In his fourth and likely final trip to Ukraine ahead of the U.S. election next month, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin championed Ukraine’s efforts to repel Russian President Vladimir Putin’s deadly years-long assault but warned there is ‘no silver bullet’ to end the war.  ‘There is no silver bullet. No single capability will turn the tide. No one system will ...

A group of men who were exonerated for the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park in 1989 have sued Donald Trump for continuing to suggest that they are guilty, including at the presidential debate in Philadelphia last month. The Central Park Five alleged in a federal court defamation lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that Trump falsely claimed during ...

A group of men who were exonerated for the rape and assault of a woman in Central Park in 1989 have sued Donald Trump for continuing to suggest that they are guilty, including at the presidential debate in Philadelphia last month. The Central Park Five alleged in a federal court defamation lawsuit filed in Pennsylvania that Trump falsely claimed during ...

As of this writing, Elon Musk’s net worth is about $246.8 billion. That’s not all liquid, obviously. He doesn’t have a giant Scrooge-McDuck-style vault filled with $250 billion in gold bullion — partly because such a vault would have to be awfully big, and partly because even Musk might be wary of trusting his fortune to an Elon Musk-built building. ...

PHOENIX — An Arizona Republican who helped inspire national concerns over county-level certification of the 2024 presidential election pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge Monday related to a “failure or refusal” to perform her duty. Peggy Judd, who helps lead Cochise County southeast of Phoenix, was indicted by a state grand jury a year ago for allegedly flouting the state’s ...

In any other presidential campaign, one of the candidates’ mention of a summer job she held 40 years ago would probably just slip into the background chatter, a little biographical detail of no real consequence and not much political utility. But what 2024 is experiencing is very much not a typical presidential campaign. And so Vice President Kamala Harris’s mention ...

New reporting about over a dozen unidentified drones that were allowed to fly over Langley Air Force Base has prompted fresh calls for change to a threat that experts say will only become more prevalent.  For more than two weeks in December 2023, the mystery drones traipsed into restricted airspace over the installation, home to key national security facilities and ...

Former president Donald Trump participated in an interview that aired on Fox News on Sunday. If so inclined, as many Fox News viewers presumably will be, it’s easy to pick out pieces of the conversation that would assuage concerns one might have about his authoritarian inclinations — concerns that many Fox News viewers presumably don’t have. Trump was asked, for ...

Former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are neck and neck in recent polling as they enter the final leg of the presidential race, as the Democratic nominee appears to be losing ground among Latino and Black voters.  A new USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll places Harris at 45% and Trump at 44%.  In August, the same poll found that ...

With 15 days until Election Day in November, polls point to a margin-of-error race for the White House between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. But in the dash for campaign cash – another key metric in presidential politics – there is one very clear frontrunner: Harris. The vice president entered the final full month of the campaign ...