Pakistan and Afghanistan are in "open war" after the latest strikes between the two countries, Pakistan's defense minister says.
The two nations traded attacks Thursday, escalating tensions, after border clashes occurred in October, The according to the Associated Press.
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack said Friday that detained fighters were exchanged in Syria.
With the valued assistance of the @ICRC, 25 government fighters and 61 Druze fighters were exchanged yesterday in a smooth and orderly process. Families reunited. A step away from vengeance, and a step toward stability.
— Ambassador Tom Barrack (@USAMBTurkiye) February 27, 2026
The United States was honored to help facilitate this… https://t.co/oBzFpTUpQb
State lawmakers say physician assistants are leaving for Iowa because it takes so long to get licensed in Illinois.
Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation leaders discussed audit findings with members of the Legislative Audit Commission at the Illinois Capitol last week.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said that employees in her agency installed surveillance software on her phone and laptop, as well as the devices of other political officials.
Noem told Patrick Bet-David on the “PBD Podcast” on Thursday that Elon Musk and his team helped her discover unauthorized surveillance software embedded on government devices assigned to political appointees, the Daily Caller News Foundation reported.
Fraud investigations in Minnesota are heating up as state Republicans push for stricter oversight and accountability measures.
As part of that effort, they are highlighting the need for a statewide independent Office of the Inspector General.
Candidates vying for the Republican nomination to take on Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker lay out how they’d approach energy policy.
At Benedictine University Thursday evening in Lisle, three of the four candidates took part in a forum hosted by 560 WIND. On the issue of energy, DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick said Democrats’ focus on wind and solar is misguided.
Newly released internal memos, obtained through a lawsuit by Just the News and America First Legal, indicate that the federal government played a pivotal role in enabling Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis’ case against Donald Trump.
Most notably, the Biden White House waived executive privilege for Trump administration officials, allowing them to testify before a Georgia state grand jury—a significant departure from historical legal norms and providing key information for the case.
Louisiana lawmakers are moving quickly to put guardrails around artificial intelligence, with at least 18 bills filed or pending ahead of the 2026 regular session, beginning a broad push to regulate how the technology is used in criminal conduct, health care, political campaigns, consumer transactions and the workplace.
During his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, President Donald Trump announced a program to address concerns that data centers are driving up electricity costs.
“We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs. They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one's prices will go up, and in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community — and very substantially down,” Trump said.
Federal prosecutors have alleged that two Iranian-linked plots to assassinate then-candidate Donald Trump — both allegedly linked to Iranian intelligence services — were launched in 2024 as Iran sought to meddle in the election to stop Trump’s return to the White House, with one of the trials kicking off this week.
The newly released memos from the Fulton County District Attorney’s office provide the latest evidence that Joe Biden’s administration was at the center of trying to bog down his chief Republican rival, Donald Trump, by ensnaring him with federal and state level charges during the 2024 campaign, lawmakers and legal experts say.
As the White House prepares for a possible war with Iran in the event that nuclear negotiations fail, a majority of the public lack confidence in President Donald Trump's decision-making on military strikes, a recent survey revealed.
On the use of military force outside the U.S., just 27% of U.S. adults said they had a "great deal" or "quite a bit" of confidence in Trump to make the right decision, according to the latest AP-NORC survey. 17% had a moderate amount of trust in Trump while 56% had "only a little" or "not at all."
