The U.S. Senate voted late on Friday night to approve the reauthorization of a controversial surveillance program, narrowly missing the midnight expiration of the program.The reauthorization secures what supporters call a key element of the United States’ foreign intelligence gathering operation....

   The University of Southern California announced there will be no outside speakers and honorees at this year’s main commencement ceremony after canceling its valedictorian speech from a Muslim student who said she was silenced by anti Palestinian hatred. Given the highly publicized circumstances...

   A man set himself on fire on Friday outside the New York courthouse where Donald Trump’s historic hush money trial was taking place as jury selection wrapped up, but officials said he did not appear to have been targeting Trump.The man burned for several minutes in full view of television cameras...

   The U.S. military’s success helping Israel stop a massive wave of Iranian missiles and drones last weekend might suggest Washington is well prepared militarily for whatever comes next as Iran and Israel move from shadow warfare to direct confrontation.But current and former U.S. officials say U.S....

   Gunfire broke out at a park in Greenbelt, Maryland, where hundreds of high school students had gathered while skipping school on Friday, wounding five males aged to , police said.One victim was in critical condition and the others were in stable condition, Greenbelt Police Chief Richard Bowers...

   The U.S. House of Representatives advanced a billion legislative package on Friday providing aid to Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific in a broad bipartisan vote, overcoming hardline Republican opposition that had held it up for months.Friday’s procedural vote, which passed with more...

   California prosecutors announced involuntary manslaughter charges against three police officers for the death of a man in their custody, reversing the outcome of a previous investigation that had cleared the officers.The officers in Alameda, California, pinned Mario Gonzalez, , to the ground...

   The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on an ally of Israel’s far right national security minister and two entities that raised money for Israeli men accused of settler violence, the latest actions aimed against those Washington blames for an escalation of violence in the Israeli occupied...

   The U.S. Department of Agriculture said this week that cow to cow transmission is a factor in the spread of bird flu in dairy herds, but it still does not know exactly how the virus is being moved around.Farmers and veterinarians have been waiting for confirmation on how the virus is transmitted to...

   Wells Fargo WFC.N was accused of sex discrimination in a lawsuit by a bond saleswoman who said the fourth largest U.S. bank denied pay and promotions available to men and tolerated an unapologetically sexist workplace.The complaint filed on Friday in federal court in Chicago by Michal Leavitt...

   Donald Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee launched a program on Friday to combat voter fraud in the lead up to the November election, even as voting irregularities have proven extremely rare in the United States.The RNC and the Trump campaign said they were preparing to deploy...

   Russian missiles hit the port of Pivdennyi in Ukraine’s southern Odesa region on Friday, destroying grain storage facilities and foodstuffs they contained, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other officials said. ... they hit the Sea Port Pivdennyi. Several missiles struck port facilities, not only...

   The role Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate, Nicole Shanahan, will play in his White House bid is coming into focus, as the wealthy lawyer injects millions of dollars into their independent campaign and amplifies their stances on social media.Shanahan, a political neophyte tapped in March to be...

   The Biden administration took steps on Friday to limit both oil and gas drilling and mining in Alaska, angering state officials who said the restrictions will cost jobs and make the U.S. reliant on foreign resources, but pleasing environmentalists.The measures are aligned with President Joe Biden’s...

   A person was covered in flames outside the New York courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial is underway, CNN reported on Friday.Representatives for New York’s fire and police departments as well as the mayor’s office could not be immediately reached for comment...

   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated two of the most commonly used forever chemicals as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law, in a bid to clean up properties across the United States that are contaminated with the toxic compounds.The highly anticipated rule will...

   This April story has been refiled to correct the day of arrest to Thursday, not Wednesday, in paragraph More than pro Palestinian protesters were arrested on Thursday on the campus of Columbia University after its president authorized New York police to clear an encampment set up by...

   Russell Bentley, a U.S. national, has died in the Russian controlled city of Donetsk in Ukraine, Margarita Simonyan, head of Russia’s state media outlet RT, wrote on Telegram on Friday.Simonyan said Bentley had been fighting there for our guys and working with Russia’s Sputnik news service. She...

   The United States will unveil in the coming days guidelines for the use of carbon offsets inside and outside of government to build confidence in the market and ensure credits reflect real emissions cuts, the top U.S. climate diplomat said on Friday.It follows a move by the State Department,...

   The Biden administration’s threat to impose more tariffs on China is the latest election year signal that frostier relations with China are likely to follow regardless of who wins the U.S. presidency.U.S. President Joe Biden traveled to the battleground state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday to call...

   U.S. lawmakers have tucked sanctions on Iran’s oil exports in the House of Representatives’ aid package for Ukraine, Israel and the Indo Pacific after Tehran’s missile and drone strike on Israel last weekend.If passed through both the House and Senate and signed by President Joe Biden and then...

   The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated a pair of widely used industrial chemicals as hazardous substances under the country’s Superfund program, accelerating a crackdown on toxic compounds known as forever chemicals. The rule will require companies to report leaks of two of...

   A Michigan regulator said this week it is seeking public comment on a proposed permit that would allow Marathon Petroleum MPC.N to boost crude throughput at its Detroit refinery.Marathon filed an application with the state in March to run its , barrel per day refinery continuously at full...

   U.S. gun manufacturers on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their challenge to Mexico’s billion lawsuit seeking to hold them responsible for facilitating the trafficking of firearms to violent drug cartels across the U.S. Mexico border.Eight companies including Smith Wesson Brands...

   The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration will require hours off between shifts for air traffic controllers, and hours off before a midnight shift, effective in days, the agency’s head said on Friday. In my first few months at the helm of the FAA, I toured air traffic control facilities...

   At Donald Trump’s criminal trial, there is no dispute about a central underlying fact: the month before the presidential election, his personal lawyer and fixer paid a porn star for her silence about an alleged sexual encounter with Trump.Legal experts say the outcome of the first ever trial...

   Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is using his hush money trial to squeeze his loyal army of small donors and personally lobby major backers as he scrambles to reduce a major fundraising disadvantage with Democratic President Joe Biden.His campaign has been firing off daily,...

   China is developing the ability to physically wreak havoc on U.S. critical infrastructure and its hackers are waiting for just the right moment to deal a devastating blow , FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday.The comments were in relation to a Chinese government linked hacking...

   U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken repeatedly declined to confirm a reported Israeli attack on Iran on Friday, saying Washington has not been involved in any offensive operations and it was committed to de escalating tensions in the region. I’m not going to speak to that except to say that the...

   A senior figure in Japan’s ruling party will travel to New York next week and is seeking a meeting with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, according to public broadcaster NHK.Taro Aso, a former prime minister who currently serves as vice president of the Liberal Democratic Party, will...