Background checks associated with firearm sales rose 7.9 percent in October compared with the same month last year, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. The trade group counted 1,402,422 checks in the month before the midterm elections, up from 1,299,312 in October 2025.
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Michigan Gov.-elect Jocelyn Benson has appointed Benton Harbor Mayor Marcus Muhammad to her transition council, months after a national organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism removed him from its own advisory panel. Muhammad, a student minister in the Nation of Islam, has repeatedly defended Louis Farrakhan and credits the group’s leader with encouraging him to run
Hundreds of migrants, most of them Honduran, walked into Tapachula on Sunday
Schools in the Peach State are about to get a lot worse.
Democrat LaKesha Womack defeated Republican Rep. Tim Moore in North Carolina’s 14th Congressional District on Tuesday,
Progressive allies of Rep. Ro Khanna have launched a committee to build support for a possible
California voters appeared poised Wednesday to approve an $8.4 billion medical research bond that could direct
Two Senate races separated by narrow margins Wednesday morning could help determine whether Republicans have a
Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.), who finished second in this year’s Democratic Senate primary, withdrew her endorsement of Democratic nominee Abdul El-Sayed and backed Republican Mike Rogers in a
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Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) was hospitalized after suffering a stroke Saturday afternoon while attending his son’s hockey game, his chief of staff said Sunday. He is awake, alert
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A Pakistani crewman aboard the Honour 25 saw Somali pirates firing AK-47s at the tanker’s bulkhead. He ran from the engine room, pounding on cabin doors and shouting,
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was hospitalized Tuesday after suffering an acute allergic reaction, prompting a swift and heavily guarded medical response
A tiny Oxfordshire village is planning a symbolic referendum on whether to leave the United Kingdom and join the United States, an
On Monday, Sanders, an independent from Vermont, joined Representative Ro Khanna of California to introduce the Make Billionaires Pay Their Fair Share
A sonic boom rocked the DC area Sunday afternoon as fighter jets scrambled to intercept an unresponsive private plane that flew over
Federal agents executed search warrants Wednesday at the office of Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas, marking a dramatic escalation
A new CBS/YouGov poll released Tuesday captures a familiar pattern in American public opinion during wartime: broad support for decisive military action,
Gunfire shattered the early-morning calm on Austin’s famed Sixth Street just before 2 a.m. Sunday, when a lone gunman opened fire outside
War may be brewing in South Asia. On Wednesday, India took bold steps against its neighbor, Pakistan, after a deadly militant attack
The Florida Republican Party dropped its requirement for candidates to sign a loyalty pledge to qualify for the party’s 2024 primary ballot.
Joe Manchin loves keeping the political world on edge. The Hamlet of West Virginia, the senator and former governor of the Mountain
