers, was sentenced Friday to 196 months in federal prison for his role in a yearslong scheme that defrauded Medicare and the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the...
By Tommy Flynn
WASHINGTON — Prominent far-left streamer Hasan Piker posted on X that “violent revolution” is inevitable following the Virginia Supreme Court’s ruling against a Democratic-backed congressional redistricting amendment. Piker, who has millions of followers on Twitch and YouTube...