POLITICS

(Nolan McKendry, The Center Square) A New Orleans engineering firm that has contributed $115,000 to a political action committee closely aligned with Gov. Jeff Landry has been selected by the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development for work related to SpaceX's planned project in Vermilion Parish. Royal Engineers & Consultants...

(Tom Joyce, The Center Square) President Donald Trump recently shared a video that showed an advertisement for Kalshi in the background. Kalshi is a prediction market whose traders are betting on him being impeached once again. A television aboard Air Force One displayed Kalshi branding in the video Trump shared on...

(Greg Bishop, The Center Square) New amicus briefs are in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in the case challenging gun and magazine bans in Illinois and Connecticut. The consolidated case Viramontes v. Cook County, Illinois and Grant v. Connecticut is set to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court...

(Headline USA) A federal judge on Thursday set a September 2027 trial date for a man charged with attempting to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner earlier this year. Cole Tomas Allen's trial is scheduled to start with jury selection on Sept. 7 in Washington,...

(Headline USA) The Pentagon has accused a newly ousted three-star general of leaking sensitive information to the media just hours after officials confirmed his removal from a top military planning post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Army Lt. Gen. Brett Sylvia as head of strategy, plans and policy for the...

(Headline USA) An Egyptian man faces an additional life sentence after pleading guilty Thursday to federal hate crime and other charges for a deadly firebombing attack on demonstrators in Boulder, Colorado, last year. Mohamed Soliman is already serving life in prison plus hundreds of years of additional time after pleading...

(Headline USA) The Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, issuing a raft of new grand jury subpoenas, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. Subpoenas seeking grand jury testimony...

(Headline USA) A shooting Thursday just outside the Republican Party of Virginia offices in Richmond had nothing to do with the upcoming midterm elections, police said. The party said in a statement posted online that a woman was shot around 1:45 p.m. directly in front of the building that houses...

(José Niño, Headline USA) A breach of Department of Homeland Security records has exposed information concerning nearly 42,000 employees, revealing personnel assignments across immigration enforcement and other federal agencies. In a Wednesday report, Mikael Thalen of Straight Arrow said the disclosure included names, telephone numbers, email addresses, and job...

(José Niño, Headline USA) Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., faces questions about whether her foreign policy positions conflict with business connections involving her husband’s employer. In a Drop Site report published on Wednesday, Ryan Grim traced those connections to Chinese defense companies subject to American restrictions. The reporting does not...

(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The New York Times reported Thursday that the FBI has had evidence for over 10 years that Rep. Ilham Omar, D-Minn., likely married her brother to obtain a green card. “The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama...

(The Center Square) - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California on Wednesday evening denied the Trump administration's request for a temporary restraining order to force the state to segregate mail-in ballots that the federal government thinks could have been submitted by noncitizens. "Never before in American...