Usha Vance calls for respect toward Supreme Court justices amid rising tensions

Second Lady Usha Vance, a former Supreme Court clerk who knows the institution from the inside, told ABC News that justices deserve to be treated with basic respect, a message that lands at a moment when criticism of the court has grown sharper from nearly every direction, including from within the White House itself. "I […]

Interior Secretary Burgum says Trump's D.C. restorations prove urban squalor is a leadership failure

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says the Trump administration has removed 152 homeless camps from Washington, D.C., restored long-broken fountains, and transformed neglected public parks, all without controversy, and that the results prove urban decay in America's cities is a choice made by the people in charge, not an inevitability. Burgum laid out the case during […]

Secret Service probes viral video of nurse who appeared to threaten President Trump with a knife

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a woman identified as a nurse after a viral video appeared to show her threatening to drive to Washington, D.C., and use a knife on President Donald Trump, the latest in a string of healthcare workers posting graphic threats against the president on social media. The video, shared Sunday […]

A 66-year-old great-grandmother was stabbed to death on an Atlanta train — and riders say no one stepped in

Margaret Swan was sitting alone on a MARTA train in Atlanta on Saturday morning when a 25-year-old man walked up beside her, pulled a knife, and allegedly slit her throat. What followed, according to an arrest warrant and surveillance footage, was a sustained attack in which Swan was stabbed 18 to 20 times while she […]

Greg Hardy knocked out at Fight Nation Championship 31 despite 52-pound weight advantage

Former NFL defensive end Greg Hardy missed weight by 25 pounds, entered the cage carrying a 52-pound size advantage over his opponent, and still got knocked out in the third round Saturday at Fight Nation Championship 31. Serbian heavyweight Darko Stosic landed a left hook that sent Hardy backward, followed by a hammer fist to […]

Teen's Fitbit named "bomb" forces United Airlines flight back to Newark

A Spain-bound United Airlines jet carrying passengers out of Newark Liberty International Airport turned around mid-flight Saturday evening after a Bluetooth device labeled "bomb" appeared on travelers' screens, the product, officials determined, of a 16-year-old's Fitbit nickname. United flight 236, headed for Palma De Mallorca, Spain, departed Newark at about 6 p.m. Roughly four hours […]

Prosecutor who secured Comey indictment exits case with no explanation

The federal prosecutor who brought criminal charges against former FBI Director James Comey over a threatening social media post has quietly walked away from the case, and the court filing replacing him offers no reason why. Matthew Petracca, the Justice Department attorney who secured a two-count indictment against Comey in the Eastern District of North […]

Fifth Circuit clears Texas to enforce SB 4 migrant arrest law, overriding lower court block

A federal appeals court on Friday handed Texas a significant legal win, lifting a lower court injunction that had blocked key provisions of Senate Bill 4, the state law that makes illegal entry into Texas a state crime and empowers local police to arrest suspected border crossers. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth […]

Brooklyn Democrats ran a dead man on Hakeem Jeffries' ticket to collect petition signatures, critics say

Democratic Party operatives in southern Brooklyn listed a deceased community leader as a candidate on petition forms that also carried House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' name, a move critics say was designed to exploit the dead man's local popularity and harvest signatures in a conservative-leaning district where Jeffries would otherwise struggle to attract them. Robert […]

Musicians bail on America's 250th birthday fair, and Trump floats scrapping the concerts entirely

Five major musical acts have pulled out of the Great American State Fair on the National Mall, and President Trump responded by floating the idea of canceling the concert lineup altogether, replacing it with what he called a "giant MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN RALLY" to mark America's 250th birthday. The withdrawals hit fast. Within days […]