U.S. health officials have warned that respiratory virus activity is on the rise, with overall activity trending at moderate levels across the United States. Influenza has risen about 5.1 percent week-over-week, according to the most recent update issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Dec. 20. In a notice issued […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday said he would revert the name of Denali, the tallest mountain in the United States, back to Mount McKinley after he takes office. President Barack Obama in 2015 officially renamed the Alaska mountain as Denali, ending a decades-long battle over its name. The peak was officially named Mount McKinley in […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul confirmed that drone flights have been banned over “critical infrastructure” in the state amid reports of drones flying over New Jersey and New York in the past several weeks. Drones have drawn national attention after local officials and residents have expressed alarm over recent sightings in New Jersey, prompting federal […]

Discount retail store chain Big Lots announced Thursday that it will initiate “going out of business” sales at all its remaining locations after it was unable to reach an agreement with an investment firm. “In parallel with these efforts, the company is preparing to commence going out of business sales at all remaining Big Lots […]

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a temporary ban on drone operations in multiple areas across New Jersey until next month unless operators are given special permission, amid heightened concerns over recent sightings of the unmanned vehicles. Over the past several weeks, drones—sometimes swarms of them—have been spotted in New Jersey by local residents and […]

A Georgia appeals court has disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from her election-related criminal case against President-elect Donald Trump, although the indictment still stands. Trump and his codefendants were charged in 2023 by Willis’s office for what they alleged was a scheme to illegally overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. […]

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday declared a state of emergency over avian influenza, saying that the order was issued as a precaution. It comes as a person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the first severe illness caused by bird flu in the United States, health officials separately said on Wednesday. The patient is […]

The Biden administration announced a rule change on who can apply for a H-1B work visa, a key U.S. visa program that employs foreign workers in specialty occupations generally requiring a college degree. A number of major U.S. technology companies use H-1B visas to find people to work jobs that are deemed hard to fill, […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Monday said that he canceled a trip to his golf course in New Jersey over a rash of recent drone sightings in the state, while calling for more government transparency on the reports. Since November, locals in New Jersey have reported swarms of drones, prompting alarm from elected officials in both […]

President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security said the United States needs an “Iron Dome” amid a rash of recent drone sightings in New Jersey and New York. Top officials, including Alejandro Mayorkas, the outgoing secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and authorities in the FBI have said the drones do not appear to […]

Two people were arrested on Saturday evening near Boston’s Logan Airport for what was described as a “hazardous drone operation,” police said, coming amid widespread reports of drones flying over the New Jersey region. At around 10 p.m. Saturday, Boston police officers arrested 42-year-old Robert Duffy and 32-year-old Jeremy Folcik, both of Massachusetts, according to […]

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced that the federal government will send a “a state-of-the-art drone detection system” to her state amid a number of drone sightings across New York and New Jersey in recent days that has prompted alarm. While she did not elaborate on the system that will be deployed, it “will support […]

The Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Alejandro Mayorkas, provided an update Sunday on a rash of apparent drone sightings in the New Jersey region, saying the federal government will take action to address concerns but signaled that officials don’t have the authority to shoot them down. Over the past several weeks, residents […]

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), the former House speaker, was hospitalized after “sustaining an injury during an official engagement” while traveling with a congressional delegation to Luxembourg, her spokesman said Friday. “While traveling with a bipartisan Congressional delegation in Luxembourg to mark the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi sustained […]

President-elect Donald Trump stated that there were more important issues than the transgender bathroom debate when he was asked about the topic in a Time magazine interview published Thursday. Trump was named by the magazine as its 2024 “Person of the Year” and gave an interview that touched on a range of subjects, including whether […]

President-elect Donald Trump once again was named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year,” marking the second time he’s been selected in the past decade. The magazine announced Trump’s selection on social media platform X on Thursday morning, showing the “Person of the Year” issue’s cover with a photo of the president-elect in a sitting pose. […]

Several congressional Democrats, including a former member of the House Democratic leadership, this week called for President-elect Donald Trump to be pardoned. Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the former House Democratic majority whip, responded to a question on MSNBC about whether Trump should be pardoned by President Joe Biden. “Yes, I do think so,” the longtime […]

The office of New York Attorney General Letitia James indicated she will not drop her civil fraud case against President-elect Donald Trump, his sons, and his company that led to a more than $450 million judgment earlier this year. Earlier this year, New York Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Trump to pay $454 million in a […]

The family of an individual charged with murder in last week’s shooting death of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has released a statement after Monday’s arrest as more details about the suspect emerged. Luigi Mangione, 26, was arrested by police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was spotted by a McDonald’s employee. Authorities charged him with Thompson’s […]

President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would work to end birthright citizenship and signaled that he could deport families with mixed immigration statuses. Trump’s mass deportation proposal was a major component of his 2024 presidential campaign, and last month, the president-elect said he would declare a national emergency over the matter. […]