Migrant arrested in Jordan after fleeing Ireland following American mother's murder

A Jordanian national who fled Ireland before anyone even found the body of the American woman he is suspected of killing has been detained in Jordan, raising hard questions about how he slipped out of the country in the first place, and whether Irish authorities will ever get him back. Jamey Carney, a 43-year-old New […]

FBI agents descend on Lindsey Graham's Capitol Hill home less than 48 hours after his death

At least eight FBI personnel arrived at the late Sen. Lindsey Graham's row house in Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood on Monday, less than two days after the 71-year-old South Carolina Republican died of what authorities have preliminarily called natural causes. Footage captured by Nexstar's Vinay Simlot showed agents in blue and yellow FBI windbreakers entering […]

Father and son die in small plane crash after Cardinals game as faulty weather system draws scrutiny

A father and his 22-year-old son died when their small plane flew into a developing storm over rural Illinois late Thursday night, spiraling into a tree line just minutes after takeoff. Jimmy Don Lewis, 48, and Brayden Ty Lewis, 22, were heading home to Arkansas after spending the evening at a St. Louis Cardinals game, […]

Trump fires back at Haberman over health coverage, warns of legal consequences

President Trump took aim at New York Times journalist Maggie Haberman on Saturday, posting a lengthy broadside on Truth Social that accused her of a decade of inaccurate coverage and warned she would face consequences through his pending multibillion-dollar lawsuit against the paper. The post came after Haberman questioned the president's cognitive health and physical […]

Lindsey Graham died of aortic dissection, DC medical examiner finds, as FBI assists investigation

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died in the early hours of July 12, 2026, from an aortic dissection caused by arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, his office disclosed Sunday evening after the DC Medical Examiner completed a preliminary investigation. He was 71 years old. The announcement came hours after FBI agents were spotted at Graham's […]

21st Century ROAD to Housing Act becomes law without Trump's signature after voter ID standoff

The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law early Saturday without President Trump's signature, the result of a deliberate standoff in which Trump let the constitutional clock expire to pressure the Senate on election integrity legislation it has so far refused to pass. Trump made his reasoning plain. On Friday, he posted on Truth […]

Federal judge dismisses Proud Boys convictions, says Constitution left him no choice

A federal judge formally wiped away the convictions of four Proud Boys members for their roles in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot, granting the Justice Department's motion to dismiss the case with prejudice and permanently barring prosecutors from ever bringing the same charges again. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, made clear […]

Former Obama press aide fired from $186K Minneapolis job after allegedly stealing from coworkers to fund kratom habit

A former deputy national press secretary for the Obama administration lost his six-figure city communications job in Minneapolis after he was allegedly caught on surveillance cameras using a stolen credit card to buy kratom at a local smoke shop, just weeks after returning from a work-approved stint in rehab. Adam Fetcher, 42, was fired from […]

Trump removes final three Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency with zero commissioners

President Donald Trump fired the last two Democratic members of the Election Assistance Commission and accepted the resignation of its lone Republican commissioner, leaving the federal agency with no sitting members just months before the 2026 midterm elections. The removals, Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland, both selected by congressional Democrats, came by email, the New […]

Seventh Circuit clears Florida's lawsuit against pediatrics group over youth sex-change claims

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has overturned a lower court injunction that blocked Florida from suing the American Academy of Pediatrics, allowing Attorney General James Uthmeier to press his case that the nation's largest pediatric organization misled the public about the safety of sex-change procedures for minors. The ruling dismantles a legal barrier […]