Bell, who voted for President Trump, says soaring prices for fuel, fertilizer, and equipment are hurting his farm and leading some of his fellow farmers to consider calling it quits once this growing season ends. "I've done this 34 years. I have never worried and stressed like I have the last year." Read more
A federal judge has issued a new deadline for the Trump administration to release the remaining Jeffrey Epstein files, warning that continued noncompliance could eventually lead to contempt proceedings.
Unnamed sources told The Daily Mail that she has a hand in managing the defense secretary's activities and public image. "Now there's a woman with an extremely tight leash on the man she married," one source told the outlet. "She's like his parole officer and PR agent all at once," another source previously said. Her degree of influence, the sources suggested, has prompted a derisive comparison among some staffers. They have reportedly dubbed her "Yoko Ono" after John Lennon's widow, who was often portrayed by critics as a controlling influence on the late Beatles superstar. A narrative has also persisted for decades that she was the reason the band broke up. Read more
The Kentucky senator's first week back after 92 days away has raised concerns.
Congressional investigators are scrambling to explain how F-35 jet parts loaded with classified stealth tech vanished into Hong Kong on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's watch. The parts have been missing since June, Politico reported on Friday. A shipment of F-35 components headed from Australia to the U.S. for repairs was mysteriously "rerouted mid-Pacific" and turned up in Hong Kong instead, three people familiar with the matter said. It's reportedly still not clear "who has possession of it now."
The top official at the U.S. Postal Service said Thursday that the agency has stopped work on developing a controversial computer system that was central to President Donald Trump's effort to limit mail voting after the Supreme Court rejected his executive order this week. "There's an injunction so we're not doing anything," postmaster general David Steiner told The Associated Press in an interview. Steiner, a onetime chief executive of Waste Management, has spent most of the past year atop the postal service navigating political and financial challenges. He's pressing Congress for changes that would help him resolve what he has called a "liquidity crisis." And Trump's efforts to largely eradicate mail voting turned the postal service into an unlikely arbiter of who is eligible to vote just months before this year's critical midterm elections, a role Steiner seemingly had little interest in playing.
Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work as it pushes its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science.
As President Donald Trump tries to convince voters that Democrats have let crime run amok, he's digging into the country's political past to reference one of the most controversial campaign advertisements that relied heavily on racist tropes. During a campaign stop Wednesday in Gastonia, North Carolina, to stump for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley, Trump resurrected a 1988 George H.W. Bush presidential campaign ad featuring Willie Horton, a Black man convicted of rape and assault after his release through a Massachusetts prison furlough program. "Willie Horton was a bad guy, really bad guy," Trump said, before comparing Dukakis's release of Horton to the pretrial release of a Black man who faces a murder charge for last year's killing of a white Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Karl Rove, the Republican strategist behind George W. Bush's two presidential campaign victories, drew the anger of President Donald Trump after announcing he was supporting a Democrat for the first time in more than three decades. Rove was the target of a Truth Social post from the president after the GOP strategist announced he was backing Democrat Jon Rosenthal for Texas Railroad Commissioner over Republican Bo French. Rove called French a "bigot" after French referred to South Asian students at the University of Texas as "foreigners" and suggested they were a "problem," the Texas Tribune reported. Read more
Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin's political dominance.
Authorities spread the election over the weekend, ending Sunday, in a bid to boost turnout among the 111 million eligible voters, and they even allowed electronic balloting.
The US military is expected to send MQ-9 Reaper drones operating over Africa to the US command responsible for South America, six sources familiar with the planning told CNN, part of a wave of military equipment that has moved to the region as US officials trumpet military partnerships for anticipated counternarcotics and counterterror operations. Read more
"This will go down in history as the worst public project in world history," Strickland told The Center Square. "The mismanagement has been dramatic over a long period of time. It's not shocking that now they've uncovered wasteful, unaccountable spending." Read more
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kim Stanley Robinson, author of one of the most famous novels on climate change, says he has done more than 600 speaking events since "The Ministry for the Future" was published in 2020 -- but he won't read the first chapter out loud. In those opening pages, a prolonged heat wave grips a large swath of northern India. Told from the perspective of an aid worker named Frank, the book starts with a breakdown of the electrical grid, generators that run out of fuel and high temperatures combined with high humidity that lead to death everywhere. Unable to get relief, people die on rooftops, on the streets and in a lake. In the end, the heat kills 20 million people. "I just have this instinctive sense, no, this is too harsh," said Robinson during an interview with The Associated Press last month. "This is too ... I'm not willing to read this one aloud." Read more
A Nigerian woman living in the United States as a permanent resident in Massachusetts illegally voted in at least two elections after lying about her citizenship, authorities said. Read more
The ongoing scandal plaguing head coach Bill Belichick and the North Carolina football program took another turn on Thursday, just two days before their Week 3 matchup against Clemson. ESPN College Football senior writer Pete Thamel reported Thursday morning that Tar Heels defensive coordinator and son of Bill Belichick " Steve Belichick " had resigned from his post. The 39-year-old had been on administrative leave for six weeks leading up to Thursday's news.
Merriam-Webster.com has added 1,400 new words and definitions to its dictionary, reflecting the widespread use of updated and evolving language and "offering a window into the world today," the company announced. "The new entries reflect words and meanings that have demonstrated widespread use over time," a statement from Merriam-Webster read in part.
