Alex Thompson

New York City Comptroller Mark Levine refused to reinvest the city's $325 billion pension system in Israel Bonds, breaking a campaign promise to Jewish voters and drawing praise from the BDS movement and Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A Saudi national and OpenAI engineer faces federal charges after the FBI says he hid a recording device behind a television in a meeting room used for confidential strategy and government talks.

Twelve senators from both parties urged President Trump to withdraw from his diesel agreement with Vladimir Putin, warning the deal hands Moscow revenue to fund its war in Ukraine.

At least 72 artisanal gold miners were killed in air strikes on the disputed Sudan-Egypt border, and a Sudanese rights group is blaming Egypt's air force.

President Trump said Saturday he would welcome Sen. John Fetterman into the Republican Party, praising the Pennsylvania Democrat's judgment and common sense weeks before the midterms.

Democrat James Talarico has now missed 12 straight days of in-person campaigning in Texas, and leaked volunteer messages show his own network worrying about lost momentum.

Sen. Jon Ossoff and Rep. Mike Collins clashed over the economy, tariffs and election integrity in the first debate of Georgia's nationally watched Senate race -- a combative hour that laid bare the stakes of a midterm contest Republicans badly want to flip.

Gov. Josh Shapiro and Treasurer Stacy Garrity met in the lone Pennsylvania governor debate, sparring over data centers, gas prices and the One Big Beautiful Bill.

Republican Zach Lahn and Democrat Rob Sand traded personal attacks over taxes, education and residency in the first televised debate of Iowa's governor race.

Trump critics are renewing calls to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him, reviving a constitutional fight ahead of the 2026 midterms.

Dennis Hastert, the longest-serving Republican Speaker of the House, died Monday at 84, closing a career that ended in a federal felony conviction and the highest-ranking prison term in U.S. history.

G7 leaders agreed Friday to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and diesel through the IEA, frontloading diesel to cool record pump prices as President Trump rejected a U.S. export ban.

A federal judge in El Paso granted an emergency injunction halting border barrier and road construction across the Big Bend region while a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security proceeds.

A federal judge ruled that the president cannot unilaterally fire a U.S. attorney appointed by a district court, reinstating Seattle's top federal prosecutor and setting up an immediate appeal.

President Trump announced Wednesday that South Korea will invest $200 billion in U.S. projects, funding a Texas gas complex built for AI, eight new nuclear reactors and the long-delayed Alaska LNG pipeline.

The Treasury Department has begun mailing $500 refund checks, each with a letter signed by President Trump, to nearly one million Americans in 30 states the White House says were overcharged on the federal health insurance exchange.

Estonia's internal security service says a mid-August fire at Milrem Robotics in Tallinn was sabotage ordered by Russian intelligence, as three suspects remain in custody and Moscow dismisses the charge.

President Trump will host Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei for a private White House dinner on Sunday, their first one-on-one meeting, days before a larger AI gathering with top technology executives.

Kush Desai, a senior deputy press secretary and one of the administration's most tested voices, is leaving the West Wing to run strategic communications at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called on Lt. Gov. Dale Caldwell to resign Thursday after an independent investigation substantiated sexual harassment and repeated state ethics violations, giving him until Friday to step down.