2 hrs ago - Ballroom security money nixed by Senate parliamentarian Republicans proposed sending $1 billion to the Secret Service, with some to be used on the controversial White House project. Artist renderings of the new White House East Wing and Ballroom are ... (Politico)

4 hrs ago - Travis Gettys May 16, 2026 4:11PM ET ............... Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude to Chinese ... (raw story)

4 hrs ago - Sat 16 May 2026 09.02 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 09.19 EDT Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters ... (The Guardian)

5 hrs ago - Updated 7:49 AM EDT, May 16, 2026 VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence, the Vatican said Saturday, as he gears up to release his first encyclical that is expected to emphasize the need for an ethi ... (AP)

6 hrs ago - 6h (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse, even as the Iran war stokes concerns about global oil supplies and higher fuel costs. The expiration effectively ends for now a brief per ... (msn/Bloomberg)

6 hrs ago - Saturday 16 May 2026 06:43 EDT Donald Trump has doubled down on his remark about not considering the financial plight of everyday Americans when considering foreign policy, saying that what he had said was a “perfect statement.”. “I
... (The Independent)

6 hrs ago - By Garrett Behanna May 16, 2026 / 6:16 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh Frontline healthcare workers at Butler Memorial Hospital overwhelmingly approved their first union contract on Friday, avoiding a planned strike that was scheduled to begin. The three-yea ... (CBS News)

7 hrs ago - May 16th, 2026, 8:22 am Pete Hegseth has drawn the right D.C. Circuit panel for seeking deference to his "considered national-security judgment" in the coming week, but the so-called "WOKE" AI developer he designated a "supply-chain risk" says the d ... (Law & Crime)

7 hrs ago - Sarah Clifton, Sarah D. Wire and Jeanine Santucci, Updated Sat, May 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT SELMA, AL ‒ Over 60 years ago, on the March 1965 day dubbed "Bloody Sunday," the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was filled with a crescendo of ... (yahoo.com)

7 hrs ago - 9h Farmers across the Midwest are entering planting season under mounting financial pressure, as the Iran conflict drives up diesel and fertilizer prices — deepening an agricultural downturn that some say is the worst since the crisis of the 198 ... (msn/Axios)

7 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 11:12 AM ET By The Associated Press BERLIN (AP) -- A humpback whale found dead this week off a Danish island has been identified as the animal released two weeks ago in a spectacular and controversial rescue effort after repeatedly bec ... (npr)

8 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 7:49AM ET House Republicans have felt more optimistic about the midterm elections in recent weeks following a series of legal victories that have facilitated a gerrymandering blitz in GOP-controlled states, but behind closed doors, the l ... (Raw Story)

8 hrs ago - Taiwan has insisted it is a sovereign, independent nation, after US President Donald Trump cautioned it against formally declaring independence from China. Trump's remarks came after a two-day summit in Beijing, after which he said he had "made no co ... (BBC)

9 hrs ago - Sat 16 May 2026 07.00 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 07.01 EDT At a time when viewers are fleeing traditional television shows, the CBS Sunday newsmagazine 60 Minutes remains in a class of its own. The 12 April episode, which featured Pope Leo ... (The Guardian)

9 hrs ago - May. 16, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT The Supreme Court ruling came down on a Tuesday. One day later, more than 50 of the most prominent Black leaders in the country gathered at the AFL-CIO headquarters in Washington, with nearly 100 more joining by video for w ... (MS NOW News)

10 hrs ago - Updated May 16 2026 4:10AM EDT Published May 15 2026 6:20PM EDT Conservative Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has rebuffed calls to recuse himself from a major looming decision. A coalition of liberal groups asked the Senate Judiciary Committee t ... (Daily Beast)

11 hrs ago - May 16, 2026, at 5:07 a.m FREETOWN, May 16 (Reuters) - Sierra ⁠Leone ⁠has agreed to take in hundreds ⁠of West African migrants who are being deported by the United States, its ​foreign minister told Reuters, the latest such de ... (US News & World Report/Reuters)

12 hrs ago - PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 5:00 AM ET Marco, 26, graduated from one of the country’s top medical schools last week. He found his calling after witnessing his grandmother battle cancer, and he sometimes worked up to 40 to 60 hours a week to afford h ... (CNN Business)

13 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 3:53 AM EDT Updated 6 hours ago BAGHDAD, May 16 (Reuters) - Iraq exported 10 million barrels of oil via the Strait of Hormuz in April, down from about 93 million ​barrels monthly before the Iran war, the country's new oil minister, ... (Reuters)

14 hrs ago - 05/16/2026 10:00 AM EDT Midwest Republicans say they need Vice President JD Vance to visit their states ahead of the midterms to juice voter turnout amid an unpopular war in Iran and anxiety about the rising cost of living. Vance is “definitely ... (Politico)