DNC accuses Pentagon of pushing through changes to how voters abroad request absentee ballots ahead of midterms The Trump administration broke the law when it pushed through a last-minute change to the form overseas citizens use to register and request absentee ballots, the Democratic National Commi

Installing tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to Pentagon defense board raises conflict of interest concerns By installing the tech billionaires Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to advisory roles in a Pentagon project about the future of warfare, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, bestowed e

A woman convicted of murdering a schoolmate 30 years ago has been taken to hospital after surviving two rounds of lethal injections in Tennessee. Christa Pike would have been the first woman to be executed in the state in 200 years. Pike, 50, has spent three decades on death row after she was convic

Network was listed as primary TV pool covering Thursday’s presidential activities but then was abruptly removed For a second time in a week, the White House has unilaterally removed CNN from its assignment as the primary television pool representative covering Donald Trump. CNN was excluded on Sat

Administration says increased immigration enforcement led to fewer homicides, but they have been on the decline since Joe Biden’s term Over the last year and a half, the US has seen a historic drop in homicides. Researchers and reporters are still puzzling through the complex set of reasons why -

As the midterms approach, Americans’ digestive health has become a bizarre talking point Donald Trump seems to spend an unusual amount of time thinking about toilets. Back in 2019, he bizarrely claimed : “People are flushing toilets 10 times, 15 times as opposed to once.” He repeated this clai

New ad features audio from Trump’s declaration of war and Pete Hegseth saying ‘if you kill Americans … we will kill you’ The latest in a series of pro-Trump television ads aired using taxpayer funds in the run-up to the the midterm elections is a one-minute spot that celebrates Donald Trump

Critics noted that the plan does not discuss Israel; others praised it for not conflating Jews with the state of Israel When the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, announced the city’s first-ever municipal strategy to address antisemitism – a nuanced, multi-pronged approach ranging from greate

President’s outlandish and extensive conspiracy theories endanger US freedoms, health and science, experts say Since the start of his second presidency, Donald Trump has often launched outlandish conspiratorial attacks on critics and foes that mock them and label their views as hoaxes, prompting s

Gavin Newsom says Trump is a ‘gift’ to the climate cause for dispelling notions of fossil fuel energy security Of all the epithets hurled at Donald Trump since he became US president, perhaps the most unusual was delivered last week – that he is, in fact, some sort of environmentalist. Trump i

Six lawmakers demand information on childcare center closures, cost changes, Head Start and government grants Democratic senators have accused Donald Trump’s administration of worsening the country’s childcare crisis, warning that rising costs and daycare closures are leaving families with fewer

The spots, including a recycled campaign ad, are funded by taxpayers and present the president as a hero The US government is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to get a blatantly partisan message in front of voters as the midterm elections loom. And while these TV ads aren’t explicitly campaig