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WASHINGTON – A campaign funding group aligned with Republican President Donald Trump, Make America Great Again Inc., entered 2026 with an almost $300 million stockpile ahead of this year’s midterm elections, a filing showed on Friday.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday blocked U.S. photonics firm HieFo Corp's $3 million acquisition of assets in New Jersey-based aerospace and defense specialist Emcore, citing national security and China-related concerns.

KYIV, Ukraine – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said that Ukraine and the United States are 90% of the way toward an agreement to end the war with Russia. Within the 10% still in dispute is who will control Europe’s largest nuclear power plant.

More oil tankers are turning away from Venezuela as the U.S. threatens to seize vessels transporting oil that helps fund the regime of President Nicolas Maduro. At least seven ships have reversed course or halted at sea, according to ship movements tracked Friday by Bloomberg. That adds to four others that turned away in the immediate aftermath of U.S. forces boarding the vessel Skipper in ...

A U.S. appeals court ruled on Friday that California’s ban on openly carrying firearms in most parts of the state was unconstitutional.

An 18-year-old from Mint Hill planned to use knives and hammers to kill people in a grocery store and fast-food restaurant in an ISIS-inspired New Year’s Eve attack, U.S. Attorney Russ Ferguson said Friday. FBI agents foiled Christian Sturdivant’s plans and charged him with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, Ferguson said at a news conference after ...

When Charlotte LaRoy was in elementary school, she had a quiet revelation. Paper napkins are beautiful. It was the 1940s, she was the daughter of a federal food-safety scientist, and she was just discovering the spectacular variety of face-and-finger wipes.

WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday ordered that the man accused of planting pipe bombs in Washington the night before the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol attack should remain behind bars while his case moves forward.

Many of those injured in the deadly fire that engulfed a bar in the Swiss ski resort of Crans-Montana during New Year celebrations are fighting for their lives, as officials started investigating the tragedy.

Venezuelans awoke Friday to mounting reports that a narrow stretch of coastline near its border with Colombia may have been the target of a U.S. military strike — a move that would mark a sharp escalation in Washington’s pressure campaign against the Nicolás Maduro regime. The suspected strike occurred in the western reaches of the Gulf of Venezuela, between Puerto López in Colombia’s La ...

A 6.5 magnitude earthquake shook the Mexican state of Guerrero in the southern part of the country on Friday, Jan. 2, according to the United States Geological Survey.

WASHINGTON – More than two years after a Dallas postal worker died from heat exposure on the job, letter carriers say the United States Postal Service has yet to take steps required to fully protect them when the temperature and humidity soar. The 2023 death of Eugene Gates Jr. prompted a federal citation and $15,625 fine against the Postal Service, along with renewed calls from union leaders ...

President Donald Trump pledged that the U.S. will come to the rescue of Iranian protesters if they are attacked by Islamic Republic authorities.

KYIV – President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov as his top adviser on Friday and proposed a drone and digitalization specialist as defense minister.

At least seven people have been killed in Iran as violence escalates amid a new wave of anti-government protests that continued for a fifth day on Thursday.