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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Megyn Kelly took aim at Jimmy Kimmel this week after the late-night host sat down with Michelle Obama on her podcast and declared that ignoring politics on his ABC show would be "embarrassing" and "shameful." Kelly fired back on The Megyn Kelly Show, calling the…
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons submitted his resignation letter to Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Thursday, ending a 20-year federal career that included overseeing roughly 584,000 deportations since President Trump's second inauguration. Lyons plans to stay on through May 31 to help with the…
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…
Virginia voters head to the polls Tuesday to decide a redistricting referendum that could hand Democrats a commanding 10-1 advantage in the state's congressional delegation, but a pending Virginia Supreme Court challenge may ultimately void the entire effort over allegations that lawmakers broke state law…
The Federal Aviation Administration will slash more than 300 flights from Chicago's O'Hare International Airport this summer, capping daily operations at 2,708 in a bid to tame a delay problem that made O'Hare one of the worst-performing airports in the country last year. The limits…
