Beef is up 5.5% this year. Sugar and sweets are up 6.7%. Coffee prices are climbing fast enough that your morning cup costs noticeably more than it did in January. The USDA projects food prices will rise 3.1% in 2026. Gas just hit $3.70 a…
The Obama Foundation is looking for 100 unpaid volunteers to staff the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago when it opens in June, asking ordinary citizens to donate their labor at an $850 million campus led by a CEO who pulled in $740,000 last year. The…
A Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled Thursday that Missouri's redrawn congressional map does not violate the state's constitution, clearing a major legal hurdle for a plan that could hand Republicans up to seven of the state's congressional districts heading into the midterms. Judge Adam…
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez traveled nearly 200 miles north of her Queens base Sunday night to headline a town hall in downtown Glens Falls, planting her flag in the heart of New York's 21st Congressional District. The seat, which stretches from the Canadian border to the Mohawk…
The US Embassy in Baghdad issued a security alert warning all Americans inside Iraq to leave the country "immediately," citing escalating attacks by Iran-aligned terrorist militias that have struck targets including the embassy's own helipad. A missile hit the helipad at the US Embassy compound…
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's campaign shelled out more than $2,000 in campaign funds to The Only Agency, a celebrity makeup outfit whose client roster includes supermodel Bella Hadid and rapper Bad Bunny, according to a New York Post examination of federal election records. The payments broke…
A suspect wanted for impersonating a law enforcement officer was shot and killed in a SWAT standoff Wednesday night after barricading himself inside a vehicle in the parking garage of Children's Medical Center Dallas, then exiting and pointing a gun at officers. No officers were…
Samuel Ramirez Jr. lasted one hour and thirteen minutes on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. That's all it took. On March 10, authorities captured Ramirez in Culiacán, Sinaloa, Mexico, without incident, then deported him to Washington state, where he faces murder charges for a…
The United States bombed every military target on Iran's Kharg Island on Friday night, striking the nerve center of the Islamic Republic's oil export apparatus in what President Trump called "one of the most powerful bombing raids in the History of the Middle East." The…
Jürgen Habermas, one of Germany's most influential postwar philosophers and the last surviving representative of the Frankfurt School, died on Saturday in the Bavarian town of Starnberg, according to his publishing house, Suhrkamp. He was 96. Habermas built an international reputation on his work in…
The White House is moving forward with plans to build a 33,000-square-foot underground security screening facility for visitors, complete with a new seven-lane entrance, as part of President Donald Trump's broader renovation of the White House campus. The plans were sent on Friday to the…
Democratic Rep. Sara Jacobs, granddaughter of Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs, has funneled more than $200,000 of her family's vast fortune into the political career of her boyfriend, Ammar Campa-Najjar. The problem: he keeps losing. Three failed campaigns. A history of position changes that would give…
"Southern Hospitality" star Grace Lilly was arrested Tuesday on possession of a controlled substance, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ. It marks her second arrest in roughly three months. Lilly has already been released from custody. The specific substance involved has not been identified,…
Kennedy Center President Ric Grenell will step down from his position overseeing the national cultural center, with Matt Floca, the vice president of facilities at the Kennedy Center, set to take over. President Trump announced the transition on Truth Social, framing it as the next…
