31.12.2024 — Treasury's Chinese Breach Under Carter's Shadow

Five people have been charged in connection to the death of former One Direction popstar Liam Payne.

Visitors and community members alike remember President Jimmy Carter in his hometown in Plains, Georgia, after his death.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un vowed to enact the “toughest” policies against the United States, with less than a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

Former President Jimmy Carter spent a lifetime doing good deeds, but he's especially well known for his homebuilding sprees with Habitat for Humanity.

An incoming solar storm expected to reach us early this week could spark auroras Monday and Tuesday nights.

Judge Laura Bruniard said those charged, including a hotel manager and receptionist, contributed to "creating a risk that resulted in Payne's death."

The chaotic country is now a magnet for criminal syndicates, particularly from China, destabilizing law enforcement across much of Asia.

From Iran to Russia to China, Carter spent much of his term wrestling with questions that will soon fall to the next US president

Right-wing influencers are clashing with Silicon Valley moguls over immigration policy in the latest drama to engulf Trumpworld.

The contentious, years-long divorce battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt is finally over after the two celebs reached a settlement, Jolie’s lawyer revealed Monday night.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to access unclassified documents after breaching computer security guardrails, officials said.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to access unclassified documents after breaching computer security guardrails, officials said.

More than half of U.S. adults say they’ll make at least one resolution for 2025.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to access unclassified documents after breaching computer security guardrails, officials said.

Here's what NPR's White House correspondents would ask Biden at a press conference as his presidency comes to a close.

The companies have found plenty of new channels to the U.S. market, demonstrating the potential limits of the tariffs Donald Trump has promised to impose.

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Another attempt to break through is expected for New Year’s Day, a Texas law enforcement memo warned.

Laguna Beach sends a letter to the business where the person had their last drink after any DUI arrest. The goal is help owners and employees recognize possible patterns in someone having too much to drink.

Another attempt to break through is expected for New Year’s Day, a Texas law enforcement memo warned.

Chinese state-sponsored hackers were able to access unclassified documents after breaching computer security guardrails, officials said.

The in-fighting is spiraling out of control and insiders fear it will get even worse.

The Canadian government pledged to crack down on student visa abuse after Indian officials complained about a “well-planned conspiracy” that used Canadian student visas to smuggle Indian nationals into the United States.

Jimmy Carter Supported Federal Pot Decriminalization for Half a Century. It Still Has Not Happened.

U.S. Rep.-elect Sarah McBride will be sworn in as the first openly transgender member of Congress on Jan. 3.

In recent days, Trump has reopened what appeared to be one of the most settled aspects of Carter’s legacy

It's almost the new year, which means states across the country will enact thousands of new laws from new tax structures to prenatal leave.

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Dana Stevens

Dana Stevens

The Federal Vacancies Reform Act sets the rules for presidents to tap acting officials to fill vacancies throughout the executive branch.

New quantum microchips are raising the possibility that the multiverse, something that was to be found only in comic books and sci-fi, could in fact be real. For those trying to keep up with American politics this isn’t really news. We seem to be cracking up, in so many different ways, into different cultural and political tribes, different media eco systems, different political planets. Our parallel universes are now fragmenting into many new galaxies. It makes it hard to keep up and navigate through the nebulous nebulas, the belts of idiocy and bottomless black holes of hubris. We're headed into a whole new political solar system. My mission, as a political cartoonist, is to explore these new uncharted worlds, to seek out new irony and fresh hypocrisies, to boldly go where no other cartoonists have gone before. Here are the latest entries from my cartoon log of the year 2024.

A China state-sponsored actor affiliated with the Chinese Government recently hacked the U.S. Treasury Department’s workstations in a “major incident,” the agency announced on Monday.

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The S&P 500 is set to post back-to-back annual gains of more than 20 percent for the first time since the 1990s. Analysts expect stocks to keep rising in 2025.

Unprecedented Rise in Homelessness

The victim in the horrific Dec. 22 caught-on-video arson attack had been so badly scorched that authorities initially struggled to identify her.

The world’s richest man changed his name and profile picture on X to a Pepe the Frog in a gladiator costume.

U.S. sports teams have received a formal warning from the FBI on organized crime groups that prey on professional athletes.

In the wake of Elon Musk’s fiery defense of H-1B visas, it has come to light that Tesla has replaced U.S. employees laid off earlier this year with foreign workers holding the very H-1B visas that Musk lashed out at conservatives for not supporting.

From Sydney to Vladivostok, communities around the world have begun welcoming 2025 with spectacular light shows, embraces and ice plunges.

The in-fighting is spiraling out of control and insiders fear it’s just the beginning.

The battle to succeed Donald Trump, who will not be on the presidential ballot in 2028, has already begun

Laguna Beach sends a letter to the business where the person had their last drink after any DUI arrest. The goal is help owners and employees recognize possible patterns in someone having too much to drink.

Plea deals for three Islamist terrorists behind the 9/11 attacks are likely to have their lives spared after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin lost his bid to stop agreements that would spare them the death penalty.

The battle to succeed Donald Trump, who will not be on the presidential ballot in 2028, has already begun

The battle to succeed Donald Trump, who will not be on the presidential ballot in 2028, has already begun

“We don’t need white guys from South Africa lecturing us on how the way things should be,” Bannon ranted on Tuesday.

Wanda Tucker first visited Angola to mark 400 years since Africans arrived in what is now America. This time she was invited by Biden.

The battle to succeed Donald Trump, who will not be on the presidential ballot in 2028, has already begun

A straphanger is in critical condition after being shoved onto the path of a 1 train at a Manhattan subway station, police said.

The top prosecutor for Washington D.C., who led the Justice Department’s investigation into the January 6th protests, said on Monday he will resign just days before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

IRS Failed To Properly Dispose of Sensitive Tax Documents, Report Finds

According to police on Tuesday, the victim who was killed after being lit on fire by an illegal alien on a Brooklyn F train was reportedly a 57-year-old woman from New Jersey named Debrina Kawam.

Silicon Valley and the nativist right worked together to elect Trump. Now the infighting has begun.

The goals of what is known as “congestion pricing” are to reduce gridlock and pollution and raise revenue for public transit.

The final statistics are scheduled to be released Jan. 10, but experts say the data suggests 2024 was the hottest year on record.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly announced in a closed door meeting that fighting in Gaza would continue despite a cease-fire agreement with Hamas, according to the Jewish News Syndicate.

Climate progress screeched to a halt this year. One country had its foot on the brake.