Tuesday saw the usual first-week-of-June gaggle of state primary elections. It's a feature of the American federal system that states choose when to hold primary and local elections. Back in the 1850s, as historian Roy Franklin Nichols notes, there was an election in all but one or two of the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans are warning the White House that a critical surveillance authority is likely to lapse this week amid bipartisan backlash over President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s intelligence community. Sen. Tom Cotton, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence ...
Today is Tuesday, June 9, the 160th day of 2026. There are 205 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1973, Secretariat won the Belmont Stakes by 31 lengths, winning horse racing's Triple Crown and setting a still-standing record by running the 1 1/2-mile dirt course in 2 minutes, 24 ...
Now that the Class of 2026 has finished high school, the state has advice for the new graduates on how to spot common scams that typically target young people. “Graduating from high school is a monumental milestone, but it also marks a time of major transitions that bad actors want to ...
America's longest current criminal prosecution is in its 15th year, on its fifth judge, and still has no trial date. The defendants are Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four alleged mass murder co-conspirators. Mohammed is the second person that the government has characterized as the ringleader of ...