Susan Collins confronts Hegseth over firing of more than two dozen senior military officers

Sen. Susan Collins used her opening statement at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing Tuesday to publicly challenge Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's removal of more than two dozen senior military officers, a rare rebuke from a Republican committee chair that signals growing bipartisan unease over the Pentagon shake-up. Collins, who chairs the powerful spending panel, told […]

Nine shot in Minneapolis neighborhood where Democrat mayor promised safety just months earlier

A mass shooting left nine people wounded in the same Minneapolis entertainment district where Mayor Jacob Frey held a press conference weeks earlier pledging stronger patrols, and a nearby nightclub brawl the same night only deepened questions about who is keeping Uptown safe. Just before 12:30 a.m. on Sunday, gunfire erupted outside the Reign Event […]

Speaker Johnson pledges House will stay in session to finish packed legislative week

House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed the chamber would not break early before August recess, even as Republican holdouts threaten a critical procedural vote on a $95 billion budget framework backed by President Trump. Johnson delivered the three-word answer, "I will not", when Fox News asked Monday whether he would send members home if GOP leaders […]

Suspect Andrew Arrabaca named in incendiary device attack outside Manhattan federal building, carried anti-ICE materials

A 43-year-old Army veteran allegedly set fire to the steps of 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan using gasoline and fireworks, and law enforcement says he brought a manifesto, weapons, and anti-ICE literature with him. Andrew John Arrabaca was taken into custody Monday morning after he allegedly launched fireworks outside the federal building, poured what […]

Declassified FBI memos show DOJ blocked full probe of alleged 2020 voter registration fraud in Michigan

President Trump released declassified FBI investigative files exposing how the Justice Department repeatedly narrowed, delayed, and ultimately killed a federal probe into a voter registration firm accused of submitting fabricated applications in Muskegon, Michigan, ahead of the 2020 election. The documents, FBI-302 interview summaries, internal DOJ emails, and an investigation timeline, lay out a case […]

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, rock and roll original behind "Palisades Park," dead at 89

Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, the high-energy rock and roll pioneer who scored 29 charting hits and set an all-time record on American Bandstand, died July 17 at a California hospice after a brief battle with cancer. Cannon, born Frederick Anthony Picariello Jr. in Lynn, Massachusetts, on December 4, 1936, spent seven decades making the kind […]

Spain wins 2026 FIFA World Cup, and Trump joins the trophy ceremony in East Rutherford

Spain claimed its second men's World Cup title with a 1-0 extra-time victory over Argentina on Sunday, and President Trump stepped onto the stage to help present the trophy, drawing cheers, boos, and predictable outrage from critics who wanted him nowhere near the celebration. The final whistle at New York New Jersey Stadium in East […]

Fetterman party switch before midterms is 'likely,' commentator says, as senator draws Israel red line

Sen. John Fetterman told reporters on Capitol Hill last week that the Democratic Party's drift against Israel represents his personal breaking point, and one prominent commentator now says a formal departure from the party is not just possible but probable before the 2026 midterms. Washington Examiner columnist Joe Concha, appearing on Fox Business's Varney & […]

Von der Leyen declines World Cup final invitation, avoids sharing stage with Trump

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will skip the 2026 World Cup final on Sunday, turning down an invitation to attend the match at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, where President Donald Trump is set to hand out the trophy and stand on stage as the winning team lifts it. Her chief spokesperson, Paula […]

Kentucky governor claims two agencies called to tell him McConnell had died

Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear says he received two separate phone calls from unnamed agencies informing him that Sen. Mitch McConnell had "passed", a claim that captures just how far the information vacuum around the 84-year-old senator's hospitalization has spread since he was rushed from his Washington home on June 14. Beshear, a Democrat, made the […]