US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “ can’t persuade Republicans to back his big budget,” but that didn’t stop him from pushing the $1.5 trillion proposal during a Monday event to rename Joint Base ...

The destruction of Big Bend National Park for Trump's border wall is devastating. Why won't Texas Republicans stand up to this political stunt? State Rep. Goodwin demands action, while Rep. Escobar ...

Internal documents from the US National Park Service reportedly show that massive sums of money have been diverted to fund assorted projects commissioned by President Donald Trump. According to a ...

The chairman of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Monday led a group of House Democrats in calling on the top executives of leading artificial intelligence companies to testify under oath ...

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As progressives on Monday urged US House Speaker Mike Johnson to haul artificial intelligence leaders before Congress to answer questions under oath about “the dangers posed by this technology,” Sen.

A federal judge last week dismissed felony charges against former US Olympic athlete David Hearn, who was arrested in July for allegedly vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. But Hearn’s ...

Last month’s average global ocean surface temperature was the hottest ever recorded in the month of July, fueled in part by uniquely intense, fossil fuel-driven El Niño conditions that have wreaked ...

DuckDuckGo, a company that has billed itself as an alternative to its data-mining, privacy-violating competitors, responded to the backlash against Meta by partnering with the eyewear company ...

Democratic US Senate candidate Troy Jackson on Friday accused rival Sen. Susan Collins of trying to pull the wool over Maine voters’ eyes with her decision to vote against confirming Todd Blanche as ...

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana announced Friday that he would vote yes on Todd Blanche’s nomination for US attorney general, rendering vulnerable Sen. Susan Collins ’ opposition to ...

Federal data released Friday shows the US economy shed 23,000 jobs last month, but one analyst said that figure was “only the beginning of the bad news” for the country’s job market under the ...