U.S. stocks rose on Tuesday and the S&P 500 was on track for a closing record after a flurry of economic data that included a reading of economic growth pushed bond yields higher and boosted growth names. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product increased at a 4.3% annualized rate...
US Supreme Court Rejects Trump’s Military Deployment in Chicago Area, for Now
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Tuesday to let Donald Trump send National Guard troops to the Chicago area as the Republican president expands the use of the military for domestic purposes in a growing number of Democratic-led jurisdictions, a policy critics call an effort to punish adversaries and stifle...
California Schools Will Have to Do More to Prevent Sex Abuse Under New Law
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Facing a mountain of lawsuits, California K-12 schools will have a system in place beginning this year to prevent teachers and other staff from sexually abusing students. A new California law creates an array of measures to educate...
Stephen Miller Cites Children of Immigrants as a Problem
WASHINGTON — When Stephen Miller, one of President Donald Trump’s top advisers, makes the case for the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, he is focused not only on the actions of those who came to the United States from another country. Increasingly, he blames their children as well. Miller’s belief...
Former US Senator Ben Sasse Announces He Has Terminal Cancer
Former U.S. Senator Ben Sasse, who also served as University of Florida president, announced on Tuesday he has been diagnosed with terminal pancreatic cancer. "This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I'll cut to the chase," Sasse, 53, said...
Will California’s New Guns Laws Make Us Safer? Or Violate 2nd Amendment?
With several new gun bills becoming law in California in 2026, gun rights advocates and gun control supporters have sharply different views on the reasoning behind the legislation and its effects. The new laws address how firearms are stored in homes, expand the list of banned guns, and streamline gun...
Wrong-Way Driver Killed in Solo Highway 99 Crash in Merced
A 68-year-old man was killed early Tuesday in a solo crash involving a wrong-way driver on Highway 99 in Merced, authorities said. The California Highway Patrol said the Merced Communications Center received reports at about 1:26 a.m. of a vehicle traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of Highway 99 north...
How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?
WASHINGTON — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency said it made more than 29,000 cuts to the federal government — slashing billion-dollar contracts, canceling thousands of grants and pushing out civil servants. But the group did not do what Musk said it would: reduce federal spending by $1 trillion before...
Russian Air Attack on Ukraine Kills Three and Sparks Sweeping Outages
Russian missile and drone attacks killed at least three Ukrainians including a child on Tuesday, triggering widespread emergency power cuts and prompting neighboring Poland to scramble jets. The attacks, days after another round of U.S.-led talks to end the nearly four-year-old war, hit energy facilities in western regions the hardest,...
Trump Says Anybody That Disagrees With Him Will Never Be Fed Chair
President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he wants the next chairman of the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates if the markets are doing well, adding that "anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman." — (Reporting by Jasper Ward in Washington, Editing by Bhargav Acharya)