Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attended a New Year's Eve party in Dubai alongside two men who were then wanted on federal healthcare fraud charges, according to video reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. read more
Jeffrey Blehar: Trump has never been terribly psychologically complex: In his Cold War -- shaped mind, Russia is forever coded as "strong," ... read more
A 39-year-old woman in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, has died after being diagnosed with measles, officials said. read more
Elon Musk has spent roughly $366 million on the 2026 midterm elections so far, $276 million just since July ... read more
[Democratic Kansas Senate candidate Adam] Hamilton has emerged as an unconventional Democratic challenger. A longtime pastor and author of more than 30 books on Christianity and theology ... read more
President Donald Trump is weighing whether to dismiss Kimberly Guilfoyle from her position as US ambassador to Greece after a string of reports about misconduct, a person familiar with the matter said Sunday. read more
Ukrainian President Zelenskyy says bot activity dropped after his country attacked Russian data centers. read more
President Donald Trump's rally for Ohio Sen. Jon Husted went off the rails when he made a seemingly lustful comment about the senator's body. read more
A federal judge on Monday said she was "furious" with the Trump administration's move over the weekend to cut down at least 430 trees from a Washington, DC, public golf course that President Donald Trump is seeking to renovate. read more
The federal government knows how to prevent the vast majority of this crime in a single step. Congress just hasn't been willing to take it ... "We've started many, many briefings saying that one of the biggest ways we're going to fight this is to just get chips in the cards," said Michael Peck, assistant special agent in charge of the Secret Service's Criminal Investigative Division. read more
The people of Portland, Oregon, were probably very confused about why they were being flooded with information about the Maine Senate race. read more
The Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to Robert E Hall and Michael Woodford, for their work on the "microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilisation". read more
North Korea has fired multiple ballistic missiles towards the sea off its east coast, South Korea's military says. read more
Embattled Senate candidate Ken Paxton is begging voters to ignore audio leaks of him trashing Donald Trump ... read more
The big news on U.S. foreign policy was that Trump announced that he was buying 300,000 tons of Russian diesel. read more
Russia has attacked a power plant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv despite President Donald Trump's statement earlier Sunday that both sides had agreed to an "energy ceasefire," according to Ukrainian officials. read more
