The Supreme Court heard Suncor v. Boulder on the first argument day of the term, with justices probing Clean Air Act preemption and the prospect of copycat suits nationwide. With Justice Alito recused, a 4-4 split would hand Boulder a quiet win.
The White House blamed New York City's sanctuary rules for a string of violent crimes after ICE officers shot a Dominican migrant in the Bronx, while Mayor Zohran Mamdani demanded the administration pull its agents out of the city.
A Missouri sheriff's office says five men in its jail asked to be baptized, and local church volunteers made it happen. Two weeks later, the post is circulating nationally — on the strength of a single unverified agency account.
At a midterm rally in Clarksville, Tennessee, President Trump said he is thinking about renaming the Strait of Hormuz the "Trump Strait" and floated "Ocean of the Americas" for the Atlantic or Pacific. No formal action has been announced.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the third anniversary of October 7 with a statement that mourned Israeli dead and then accused Israel of genocide and apartheid. On HBO, Bill Maher had a two-word verdict.
ABC News published a report tying defense firms backed by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump to more than $6 billion in government contracts, then quietly deleted it — no correction, no editor's note, no comment.
An ICE officer shot a Dominican national in the Bronx with a 5-year-old in the car, and New York's mayor says two hours of calls with President Trump and DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin failed to win the man's release.
Trump announced after a phone call with Vladimir Putin that Russia will send escalating volumes of diesel to the American and global market, and Treasury moved the same day to waive some energy sanctions. No contract, buyer or price has been identified.
Hurricane Isaias closed on the northern Gulf Coast with 110 mph winds and a forecast surge of six to nine feet, while Florida staged fuel, generators and meals and seven counties ordered evacuations.
Mike Rogers and Abdul El-Sayed traded blows over Hamas, Iran and each other's out-of-state property in a televised Michigan Senate debate, and President Trump weighed in on Truth Social hours later.
A federal immigration officer shot and wounded a man during a targeted arrest at the Bronx-Manhattan line Thursday afternoon. DHS says the target was a convicted criminal with gang ties; Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired on a car with a 5-year-old inside.
Asked repeatedly whether Iran or Israel is the bigger threat to the United States, Michigan Democrat Abdul El-Sayed refused to answer and called the question ridiculous. Mike Rogers made sure voters heard it.
Jared Kushner skipped the letters-to-the-editor route and posted a 14-section rebuttal to The New Yorker on his own website, insisting his investment firm has raised "zero" new money while he works Middle East diplomacy for free.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the December 3 firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan will be public, and a Pentagon official says it will be livestreamed. Stars and Stripes reports it would be the first U.S. military execution in 65 years.
Vice President JD Vance and the Labor Department suspended Microsoft, Adobe and six IT services giants from the PERM green card program, and opened fraud investigations into nine universities over J-1 visas.
The White House says nearly 70 million American children now have government-created investment accounts after automatic enrollment wrapped up Oct. 1. A parent or guardian still has to formally claim the account, and the AP notes only newborns are funded.
Roughly three minutes of Newport News police body-camera video from the January 2023 Richneck Elementary shooting has been unsealed, showing the 6-year-old who shot his teacher cursing at officers moments after the gun was found on the classroom floor.
