The federal deficit for fiscal year 2026, which ended Sept. 30, reached roughly $1.99 trillion, Treasury Department data released Oct. 16 show -- a 12% increase over fiscal 2025 and the third-highest deficit on record...
Ukrainian officials said this week that connections to SpaceX's military-grade Starshield network slowed sharply on Oct. 13, disrupting drone and missile guidance and leaving at least one unit without early warning...
Nine fired FBI employees, including agents and analysts with counterintelligence experience, sued FBI Director Kash Patel, Attorney General Todd Blanche, the FBI and the Justice Department on Oct. 15. The suit says they...
The League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) sued DHS on Oct. 15 in federal court in Washington, alleging the department ran a...
President Trump said Oct. 15 that the US military will not livestream the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan, reversing a plan Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had announced earlier in the month. Trump...
The Justice Department sued California election officials, including Secretary of State Shirley Weber, on Oct. 15, seeking a court order to block the state from counting mail ballots in the Nov. 3 midterm election from...
An internal Trust for the National Mall spreadsheet obtained by The Washington Post shows $333 million in private donations funding Trump's White House ballroom, including $25 million each from Nvidia, Apple, the Adelson...
The watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) sued the Trump administration on Oct. 14, seeking to block Jared Kushner from continuing to serve as a special envoy without publicly...
A three-judge Ninth Circuit panel ruled Oct. 14 that the Trump administration is "certain to succeed" on its claim that California's "No Vigilantes Act" -- which requires on-duty law enforcement officers, including...
Fresno prosecutors filed three felonies -- assault likely to produce great bodily injury, elder abuse and vandalism -- plus a misdemeanor battery charge against ICE agent David Gonzalez, 32, after an Oct. 10 incident at...