President Donald Trump traded politics for baseball Thursday afternoon as he welcomed the Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House and celebrated the team’s second consecutive World Series championship. The Dodgers gathered with Trump in the Rose Garden during their only off day on an East Coast road trip. The team’s 2024 and 2025 championship […]
Six visible cans of Budweiser have become the focus of a 14-year constitutional battle over whether Alaska can confiscate an elderly bush pilot’s $95,000 airplane for a first-time misdemeanor. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear Kenneth Jouppi’s challenge to the attempted seizure of his 1969 Cessna, giving the justices an opportunity to further […]
Mike Lindell is no longer merely the most famous Republican running for governor of Minnesota. The MyPillow founder is beginning to pull away from the pack. A new KSTP/SurveyUSA poll found Lindell leading the Republican primary with 35% support — an eight-point jump since June and a nine-point advantage over his closest rival. Minnesota House […]
Body camera footage released by Connecticut officials shows a Meriden police officer repeatedly ordering a man to drop a baseball bat before opening fire as the suspect continued attacking his father in what authorities described as a deadly domestic violence incident. The Connecticut Office of the Inspector General released the video this week as part […]
An international trail stretching from Indonesia’s remote Papua region to a private collection in Indiana has ended with eight culturally significant objects returning to the communities that created them. FBI Director Kash Patel personally delivered five of the recovered objects to Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto during a Wednesday meeting at the president’s residence in Jakarta. […]
The Trump administration has opened another legal front against local resistance to its immigration crackdown, suing Milwaukee over a city ordinance that restricts federal agents from wearing face coverings while on duty. The Department of Justice filed its complaint Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, naming Milwaukee, Mayor Cavalier […]
President Donald Trump confirmed Thursday that Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the White House on Sept. 24 for a high-stakes meeting expected to focus heavily on the global race for artificial intelligence. Trump revealed the date while speaking at the Environmental Protection Agency about his administration’s push to expand America’s AI infrastructure without forcing […]
Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) is returning to the political arena with an ambitious new mission: electing independent candidates who could weaken the two major parties’ grip on Congress. The 78-year-old former West Virginia senator announced the Independent Leadership Council, an organization designed to recruit candidates and provide them with the fundraising, strategic and organizational […]
Louisiana has one of the country’s broadest concealed carry laws. If you’re 18 and legally allowed to possess a firearm, you can carry a concealed handgun without asking the government for permission. But there’s one thing you still can’t do. You can’t get the state’s concealed handgun permit. A new federal lawsuit argues that contradiction […]
Joe Rogan revisited one of the darkest stories ever connected to his podcast Wednesday, recalling how a former gang member presented to listeners as a criminal justice success story was accused of killing and dismembering a man just weeks after sitting across from him. “We had a guy in the studio that cut a guy’s […]
Mark Sanford is back — and once again running headlong into President Donald Trump’s political machine. The former South Carolina governor and congressman announced Thursday that he is seeking the Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Lindsey Graham, joining a rapidly expanding Republican field despite Trump already throwing his support behind Graham’s sister, […]
