5+ hour, 58+ min ago   (946+ words) But two weeks after the country's worst natural disaster since then -- the flash floods triggered by a glacial fall that left more than 5,000 dead or missing -- the United States has dialed back, sending $3.6 million to provide food for 10,000 households. USAID…...

6+ hour, 58+ min ago   (250+ words) Today is Sunday, Sept. 13, the 256th day of 2026. There are 109 days left in the year. On Sept. 13, 1993, at the White House, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shook hands after signing an accord granting limited Palestinian autonomy....

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (403+ words) A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld an injunction blocking an Internal Revenue Service policy that allowed it to share thousands of taxpayers' addresses with immigration authorities, saying the Trump administration's practice violated federal law. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (874+ words) WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five years later, the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, are still remembered as among the most important historic events in many Americans' lives, according to a new poll. A new Ipsos poll finds that about half of U.S. adults name the 9/11 attacks…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (517+ words) JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. -- President Donald Trump had been eagerly awaiting his trip to Texas for his Republican Party's midterm convention. But he was briefly delayed by the deployment of an inflatable emergency slide on the new Air Force One plane…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (882+ words) JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- Missouri is poised to hold its November election with congressional districts passed after the last census, after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday again rejected a new map backed by President Donald Trump that Republicans hoped could help…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (843+ words) WASHINGTON -- Donald Trump's pitch to send Americans $5,000 checks should Republicans prevail in the November midterms is drawing scorn from some members of Congress -- the very people who have constitutional authority over federal spending. Economists and other political observers are voicing…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago   (629+ words) LONDON -- British Prime Minister Andy Burnham defended his government's decision to ban trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, saying that Britain was being true to its roots by taking a stand for justice. "Britain has…...

3+ day, 58+ min ago   (713+ words) California and nearly two dozen other states warned the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday that allowing the U.S. Postal Service to move forward with President Trump's new rules for mail ballots in the November election would cause "chaos" and could disenfranchise millions of…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (528+ words) President Donald Trump pledged Wednesday to send every American adult $5,000 if Republicans retain control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections, an extraordinary gambit to reverse his party's sagging fortunes in November. The dubious promise would likely cost…...