Nine days after his lawyers struck what critics called a sweetheart plea deal with federal prosecutors, Hunter Biden paced through what appeared to be his Malibu art studio, clutching a cellphone and demanding answers. "What are you talking about 'I'm protected'?" he said. "Who am…
One hundred days after 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie vanished from her Tucson home, the investigation's most promising lead, a DNA sample recovered from her property, remains under analysis at the FBI's crime lab. No credible suspects have been publicly identified. No arrest has been made. And…
New York City Council member Chi Ossé filed a misconduct complaint Monday against the NYPD officer who arrested him last month during a protest at a Brooklyn eviction site, a move that drew immediate pushback from the city's largest police union, which said the officer…
Nancy Pelosi broke her public silence on the crowded race to succeed her in Congress, and chose to lavish praise on Connie Chan, a San Francisco supervisor who sits in third place in the polls and has struggled to raise money. In a rare interview…
California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing pointed accusations of cronyism after steering roughly $20 million in taxpayer funds to a nonprofit whose leadership overlaps with his wife's own organization, all in the name of giving free diapers to newborns. The program, branded "Golden State Start,"…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Senate Armed Services Committee last week that he supports the Major Richard Star Act, a bipartisan bill to restore benefits for roughly 54,000 combat-injured veterans that key Republican senators have twice blocked over its price tag. The declaration puts…
The Southern Poverty Law Center pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges that it defrauded donors by secretly funneling millions of dollars to individuals tied to the very extremist groups it claimed to fight, a case that has split Washington and drawn fierce reactions from…
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Friday that would set aside the state's May 19 congressional primary results and trigger new elections, if federal courts allow Republicans to swap in a different set of House district lines. The move positions Alabama as one of several…
A Moroccan military search team pulled the remains of 1st Lt. Kendrick Lamont Key Jr. from the Atlantic surf on May 9, one week after the 27-year-old Army officer and a fellow soldier plummeted off a cliff during an off-duty hike near Morocco's Cap Draa…
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman stood before roughly 150 people in a Queens park on Sunday morning and delivered a blunt indictment of Mayor Zohran Mamdani, calling him "un-American," "antisemetic," and a leader who divides the city he governs. The Republican gubernatorial candidate headlined the…
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel charged prominent Democratic donor Fay Beydoun with 16 felony counts tied to a $20 million state grant that prosecutors say was funneled into personal expenses, forged invoices, and false reports, all under a system Nessel herself described as "political cronyism…
Immigration judges issued more than 80,000 voluntary departure orders between January 2025 and March of this year, a pace roughly seven times higher than anything seen under the Biden administration, as the Trump White House's crackdown on illegal immigration pushes detained migrants to leave the…
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has spent 2025 staking out lonely ground on the Supreme Court, and drawing unusually pointed fire from justices on both the right and the left. In case after case touching President Trump's executive authority, the bench's most junior member has filed…
Vice President JD Vance is set to publish a second memoir next month, and the first excerpts paint a portrait of a young man from Middletown, Ohio, who walked into Yale Law School carrying a lifetime of instability and walked out with a marriage that…
