Nation and World Politics
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Supreme Court upholds Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing pornography online
Jun 27, 2025 7:13 pm - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children from seeing online pornography. Nearly half the states have passed similar laws req...
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Trump says he’s ending trade talks with Canada over its ‘egregious Tax’ on technology firms
Jun 27, 2025 3:42 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s suspending trade talks with Canada over its plans to continue with its tax on technology firms, which he called ...
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RFK Jr. made promises about vaccines. Here’s what he’s done as health secretary
Jun 27, 2025 3:28 pm - During his Senate confirmation hearings, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. suggested he wouldn’t undermine vaccines. “I am not going to go into HHS and impose my pre...
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Supreme Court preserves key part of Obamacare coverage requirements
Jun 27, 2025 10:14 am - The Supreme Court preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements on Friday, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects some 150 million Americans.
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Supreme Court says Maryland parents can pull their kids from public school lessons using LGBTQ books
Jun 27, 2025 10:07 am - The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks.
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An Israeli strike kills 18 Palestinians in central Gaza as turmoil mounts over food distribution
Jun 27, 2025 9:37 am - An Israeli strike hit a street in central Gaza on Thursday where witnesses said a crowd of people was getting bags of flour from a Palestinian police unit that had confiscated the goods from gangs looting aid convoys. Hospital officials said 18 people were killed.
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Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear
Jun 27, 2025 9:23 am - A united conservative majority of the Supreme Court ruled Friday that federal judges lack the authority to grant nationwide injunctions, but the decision left unclear whether President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship could soon take effect in parts of the country.
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Trump says US has signed a deal with China on trade, without giving details
Jun 27, 2025 9:15 am - The U.S. and China have signed an agreement on trade, President Donald Trump said, adding he expects to soon have a deal with India.
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Iran’s top diplomat says talks with US ‘complicated’ by American strike on nuclear sites
Jun 27, 2025 8:38 am - Iran's top diplomat said the possibility of new negotiations with the United States on his country's nuclear program has been “complicated” by the American attack on three of the sites, which he conceded caused “serious damage."
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Pardon applications are being carefully crafted with one man in mind: Donald Trump
Jun 27, 2025 8:35 am - Pounding away on a prison typewriter, Chad Scott seemed worlds apart from President Donald Trump.