LEXINGTON, Ky. – Two Republicans running to replace Rep. Andy Barr left little daylight between themselves in the first televised debate of Kentucky’s 2026 election cycle.

Rep. Ryan Dotson, R-Winchester, and former state senator Ralph Alvarado largely agreed with each other on matters of health care, immigration, tariffs, term limits and ...Read more

The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks.

Other countries including the U.K., China and India have advised citizens or diplomats to leave some parts of the Middle East.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran remain high, with the two engaged in talks to...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Finance Committee leaders introduced a bipartisan bill Thursday to overhaul the procedures and administration of the IRS.

The 162-page draft bill bundles a number of already introduced tax administration bills with additional recommendations from the National Taxpayer Advocate, including provisions expanding the ...Read more

Bill Clinton is to become the first former U.S. president forced to testify to Congress as he faces questioning Friday on connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Clinton will be deposed behind closed doors by a House committee investigating Epstein. The questioning will take place in Chappaqua, New York, where he lives with his ...Read more

The U.S. has told non-emergency staff at its embassy in Jerusalem that they’re allowed to leave Israel, citing heightened safety risks.

Tensions between the U.S. and Iran remain high, with the two engaged in talks to avert American strikes on the Islamic Republic. Israel may join in on any attack and be targeted by Iranian retaliation.

The ...Read more

President Donald Trump put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and longtime friend Steve Witkoff in charge of resolving the war in Ukraine and a standoff with Iran. On Thursday, they juggled those momentous issues within hours of each other.

Dispatched to Geneva, Switzerland, Kushner and Witkoff met Iranian officials at the Omani ambassador’s ...Read more

Congress added nearly $34 billion above the president’s fiscal 2026 defense request for more than 1,000 research and procurement programs favored by lawmakers but not necessarily by the military, according to a new report.

The $33.97 billion in a fiscal 2026 omnibus spending law is a dramatic surge in appropriations for what are known as ...Read more

U.S. and Iranian officials ended the latest round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday by agreeing to re-convene as soon as next week, opening the door to further diplomacy even as President Donald Trump masses military forces in the region.

With just days to go before Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two sides agreed to resume ...Read more

Would-be Donald Trump assassin Asif Merchant was caught on video as he spread a napkin out on a hotel room table, put down a creamsicle-colored vape, and said, “This is the target. How will it die?”

Merchant, who’s accused of trying to mastermind a political assassination at a 2024 U.S. campaign rally, thought he was speaking with a ...Read more

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. ...Read more

As Caribbean leaders arrived here this week to placards urging them not to forget Cuba, they were caught between mounting pressure from the United States over ties to Havana and constituents who have long relied on Cuban doctors and educational scholarships to build healthcare systems and professional careers.

So when Jamaica Prime Minister ...Read more

Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New York, ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented President Donald Trump with a pitch to build 12,000 housing units in New York City at a White House sit-down Thursday, marking the moment with a chummy picture of the pair in the Oval Office featuring Trump clutching a fake Daily News front page and smiling ear-to-ear.

“I had a productive meeting with President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators came together across the aisle Thursday to move legislation meant to address gaps in the law around abuse and exploitation of children online.

The Senate Judiciary Committee by voice vote approved a package related to crimes against children, including sections on sentencing guidelines for child sexual abuse material, or...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told House lawmakers she did not have information on the past criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and never recalled meeting the now-deceased sex offender, according to remarks prepared as part of a congressional deposition Thursday in New York.

In an opening statement she shared ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey is responding to President Trump naming Massachusetts, along with California, Maine, and Minnesota, as some of the most fraud-ridden states in the country while announcing a new “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address.

“At the end of the day, this is all about the president and the Trump administration ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders Wednesday in Saint Kitts’ capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may continue constructing a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, a Washington federal judge held in a ruling that dealt an initial blow to historic preservationists who tried to halt the project.

Senior Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found Thursday that...Read more

Iran said nuclear talks with the United States have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland.

With days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two countries started their third round of Omani-mediated ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis – U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting...Read more