Month: September 2026

The wall of ice, water and rock that tore through Nepal last week has claimed more than 1,200 lives and left more than 4,000 missing, depriving many grieving families of a basic rite: funerals. The scale of the disaster has proved challenging for authorities, with…

The Trump administration is threatening to withdraw support for the Smithsonian Institution, accusing its leadership of presenting a “radical ideology” that weakens “shared American identity” in the latest effort to pressure the institution to change its presentations and practices. The Department of the Interior sent…

Leon Black, a former Wall Street private equity investor, on Thursday sued the House Oversight Committee, seeking to stop the panel from enforcing its subpoenas against him in an ongoing probe of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. “The Committee is on a fishing expedition…

A former California podcaster has been arrested on charges he repeatedly threatened to kill the president. Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, of Los Angeles, engaged in repeated rants on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok in order “to publicly express his hatred toward President Trump and his supporters,…

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — U.S. President Donald Trump raised doubts about whether the United States would support Britain in another conflict over the Falkland Islands in an interview with a British broadcaster aired Thursday, injecting new tension into the long-standing dispute over the British-controlled archipelago…

Elon Musk’s super PAC has funneled about $800,000 into battleground races across the country to boost Republican candidates. Musk’s America PAC is weighing in on highly competitive races, including the Senate contests in Maine, Michigan and Texas, according to a report it filed with the…

Maryland voters will get to decide in November on a congressional redistricting amendment being pushed by Democrats as part of a nationwide battle for control of the U.S. House in future elections. The Maryland Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the proposed constitutional amendment must be…

A candidate for the Missouri statehouse is accused of trying to plant cocaine and Adderall on a political rival. Thomas Christopher Ross, 37, was charged Thursday with one count of conspiring to distribute a controlled substance after the person he allegedly asked to plant the…

An ICE officer is facing federal charges that he lied to federal investigators about the shooting of a Venezuelan immigrant during immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis this year. A federal grand jury on Wednesday returned an indictment charging the officer, Christian Castro, with making false…