A 44-year-old man armed with a machete slashed three elderly strangers on a busy subway platform at Grand Central Terminal Saturday morning before NYPD officers shot and killed him, police said. The suspect, identified as Anthony Griffin, ignored more than 20 commands to drop the…
President Trump announced Friday that Deputy Chief of Staff James Blair will step away from his White House post to take the reins of the president's outside political operation, and its $300 million-plus war chest, as Republicans brace for what could be a punishing midterm…
Former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin broke a long public silence this week to say that Pete Hegseth's removal of more than a dozen senior military officers "concerns" him, a carefully staged critique from a Biden-era Pentagon chief whose own tenure was hardly a model of…
Sen. Tim Sheehy, R-Mont., walked away uninjured Friday after an in-flight engine failure forced him to bring his plane down in a field near Ennis, Montana. His co-pilot was also unhurt. The freshman senator was at the controls during a routine training exercise when the…
President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the U.S. Navy will begin blockading all ships entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz, a dramatic escalation that came hours after marathon negotiations with Iran ended without a deal on Tehran's nuclear program. The order, delivered in a…
A 38-year-old Queens man allegedly walked into a gas station, grabbed matches, and set fire to a random apartment building in Flushing because he was angry about being fired, killing four people, including a three-year-old child, prosecutors said. Roman Amatitla now faces multiple counts of…
Rep. Pramila Jayapal went on national television Sunday and called for two of her congressional colleagues, one Democrat, one Republican, to be removed from the House over sexual misconduct allegations, saying both men should resign and that she would vote to expel them if the…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a 375-page "Preliminary Racial Equity Plan" last week that frames nearly every arm of city government through the lens of racial disparity, and conservatives say the document is a blueprint for higher taxes, fewer cops, and race-based policymaking…
Newly declassified intelligence community memos reveal that the CIA analyst whose complaint launched the first impeachment of President Donald Trump carried far deeper political biases and closer ties to Joe Biden than the public was ever told, and that he actively sought to keep his…
The Islamabad talks collapsed Sunday after twenty-one hours. Vice President Vance announced the failure. Within hours, President Trump posted on Truth Social that the U.S. Navy would blockade any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait of Hormuz. The commentariat went into…
U.S. Central Command announced Saturday that American forces have begun de-mining the Strait of Hormuz, deploying two Navy guided-missile destroyers to carve a safe passage through waters that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps had seeded with sea mines during the ongoing conflict. The operation marks…
Justice Sonia Sotomayor told an audience at the University of Alabama Law School on Thursday that the Supreme Court is fielding an "unprecedented" flood of emergency appeals, a workload shift she said the justices brought on themselves. Her remarks laid bare a growing internal rift…
A 29-year-old Chicago man faces federal charges after prosecutors say he used the White House website to threaten President Donald Trump and his son Barron, then escalated to threatening Secret Service agents who came to investigate, all while allegedly including his own phone number and…
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared Friday that a Reconstruction-era federal ban on home distilling exceeds Congress's constitutional authority to levy taxes, ending, at the federal level, a prohibition that has been on the books since 1868 and carried penalties of up to…
