Independent reporting. Permanent editions. Clear analysis.Desk Archive
89 published articles
US News
Sen. Mitch McConnell's office released a physician's update saying he had not been medically cleared to leave rehabilitation or resume Senate work more than six weeks after his hospitalization.
US News
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow enforcement of an executive order that would condition mail-ballot delivery on a new federal citizenship list while litigation continues.
US News
Federal lawyers said in a court filing that hundreds of clean-energy grants were included in an October cancellation notice based on the political identity of the recipient's state.
US News
President Trump used a visit to General Motors' Milford Proving Ground to promote his trade program, presenting tariffs as an industrial revival even as the state's cross-border economy absorbed higher costs.
US News
Three people were killed and four were wounded, including a 2-year-old boy, when gunfire erupted at the Bite of Seattle food festival beneath the Space Needle.
US News
A large heat dome kept dangerous temperatures over the central and southern United States, extending health and infrastructure risks across multiple states.
US News
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission proposed eliminating the ALARA radiation-safety principle while retaining legal dose caps and raising one modeled emissions standard.
US News
The United States recorded more measles cases in 2026 than in all of 2025, making this the country's worst year for the disease since 1991.
US News
The Trump administration imposed new tariffs of 10% or 12.5% on imports from sixty economies, citing forced-labor enforcement as temporary global duties expired.
US News
American households are revising grocery lists and shopping routines after food prices recorded their sharpest increase in fifty years, with many categories staying elevated even when upstream costs ease.
US News
An Oregon wildfire threatened a town as officials reported the fourth firefighter death connected to this season’s western fires, including a delayed death from injuries suffered in Colorado.
US News
A cyclospora outbreak associated with lettuce served at Taco Bell locations expanded to four more states as health agencies continued tracing the produce supply chain.
US News
The Trump administration imposed new 10% and 12.5% tariffs on imports from 60 trading partners, saying the countries had not done enough to block forced-labor goods from supply chains.
US News
Authorities investigating the fatal Madison, Wisconsin, police shooting said the officers involved were not equipped with body cameras, a material gap in the evidence available to reconstruct the encounter.
US News
The Trump administration is moving from campus-by-campus investigations toward rewriting federal higher-education rules that would apply broadly to colleges and universities.
US News
An Associated Press investigation found that the federal government separated dozens of children from parents for a second time despite a legal settlement intended to prevent renewed family separation.
US News
The House adopted a $95 billion package containing about $60 billion for the Pentagon, $13 billion for other national-security uses, $12 billion in farm aid and $10 billion tied to voting changes.
US News
Former state lawmaker and emergency physician Amish Shah won the Democratic primary in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District, defeating the candidate backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
US News
Rep. Andy Biggs won the Republican nomination for Arizona governor, setting up a general election against incumbent Katie Hobbs.
US News
An independent preliminary autopsy commissioned by Nolan Wells’ family listed his cause and manner of death as undetermined, adding evidence without resolving the death.
US News
The new federal child-investment program has activated millions of accounts and begun sending $1,000 Treasury deposits to eligible babies, while a small number of families report delays and support problems.
US News
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Iran campaign had wounded roughly 500 U.S. personnel and described a multibillion-dollar military cost, moving the public record beyond earlier, more limited tallies.
US News
The Trump administration moved to defer more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota during fraud reviews, prompting state objections about the legal basis and risk to care systems.
US News
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is ending a federal workforce-data collection that employers and researchers have used to identify demographic patterns in employment.
US News
A federal appeals court is considering whether recordings from former special counsel Robert Hur’s interviews with Joe Biden must be released in a case brought by the Heritage Foundation.
US News
Tropical Storm Bertha formed in the Gulf of Mexico and prompted warnings across parts of the northern Gulf Coast as emergency officials prepared for rainfall and flooding.
US News
President Donald Trump imposed a 50% tariff on most Canadian imports, opening a new legal and economic confrontation with the United States’ largest trading partner while war-related energy costs are already pressuring consumers.
US News
The Justice Department sought phone records for New York Times journalists and several relatives while investigating sources for reporting on a Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet, according to a motion unsealed Monday.
US News
The Justice Department filed the first petition ever presented to the Alien Terrorist Removal Court, asking a secretive five-judge body created in 1996 to authorize removal of an unnamed person.
