WASHINGTON– Senate Republicans will return to Washington on Monday with an uncertain agenda after the sudden death of prominent Republican Lindsey Graham, the committee chairman and a key player who served as a crucial ally of President Donald Trump. Graham, 71, died Saturday night after a torn aorta, according to a statement from his office
President Donald Trump’s administration is threatening to withhold some federal funds from states that do not make changes to voting practices and is warning state election officials that they face arrest if they do not remove noncitizens from voter rolls. The letters to states and details of grant requests are the latest in a series
PHILADELPHIA — Residents in some Philadelphia neighborhoods and surrounding counties were cleaning up widespread damage Sunday caused by a series of short, severe storms that passed through. The storms, called microbursts, lasted into Saturday afternoon, downing trees and power lines, flooding a handful of streets and causing structural damage. A building that collapsed in a
NEW YORK — A Delta Air Lines flight and a high-flying firework reportedly came into contact in the sky over Chicago as the city celebrated the Fourth of July holiday. The pilot of Delta Flight 1076 notified air traffic controllers just before landing at Chicago Midway International Airport on Saturday night that a firework struck
ATLANTA– A judge set a plea and sentencing hearing for later this month for a teenager accused of killing four people in a September 2024 shooting at Apalachee High School in Georgia. Colt Gray, 16, had pleaded not guilty to charges including murder in the shooting that killed two students and two teachers, and left
During his senior year of high school on the Puyallup Reservation, Gerald Dillon traded much of his academic coursework for vocational training. When I walked into the second-grade classroom where I worked as a teaching assistant, students would rush out of their seats to punch each other or hug each other. The 18-year-old, who once