Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche told a religious group last week that he is working to restrict access to abortions nationwide — even in states where the procedure is legal. In a call with leaders of the group, Intercessors for America, Blanche — whose nomination for the permanent attorney general’s job could come up in […]

Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-N.C., announced Wednesday that he’s suspending his reelection campaign, two days after a House Ethics Committee report concluded that he had acted inappropriately towards two female members of his congressional staff.  “After much prayer and reflection, I’ve decided to withdraw from my re-election campaign,” Edwards said in a post on X. He […]

A Republican candidate for Michigan’s 8th Congressional District will now face off against incumbent Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet — except the Republican nominee dropped out in July.  Tom Smith is a Flint man who entered Michigan’s Republican primary race for the tri-city district in mid-May. On July 16, he dropped out of the race. On […]

Louisiana’s utility company dropped plans to buy a gas-fired power plant in Texas after pushback over how much it would cost residents amid a data center boom in the state. The $1.8 billion proposal was projected to raise the average monthly residential utility bill by $9, according to reporting in the Times-Picayune.  Utility company Entergy […]

On a warm night in 1996, a white Cadillac cruising the Las Vegas Strip slowed to a crawl, pulling up alongside the car carrying the iconic rapper Tupac Shakur. Gunfire erupted and Shakur was hit multiple times. He died six days later at the age of 25.  At the time, hip hop was ascendant in […]

When the first activity trackers hit the market in the 1960s, they did one thing: counted steps. In the 1980s and 1990s, athletes started wearing heart-rate monitors. In the early 2000s, tech companies like Fitbit and Garmin added GPS features, allowing runners and cyclists to track speed, distance and pace. Wearable technology expanded from shoe-mounted […]

President Donald Trump has ordered contractors to redo portions of the new White House helipad after rejecting its design, forcing crews to tear out weeks of completed work just as the project was nearing the finish line. The Washington Post first reported Trump’s decision, citing two people familiar with his private comments. Crews have been […]

One of Central America’s most active volcanoes is erupting again. Guatemala’s Fuego volcano has forced evacuations and shelter-in-place orders, raising fears of dangerous mudslides. About 30,000 people in communities below the volcano have been affected, with hundreds evacuated to emergency shelters. A major highway that passes close to the volcano has been shut down, and […]

Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary is still too close to call after a night of razor-thin returns, with election officials continuing to count thousands of ballots. Plus, new reporting details how deeply the war with Iran has drawn down key U.S. missile stockpiles, even as the Pentagon insists the military has what it needs. And President […]