Felix Baumgartner, an Austrian base jumper and skydiver renowned for his record-breaking jump from the stratosphere, died while paragliding in Italy on Thursday ... read more
The US Department of Justice has fired a veteran federal prosecutor who worked on the cases against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell ... read more
President Donald Trump was examined for swelling in his legs and has been diagnosed with chronic venous insufficiency, the White House announced Thursday. read more
Donald Trump has imposed a 17 percent tariff on tomatoes imported from Mexico ... read more
A shop clerk said she never stopped screaming and fighting after a man grabbed her from where she worked and tried to put her in his truck. Fear of losing her job motivated her to try and stop a man who had grabbed items from the shop from leaving. read more
U.N. ambassador nominee Mike Waltz denied any sensitive information was shared during a controversial mobile app chat in March while undergoing a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Tuesday. read more
Afghanistan was granted Temporary Protected Status in 2022 under the Biden administration following the U.S. military withdrawal and the Taliban's return to power. read more
Louisiana voted for Trump. But it also relies heavily on Medicaid benefits, which are set to face steep cuts under the president's new One Big Beautiful Bill Act. read more
NBC News shows how Americans are chronicling Trump's mass deportations by videoing the masked agents taking people away. The fear on the faces of those being taken away by the masked men, many who do not look like federal officials nor show identification, is heartbreaking. Amazing is the number of Americans who fearlessly film the agents who are taking the people away. read more
As he wages war on Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Donald Trump can't seem to remember he was the one who first appointed him. read more
Election clerks in both parties, already facing harassment and lawsuits over Trump's false 2020 election claims, worry about efforts to examine voting machines. read more
Nick Turse writes for The Intercept about the military operation in Las Angele's: He wasn't even a protester -- just rushing to an appointment in a federal building. read more
Politico writer Ankush Khardori, a former federal prosecutor at the Department of Justice, lays out three simple scenarios that would explain the sudden shift in the Trump administration on the Epstein investigation. read more
The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data.ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system, which would create an "on demand" process allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement to obtain the home addresses of people it's seeking to deport. read more
