The United Arab Emirates’ exit from the oil pricing cartel OPEC becomes official on Friday. The move, announced on Tuesday, is the culmination of years of tension, and it comes as the war in Iran enters its third month, leaving the future of oil in a deeply uncertain place. The now 11-member OPEC bloc has […]
President Donald Trump signed a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, excluding its immigration enforcement operations, on Thursday. The bill signing ends a record-breaking agency shutdown. Members of the House of Representatives approved the legislation by voice vote earlier in the day. “After 76 days, the longest government shutdown in history is over,” DHS […]
Texas’ Camp Mystic will not reopen this summer after floods at the site killed 28 people last July. Officials confirmed Thursday that the camp withdrew its application to the Department of State Health Services to continue operations for 2026. “The DSHS continues working with the Texas Rangers to investigate Camp Mystic,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott […]
A special grand jury indicted a New Orleans sheriff almost a year after 10 inmates escaped from a local jail under her leadership. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said in a statement that while Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson “did not personally open the doors of the jail for the escapees, her refusal to comply […]
After senators from both sides questioned President Donald Trump’s nominee for surgeon general about her stance on a number of her medical opinions, the president is choosing someone else for the job. The president said on Thursday that he is nominating Fox News contributor Nicole Saphier to the top medical role. His initial pick, Casey […]
The Trump administration is asking other countries to join a new “Maritime Freedom Construct” aimed at restoring commercial navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. The push comes after ship traffic failed to rebound even as President Donald Trump said the waterway was open and insisted the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports was working. The Wall […]
California’s decades-long plan to move people by train at high speeds has been anything but high-speed. The latest plan from the California High-Speed Rail Authority has several issues that have lingered for two decades. Now, a new issue potentially violates state law. At a hearing earlier this week, California’s Senate Transportation Committee warned the group […]
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives announced a broad package of policy changes long-sought by gun rights supporters. Gun control advocates say it’s a great day to be a criminal. Bureau leaders on Wednesday joined newly confirmed Director Robert Cekada and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche in unveiling more than 30 new rules […]
A group of Mississippi students is being hailed as heroes after stepping in when their school bus driver lost consciousness. The 46-year-old driver had just left a middle school in Hancock County with about 40 students on board when she suffered an asthma attack and passed out. She reached over for her medication, but blacked out before she […]
It has been six years since the world stopped spinning. Six years since the COVID-19 pandemic changed the way Americans do seemingly everything — from grocery shopping to sneezing into elbows. “Things haven’t been the same since,” nurse Trinity Walker told Straight Arrow. “I do sometimes wonder where I would be in my life if […]