US News
A new executive order directs military contractors to document why domestic materials are unavailable when seeking waivers, adding a compliance mechanism to the administration’s effort to increase U.S. production for defense supply chains.
US News
The Interior Department ended the automatic extension of many Endangered Species Act protections to newly listed threatened animals, shifting future safeguards to species-specific rulemaking.
US News
A flash flood at Sunglow Campground in southern Utah killed Provo fire captain Spencer Long, his wife Katrina and three of their sons, while a daughter survived, authorities said.
US News
A Legionnaires’ disease outbreak on Manhattan’s Upper East Side has infected 72 people and killed two, health officials said, as the city inspected cooling towers and reported a sustained decline in new cases.
US News
Taylor Farms recalled iceberg lettuce products distributed across 27 states as investigators traced cyclospora illnesses and tried to distinguish linked product clusters from other summer cases.
US News
Professional boxer Hannah Rapp was killed while cycling in Brazos County, Texas, and authorities charged 31-year-old Charles Medina with manslaughter after alleging his vehicle passed her and then reversed.
US News
Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance announced the birth of a baby boy, a rare family milestone for a sitting vice president and the first such birth in more than a century and a half.
US News
Representative Ralph Norman said he will run for the U.S. Senate in South Carolina, adding a declared candidate to the rapid succession process following Senator Lindsey Graham’s death.
US News
Wildfire smoke from Canada and Minnesota pushed across the Midwest and East, worsening air quality and reaching Washington as shifting winds transported fine particles far from the fires.
US News
Taylor Farms expanded a recall of iceberg lettuce shipped to 27 states amid cyclospora cases, widening a targeted food-safety response while investigators continued to separate distinct outbreaks.
US News
Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in Miami by the U.S. Marshals Service, opening an extradition process tied to allegations in Britain while other cases involving the brothers remain unresolved.
US News
A father and son were arrested after two U.S. Forest Service employees were held at gunpoint in California, according to authorities, bringing a dangerous encounter involving public workers into federal custody and investigation.
US News
Six days after Lindsey Graham’s death, the political succession shifted again as President Trump urged Graham’s sister to seek a full term and potential rivals kept their options open.
US News
A compound weather pattern is stressing health services and emergency agencies because smoke, heat and flooding require different protective actions and can overlap.
US News
The investigation produced a concrete food link for one multistate cluster, but it does not explain every reported cyclospora case across the country.
US News
A federal appeals court held New Jersey’s restrictions unconstitutional, setting up further review in a legal landscape already divided across states and circuits.
US News
A federal judge ruled that agencies cannot cancel grants simply because their subjects fall outside the administration’s preferred agenda, preserving awards while the dispute continues.
US News
AP’s examination shifts attention from a single use-of-force account to screening, supervision and what the agency knew before the shooting.
US News
The change renews a policy fight over whether benefit use predicts self-sufficiency or deters eligible families from basic services.
US News
The address moved campaign-style election accusations into an official presidential setting months before voting.
US News
The response will determine how much of the trade agenda survives judicial limits and how quickly importers face new costs.
US News
The episode combined a large geographic footprint with health guidance to reduce outdoor exposure.
US News
President Donald Trump fired Roger Rogoff shortly after federal judges appointed him U.S. attorney for western Washington, creating a fresh confrontation over judicial authority and Justice Department staffing.
US News
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered annual testosterone screening for troops age 30 and older, with testing available voluntarily to younger service members.
US News
President Trump told immigration agents to continue traffic stops after officials considered suspending them following a cluster of deadly enforcement encounters.
US News
House Republicans advanced a roughly $95 billion package combining Iran-war spending, aid for farmers and domestic priorities as lawmakers prepared for the midterm campaign.
US News
An Associated Press analysis of federal disaster declarations found a widening approval gap between requests from Republican and Democratic governors.
US News
The House approved legislation that would end twice-yearly clock changes and keep the United States on daylight saving time throughout the year.
US News
Supreme Court justices appeared before a House panel in an unusual public session focused on security threats, institutional operations and public confidence.
US News
President Trump scheduled a prime-time address to make the case for changes to election administration ahead of the fall campaign.
US News
A pontoon boat carrying 20 people sank near Alcatraz Island, leaving one person dead and three missing after a large overnight rescue.
