FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says he’d consider dropping out of his Republican runoff if a bill requiring proof of citizenship when registering to vote in federal elections is passed out of the U.S. Senate.

Paxton on Tuesday advanced to a May 26 Republican runoff for the U.S. Senate with incumbent Sen. John Cornyn. ...Read more

President Donald Trump sounded confident Thursday that regime change might soon come to Cuba and said the country’s leadership is trying to cut a deal with the United States.

“Cuba’s going to fall, too,” he told the news outlet Politico in a phone interview. “We cut off all oil, all money, or we cut off everything coming in from ...Read more

DORAL, Fla. — Senior Trump administration officials on Thursday called on allied nations across the hemisphere to intensify their fight against drug cartels and narco-traffickers, with White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller comparing the groups to the ISIS and al-Qaeda of the Western Hemisphere.

“The cartels that operate in this ...Read more

Colorado has its first measles outbreak of 2026, with three cases linked to students at Broomfield schools.

Measles symptoms can take up to three weeks to appear and initially are nonspecific: a fever, cough, runny nose and red eyes.

The rash, which typically starts at the hairline and moves down, appears about four days after someone becomes ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A video went viral Wednesday of a U.S. Senate candidate from North Carolina wrestling with Capitol police in Washington when his arm caught between two doors and seemingly snapped.

Sen. Tim Sheehy, a Republican from Montana, jumped into help officers as they wrestled with the protester.

Capitol police told McClatchy that three ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — An undocumented West African immigrant who federal authorities say has been living in Philadelphia for more than two decades cast a ballot in the 2024 federal election — and may have voted in at least six other elections, according to federal prosecutors.

Mahady Sacko was charged with fraudulent voting, according to the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Archaeologists will soon begin work to confirm whether 10 potential graves found in a November 2024 survey remain under a Tropicana Field parking lot.

The St. Petersburg City Council approved $378,896 Thursday to begin the third phase of determining whether graves remain after cemeteries there were moved out. The city began ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Manhattan jury was urged Thursday to reject efforts by the multimillionaire Alexander brothers to denigrate women they’re accused of drugging and trafficking for sex and hold them accountable once and for all for “decades of rapes and lies.”

In the government’s rebuttal before the Manhattan Federal Court jury got the case...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. John Fetterman immediately threw his support behind President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday after he fired Secretary Kristi Noem amid growing pressure and controversies around the agency’s deportation agenda.

Less than 20 minutes after Trump announced the change on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a major shakeup of the agency at the center of the Trump administration's immigration policies, President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he was replacing embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who will step down at the end of the month.

Trump said on Truth Social that he will nominate Sen. Markwayne Millin, R...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit Thursday challenging the tariffs President Donald Trump adopted in the wake of a Supreme Court decision that invalidated much of his worldwide tariff scheme.

State law enforcement officials from Arizona, California, New York, Oregon and 20 other states asked a court to block...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Frustrated with the implementation of the state’s school voucher program, South Carolina state senators are requesting an investigation and may seek to pause the program’s growth until a review can be completed.

Senate Education Committee Chairman Greg Hembree, R-Horry, said during a Senate panel Tuesday that he planned ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday brushed off Texas Attorney Gen. Ken Paxton’s insistence that he will stay in the Republican U.S. Senate race even if Trump endorses his rival, incumbent Sen. John Cornyn.

After Paxton said he won’t drop out of the May 26 runoff, the president reportedly suggested Paxton’s defiance could backfire by ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In politics, candidates usually can only run for one office at a time.

But Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and other federal officeholders would, by law, be able to run for reelection and president in 2028 under a bill advancing in the GOP-led state Legislature.

House Bill 534 from Rep. DJ Johnson, R-Owensboro, passed the House ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after a string of perceived missteps mostly related to the controversial immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Trump announced on his social media site that he plans to replace Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Oklahoma, who will take over at the end...Read more

LOS ANGELES — For months, former residents of the Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates have feared the uncommunicative owners of the property would seek to displace them in favor of a more lucrative development deal after the Palisades fire destroyed the rent-controlled, roughly 170-unit mobile home park.

A confidential memorandum listing ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Legislative proposals to sunset daylight saving time have come, stalled or gone away, and spring forward season is again upon Nevada.

That means later sunrises and sunsets, but it also means the need to adjust clocks — both external and internal.

The lost hour — when 2 a.m. Sunday will suddenly turn to 3 a.m. — can be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — New signs of a widening regional conflict emerged Thursday as the war with Iran entered its sixth day, with European allies pledging warships and access to military bases for the U.S. campaign, Israel intensifying strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants, and Kurdish forces preparing for a potential incursion into northern ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after a string of perceived missteps mostly related to the controversial immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and elsewhere.

Trump announced on his social media site that he plans to replace Noem with Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.

“(Noem) has served us well, ...Read more

Gisele Barreto Fetterman‘s social media accounts have been taken down after she spoke out about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement earlier this year. Her X and Instagram accounts were both inactive as of Thursday morning.

It’s unclear what date the two accounts were removed from the platforms, but she did use her X account to ...Read more