The U.S. military killed six people in a strike on another boat in the Caribbean, alleged to be carrying narcotics, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Oct. 24.

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Government shutdowns have become a recurring feature of US politics, the product of partisan standoffs over spending that force federal agencies to halt a wide range of services. The latest shutdown — the third under President Donald Trump across his two terms — began at midnight on Oct.

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group is being deployed to continue targeting suspected drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean, the Pentagon said Friday.

Rabbis across the U.S. signed onto the letter decrying Mamdani's rhetoric on Israel and Zionism. Here's what they said.

U.S. consumer prices rose 3% in the year ending September, the highest inflation rate since January, as tariff impacts remain unclear.

Republicans in Louisiana's congressional delegation are writing to DHS after a suspected Oct. 7 terrorist was arrested in their state after entering the U.S. over a year earlier.

Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked US political circles this month, revealing racist, antisemitic and violent statements from figures across the ideological spectrum.

That follows a more than two-hour phone call between the two leaders on Thursday, US time. The aim, Mr Trump said, was “to see if we can bring this ‘inglorious’ war,” to an end. The last time the pair met,

The Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, John Reid, staged a debate with AI reading lines his campaign wrote for his opponent, Ghazala Hashmi. Is AI here to stay in Virginia politics?