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Apollo Quiboloy was arrested in the Philippines, accused of leading a global sex trafficking conspiracy, which he denies. In California, his church is also in hot water.

The vice president said on Tuesday that she supported scrapping the procedure to protect abortion rights.

The changes come as the German bank continues a battle with UniCredit over its future.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine urged the Council members to sustain their backing for his country’s resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion.

He is expected to be arraigned next week.

Harris is trying to earn the support of these diverse voters who are part of a growing political force in battleground Georgia

Doctors in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon say wounded patients are arriving with head trauma, multiple fractures and deep cuts from shrapnel.

An Idaho man has been charged after threatening to kill Donald Trump in nearly a dozen phone calls to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's estate.

The execution came despite one of the prosecutors in the case saying that Williams' life should be spared because DNA did not connect him to the case.

Israel urged civilians to evacuate parts of eastern Lebanon linked to Hezbollah. Monday was the deadliest single day of conflict in Lebanon since its 15-year civil war.

Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign office in Arizona reportedly suffered gunfire damage overnight.

New York City Schools Chancellor David Banks, head of the largest school system in the U.S., submitted his resignation effective at the end of the calendar year on Tuesday. Banks's decision to step down comes after federal agents seized his phone and other devices earlier this month, The Associated Press reported. A number of other New York City officials have...

Helene is expected to rapidly intensify into a major and massive hurricane with 115-mph winds by the time it makes landfall Thursday.

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Ukraine’s president is visiting the U.S. to lobby for greater support against Russia’s invasion.

Party members are quietly distancing themselves from the embattled GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina

Israel achieved many short-term goals in strikes against Hezbollah, but some Israeli officials express concern that there is no clear plan going forward.

The hurricane center's forecast for Helene's rapid transition from unnamed storm to Cat 3 hurricane may be the fastest ever.

It has been a devastating week for Hezbollah and the people of Lebanon. Bombs hidden in the group’s pagers and walkie-talkies killed dozens of its members and wounded thousands.

Israel’s military said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air raid sirens across central Israel.

Hezbollah says it launched a ballistic missile targeting the headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad

The interim report details "preventable" failings at Trump's Butler rally.

Hezbollah says it launched a ballistic missile targeting headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad

The launch of a long-range missile carrying a dummy warhead landed in the Pacific Ocean as regional tensions run high.

Israel said it intercepted a surface-to-surface missile fired by Hezbollah. Aid groups warn of mass displacement in Lebanon after Israeli strikes kill 569.

Vice President Harris is trying to win over undecided voters in key swing states like Pennsylvania. Former President Donald Trump also talked about manufacturing policy on Tuesday in Georgia.

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Congress is almost at the finish line for this month’s spending fight, but lawmakers are kicking the proverbial can down the road until December. The House will take up a vote today for a three-month stopgap funding bill to prevent a government shutdown on Sept. 30. The measure, which is widely expected to pass with...

I was there when Guilfoyle’s one-sided feud with Harris began. Now she’s re-started the fight just as her position in Trumpworld seems to be in a downward spiral. Funny that!

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports a pet food company is voluntarily withdrawing some of their beef and chicken dog food after samples collected by the FDA tested positive for salmonella and listeria monocytogenes.

Israel’s military said it intercepted the surface-to-surface missile, which set off air raid sirens across central Israel.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the Senate will vote Wednesday afternoon on a stopgap measure funding the federal government until Dec. 20 and will not consider any amendments, such as a proposal to toughen voter registration requirements, that could have delayed the bill for days. Schumer received unanimous consent for the Senate to...

A super PAC supportive of Republican Maryland Senate candidate Larry Hogan is airing a new ad targeting Democrat Angela Alsobrooks over a recent CNN report that she improperly received tax breaks on her properties.  “This economy has been hard on our wallets, but not on Angela Alsobrooks,” says a narrator in the 30-second ad, which...

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Trump and anti-abortion activists are joined at the hip — regardless of what he says.

The bill will maintain the government's current level of roughly $1.2 trillion in annual discretionary funding through Dec. 20.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee issued a scathing report Wednesday on the multiple failures by the Secret Service to protect former President Trump at his rally in Butler, Pa., in July. The report found that agents had multiple opportunities to prevent the shooting that killed one person and injured several others, including...

