The jury deciding Lindsay Clancy’s fate still cannot agree, even after a judge’s formal push to break the deadlock. On Tuesday, Judge William Sullivan read the jury a Tuey-Rodriguez charge, a legal instruction designed to encourage deadlocked panels to keep trying. They went back in. By Wednesday, they still had not reached a verdict. The …
Caitlin Clark will make her first major senior international tournament appearance at the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup in Berlin. The 24-year-old Indiana Fever guard is joining Team USA as it defends its World Cup title, and she is not taking the moment lightly. Clark grew up watching the American national team compete on the …
Republicans hold a two-point lead over Democrats among likely midterm voters, a new poll shows. The Harvard CAPS/Harris poll for August, released Wednesday, found 51 percent of likely voters backing Republicans on the generic congressional ballot, compared to 49 percent for Democrats. The margin of error is plus or minus 2.1 percentage points. The picture …
Seven people were shot at a Minneapolis apartment building after officers responded to an eviction dispute. The shooting happened at 15 East Grant Street in Minneapolis’ Loring Park neighborhood. Police were called to the building after reports of a disturbance involving a resident who had been evicted earlier that day. Gunfire broke out around the …
A Coast Guard jet lost an engine mid-flight Wednesday with Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on board. The aircraft, a C-37A, the military version of the Gulfstream V, was carrying Mullin and other senior officials when its right engine failed. The pilot immediately declared an emergency and diverted to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport outside …
The U.S. Mint’s website crashed Wednesday under demand for a Trump commemorative coin. The site buckled within minutes of the coin going on sale, routing buyers into a virtual waiting room with waits reported between 20 minutes and a full hour. Thousands of Americans rushed to purchase the commemorative dollar coin bearing President Trump’s portrait, …
The White House released a list of ten Democratic votes it says put Americans at risk. The document, dropped on Wednesday, compiles roll call votes cast by House and Senate Democrats across a range of policy areas. The White House framed them as a pattern, not a collection of isolated decisions. Taken together, the list …
Ed Markey beat Seth Moulton by nearly 30 points in Tuesday’s Massachusetts Democratic Senate primary. The race was called by the Associated Press and Decision Desk HQ roughly 30 minutes after polls closed. With more than 95 percent of votes counted, Markey pulled 571,246 votes, or 64.8 percent. Moulton received 309,870 votes, 35.2 percent. Markey …
John Sununu now leads Chris Pappas in New Hampshire’s open Senate race, a first in public polling. A University of New Hampshire Survey Center poll puts former U.S. Senator John Sununu ahead of U.S. Representative Chris Pappas by two points, 45 percent to 43 percent. The survey tested a hypothetical general election matchup for New …
The Dallas Stars will not hold a Pride Night in 2026-2027, the first time in five years. The NHL team made no announcement explaining the decision. Pride Night had typically been held in February or March. This season, the Stars dropped it entirely, replacing the concept with a broader rotating platform they’re calling “Hockey Unites …
A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deport foreign students for expressing support for terrorist organizations. U.S. District Judge Noel Wise, based in the Northern District of California, blocked Secretary of State Marco Rubio from using the Immigration and Nationality Act to remove individuals on the basis of their stated support for terror …
Eight House Democrats broke with party leadership to back a Republican resolution condemning socialism. The nonbinding measure passed 220 to 192, with every Republican who voted supporting it and eight Democrats crossing the aisle. Two more Democrats voted present. Republican Rep. Jeff Crank of Colorado introduced the resolution, which condemned “socialism in all its forms” …
A Yale historian told Rep. Jasmine Crockett that Spain won the World Cup because they had the best team. That was not the answer Crockett was looking for. The Texas Democrat, wearing a sparkly outfit during a July 21st House Oversight subcommittee hearing, tried to get historian David Blight to explain why much of the …
A federal judge has blocked New York’s $75 billion climate superfund law, handing Letitia James a significant legal defeat. Chief U.S. District Judge Brenda Sannes ruled Monday that New York cannot compel energy companies to pay for greenhouse gas emissions produced worldwide under the state’s Climate Change Superfund Act. The ruling granted summary judgment to …
Pelosi publicly embarrassed Jeffries after Democrats lost a House rule vote they never should have lost. On Tuesday, two moderate Democrats crossed party lines on a procedural rule vote, handing Republicans a narrow 210-208 win. Reps. Jared Golden of Maine and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington sided with the majority, offsetting five Republican defectors and …
The FBI seized over $560,000 in Hamas cryptocurrency and captured a list of thousands of would-be donors. That is the bottom line from a Justice Department operation that dismantled a Hamas digital fundraising network built on one core bet: that crypto wallets, encrypted chats, and constantly rotating addresses would keep the money invisible. The bet …
A defense attorney called Charlie Kirk “hateful” in open court, with Kirk’s grieving family watching. The comment came Tuesday during a preliminary hearing for Tyler Robinson, 23, the man accused of assassinating Kirk on September 10, 2025. Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed in front of thousands at Utah …
FBI agents seized Eric Swalwell’s electronic devices at an airport and raided his home. The former California congressman, 45, found himself at the center of an expanding federal investigation when agents stopped him at an airport and took his electronics. Simultaneously, federal agents executed a search warrant at his residence. The operation signals a significant …
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul released 7,000 criminals onto state streets rather than hand them over to federal immigration authorities. President Donald Trump called her out publicly, both at a press event and on his Truth Social account. At the event, Trump said plainly: “The governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, just announced that she’s …
The Trump administration’s first lawsuit targeting a school district’s transgender student policy was filed Monday in Kansas. The Justice Department is suing Unified School District No. 500, commonly known as Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools. The federal government alleges the district has been helping students socially transition at school while deliberately keeping parents in the …
CNN’s Wolf Blitzer aired a false claim about Trump’s mail-in voting order, then quietly corrected it three days later. The false segment ran on a Friday. The correction came Monday. The two audiences, as anyone in the business knows, barely overlap. Here is what happened. Blitzer hosted Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger on The Situation Room …
New York City’s mayor is suing to block bonuses backed by the union that helped elect him. Zohran Mamdani won the 2025 New York City mayoral race with the endorsement of the United Federation of Teachers, the city’s largest teachers’ union, representing more than 200,000 members. This summer, the City Council voted unanimously to pass …
A woman was arrested outside the Lindsay Clancy murder trial courthouse for allegedly photographing jurors. Dawn Light, 56, of Sutton, Massachusetts, was taken into custody Tuesday afternoon by Massachusetts State Police. The arrest happened around 3:40 p.m. outside the Plymouth courthouse complex, where the high-profile Clancy trial is currently underway. Light faces one count of …
A Utah judge ruled Tuesday that Tyler Robinson will stand trial for the killing of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. Fourth District Court Judge Tony Graf issued that ruling in Provo following closing arguments that came after a five-day preliminary hearing held in July. Graf found that prosecutors met the probable cause standard required …
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs amended one quarterly finance report ten times, and $1.4 million remains unaccounted for. This is not a story about a typo. It is not a transposed digit or a single corrected entry. It is a sequence of ten amendments to a single quarterly report, during which more than a million dollars …
A woman paid homeless people to register to vote, then routed their ballots to her house. Brenda Lee Brown Armstrong pleaded guilty this week to a federal felony charge of paying people to register to vote in a federal election. The offense carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. A federal judge handed …
The RNC banned CBC/Radio-Canada journalists from its upcoming convention over the network’s policy on describing the September 11 attacks. The Republican National Committee revoked previously approved credentials for CBC/Radio-Canada reporters set to cover the party’s midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, on September 9 and 10. The move came after an internal CBC memo instructed staff …