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The Army's acting chief of staff says power projection will be contested in a war with a near-peer adversary, and the service is rewriting how it deploys, communicates and sustains forces when bases at home come under attack.

Opening statements began Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, who is accused with her partner and two recycling executives of trading city business for campaign cash and a no-show paycheck.

CodePink launched a 12-day China propaganda tour this week while a federal grand jury investigates the $278 million nonprofit network bankrolled by its co-founder's husband, CCP-linked financier Neville Roy Singham.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent answered Elizabeth Warren's latest oversight letter by calling out her economic record, defending the Trump tax cuts, and closing with a handwritten "Happy Indigenous Peoples' Day."

A new Justice Department memo lets Attorney General Todd Blanche and other Senate-confirmed appointees speak at rallies and work for party committees in their personal capacity, ending a Biden-era clampdown that treated political appointees like career staff.

President Trump proclaimed Oct. 12, 2026, as Columbus Day and celebrated the explorer at the White House, vowing that radical extremists will never erase his legacy.

A Russian glide bomb struck a bus stop in Kramatorsk on Thursday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 18, the deadliest single attack on Ukrainian civilians in months as the 48-hour nationwide death toll passed 60.

President Trump said every eligible minor child in America now has a Trump Account, with about 70 million accounts and more than $4.5 billion already deposited.

A former FBI supervisor filed a whistleblower complaint alleging the White House pushed the bureau to investigate Los Angeles protesters, drawing a sharp denial from the Justice Department.

A vendor error pushed more than 3,100 Maricopa County mail ballots into the postal stream six days early, drawing fresh scrutiny to Arizona's election machinery as President Trump demands accountability.

Federal agents arrested an Irvine realtor at Los Angeles International Airport on Sunday, accusing her of running a surveillance operation on the son of Taiwan's president at the direction of Chinese government handlers.

President Trump posted what he said is Sen. Tom Cotton's personal cell number, pressing the Arkansas Republican to stop blocking the Sunshine Protection Act and give the Senate a vote on permanent daylight saving time.

The Pentagon is sending roughly 9,000 troops and a third aircraft carrier strike group toward the Middle East in a major show of force, as President Trump weighs the next phase of pressure on Tehran.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor denied an emergency bid to enroll an Asian American student at Stuyvesant High School, leaving a federal discrimination suit over New York City's admissions set-aside to play out in the Second Circuit.

The Federal Reserve's inspector general found no grounds for a criminal referral in the central bank's $2.5 billion headquarters renovation, while faulting the board for cost overruns that ballooned by roughly a billion dollars.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law banning local, state and federal officers from using electric-shock gloves, a direct response to ICE's push to give agents a non-lethal compliance tool.

Mesabi Metallics will invest $15 billion in an Iowa steel plant capable of producing 10 million tons a year, the first new mega-mill built in the United States since the 1960s.

Two separate township mass shootings in South Africa killed at least 27 people over one weekend, with police still hunting the gunmen behind both attacks.

The White House canceled nearly $1 billion in congressionally approved spending Friday, targeting immigrant services and diversity programs through a rare 'pocket rescission' that leaves lawmakers no time to act.

Jim Copenhaver, shot twice when a gunman opened fire at President Trump's 2024 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, has died at 76 after two years of surgeries and permanent injuries.