President Donald Trump's cost-cutting commission that once plunged the government into chaos is nearing its destiny ... read more
No wrongdoing. Just pay a fine and lots of eggs. The States get money. Nonprofits and food banks get eggs. The public, like usual when price gouging occurs, gets no relief. read more
Pope Leo has used his first major address to his home country to praise the US history of welcoming migrants, urging Americans to live up to the ideals put forward in the Declaration of Independence. read more
A rare surviving copy of the Declaration of Independence has been discovered at The National Archives in Kew, the only known example of its kind outside the US. read more
The senator's team had previously refused to answer questions about his condition. read more
The Trump administration is set to cut subsidies for new solar and wind power projects on Saturday. read more
A reporter braving a blistering heat wave at President Donald Trump's Great American State Fair described chaos at the event as paramedics raced to save attendees ... read more
The DOJ's response came in the final hours of a court-ordered deadline to remove redactions in at least a dozen documents or "show cause" why it could not. read more
Vladimir Putin could use an attack on Nato as a bargaining chip for the war in Ukraine, sources told Polish media read more
Vice President JD Vance's appearance at a celebration marking the 250th anniversary of the U.S. military drew widespread online attention after a joke aimed at former President Joe Biden failed ... read more
President Donald Trump topped a poll asking Americans to name the worst person in their history ... read more
As Trump spoke for America's 250th anniversary at Mount Rushmore, which features the faces of four presidents carved into a mountain, the iconic monument is badly in need of repairs. But a house report say an usual amount park fees are being used for Trump's "beautification" projects in Washington D.C. "Credible sources with direct knowledge of these matters have now reported to Congress that much, if not all, fee revenue from online America the Beautiful Passes is being used to fund the President's "beautification" projects in Washington," says a June 23 letter from California Sen. Adam Schiff and colleagues to Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. "This means that this revenue is not being directed to national parks across the country." read more
New York's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, exalted the city's legacy of immigrants on Friday in a historically laden, ideological counterpoint to a US semiquincentennial address that was expected later in the day from Donald Trump ... read more
Heather Cox Richardson: For all the fact that the congressmen got around the sticky little problem of Black and Indigenous enslavement by defining "men" as "white men," and for all that it never crossed their minds that women might also have rights, the Declaration of Independence was an astonishingly radical document. read more
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche rejects any assertion of jurisdiction by the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague over American citizens. read more
An electric Tesla Semi truck crashed into two vehicles in Dayton, Nev., over the weekend, killing two people and raising questions about the truck's safety features. read more
