Kyiv — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced Tuesday that he will replace his top general, Oleksandr Syrskyi. The latest shakeup follows six days of protests against last week’s ouster of Ukraine’s Minister of Defense Mykhailo Fedorov. Zelenskyy removed Fedorov from his post last Wednesday, citing an irresolvable feud between the defense minister and Syryski, the commander-in-chief of…
Washington — The former U.S. attorney in Seattle who was fired from his post soon after federal judges in the area installed him in the role has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, arguing that his removal was unlawful. Roger Rogoff is asking the federal district court in Seattle to void his firing last…
About 6,600 people who indicated they were noncitizens while obtaining New Jersey driver’s licenses and other state IDs were improperly registered to vote in 2023 and 2024, Gov. Mikie Sherrill said on Tuesday. The governor, a Democrat who took office this year, blamed a Motor Vehicle Commission system software error but said a preliminary analysis…
Three in four Americans don’t have enough wealth to weather financial setbacks and achieve major life milestones, according to a recent report from The Aspen Institute, a nonprofit think tank. About 34.5 million U.S. households fall short of what the group terms its “essential wealth” benchmark, which The Aspen Institute defines as having six weeks of…
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will testify before a Senate committee Tuesday amid escalations in the war with Iran in recent days. With a focus on the Trump administration’s supplemental funding request, the hearing comes as at least two U.S. soldiers were killed…
Amman, Jordan — When an Iranian missile hits its intended target, it’s because U.S. air defenses either failed to intercept it, or failed to even see it coming in the first place. “One leaked through,” is how Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the Iranian attack on an air base in Jordan that killed two U.S….
Washington — The Trump administration is pausing more than $1 billion in Medicaid payments to California and Minnesota as part of its crackdown on fraud in federal programs, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Tuesday. The pause comes after reviews conducted by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS,…
A 30-year-old U.S. soldier was killed over the weekend in Iraq during what the U.S. military said was a controlled explosion to destroy an attack drone. Sgt. Michael Emmanuel Swinton of Fayetteville, North Carolina, was “killed in action during a controlled detonation” of the drone at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq, the Pentagon said…
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to review an Alaska bush pilot’s claims that state authorities have tried to illegally seize his $95,000 airplane after a passenger brought a six-pack of beer on a flight bound for a dry village. The pilot, Kenneth Jouppi, sued to block his plane’s seizure after he was convicted of an…
Produce giant Taylor Farms is under renewed scrutiny after it voluntarily recalled iceberg lettuce linked to the nation’s unusually large cyclosporiasis outbreak. Food safety experts say that while recalls are inevitable for a produce supplier the size of Taylor Farms, the current outbreak is unusual because of its scale and the number of people sickened….