Hezbollah says it launched a ballistic missile targeting the headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad

France’s new prime minister, Michel Barnier, has just unveiled a staunchly conservative cabinet. His coalition cobbles together parties who scored feebly in summer’s elections — and looks unlikely to revive Emmanuel Macron’s flagging administration.

Video from the incident showed a series of small explosions around the bus stopped near Alameda and 6th streets after 1 a.m. then police storming inside with shields. A bus driver is shown climbing out of a window and running to safety behind an armored vehicle while officers clear the rest of the vehicle.

Video from the incident showed a series of small explosions around the bus stopped near Alameda and 6th streets after 1 a.m. then police storming inside with shields. A bus driver is shown climbing out of a window and running to safety behind an armored vehicle while officers clear the rest of the vehicle.

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In the last year alone several trends have pointed to the rapidly fading relevance of the Ivy League-plus coterie of higher education institutions.

Vice President Kamala Harris has seen a dramatic reversal in her favorability ratings, with voters now viewing her as net favorable by 3 points in the NBC poll and 1 point net favorable in poll averages aggregated by 538.

London Mayor Sadiq Khan said world leaders are closely watching the U.S. presidential election between former President Trump and Vice President Harris, stressing the global implications of its outcome. “What I’d say in a respectful way to Americans is: I don’t think you realize that the rest of the world is watching because we’ve got...

Nebraska state Sen. Mike McDonnell (R) explained in an interview Tuesday that he voted against the GOP's effort to change Nebraska's Electoral College system because of the timing and "it makes people work for our vote." "The reason I want to keep the system we have and not go up to winner-take-all ... was the...

The highest landfall probability is somewhere along the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle late Thursday evening, forecasters said.

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Former President Donald Trump stated early Wednesday that he has been briefed by intelligence officials on Iran’s efforts to assassinate him and he believes that Tehran “will try again.”

Former White House attorney Ty Cobb said it's a "remarkable coincidence" that the case involving former President Trump's second assassination threat was assigned to U.S. Judge Aileen Cannon. Cannon, who was appointed by Trump, oversaw the former president's classified documents case. She tossed the charges earlier this year ruling that the special counsel in the...

Helene is forecast to make landfall as a hurricane on Thursday.

Helene is forecast to make landfall in Florida on Thursday.

The highest landfall probability is somewhere along the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle late Thursday evening, forecasters said.

Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo tried to “inappropriately influence” a top aide’s testimony during a congressional investigation into his administration’s disastrous mandate that forced COVID-19 patients into nursing homes, a bombshell new…

Helene​ strengthened into a hurricane as it was leaving the Caribbean Sea on a path​ for Florida's Gulf Coast.

Hezbollah says it launched a ballistic missile targeting headquarters of Israel’s intelligence service Mossad

Israel said it intercepted a surface-to-surface missile fired by Hezbollah. Aid groups warned of mass displacement in Lebanon after Israeli strikes killed 569 people.

any controversial legislation should not be railroaded through Congress on party-line votes.

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Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio), former President Trump's running mate, is less popular than his Democratic counterpart Gov. Tim Walz (D-Minn.), a new survey found just days before the two face off in the vice-presidential debate. The poll, conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, found that about half of voters, or 49...

As part of NPR’s "We, The Voters" series — we went to Nevada to talk to residents about their housing situation, the state’s affordable housing crisis and what factors are driving it.

Vice President Harris narrowly leads former President Trump in the battleground state of Pennsylvania, according to a new poll released by Monmouth University Wednesday. Data showed that 40 percent of voters in the Keystone State said they will definitely vote for Harris, compared to 38 percent who said the same of Trump. Eight percent said...

After a foiled missile strike, an Israeli official said the military was drawing up plans for a ground maneuver. Dozens were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday.

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IDF chief’s comments come as fears grow of further escalation between Israel and Hezbollah

Elon Musk’s SpaceX pushed back against testimony from FAA Administrator Michael Whitaker, claiming “every statement” he made Tuesday about the aerospace company’s alleged safety violations was “incorrect.” In a letter to Rep. Kevin Kiley (R-Calif.), who sits on the House Transportation Committee, a senior executive with SpaceX wrote it is “deeply concerning” Whitaker “does not appear to...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Wednesday announced a partnership with AmeriCorps to form the Environmental Justice Climate Corps, an offshoot of the previously-announced American Climate Corps aimed at recruitment in low-income areas. The agency said in its announcement Wednesday that it will open applications for the program early next year. The new program, which...

