Today is Wednesday, Oct. 29, the 302nd day of 2025. There are 63 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1929, "Black Tuesday" descended on the New York Stock Exchange. Stock prices collapsed amid panicked selling, $14 billion in value was lost, and thousands of investors were wiped ...

The Republican governor of Indiana said Monday he's scheduling a special session to redraw congressional boundaries after weeks of pressure to back President Donald Trump's bid to add more winnable seats with midcycle redistricting. Trump has pressed Republicans to draw new maps that give the ...

President Donald Trump's use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations — all 1,500 miles from the U.S. — has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution's guarantee of due process requires ...

For most of President Donald Trump's second term, Republicans have bent to his will. But in two Midwestern states, Trump's plan to maintain control of the U.S. House in next year's election by having Republicans redraw congressional districts has hit a roadblock. Despite weeks of campaigning ...

Today is Monday, Oct. 27, the 300th day of 2025. There are 65 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2018, a gunman shot and killed 11 congregants and wounded six others at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue in the deadliest domestic attack on Jews in U.S. history; authorities said ...

I don't get politicians who rail against billionaires. There are all kinds of billionaires. Many got rich inventing products we hold dear. Others got rich doing societally useless things like inventing crypto meme coins. And some made their pile through corruption and crime. This is about the ...