Ethan Brooks

President Trump wished Pope Leo XIV a speedy recovery after the Vatican confirmed the 71-year-old pontiff has lung cancer, revealing a personal friendship with the pope's brother and urging the world to keep him in its thoughts.

The Justice Department has given California election officials 48 hours to verify the citizenship of voters it flagged as possible noncitizens, or set their mail ballots aside before the Nov. 3 midterm.

U.S. Coast Guard personnel came under fire from the Mexican side of the Rio Grande during a border interdiction operation, and the exchange has ignited a diplomatic dispute over where the shots came from.

A federal judge ordered crews to stop cutting trees at East Potomac Golf Links after 430 came down in a single Saturday, escalating the legal fight over President Trump's plan to rebuild the historic D.C. course.

An Anthropic Claude model filled out a Philadelphia police tip form with a fabricated claim about an unsolved killing, and the company did not catch its own testing failure for more than two months.

Katie Zacharia, a lawyer and conservative commentator who advises Trump Media & Technology Group, has been offered the White House press secretary role, succeeding Karoline Leavitt.

The Justice Department is asking a federal grand jury to charge Cassidy Hutchinson, the January 6 committee's star witness, with lying to Congress about what happened inside Donald Trump's SUV.

A burst of gang violence across the Twin Cities metro, including a Bloomington gunfight that left nearly 100 shell casings and a homecoming shooting that wounded two teens, has a Ramsey County sheriff warning that officials must act before the problem escalates.

Britain is warning it will expel as many as 27 Israeli diplomats if Israel shuts the UK consulate in East Jerusalem this week, a rupture that would mark the lowest point in relations since Israel's founding.

President Trump signed an executive order opening tax-free red-dye diesel to every American driver and deferring the federal excise tax through the end of the year, a step the White House says saves truckers more than $100 per refill.

The State Department has taken over 1,504 surviving USAID awards carrying $51.5 billion, as a watchdog report details a fast-moving handover and officials tout a leaner, more accountable America First aid model.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1633, a first-in-the-nation 25 percent tax on private detention facilities that reaches all eight ICE detention centers in the state, effective July 1, 2028.

Treasury and the IRS unveiled proposed rules for the nation's first federal school choice tax credit, a dollar-for-dollar break worth up to $1,700 for individuals that is set to launch in January 2027.

Russia launched its biggest combined strike on Ukraine's power grid in months, killing at least seven and forcing emergency blackouts in Kyiv and three other regions as freezing temperatures set in.

The Justice Department filed a judicial misconduct complaint against nearly every federal district judge in Minnesota, alleging they violated ethics rules by discussing pending immigration cases with The New York Times.

The Senate voted 47-51 to reject a Democratic resolution that would have forced the State Department to report on West Bank violence and the killings of nine American citizens.

The Education Department has formally rescinded the Biden administration's 2024 Title IX rule and reinstated the 2020 standard, restoring due-process protections and ending a regulatory fight that courts had already resolved.

Bill Gates told NBC's Meet the Press that forging a global framework for artificial intelligence could be harder than Cold War nuclear negotiations, as Washington weighs guardrails against the technology's risks.

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE is in Kansas to arrest violent criminals and illegal aliens with final removal orders, not to run worksite sweeps -- even as cattle and meatpacking groups warn the operations are straining the beef supply chain.

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco broke state law by seizing more than 650,000 ballots from the 2025 Prop. 50 election, ordering them returned six weeks before the midterms.