SEATTLE — Washington’s proposed new income tax for people earning more than $1 million a year appears headed for passage, with Gov. Bob Ferguson saying he’ll sign the latest version of the measure proposed by legislative Democrats.

Ferguson and Democratic leaders had been haggling over details of the proposal, with disagreements over how ...Read more

Kenya’s national security minister, who oversaw her country’s leadership in deploying a multinational security force to gang-ridden Haiti, will lead one of the United Nations crime-fighting agencies.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres announced Friday that he has appointed Monica Kathina Juma of Kenya as executive director of the U.N....Read more

WASHINGTON — Sens. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., called for the Department of Homeland Security to return a California woman with DACA who was recently deported a day after her green card interview.

DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, is the Obama-era program that since 2012 has shielded certain immigrants ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s decades-old fixation on Iran threatens to derail his second term, as he displays the kind of “magical thinking” about the Middle East that has hobbled previous commanders in chief.

Overly optimistic views helped spawn the lengthy and expensive post-9/11 conflicts that Trump ran against during three ...Read more

BOSTON — An attorney for the O’Keefe family has apologized in court for misinterpreting a remark he believed Karen Read made to Aidan Kearney, also known as "Turtleboy," saying she never said, “I’m dead. I’m (expletive) dead.”

“I also want to acknowledge to this court and to Ms. Read that I was mistaken when I interpreted her ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that the United States would accept nothing short of Iran’s “unconditional surrender,” signaling that the possibility of regime change may be emerging as an objective as the expanding war in the Middle East entered its seventh day.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said negotiations with ...Read more

Pentagon investigators believe U.S. forces carried out a devastating airstrike that destroyed a Iranian girls elementary school last Saturday, killing more than 150 people in the deadliest single attack of the weeklong war, according to a new published report.

An initial assessment suggests U.S. forces were to blame for the deadly strike in the...Read more

DETROIT — Erika Kirk, widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will speak at Hillsdale College's commencement ceremony this May, the college said this week.

The private, Christian college's ceremony, held May 9, will be closed to the public. A livestream will be available on the college's website, according to a news release.

"It is a ...Read more

In his quest to build out an elite global network and satisfy his insatiable desire to procure women and girls to sexually abuse, Jeffrey Epstein often turned to Russia and its neighboring countries.

He built relationships with leading political and business figures from the region, including a top Russian diplomat, a Russian deputy minister ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the war with Iran in a post on social media that demanded Tehran capitulate as U.S. and Israeli airstrikes continue.

“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the U.S. and its allies would select a “GREAT &...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump demanded Iran surrender as the war on the Islamic Republic raged for a seventh day, with the impact reverberating across global supply chains and energy markets.

Washington won’t negotiate an end to the conflict and will only accept “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday, raising fears...Read more

A revamped version of a congressional NASA authorization act moving through the U.S. Senate would add two more years of life to the International Space Station among a slew of new directives for the nation’s space agency.

The NASA Authorization Act of 2026 passed the Senate Commerce, Science & Transportation committee with bipartisan support...Read more

President Donald Trump said he doesn’t want to negotiate an end to the war with Iran in a post on social media that demanded Tehran capitulate as U.S. and Israeli airstrikes continue.

“There will be no deal with Iran except UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that the U.S. and its allies would select a “GREAT &...Read more

President Donald Trump Friday demanded the “unconditional surrender” of Iran and installation of “acceptable” leaders as conditions to end the weeklong war with Tehran that has spread across the volatile Middle East.

“There will be no deal with Iran except unconditional surrender … and the selection of a great & acceptable leader(s)...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A sweeping domestic violence bill introduced by a South Florida state representative, who is herself a domestic violence survivor, unanimously passed the Florida House this week.

Rep. Debra Tendrich, D-Lake Worth Beach, escaped an abusive relationship more than a decade ago when she moved to Florida a few days after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s appointment to lead the Department of Homeland Security would shake up the Appropriations Committee and create a vacancy atop the Legislative Branch Subcommittee.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was nominating Mullin, R-Okla., to replace Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. A White ...Read more

The Trump administration’s aggressive policies on immigration are receiving pushback not just on Capitol Hill but across the country. Democratic leaders in multiple states are refusing to cooperate with immigration arrests.

In response, the federal government is refusing to share evidence with state investigators in the deaths of ...Read more

Americans age 65 and older who are insured by Medicare logged about 60 million telehealth visits annually between 2021 and 2023 – about 31 million for mental health and 29 million for other health issues. That’s the key finding in a new study I co-authored in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine.

We also found that people with ...Read more

Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend about US$600 million in public health grants to four states before a federal court temporarily blocked the action. Hundreds of millions of dollars ...Read more

A Los Angeles courtroom is hosting what may become the most consequential legal challenge Big Tech has ever faced.

This is an inflection point in the global debate over Big Tech liability: For the first time, an American jury is being asked to decide whether platform design itself can give rise to product liability – not because of ...Read more