Illinois Democratic Sens. Tammy Duckworth and Dick Durbin harshly criticized FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford for holding up a pay raise for air traffic controllers that Congress approved as part of legislation President Trump signed into law in April. The Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act set aside $140 million to give controllers a…
Two people are dead and at least five others were injured, including three officers, after a shooting near 15 East Grant Street Wednesday afternoon in downtown Minneapolis, according to police. The suspected shooter is also dead. Officers were dispatched to the scene at 4:36 p.m., and arrived to find one person shot at a high…
New Delhi — Glaciers in the Hindu Kush region of the Himalaya mountains are melting at the fastest rate ever and could shed as much as 80% of their ice by the end of this century if global warming continues unchecked, a group of international scientists warned in an alarming new report. The study says…
Rescue teams were searching for hundreds of missing people along the Nepal-China border Thursday after a catastrophic and deadly torrent of floods and mud swept through several communities a day earlier following a glacial collapse. The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority in Nepal said 826 people were missing and the death toll from…
Juneau, Alaska — A candidate with the same name as Alaska’s incumbent U.S. senator advanced Tuesday to the general election in what will be one of the most closely watched races in the country this fall. Dan J. Sullivan, who goes by Dan Sullivan, was among the top four finishers after the Aug. 18 primary…
Residents of Georgia’s 13th Congressional District selected Everton Blair to serve the remainder of Rep. David Scott’s term after the longtime lawmaker’s death in April, according to a projection from The Associated Press. Blair defeated Scott’s daughter, Marcye Scott, in Tuesday’s special election. Blair, the former chair of the Gwinnett County School Board, had finished second to Scott…
More than a dozen public interest and consumer advocacy groups are urging the Federal Trade Commission to investigate leading artificial intelligence developers for allegedly buying, scanning and destroying books used to train their large language models, a practice the organizations described as “destructive” and anticompetitive. In a letter to FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson and Commissioner…
The Department of Justice said on Friday that TikTok and China’s ByteDance have agreed to pay $400 million to settle claims that the social media platform violated U.S. children’s online privacy laws. The agency sued TikTok in 2024, alleging that it violated the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting and retaining data from its…
Washington — Twenty-five cars traveling at top speeds approaching 180 mph will zoom around the National Mall this weekend when the racing series IndyCar takes over downtown D.C. for a race commemorating the nation’s 250th birthday. The Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C., is expected to attract about 140,000 people on each day of…
President Trump appeared Thursday on the radio show of Michael Cohen, his fixer-turned-foe, in a stunning public reunion with the man who once called him a “Cheeto-dusted cartoon villain” and testified against him both in court and before Congress. For Cohen, who served prison time for his role in what he said was covering up…
