President Donald Trump is making a major personnel move at the White House just weeks before the midterm elections, elevating longtime legal ally Will Scharf to serve as White House counsel.
Scharf, who had been serving as White House staff secretary, will replace David Warrington in one of the administration's most important legal posts as Republicans brace for a possible wave of Democratic investigations if control of Congress shifts.
Trump announced the move Saturday and made clear he has confidence in Scharf.
'I know Will well!' Trump wrote on social media on Saturday, praising him as 'tough, strong, and smart.'
Warrington is expected to leave the administration and return to the private sector.
Scharf, 40, has become one of Trump's most trusted legal hands and previously represented him in major personal legal battles, including the Supreme Court fight tied to Special Counsel Jack Smith's election interference case.
'Will Scharf will
CNN anchor Sara Sidner revealed Monday that she feared her breast cancer had returned after a recent scan appeared to show the disease had spread throughout her body.
The veteran journalist, who was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer in 2023 before announcing she was cancer-free in 2024, told viewers on "CNN News Central" that a recent PET scan delivered devastating news at first glance.
"It indicated I was likely metastatic, stage 4 cancer, incurable. It appeared to have spread to my hip, my spine, my liver, my lungs. I was inconsolable at the time," Sidner said.
She said the alarming results immediately sent her spiraling.
"I looked up, 'How long do I have to live?' The number came back, less than five years. It knocked the breath out of me, as you might imagine. Then I cried."
Doctors ordered a biopsy to determine whether the scan was accurate,
NBA legend Don Nelson, a five-time champion and one of the most influential coaches in basketball history, died Sunday at age 86.
Nelson's family announced that the Hall of Famer died peacefully while surrounded by loved ones.
"On Sunday morning our beloved husband, dad, grandfather and great-grandfather Don Nelson peacefully went to be with the Lord, surrounded by his loving family," his family said in a statement. "Throughout his last week, friends and family encircled him with love, sharing the blessing of his friendship and revisiting treasured memories."
Nelson leaves behind a remarkable basketball legacy that stretched from his championship years with the Boston Celtics to a coaching career that helped reshape the modern NBA.
After becoming an All-American at the University of Iowa, Nelson was selected with the No. 17 overall pick in the 1962 NBA Draft by the Chicago Zephyrs.
He later spent time with the Los
Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is facing fresh scrutiny after years-old writings resurfaced in which he blamed "toxic masculinity" for problems in American football and described racism, misogyny and homophobia as deeply embedded in the sport's culture.
The remarks came in a 2021 Substack post written after then-Las Vegas Raiders coach Jon Gruden resigned over emails containing racist, homophobic and misogynistic language.
"The toxic masculinity at the heart of America's most popular sport — and men's sports culture more generally — is way deeper than a few emails or a Jay-Z turnaround," El-Sayed wrote.
The comments are notable because El-Sayed spent years playing football himself.
He was a captain and two-year starter at Andover High School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, playing center on offense and nose guard on defense.
A 2002 newspaper preview listed him at 5-foot-8 and 205 pounds and identified him as one of three returning
President Donald Trump is urging the Senate to make daylight saving time permanent after the House overwhelmingly approved legislation that would end the twice-a-year ritual of changing clocks.
The House passed the Sunshine Protection Act in a bipartisan 308-117 vote back in July. The bill would keep clocks one hour ahead throughout the year, giving Americans later sunsets during the winter months while eliminating the "spring forward" and "fall back" time changes.
Despite clearing the House by a wide margin, the proposal has not yet received a vote in the Senate. Trump has personally pressed senators to approve the legislation, telling reporters in late July that he hoped the upper chamber would act.
"Hopefully the Senate's going to approve that one," Trump said.
Unless the Senate passes the bill and Trump signs it into law, Americans will still turn their clocks back one hour on November 1.
The Trump administration has revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals accused of committing crimes, violating visa requirements or threatening the safety of Americans, the State Department announced Monday.
The massive enforcement action represents another major step in President Donald Trump's effort to overhaul the immigration system and remove foreign nationals who abuse the privilege of entering the United States. The total has climbed sharply from January, when the department announced that more than 100,000 visas had been revoked since Trump returned to office.
Officials said the majority of the latest revocations followed encounters with law enforcement. Assault, driving under the influence, theft and drug crimes were identified as the most common reasons for losing a visa. Reckless driving, sexual assault, child abuse, fraud and embezzlement also accounted for a significant share of the cases.
