Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin warned state election officials on Friday that they could face fines or incarceration if they refuse to implement federal mandates regarding voting machine security and voter roll maintenance, signaling a sharp escalation in the Trump administration’s efforts to exert control over state-run electoral processes.
As the United States faces a fresh surge in fuel costs—with national gas prices nearing $4 a gallon—a new CNBC All-America Economic Survey reveals a sharp decline in public optimism, with voters increasingly holding President Donald Trump accountable for the nation's darkening economic horizon.
Conflict emerged on the Senate floor Thursday as Republicans voted 50-46 to block a Democratic-led resolution aimed at dismantling a Trump administration pilot program. The initiative, known as the WISeR model, integrates artificial intelligence into the Medicare payment process, sparking intense bipartisan debate over the future of patient care.
A high-stakes combat tournament in Shenzhen turned into a spectacle of mechanical carnage this week when a humanoid robot, dubbed 'White Eagle,' delivered a roundhouse kick that dislodged its opponent's head, leaving the machine to continue fighting until it eventually collapsed and crushed its own detached cranium.
Three days after watching her husband’s body lie in the street outside their Biddeford home, Martha Karolina Rojas Alvarez is speaking out. Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, 25, was fatally shot by a federal agent on Monday during an operation that officials acknowledge did not even target him.
United Nations experts have demanded the immediate closure of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, labeling the U.S.- and Israel-backed entity a dangerous militarized effort that hijacks aid distribution. The rapporteurs argue the project ignores international law while leaving a state accused of war crimes in control of life-saving supplies.
A sharp political divide emerged in the House on Friday as lawmakers approved a 1,012-page spending package that funnels $3.8 billion in military aid to Israel while simultaneously cutting off support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for at least one year.
Human rights advocates are condemning a new bipartisan bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that seeks to dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. Critics argue the legislation would effectively starve Palestinians by removing the primary provider of food and medical aid in the region.
Pentagon Secretary Pete Hegseth drew sharp condemnation Thursday after posting footage of a collapsing Iranian surveillance tower, an image highlighting the Trump administration’s intensifying aerial assault on the country’s civilian infrastructure, including critical bridges, power grids, and railway lines vital to the nation’s 90 million residents.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi claims that while Washington warns of foreign election interference, a significant influence campaign is being directed by Brad Parscale, a former Trump campaign manager now acting as a registered foreign agent for the Israeli government to shape American conservative opinion.
With the midterm elections just four months away, Donald Trump utilized a primetime platform to cast doubt on the integrity of the American voting system. He alleged a sprawling Chinese conspiracy to manipulate ballots, simultaneously releasing declassified intelligence documents he claimed were previously suppressed by rogue federal bureaucrats.
The record-breaking wildfire season that scorched vast swaths of Canada was made at least twice as likely by human-driven climate change, according to a new report from World Weather Attribution. The study confirms that the environmental conditions fueling these blazes are becoming significantly more frequent as global temperatures rise.
As 884 wildfires rage across Canada, forcing evacuations and choking major North American cities with smoke, climate activists are demanding legal retribution against fossil fuel giants. Protesters argue that industry leaders knowingly prioritized profits while fueling the atmospheric conditions that have turned boreal forests into tinderboxes.
The International Trade Union Confederation has identified seven global giants—ranging from Big Tech to private equity—as primary threats to democratic institutions. The coalition argues these firms leverage massive capital to lobby against public accountability, suppress labor rights, and bankroll far-right movements to consolidate global influence.
A series of recovered documents reveals that the oil industry weaponized a Los Angeles-based research group as early as the 1950s to suppress findings on fossil fuel emissions. The records detail how industry leaders maneuvered to transform a public health initiative into a tool for protecting corporate profits.
The Trump administration has finalized sweeping visa restrictions that replace the long-standing "duration of status" system with fixed admission periods. The move, which marks the largest overhaul of student visa policy in five decades, imposes rigid caps on the time international students and foreign journalists can remain in the United States.
The Trump Media and Technology Group is launching a prediction market platform, Truth Predict, in partnership with Crypto.com. The move follows reports that the Trump Organization’s annual income surged 17-fold to $864 million, largely driven by cryptocurrency ventures that critics argue create unprecedented conflicts of interest for the presidency.
Six newly created accounts on the prediction platform Polymarket generated roughly $1 million in profit by wagering on the timing of a U.S. bombing campaign against Iran. The trades, placed mere hours before explosions rocked Tehran, have triggered urgent calls from lawmakers to regulate what they describe as legalized insider trading.
The Trump administration is aggressively suppressing oversight of online prediction platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket, using the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to neutralize internal dissent while launching a nationwide legal offensive against states attempting to impose their own consumer protections on the rapidly expanding betting industry.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt branded a staffer’s alleged insider trading a “disgrace” on Thursday, even as the administration faces intensifying scrutiny over its own financial entanglements. The comments followed revelations that a long-time teleprompter operator for Donald Trump had been betting on the president’s speeches.
A massive influx of outside capital is reshaping the Democratic primary in Michigan, as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee and affiliated groups pour nearly $50 million into the race to block progressive candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed from securing the nomination against Representative Haley Stevens.
Senator Jon Ossoff launched a preemptive strike against President Donald Trump on Thursday, dismissing the president’s scheduled address on election security as a platform for recycled grievances. The Georgia Democrat warned that the speech serves only to distract from rising living costs and ongoing instability in the Middle East.
A surge in global litigation against fossil fuel giants is threatening to reshape the industry’s business model. A new report identifies 86 climate-related cases filed since 2005, with the vast majority emerging after the 2015 Paris Agreement as plaintiffs increasingly seek to hold corporations accountable for environmental damages.
A landmark report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine confirms that extreme event attribution has reached a level of scientific maturity that allows researchers to directly link specific weather disasters to climate change, providing a new legal cornerstone for communities seeking damages from oil and gas corporations.
Multnomah County has expanded its ongoing climate litigation, naming NW Natural as a defendant in a move that marks the first time a U.S. gas utility has been targeted in a climate accountability lawsuit for its alleged role in public deception regarding fossil fuel dangers.
White House border czar Tom Homan issued a stark ultimatum to Democratic lawmakers on Wednesday, declaring that further bloodshed is inevitable unless critics cease their rhetoric against Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents following two recent fatal shootings.
Ashley Brouillette says her ex-husband, a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent, pressured her to provide a false alibi following the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine. She alleges he claimed the use of force was justified because the victim attempted to strike him with a vehicle.
A low-altitude flight by the U.S. Navy Blue Angels over a crowded Pensacola beach has triggered a federal safety review, even as the Trump administration dismisses public alarm as manufactured outrage from the media. The maneuver sent chairs and umbrellas flying, leaving onlookers rattled by the proximity of the aircraft.
The Trump administration is escalating its campaign against domestic political opponents, with top officials pledging a new era of mass arrests and financial de-platforming. By invoking National Security Presidential Memorandum-7, the White House aims to dismantle networks it characterizes as a fatal threat to American civilization.
Conflict of interest concerns have emerged as Trump Media & Technology Group prepares to launch a paid API service. Starting August 1, the product will offer high-frequency trading firms and institutional investors millisecond-level access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump and other influential accounts.
