(Headline USA) Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., warned FBI leadership this week that House Republicans might vote against reauthorizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act because of the agency’s repeated abuses of the law.
FISA’s surveillance powers under Section 702 are set to expire this year, which means Congress will have to...
(Headline USA) China on Thursday imposed trade and investment sanctions on Lockheed Martin and a unit of Raytheon for supplying weapons to Taiwan, stepping up efforts to isolate the island democracy claimed by the ruling Communist Party as part of its territory.
Lockheed Martin Corp. and Raytheon Technologies Corp.'s Raytheon...
(Headline USA) Local governments in Oregon can’t declare themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries and ban police from enforcing certain gun laws, a state appeals court decided Wednesday, in the first court case filed over a concept that hundreds of U.S. counties have adopted in recent years.
It is unclear whether the...
(Headline USA) Actor Robert Duvall was one of more than 100 speakers at a northern Virginia town's council meeting opposing a proposed $550 million data center from Amazon.
In a meeting that began early Tuesday evening and concluded well after midnight early Wednesday morning, the Town of Warrenton voted 4-3 to...
(Headline USA) The NCAA asked a federal appeals court on Wednesday to reject a legal effort to make colleges treat Division I athletes like employees and start paying them an hourly wage.
Lawyers for the student-athletes said that weekly, they often spend 30 hours or more on their sport and often...
(Headline USA) National Park Service employees on Wednesday swept through a large homeless encampment three blocks from the White House, tearing down dozens of tents and warning that people who resisted would be subject to arrest.
Workers in white jumpsuits used rakes, shovels and pitchforks to clear McPherson Square, tossing the...
(Headline USA) Residents of the Ohio village upended by a freight train derailment packed a school gym to seek answers about whether they were safe from toxic chemicals that spilled or were burned off.
Hundreds of worried people gathered Wednesday in East Palestine, near the Pennsylvania state line, to hear...
(Headline USA) The FBI searched the University of Delaware in recent weeks for classified documents as part of its investigation into the potential mishandling of sensitive government records by President Joe Biden.
The search, first reported by CNN, was confirmed to the Associated Press by a person familiar with the matter who...
(Headline USA) With the questionable announcement of long-serving Sen. Dianne Feinstein's retirement in 2024, a California senate race featuring at least three heavy-hitting Democrat lawmakers is shaping up.
It now seems poised to pit one of the party's most notorious rising stars against one of its foremost platform priorities---identity politics---and...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Loud booms that echoed across south Texas Wednesday were reported by multiple agencies to be from the impact of a meteorite that hurtled through the sky and struck ground near Hidalgo County.
Law enforcement agencies received hundreds of calls from panicked residents who reported hearing loud explosions...
(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Even as U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley continued earlier this week to aggressively push for sending more funding, weapons and resources to Ukraine, he boldly declared that Russia had already “lost” its “barbaric” war of aggression.
“President Putin thought he could defeat Ukraine quickly, fracture the...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, announced Wednesday that he has issued subpoenas to the CEOs of five big tech firms, seeking records about how they may have colluded with the U.S. government to censor speech.
The five chief executives to receive a subpoenas are Google’s Sundar...