US News
A Florida man fleeing immigration agents was struck and killed by a vehicle, adding another fatality to a week of deadly encounters around enforcement actions.
US News
Darline Graham Nordone, the late senator's sister and a figure long present in his public life, was appointed to serve the remaining months of Lindsey Graham's Senate term.
US News
A federal judge voided the agreement resolving President Trump's lawsuit over leaked tax returns and sent one attorney's conduct to disciplinary authorities.
US News
An ICE officer shot and killed a motorist during an enforcement operation in Biddeford, Maine, prompting federal and local investigations and competing accounts of the danger officers faced.
US News
Hennepin County prosecutors said they obtained key federal evidence needed to investigate two fatal shootings during immigration-enforcement protests earlier this year.
US News
Darline Graham Nordone was appointed to serve the remaining months of her brother Lindsey Graham's Senate term, giving South Carolina interim representation as candidates prepare for an August special primary and November election.
US News
A federal judge dismissed the remaining Proud Boys seditious-conspiracy case, closing another part of the January 6 prosecution record after broad clemency.
US News
The White House spent months exploring ways to bypass the Election Assistance Commission before President Trump removed its remaining members, Reuters reported.
US News
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams voided the agreement resolving President Trump's $10 billion IRS lawsuit and referred an attorney for possible discipline after finding the case was used to obtain benefits rather than resolve a genuine adversarial dispute.
US News
A powerful dome of high pressure is producing triple-digit highs and unusually warm nights before shifting farther east.
US News
Federal subpoenas delivered to reporters' homes intensified a leak investigation and renewed a dispute over press freedom and national security.
US News
Sen. Lindsey Graham died Saturday evening after what his office called a brief and sudden illness, prompting tributes from U.S. and international leaders.
US News
President Donald Trump removed the remaining members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, opening a new legal and operational test over presidential control of an agency Congress designed to be bipartisan.
US News
A sweeping bipartisan housing measure is taking effect without President Trump's signature after he declined to sign it as leverage for a separate election bill.
US News
Witness accounts now conflict with the Department of Homeland Security's description of a fatal Houston ICE shooting, and the involved officers were not wearing body cameras.
US News
AP reported that Mexico plans to request criminal charges connected to deaths of Mexican nationals in ICE custody or enforcement operations, including the Houston shooting.
US News
AP reported that federal prosecutors charged eight men in alleged murder and terrorism conspiracies tied to a planned attack on the White House UFC show.
US News
AP reported that Fed minutes showed policymakers split over the future path of inflation, with AI investment emerging as one cost pressure.
US News
The FTC and five states reached a settlement with Deere that could turn right-to-repair from a consumer slogan into an enforceable agricultural rule.
US News
AP reported that a member of the Memphis Safe Task Force fatally shot a person during a drug warrant operation, the second such fatal shooting in four days.
US News
AP reported that eight men were indicted over an alleged plan involving drones and sniper fire aimed at a UFC cage-fighting event at the White House.
US News
The complaint says disclosures through diplomatic intermediaries endangered people seeking protection; Homeland Security denies sharing asylum records.
US News
Hospitals warn the proposed 340B reimbursement change could reduce revenue used to support care for low-income patients.
US News
AP reported that the Trump administration plans a 528-bed ICE holding facility in Alexandria, Louisiana, for families and unaccompanied children. Advocates and lawmakers have raised concerns about oversight, duration of stays, and contractor history.
US News
AP described a Supreme Court term with major rulings on birthright citizenship, voting rights, immigration protections, and presidential authority. The immediate opinions are over, but agency and state implementation disputes are only beginning.
US News
A fatal shooting by National Guard members in Memphis is now under state investigation, adding scrutiny to the use of military personnel in local crime enforcement.
US News
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool controversy now combines alleged vandalism, repair work, no-bid contracting questions, and anniversary symbolism.
US News
AP reported at least 19 suspected heat-related deaths in New Jersey as severe heat gave way to thunderstorms and broad outages. The update adds a public-health toll to earlier holiday storm reporting that included fatal boating conditions in Wisconsin and power disruptions across several states.
US News
AP reported that a White House Domestic Policy Council report branded Smithsonian leadership, especially at the National Museum of American History, as ideologically captured and untrustworthy. The Smithsonian had not immediately responded, while Secretary Lonnie Bunch defended a public-history approach grounded in the idea of a more perfect union.
