Community funding projects are roaring back for fiscal 2026 spending bills, after being stripped from a short-term stopgap spending deal earlier this year, as the House faces the difficult task of passing all 12 appropriations bills before the government shutdown looms in September. The projects, also known as earmarks, have been a long-standing sticking point […]

President Donald Trump’s fascination with reopening Alcatraz, a dilapidated former state prison off the coast of San Francisco, seems motivated more by symbolism than necessity and could risk becoming the administration’s biggest boondoggle.  Trump has enthusiastically floated the idea of restoring Alcatraz to its former glory multiple times, each time met with intense pushback over its […]

Players at the WNBA All-Star Game in Indiana on Saturday sent a message to the league’s owners, wearing shirts in warmups that read “Pay Us What You Owe Us” amid recent negotiations for the women’s professional basketball league’s collective bargaining agreement. The league’s current CBA expires at the end of October, and players are reportedly […]

MAZRAA, Syria (AP) — Syria’s armed Bedouin clans announced Sunday they had withdrawn from the Druze-majority city of Sweida following weeklong clashes and a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, as humanitarian aid convoys started to enter the battered southern city. The clashes between militias of the Druze religious minority and the Sunni Muslim clans killed hundreds and threatened to unravel Syria‘s already fragile […]