WASHINGTON — A crucial and contentious midterm election arrives next week, and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department has been scrambling with a blitz of headline-making actions and cases that defense lawyers, Democrats and other critics say is no coincidence and reeks of politics — in both the timing and the targets. This month alone, the
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department filed notice Wednesday night that President Donald Trump’s announcements that there are plans for renovating the East Potomac Golf Course and there are plans to close the park beginning Nov. 15 are accurate. “On Friday, October 30, 2026, the National Park Service will submit to the National Capital Planning Commission
MINNEAPOLIS — When Donald Trump was running for president two years ago, Americans’ television screens were filled with images of migrant chaos. There were tent camps on both sides of the border, caravans of people trudging through Central America and concerns about newcomers overwhelming social services. That turmoil faded as President Joe Biden tightened immigration
IRVING, Texas — The Big 12 Conference has fined UCF $100,000 for fans’ derogatory chants aimed at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at last weekend’s football game against BYU. The league also announced Wednesday it has established a conference-wide policy with “escalating consequences for discriminatory conduct” that it says “has no place
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Utah on Wednesday filed criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two of its executives, months after a federal judge rejected Kalshi’s effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its strict anti-gambling laws against the activity. The felony charges could represent a new tactic in how states try to assert regulatory authority
UNITED NATIONS — United Nations human rights experts said Wednesday that Nicaragua’s co-presidents have established a dictatorship and that there are “reasonable grounds to believe that crimes against humanity have been committed.” The expert group has been investigating allegations of human rights violations and abuses in Nicaragua, which the country’s government denies, since April 2018.