The alleged secret life of the husband of former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem may have been made public by a sex worker who’s in the U.S. illegally.

Axios reporter Marc Caputo said on Tuesday that he received a tip in February alleging Bryon Noem was into a fetish known in the alternative lifestyle community as “...Read more

WASHINGTON — “Baloney.”

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema couldn’t wrap her mind around the notion that North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis has changed since announcing last summer he wouldn’t seek reelection.

“Thom Tillis is Thom Tillis,” Sinema told The News & Observer of Raleigh in an interview. “He does what he believes in, and he has always...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

MIAMI — Coral Springs Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer Bowen was found dead in her home Wednesday morning. Her husband was arrested in connection to her death, police say.

Around 10 a.m., Coral Springs police officers went to her home to check on her “well-being,” Chief Brad Mock said.

Authorities found her dead body inside her home, in the 800 ...Read more

DETROIT — Ex-Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick accused federal prosecutors Wednesday of bullying his family, chilling business opportunities and forcing him to remove his children from school amid government attempts to find and seize money the corrupt politician owes taxpayers as part of his 2013 racketeering conspiracy conviction.

Kilpatrick, ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Two bounty hunters seen in viral social media videos pointing weapons at protesters and firing less-lethal munitions are now facing felony charges in Hennepin County.

Garrett C. Willis, 28, and James R. Willis, 54, both of Ardmore, Oklahoma, were charged Tuesday with two felony counts each of threats of violence. If convicted on...Read more

NEW YORK — Murders in the city dropped by 30% in the first three months of the year, according to NYPD statistics.

As of Tuesday, NYPD detectives had investigated 55 homicides across the five boroughs, a 30% drop from the 79 homicides investigated in the first three months of 2025, statistics show.

Shootings in the city were also down by 5%,...Read more

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA on Wednesday sent four astronauts on the most powerful rocket to ever launch humans, flying the Artemis II mission that aims to send them past the moon.

The Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft named Integrity lifted off from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39-B at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time.

The SLS...Read more

NASA’s four astronauts launched to space Wednesday, kicking off a landmark journey that will take them closer to the lunar surface than anyone has been in more than 50 years.

The crew’s Lockheed Martin Corp.-built Orion capsule, stacked on the shoulders of Boeing Co.’s Space Launch System rocket, thundered off the launchpad at 6:35 p.m. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inside the Supreme Court, as justices heard oral arguments in the case over birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend such a proceeding.

Outside the court, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — the San Francisco man whose landmark Supreme Court case affirmed birthright ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he hopes to pull the United States out of NATO as the rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance gets wider over his war with Iran.

Long a skeptic of the Western alliance, Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he is well along the way to trying to pull the U.S. out of the North American Treaty Organization ...Read more

A Utah law firm has filed a personal injury notice of claim against the U.S. government on behalf of a Venezuelan national who was allegedly tortured at the Salvadoran maximum security prison CECOT.

Attorneys from Parker & McConkie wrote in a legal filing that their client — using the alias Johnny Hernandez — entered the U.S. legally and ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. —Lt. Gov. Jay Collins addressed the bomb threat at MacDill Air Force Base and touted his record on preventing foreign espionage at a news conference in South Tampa on Wednesday.

Collins, a former Green Beret in the U.S. Army, has repeatedly emphasized his 2023 bill that banned the Chinese Communist Party from purchasing or ...Read more

For the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are on their way to the moon.

NASA’s colossal Space Launch System rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. Eastern time from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, marking the start of the 10-day Artemis II mission.

In the hours and minutes leading up to launch, as the astronauts waited ...Read more

FBI Director Kash Patel joined U.S. Sen. Dave McCormick, R.-Pa., at a roundtable event in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to tout state and federal efforts to combat Pennsylvania’s fentanyl crisis, as well as a declining number of overdoses from the synthetic drug.

Attorney General Dave Sunday, U.S. Attorney David Metcalf, and district ...Read more

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer asked President Donald Trump on Wednesday to declare a major disaster in three southwest Michigan counties in the wake of tornadoes that resulted in four deaths, multiple injuries and significant property damage.

If the request is granted, the area could qualify for federal individual assistance grants to help with home ...Read more

A group of successful Cuban American entrepreneurs and business leaders from South Florida say they stand ready to contribute to Cuba’s rebuilding, but need to see major changes on the island.

At a meeting Tuesday evening in Miami, the Cuban Americans, representing an assortment of businesses in South Florida, discussed the potential for ...Read more

The U.S. Treasury Department on Wednesday removed Venezuelan interim President Delcy Rodríguez from its sanctions blacklist, the latest step in Washington’s evolving approach toward one of the most powerful figures in Caracas’ ruling socialist establishment.

The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Rodríguez had been deleted...Read more

WASHINGTON — More than five years after violent riots at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump still can’t avoid lawsuits seeking to hold him legally responsible for the chaos that temporarily disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Washington handed a multipart loss to Trump on Tuesday night, keeping...Read more