Former Congressman David McKinley, a seventh-generation West Virginian who spent more than a decade fighting for coal miners and Mountain State workers on Capitol Hill, died peacefully at his home in Wheeling. He was 79. Tributes from across West Virginia's political leadership poured in Friday,…
Utah's governor and top Republican lawmakers have launched an independent investigation into state Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen over allegations she exchanged "inappropriate" text messages with the attorney who argued a landmark redistricting case before her court, a case she helped decide unanimously in July…
President Trump is absent from the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston this weekend, the second year running he has passed on the gathering, and the no-show is drawing fresh attention to the organization's diminished financial and political standing inside the Republican coalition. The…
A Minnesota prosecutor filed two felony assault counts against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this week, alleging he pointed his service weapon at two civilians on a Minneapolis highway in February, a case the county attorney calls the first criminal charge against a federal…
The Supreme Court handed oil and gas companies a unanimous procedural win Friday, ruling that a major Louisiana coastal-damage case against Chevron belongs in federal court, not the state court system where a jury had already ordered the company to pay more than $740 million…
Garret Anderson, one of the most decorated players in Los Angeles Angels history and a cornerstone of the franchise's only World Series championship, died Friday at his Newport Beach, California, home after what was described as a medical emergency. He was 53 years old. The…
President Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a Brown University, trained physician, military veteran, and former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, installing a credentialed public health official at the helm of an agency that has endured mass…
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna says she has forwarded information about Sen. Ruben Gallego to Senate ethics officials and that Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office confirmed it was under review, claims the Arizona Democrat's office dismissed as "right-wing conspiracy theories." Luna, a Florida Republican, told…
A three-judge federal appeals panel handed the Trump administration a win Friday, allowing construction on the president's planned White House ballroom to continue into June, just one day after a lower-court judge tried to limit the $400 million project to underground work only. The U.S.…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to expedite its review of psychedelic-based treatments for severe mental health conditions, with a sharp focus on veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and depression. The move pairs new federal research dollars with a…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Lebanese President Joseph Aoun agreed to a ten-day ceasefire, set to take effect at 5 p.m., after Secretary of State Marco Rubio mediated the first direct talks between the two nations in more…
Vice President JD Vance told Fox News on April 13 that "in some cases it would be best for the Vatican to stick to matters of morality" and leave American public policy to the president. Three Catholic theologians say he has it exactly backward, that…
Darin Hoover lost his son at Abbey Gate. For three and a half years, he says, the government gave his family almost nothing, no real answers, no accountability, and no indication anyone in charge cared to look back at what went wrong. Now a new…
Two Senate Republicans who helped block Democratic efforts to rein in President Trump's military campaign in Iran now say their support has limits, and the clock is running. Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Thom Tillis of North Carolina each signaled this week that they…
