EXCLUSIVE — A Senate Republican has taken action to bar U.S. companies permanently from hiring workers who are not authorized to live or work in the United States, taking the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown one step further. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) on Thursday will introduce legislation to make the Mandatory E-Verify Act of 2026 permanent and […]
The national average price for regular gas increased for the fifth consecutive day on Thursday to $4.564 per gallon, setting a new record high price for 2026, according to data from AAA. The previous high for 2026 was $4.56, set earlier this month. Thursday’s new high for the year comes a day before the beginning […]
President Donald Trump has increasingly succeeded in pushing out Republican members of Congress who have rejected his authority over the GOP. But the victories risk complicating his remaining legislative agenda ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) lost his reelection bid last week to a Trump-backed challenger in Louisiana. Rep. Thomas Massie […]
The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has tanked the global economy and driven oil prices up dramatically, raising the question of what other vital waterways could cause this type of fallout if another bad actor sought to exert control over them. There had always been the possibility that the Iranian regime could try […]
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is poised to become the lone remaining House Republican next Congress from the original group of four GOP lawmakers who forced a vote to release the Epstein files, assuming she wins reelection. The other three members of the group have either resigned, been defeated, or are leaving Congress. Former Rep. Marjorie […]
The Supreme Court’s term is winding down after months of oral arguments in hotly contested cases, during a year when President Donald Trump and the midterm elections loom large over some of the most closely watched cases. The high court heard arguments in 58 cases from October 2025 through April 2026, and the justices are […]
MOUNTAINAIR, N.M. (AP) — Three people are dead and more than a dozen first responders had to be quarantined and assessed Wednesday for possible exposure to an unidentified substance after being called to a suspected drug overdose at a rural New Mexico home, authorities said. Four people initially were found unresponsive inside the Mountainair home […]
The owner of the Future Leaders Early Learning Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was charged with defrauding Minnesota’s Child Care Assistance Program on Wednesday. Fahima Egeh Mahamud is accused of filing bogus claims to receive $4.6 million in government grants to serve thousands of meals to low-income children, but the meals allegedly were never served. Mahamud’s […]
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney appeared to reference President Donald Trump, whose teleprompter malfunctioned during his speech at the United Nations last fall, in a speech Wednesday. Speaking at a conference for the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, Carney’s own teleprompter went down. At that moment, he decided to crack a joke. “A $6 billion […]
A federal judge decided on Wednesday to keep the June 1 start date for the civil trial litigating a container ship’s collision with the Francis Scott Key Bridge over two years ago in Baltimore. The civil trial is moving forward despite a recent federal indictment against an Indian national who worked on the cargo ship […]