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that former President Donald Trump should be extinguished from politics, which she clarified meant “vote him out.”

Israel intercepted the missile fired at the headquarters of its Mossad spy agency, as Israel’s military chief told troops that airstrikes against the Hezbollah militant group were in preparation for a potential ground invasion of Lebanon.

The massive storm is set to be the strongest to hit the US in over a year as it slams into the Sunshine State tomorrow and then much of the Southeast

Biden was forced to relinquish the Democratic nomination on July 21 after a brutal pressure campaign by leading Democrats after his confused performance at the June 27 CNN debate against Trump.

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising pitch for Vice President Harris's White House campaign, saying that "our democracy hangs in the balance." In a Wednesday fundraising email from Harris's campaign that was signed by Burns, the "Civil War" documentary filmmaker called the presidential race "among the most critical elections in our country's history." Asking...

As Israel approaches the anniversary of Oct. 7, and ramps up its military campaign against Hezbollah, many here are haunted by uncertainty.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday went after former President Trump for reversing course on a popular tax break, noting that Republicans had imposed the same cap on state and local tax deductions that Trump now says he wants to abolish. “It's interesting to me that Donald Trump and extreme MAGA Republicans in...

Former President Trump on Wednesday said he’d threaten to blow Iran “to smithereens” if he was back in the White House and a candidate faced threats from Tehran, comments that come after his campaign said he was briefed about Iran’s alleged assassination threats against him. “If I were the president, I would inform the threatening...

Marcellus Williams, who was previously convicted for the brutal murder of Lisha Gayle in 1998, was put to death on Tuesday, despite the victim’s family and the prosecutor objecting to the death penalty.

Former President Trump is making a last-minute push for House Republicans to adopt a short-term government funding package that includes language pertaining to voting, multiple sources told The Hill. Such legislation would differ from Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) current plan and complicate efforts to prevent a government shutdown next week. Trump made calls to multiple...

President Biden is slated to host an event Wednesday afternoon in New York City with world leaders to launch a joint declaration of support for Ukraine's recovery and reconstruction amid its ongoing war with Russia. The event comes a day after Biden gave his final address before the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) where he reaffirmed...

A record gap has opened up between Democrats and Republicans over their faith in the accuracy of the vote count in the presidential election, a new Gallup poll shows. The survey, conducted from Sept. 3 to 15, found that 84 percent of Democrats trust the vote, compared to 28 percent of Republicans. That percentage of...

Two people reported injuries after a California courthouse explosion on Wednesday around 8:45 a.m. Police immediately cleared the scene at the Santa Maria Courthouse citing “two reports of non-life-threatening injuries.” One adult male was detained in connection to the detonation according to the Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office. The law enforcement agency's Public Information Officer Raquel...

The Pelosi’s are back making major moves in the stock market. The husband of the 52nd speaker of the House, Paul, unloaded over $500,000 worth of Visa stocks less than three months before the massive credit card company was hit with federal antitrust charges, according to public documents.

Hours after Volodymyr Zelensky appealed for the West’s continued support, Vladimir Putin moved to ease the circumstances under which he might counter with nuclear weapons.

Confirmation of Tehran's intentions comes a day after intel officials briefed Trump on the alleged plots as payback for US killing an Iranian general.

The Biden administration is concerned that the Ukrainian leader’s plan is little more than a repackaged request for more weapons and the lifting of restrictions on long-range missiles, U.S. officials said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made new threats to use nuclear weapons against the West, suggesting that any nuclear power supporting a country that attacks Moscow would be seen as participating in the aggression. Addressing Russia’s Security Council, Putin said the country’s nuclear doctrine has been revised in light of an “emergence of new...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D) is adding some pigskin to his campaign trail schedule, heading to Saturday's football game between the University of Minnesota and the University of Michigan. Vice President Harris's running mate will attend the game in Ann Arbor, Mich., between the two Big Ten teams, the Harris-Walz campaign confirmed to The Hill...

MLB could have overridden any desire of either team and forced different logistics for the games and did not.

Alex Jones’s Infowars business will be auctioned off to help pay for the $1.5 billion settlement awarded to the families of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, a Texas bankruptcy judge ruled Wednesday. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez said in his ruling the proposed auctions were “fair, reasonable, and appropriate.” Infowars’ assets,...

