U.S. forces struck and disabled two Iranian-flagged oil tankers on Friday as they tried to reach an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman, U.S. Central Command announced. The tankers M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda were hit by an F/A-18 Super Hornet launched…
Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos offered two words Saturday when Fox News reporters asked whether investigators were close to solving the disappearance of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie. "We are," he said, the most direct public signal yet that the months-long search may be nearing a turning…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), a prospective 2028 presidential candidate, is heading to Canada this weekend to huddle with Prime Minister Mark Carney and other center-left politicians at a summit organized by the Center for American Progress. The stated purpose: figuring out "how to battle right-wing…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to travel to Italy this week and meet Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, a Vatican source told Reuters, a sit-down that Vice President JD Vance will not attend, despite his own public efforts to build a relationship with…
A Utah judge denied Tyler Robinson's bid to ban cameras from the courtroom and delayed his preliminary hearing to July, setting the stage for a publicly visible reckoning in the murder of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Judge Tony Graf Jr. of the 4th…
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled 4-3 to invalidate Democrats' mid-decade redistricting effort, finding that the legislature violated the state constitution's procedural requirements when it rushed a map-redrawing amendment onto the ballot. The decision wipes out a plan that would have redrawn Virginia's congressional districts to…
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) is traveling to Canada this Saturday for a gathering of center-left politicians organized around a single question: how to defeat conservatives on pocketbook issues. The summit, organized by the Center for American Progress, will bring the Michigan Democrat together with Canadian…
The Department of Justice announced Friday that it is seeking to denaturalize 12 naturalized American citizens accused of crimes ranging from terrorism support and murder to marriage fraud, firearms trafficking, and child sexual abuse. The cases, filed in federal courts across nine states and Washington,…
Former House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz laid out six recommendations to fix the United States Secret Service more than ten years ago. Not one of them stuck. Now, after a string of security failures culminating in multiple attempts on President Donald Trump's life, a bipartisan…
Eight Senate Democrats broke ranks to end the government shutdown, and the fallout landed squarely on Chuck Schumer. Now the Senate minority leader faces open calls for his removal, furious allies in the House, and a party fracturing over whether his strategy accomplished anything at…
An 18-year-old social media influencer with roughly 350,000 TikTok followers faces 15 counts of possessing child sexual abuse material after his girlfriend found the images on his phone while he slept, Sarasota County authorities said. Mason Hull was arrested Wednesday in Sarasota County, Florida, after…
Health officials working under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed whether certain drugs in the most widely prescribed class of antidepressants could face additional restrictions, two people familiar with the conversations told Newsmax, even as the department publicly denied any talk of an outright ban.…
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., tore into House Democratic leadership on Tuesday after Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., openly described her efforts to coordinate with foreign ambassadors, including those from Mexico, to find ways to deliver oil to Cuba despite U.S. sanctions targeting the island's communist regime.…
President Trump announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day ceasefire running from May 9 through May 11, paired with a prisoner exchange of 1,000 captives from each side, a development the president framed as a direct result of his personal diplomacy…