1539 articles in the US News category.
By Tommy Flynn
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered every command in the U.S. military to halt normal operations for one day this month so service members can register, request absentee ballots, or vote ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms. The directive is in a memorandum dated Oct. 1 and...
By Tommy Flynn
Former special counsel Jack Smith was photographed Saturday at a Maryland music festival wearing a Bruce Springsteen tour shirt printed with the slogan “No Kings,” four days after he told a Senate committee his prosecutions of President Trump were driven by evidence, not party....
By Tommy Flynn
The White House said President Donald Trump has ordered one-time payments of $90 to more than 20 million people on Medicare to offset Part B premiums. The fact sheet, dated Oct. 2, says the money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund. Congress created the fund in 2008 and...
By Tommy Flynn
Vice President JD Vance chaired an unannounced Camp David meeting Friday on the war with Iran and the Saudi-Houthi fight in Yemen, three U.S. officials told Axios. Accounts differ on whether President Donald Trump was in the room. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense...
By Tommy Flynn
Georgia’s State Election Board has asked the Justice Department to bar the state’s QR-code vote counting, force a software patch on machines used statewide, and investigate Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger’s office over election records and data shared with outside groups....
By Tommy Flynn
The Pentagon on Thursday raised hostile-fire pay and imminent-danger pay for U.S. troops for the first time since 2002, doubling the hostile-fire rate as the war with Iran continues. Tim Dill, assistant secretary of war for manpower and reserve affairs, issued the memorandum....
By Tommy Flynn
The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released a memorandum identifying six forms of fraud in the Unaccompanied Alien Children program as it operated under the Biden administration, and said some of that fraud put children into homes where they were abused or,...
By Tommy Flynn
A Pentagon personnel database breach exposed Social Security numbers and employment information for 2.76 million living U.S. military and civilian personnel and 294,000 deceased individuals, a Pentagon official confirmed to Fox News. Unauthorized users reached unencrypted files...
By Tommy Flynn
Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a House-passed ban on members of Congress trading stocks, in a 53–47 vote that fell short of the 60 votes needed to advance. The vote was on party lines. The measure is the Stop Insider Trading Act. The House had approved the bill with the...
By Tommy Flynn
Florida’s Cabinet voted Tuesday to designate the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Brotherhood, and about 90 other groups as domestic terrorist organizations, expanding a foreign-terrorist label the state placed on CAIR and the Brotherhood last year. Gov. Ron...
By Tommy Flynn
The U.S. military said Wednesday it has finished pulling the last American troops and equipment out of Iraq, closing the Iraq chapter of Operation Inherent Resolve after 12 years of the anti-ISIS campaign and more than two decades after the 2003 invasion. Pentagon spokesman Sean...
By Tommy Flynn
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the new America.gov portal removes the main argument opponents have used against the SAVE America Act — that proof of citizenship and photo identification are too hard for ordinary Americans to obtain. “Nobody can any longer complain...