Hurricane Helene is expected to make landfall in Florida on Thursday.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) urged New York City Mayor Eric Adams to resign in a social media post on Wednesday, claiming that the investigations, resignations and vacancies surrounding his administration are "threatening" the ability of the government to function. "I do not see how Mayor Adams can continue governing New York City. The flood of...

Minnesota Governor and vice presidential candidate Tim Walz was heavily scrutinized on social media this week for taking a visit to the luxurious Manhattan apartment of Alex Soros, the son of billionaire liberal donor George Soros.

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Donald Trump is not a real American. He’s not even a good American. He is the worst of us enraptured, like Narcissus, with his own mirage.

A recording of a former New York City health official discussing attending sex parties and other raunchy, drug-fueled parties while the city was forcefully advising people to exercise social distancing and other measures has led to his termination in the private sector.

No more state-sanctioned barbarity. No more killing of innocent people like Marcellus Williams. Abolish the death penalty.

The Biden administration is expected to soon announce billions of dollars for Ukraine before a deadline to release the funding at the end of the month, according to multiple reports. The approximately $5.8 billion in presidential drawdown authority (PDA), a method for the U.S. to quickly send weapons to Ukraine, would be announced as a...

Donald Trump is not a real American. He’s not even a good American. He is the worst of us enraptured, like Narcissus, with his own mirage.

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) said Wednesday there could be an opportunity during the lame duck session of the current Congress to negotiate a deal on taxes ahead of expirations in the code scheduled for next year. “After the election, you’ll have one opportunity to find out if there is enough energy in the Congress to...

The Mets and the Braves will not play the rest of this week after all.

The Israeli army chief says the military is preparing for a possible ground operation in Lebanon. He made the statement Wednesday as Hezbollah hurled dozens of projectiles into Israel, including a missile aimed at Tel Aviv that was the militant group’s deepest strike yet.

"Squad” member and New York Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called for Mayor Eric Adams to resign amid the federal probes that have faced the Mayor’s administration.

Republicans and Democrats are expressing openness to overtures by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erodgan to improve relations with the U.S., in an effort to turn Ankara away from military ties with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Relations with Turkey cleaved during the former Trump administration after Ankara’s purchase of the Russian air defense system S-400, prompting...

Helene is forecast to intensify rapidly over the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall in Florida on Thursday. Residents are urged to make preparations — and in many counties, evacuate — before then.

Evacuations are underway along Florida's Gulf Coast in areas in the storm's potential path.

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The agency confirmed there is an ongoing misconduct investigation involving an employee Wednesday.

A suspect has been taken into custody after intentionally setting off an explosion at a courthouse in Santa Barbara, California.

The highest landfall probability is somewhere along the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle late Thursday evening, forecasters said.

Senators on Wednesday passed a short-term funding extension that keeps the government’s lights on until mid-December and averts a pre-election government shutdown days before the end-of-the-month deadline. The Senate voted 78-18 on the stopgap bill, known as a continuing resolution (CR), that will keep the government funded at current spending levels until Dec. 20, when...

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Hurricane Helen is now forecasted to become a Category 4 by the time it makes landfall in Florida.

Vice President Harris will travel to Douglas, Arizona, to visit the U.S.-Mexico border on Friday. The Harris campaign announced the trip to the border, across from Agua Prieta, Mexico, on Wednesday. Former President Trump criticized Harris for the planned trip earlier this week, saying she was only visiting the border for “political reasons.” The former...

In a pair of votes, the House and Senate moved to keep federal funding flowing through Dec. 20. But they punted a bigger spending fight to the end of the year.

Vice President Harris will travel Friday to Douglas, Ariz., to visit the U.S.-Mexico border. The Harris campaign announced the trip to the border, across from Agua Prieta, Mexico, on Wednesday. Former President Trump criticized Harris for the planned trip earlier this week, saying she was only visiting the border for “political reasons.” The former president...

The moves set off a diplomatic scramble as Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile at Tel Aviv and Israeli strikes killed more people in Lebanon, officials said.

Environmentalists are pushing President Biden to veto a bill that would weaken federal scrutiny of semiconductor manufacturing. But Biden is reportedly set to sign the legislation, which has moved quickly through both the House and Senate and has support from lawmakers in key swing seats. The bill would exempt semiconductor manufacturing facilities that receive federal funding from environmental reviews. Opponents...

Former President Donald Trump is set to hold an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, the same location where the first assassination attempt on his life took place.