"Under President Trump, the United States Department of State has revoked
Newly released text messages from Dr. Anthony Fauci's government-issued phone show the former White House COVID adviser privately discussing possible risks tied to mRNA vaccines in pregnant women, including a theoretical concern about miscarriage after the second dose.
The January 2021 exchange involved Fauci, then-CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Dr. Vivek Murthy, who later became President Joe Biden's surgeon general.
The messages were released Monday by Sens. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rand Paul, R-Ky., as part of their continuing review of Fauci's government communications.
Fauci noted that many people experienced significant cytokine-related symptoms and fever after receiving a second dose and said that reaction "theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the 1st trimester."
The disclosure is likely to fuel fresh scrutiny from Republicans who have spent years demanding more transparency about what federal health officials knew, when they knew it and how those uncertainties were communicated
A British radio worker mistakenly announced the death of King Charles III before panicking and fleeing the station after realizing the shocking message had gone out live over the airwaves.
The extraordinary mistake occurred during an afternoon broadcast of The Barry Marsh Show on Radio Caroline, a community station based in Essex, England. The incident unfolded on May 19 but received renewed attention Monday after Britain's communications regulator published the results of its investigation.
According to Ofcom, a staff member was performing maintenance on the station's main computer while the program's presenter broadcast remotely. During that work, the employee discovered three prerecorded audio files prepared for the eventual death of King Charles.
The files were accompanied by strict instructions and were only supposed to be used after the monarch's death had been officially confirmed. However, the employee reportedly played them "out of curiosity," apparently not realizing
Republican Paula Copenhaver pulled off a stunning comeback Monday after an Indiana recount erased incumbent State Sen. Spencer Deery's razor-thin primary victory, handing her the GOP nomination by three votes.
The Indiana Recount Commission formally certified Copenhaver as the winner after reviewing the District 23 race, finding she received 6,332 votes to Deery's 6,329. The outcome shifted after eight ballots that had originally been counted for Deery were rejected.
During the hearing, commission members said several ballots were thrown out because of "clerical errors" made by election officials.
The decision means the election was overturned months after Deery was initially declared the winner of the May 5 Republican primary by just three votes.
Copenhaver sought the recount on May 18, arguing that "illegal voting by unqualified voters" had undermined the integrity of the election after she narrowly lost to the first-term senator.
President Donald Trump signed a major executive order Monday calling for significant changes to the nation's childhood vaccination recommendations, including spacing out certain vaccines and giving parents and doctors greater flexibility over when children receive routine shots.
The order directs federal health officials to reassess the timing and sequencing of childhood vaccines and encourages administering vaccines individually rather than combining multiple immunizations during a single medical visit. Trump also called for the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, commonly known as MMR, to eventually be separated into three individual shots administered at different visits.
"Effective immediately, my administration is recognizing gold standard childhood vaccine recommendations for only 11 core vaccinations against the most serious and dangerous diseases, along with the MMR, which hopefully will be split up," Trump said during an Oval Office signing ceremony Monday.
The administration's plan builds on changes pursued by Health and Human Services
During a recent appearance on "The New Yorker Radio Hour" with editor David Remnick, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer completely blanked out when asked to explain her plan to "tax the hell out millionaires."
During a discussion on the organization's views on taxes and wealth redistribution, Remnick asked whether the organization believed millionaires should exist at all. "I'm less concerned about millionaires, more concerned about billionaires. I don't have like a hard line where you're good, or you're bad," Romer replied.
Remnick followed up by asking how much wealth is too much, to which Romer replied with. "Yeah, I think the question is less about how much is too much and more about what are you doing to keep and maintain and get that wealth in the first place? I think most billionaires got their wealth because they exploited the working class in
Francesca Hong, a self-identified Democratic Socialist who is widely favored to secure the Democratic Party nomination for governor of Wisconsin, attempted to blame a number of her controversial tweets on her youthful desire to become a sports journalist. Despite her attempted walk-back, Hong was serving as an elected official when a number of the most viral posts were made.
A number of the posts were made in 2020. "Cancel Thanksgiving. Should have done this in 1621," Hong posted in November of that year. She then claimed that the beloved holiday — which was established as a national holiday by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, in order to promote unity during the Civil War — is rooted in "genocide."
Around the same period, she referred to Thanksgiving as a "colonizer holiday" in another post. Separate posts from that timeframe also expressed critical views of
