Los Angeles — A judge found Monday that a man charged with murder in the stabbing of actor James Handy is not mentally competent for criminal court proceedings. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Maria Cavalluzzi ruled that 44-year-old Michael Gledhill cannot understand the case against him and cannot rationally assist his lawyer in his own…
Four states are holding primaries on Tuesday, including New York, with several closely watched congressional races, and South Carolina, with a Republican runoff in the governor’s race after no candidate won majority support in the primary earlier this month. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s influence will be tested at the ballot box, since he endorsed…
Bill Curry, 65, raises cattle on the same land in rural Oklahoma once owned by his father and generations before him. Each quarter, for several years, he has made the 2½-hour drive to Oklahoma City for an epidural in his spine to treat his back pain. But this year, because of a new Medicare program,…
Over the past several decades, the checks-and-balances of our government have been increasingly tested in ways our founding fathers never anticipated. Tony Dokoupil talks with Jill Lepore, author of “We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution,” and Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, about our nation’s bedrock document, which…
Since President Trump took office a year ago, the news has never let up. Just consider recent weeks: An attack in Venezuela; talk of acquiring Greenland (via what Mr. Trump described as “the easy way” or “the hard way”); a criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve chair; and the fatal shooting of an American woman…
The streets of the nation’s capital will host an IndyCar race this summer as part of celebrations marking America’s 250th birthday, President Trump announced Friday, relishing the prospect of vehicles roaring past the White House at speeds approaching 200 mph. Mr. Trump signed an executive order establishing the race on Aug. 23 alongside Roger Penske,…
Washington — President Trump on Wednesday showed off a model of what may be his next Washington, D.C., development project, an arch that resembles the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and is being referred to informally as the “Arc de Trump.” The president showed off a model of the arch at a White House dinner…
Washington — President Trump says he wants the new triumphal arch he’s commissioning as a gate to Washington, D.C., to be the “biggest one of all” in the world, even though the proposed site is situated along a flight path for nearby Reagan National Airport in Arlington, Virginia. The design continues to be refined,…
A pair of ransom notes sent in February, including one saying Nancy Guthrie had died, were likely sent by Guthrie’s abductor, investigators belive. Jonathan Vigliotti reports. Source link
Washington — The Interior Department has submitted renderings of President Trump’s proposed triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery, showing that the structure would dwarf the Lincoln Memorial across the Potomac River. The proposal calls for the arch to be roughly 250 feet tall, more than twice as high as the 99-foot tall Lincoln Memorial. It would…
