Marcus Reed

Three House Republican chairmen are pressing Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin to revoke COSCO's trusted-operator status at U.S. ports after reports that the Chinese state-owned fleet gathered military intelligence off American coastlines.

Treasury hit Bank of America with more than $1.2 billion in penalties for willfully failing to report over $5 billion in suspicious transactions tied to Chinese money laundering networks and southwest border illicit finance.

A container ship carrying more than 2,500 containers sank in the Strait of Hormuz after striking a naval mine, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Navy said Wednesday -- the latest flashpoint in Tehran's campaign to drive up oil prices ahead of the U.S. midterms.

Al-Shabaab and Iran-backed Houthi rebels have built a working partnership across the Gulf of Aden, threatening the Bab el-Mandeb chokepoint, while Somalia's president warns Israel off a naval foothold at Berbera.

President Trump says Ukraine should get a new president, blaming Volodymyr Zelenskyy for the war's cost and record diesel prices. Kyiv pushes back within hours as Ukrainian drones hit a third Yandex data center in four days.

President Trump is hammering South Carolina Senate candidate Annie Andrews over her record on biological men in women's sports, as the Democrat now insists she was misrepresented on an issue Republicans say she has spent years ducking.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2026 Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, the jurist who chaired the UN inquiry that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, drawing a sharp rebuke from Jerusalem as President Trump was again passed over.

Italy's parliament gave final approval to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's electoral overhaul, a 227-164 vote the center-left denounced as a 'scam law' built to lock in power.

Federal agents intercepted a boat carrying 14 Mexican nationals off Newport Beach on Oct. 3 -- the third suspected smuggling vessel in less than a month -- and charged an alleged repeat smuggler tied to an international crime ring.

Lithuania's parliament advanced a constitutional amendment to allow nuclear weapons on its territory, prompting a Kremlin warning as President Trump weighs a permanent U.S. base in the Baltic state.

Retiring Sen. Thom Tillis used a farewell 60 Minutes interview and a new book to blast President Trump's advisers and warn of an overreaching executive branch, but his own party showed little appetite for the critique.

A U.S. Marine lance corporal was arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of murder and robbery in the death of a 39-year-old Japanese woman, prompting Japan's prime minister to lodge a formal protest with Washington.

Three University of South Alabama students face federal charges of threatening President Donald Trump after social media posts surfaced ahead of his Mobile rally.

Ukraine fired its first domestically built ballistic missile in combat Thursday, as President Volodymyr Zelensky unveiled the FP-7, a 200-kilometer weapon that Kyiv can produce without waiting on Western suppliers.

Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton square off Wednesday night in the only one-on-one televised debate of California's 2026 governor's race, days before county election offices begin mailing ballots.

Moscow delivered NATO a written warning that it would use nuclear weapons to defend its Kaliningrad exclave from isolation, and NATO rejected the threat outright.

Sen. John Kennedy is pressing the Senate to vote on Congressional Review Act resolutions that would repeal California's small-engine, vehicle and clean-ship emissions mandates before members leave Washington for the midterm campaign.

Sixteen mining claims hit the books the first day that 1.2 million acres removed from Bears Ears National Monument opened for staking, a rush built on uranium demand for nuclear power and the grid needs of the AI boom.

President Trump told reporters that roughly 25,000 people died in the Russia-Ukraine war last month, calling the toll a reason to close a deal with Putin before the heavy winter arrives.

The FBI says it is aggressively investigating how a criminal group reached its federal hiring portal, after hackers claimed they stole personal data on nearly every agent and applicant.