Sophia Grant

New audited financial records show the Obama Presidential Center is now projected to top $1 billion, nearly triple its original estimate, with rising debt, an underfunded endowment and subcontractors still chasing millions.

Ukraine accuses SpaceX of throttling Starlink service and crippling drone missions, as Russian missiles batter the power grid and U.S.-Kyiv ties hit a new low.

Britain's MI5 director general says the service now spends more effort countering hostile foreign states than during the Cold War, naming Russia, Iran and China as top threats and warning that AI is supercharging the danger.

Britain's prime minister says Russia interfered in the 2016 Brexit vote -- an allegation past governments declined to confirm -- as he moves toward closer ties with the European Union and warns Germany and France about Moscow's reach.

California's official voter guide tells residents to reject a citizen-led voter ID measure, branding Proposition 39 an assault on democracy and warning that 'MAGA billionaires' want to decide which voters count.

Saudi Arabia says Iranian-aligned Houthi missile attacks on Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport killed three people, including a pilot, and struck a Saudia airliner -- a sharp escalation in a campaign that keeps widening across the Gulf.

Hurricane Isaias strengthened into the first Atlantic hurricane of 2026 and is forecast to make landfall Friday evening near the Alabama-Florida line, with more than 60 counties under states of emergency.

President Trump said Wednesday he will terminate two senior campaign advisers if their reported consulting work for a pro-Russian party in Bosnia conflicts with their duties to his administration.

The Justice Department filed denaturalization actions against 40 people in six weeks, the largest single-period citizenship revocation push in modern U.S. history.

President Donald Trump heads to Grand Island, Nebraska, to rally for Sen. Pete Ricketts as a tightening Senate race and a beef import fight test the GOP's rural coalition.

Early returns show Sen. Flavio Bolsonaro surging past President Lula in Brazil's first-round presidential vote, upending a race polls called tight and raising the prospect of a runoff.

The White House is sending one-time $90 payments from the long-dormant Medicare Improvement Fund to more than 20 million Medicare Part B enrollees, the first use of the fund in its nearly two-decade history.

Federal prosecutors in Boston charged a Massachusetts man with cyberstalking the wife of a senior White House adviser, alleging months of menacing calls and texts that also targeted her parents.

An immigration judge ruled that Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin's largest mosque and a longtime green-card holder, is deportable under a Cold War-era provision of immigration law.

The Hyde Amendment marks 50 years of barring most federal funding for elective abortion, but new watchdog findings and a looming appropriations fight have supporters warning the restriction's future may rest on the next Congress.

A Dutch review board has confirmed the first euthanasia of a severely disabled 1-year-old under the Netherlands' 2024 rules for children aged 1 to 12, ruling the physician acted with due care even as outside doctors concluded the child was not dying.

South Korea demands a formal apology and explanation from Ukraine after President Zelenskyy publicly revealed a confidential transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul, exposing a rift between two key U.S. allies.

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul met Russia's Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, the first such sit-down in more than four years. It lasted about 20 minutes and produced no breakthrough.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson warned that the Supreme Court's emergency docket has become an 'end run' around normal review, even as the Trump administration wins roughly 80 percent of its shadow-docket appeals.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the 81st UN General Assembly on Thursday, pressing his case to a hall that emptied in protest as Israeli voters head toward October elections.