1+ week, 5+ day ago   (690+ words) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, responding to a growing backlash over Flock cameras, has ordered the pole-mounted license plate readers to be removed from all state roads. The Florida Department of Transportation revoked all permits Monday for license plate…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (744+ words) Rep. Thomas Massie is hoping to “capture lightning in a bottle twice” as the Kentucky Republican launches his second discharge petition on legislation to force government transparency about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking crimes. Mr. Massie’s first effort led to the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (516+ words) WASHINGTON — Army Secretary Dan Driscoll is stepping down after 18 months on the job, the White House said Monday, in the latest departure of a top military leader during the Trump administration. No reason was given for the departure of Driscoll,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (516+ words) WASHINGTON — House lawmakers return to Washington on Monday with a short to-do list after five weeks back in their home districts. The first order of business is likely a vote on a stopgap spending bill designed to keep the federal…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (424+ words) President Trump’s longtime teleprompter operator has been suspended from the prediction market Kalshi for using insider information about the president’s speeches to gain more than $100,000. Kalshi said Friday it has reasonable cause to believe that Gabriel Perez, who has been…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1193+ words) WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has frequently suggested he wants to seek a third term, posting about mounting another campaign, donning 2028 caps and discussing ways to make it happen - even as he’s acknowledged the Constitution prohibits it. But lately, Trump has…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (730+ words) ABUJA, Nigeria — Niger’s junta survived its most severe internal threat since seizing power in a 2023 coup when renegade soldiers staged a mutiny over the weekend, triggering a 24-hour standoff that ended with Russian intervention. The mostly young soldiers took some…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (791+ words) BANGKOK — The troubled USS Abraham Lincoln’s 5,000 sailors and Marines end more than 250 days at sea Wednesday at Thailand’s Pattaya, a notoriously raunchy town of beaches, pulsating bars, tourists and thousands of sex workers. U.S. and Thai officials have arranged…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (575+ words) KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses, as Ukraine reels from attacks with jet-powered…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (604+ words) ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is meeting with finance ministers of the world’s largest economies this week at a time when the United States has disrupted the international order with aggressive tariffs on major allies and an unpopular war on…...