Gundlach Bundschu, California's oldest family-owned winery, files for Chapter 11 after 168 years

A sixth-generation Sonoma Valley winery that survived phylloxera, the 1906 earthquake, Prohibition, and wildfire has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, brought low by a debt-financed deal made weeks before the pandemic changed everything. Gundlach Bundschu Winery, known to locals as "GunBun," announced it is seeking court-supervised restructuring and hopes to bring in a new investor […]

Peter Byrne, singer behind Naked Eyes' '80s New Wave hits, dead at 74

Peter Byrne, the British vocalist who gave Naked Eyes its signature sound on hits like "Always Something There to Remind Me," has died at 74 in Los Angeles after a brief illness, leaving fans of the '80s New Wave era mourning another voice from the decade's golden run. A statement on the Naked Eyes official […]

Kansas Democratic Senate nominee tells Kamala Harris to stay away: 'You would actually hurt me'

Kansas Democrat Rev. Adam Hamilton publicly rejected Kamala Harris's help in his long-shot Senate bid, telling her to stay out of his state, a snub that reflects a broader pattern of Democratic candidates treating the former vice president as a liability. Hamilton, a longtime pastor who won an 11-candidate Democratic primary in August, made the […]

House Republicans release Jack Smith transcripts revealing secret subpoenas of GOP lawmakers' phone records

House Republicans released six transcripts from Jack Smith's team that reveal investigators secretly subpoenaed phone records of more than a dozen Republican members of Congress, using gag orders to keep the lawmakers from ever finding out. The House Judiciary Committee published the transcripts on Tuesday, pulling back the curtain on how the former special counsel's […]

Jeffries fires back after retiring Democrat endorses Republican rival on his home turf

Retiring Rep. Jared Golden handed Republican Rep. Mike Lawler a cross-party endorsement in a competitive New York district, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries responded with a blistering public attack on both men. Golden, a Maine Democrat who announced he would not seek re-election, published an op-ed endorsing Lawler for a third term representing New […]

Jackson County grand jury clears all suspects in Nolan Wells drowning case

A Mississippi grand jury found no criminal wrongdoing in the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who vanished on Horn Island over the Fourth of July, but the teen's family and their attorney say the case is far from closed. Twenty-three Jackson County citizens reviewed the evidence and returned a unanimous "no true bill," declining to […]

Fifth Circuit strikes down federal ban on interstate handgun sales as unconstitutional

A federal appeals court has ruled that the decades-old ban on direct interstate handgun sales violates the Second Amendment, the latest in a string of court victories for gun rights that is dismantling pillars of federal firearms regulation. A two-judge majority on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit found that provisions of […]

Trump signs Greenland military pact giving US control of two additional Arctic bases

President Trump signed a sweeping defense agreement with Denmark and Greenland that hands the United States permanent military control over two additional bases on the world's largest island, the biggest American Arctic expansion since the Cold War. The trilateral pact, inked on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, grants Washington control of the former […]

Trump signs security deal with Denmark giving U.S. permanent military control over Greenland

President Trump signed a trilateral security agreement with Denmark and Greenland on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly, expanding America's Arctic military footprint while global conflicts underscore the island's strategic value. The deal, announced Friday and signed Tuesday in New York, grants the United States permanent control over security operations in Greenland and bars […]

Salazar tells Trump his immigration crackdown is costing the GOP its Hispanic gains

Florida Republican Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar is warning President Trump that his administration's immigration enforcement is driving away the very Hispanic voters who powered his 2024 victory, and she says his own advisers are to blame. Salazar, a first-generation American and daughter of Cuban refugees who spent three decades at Telemundo before entering Congress, released […]