34 min ago - WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on ... (Associated Press)

2 hrs ago - Dec. 31, 2025 Updated 4:22 p.m. ET A Georgia judge dismissed racketeering charges on Tuesday against dozens of activists who had fought the construction of a police and fire training center outside of Atlanta that became known as "Cop City," dealing ... (New York Times)

3 hrs ago - December 31, 2025 5:45 PM EST Updated 2 hours ago Dec 31 (Reuters) - A day after the U.S. deputy secretary of Health and Human Services announced on social media that federal childcare funds for Minnesota were being frozen, a spokesperson for the dep ... (Reuters)

3 hrs ago - By Tuesday, university students were involved and they had spread to several cities, with people chanting against the country's clerical rulers. The protests have been the most widespread since an uprising in 2022 sparked by the death in custody of M ... (BBC)

3 hrs ago - The Trump administration must return hundreds of California National Guard troops to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s control, a federal appellate court ruled on Wednesday. The troops were under the president’s command since he sent them to Los Angeles ... (NYT)

4 hrs ago - Published December 31, 2025 1:53PM (EST) President Donald Trump sent masseuses from his Mar-a-Lago resort to the home of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein for years, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. Per the report published on Tuesd ... (Salon)

5 hrs ago - Wednesday 31 December 2025 15:01 EST Marla Maples warned President Donald Trump that there was something “off” with Jeffrey Epstein years before the convicted sex offender was first arrested, according to a new report. Maples, who married T ... (The Independent)

5 hrs ago - Posted 12:59 PM, Dec 31, 2025 and last updated 1:07 PM, Dec 31, 2025 A new bill, if approved in the Ohio General Assembly, seeks to rename a two-mile stretch of I-70 in Columbus, Ohio, in honor of Donald Trump. The bill, co-sponsored by State Reps D. ... (Scripps News)

6 hrs ago - ADMINISTRATION Trump admin terminates lease with National Links Trust for DC golf courses BY DOMINICK MASTRANGELO - 12/31/25 2:14 PM ET President Trump's administration has terminated a lease agreement with the National Links Trust (NLT), the Washing ... (The Hill)

6 hrs ago - Dec 31st, 2025, 2:01 pm President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he expects construction of the “Triumphal Arch” he wants to build in Washington, D.C. to begin “sometime in the next two months.” The arch is one of several build ... (MEDIAite)

7 hrs ago - Updated 4:28 PM EST, December 31, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said he's dropping -- for now -- his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up ... (AP)

7 hrs ago - Wed 31 Dec 2025 13.18 EST First published on Wed 31 Dec 2025 09.39 EST The US justice department is believed to be reviewing more than 5m pages of documents relating to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein – an effort that is drawing resource ... (The Guardian)

7 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Dec 31, 2025, 9:16 AM ET Crew members aboard the aging, rusted oil tanker that the US has been pursuing at sea for nearly two weeks appear to have painted a crude image of a Russian flag on the ship’s hull, which American officials bel ... (CNN Politics)

8 hrs ago - POLITICS * 1 MIN READ House Judiciary Committee releases video and transcript of Jack Smith deposition PUBLISHED DEC 31, 2025, 2:43 PM ET By Hannah Rabinowitz, Tierney Sneed, Casey Gannon Jack Smith, right, is seen during his deposition in a still fr ... (CNN)

8 hrs ago - Holdings from the library at the Goddard Space Flight Center, which includes unique documents from the early 20th century to the Soviet space race, will be warehoused or thrown out. The Trump administration is closing NASA’s largest research lib ... (NYT)

9 hrs ago - Dec. 31, 2025, 11:47 AM EST Police departments and emergency management agencies across the U.S. boosted New Year's Eve security measures on Wednesday as revelers gathered to ring in 2026.The festivities are shadowed by the anniversary of an ISIS-ins ... (NBC News)

9 hrs ago - Venezuelan security forces have detained several Americans in the months since the Trump administration began a military and economic pressure campaign against the government of the South American nation, according to a U.S. official familiar with th ... (NYT)

10 hrs ago - December 31, 2025 / 6:15 AM EST A week after immigrant groups filed a lawsuit, California said Tuesday it will delay the revocations of 17,000 commercial driver's licenses until March to allow more time to ensure that truckers and bus drivers who leg ... (CBS News/AP)

10 hrs ago - Finnish police have detained a vessel suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland. The cargo vessel, the Fitburg, was sailing from St Petersburg to the port of Haifa in Israel, under th ... (BBC)

11 hrs ago - Published Dec 31, 2025 at 07:00 AM EST updated Dec 31, 2025 at 10:05 AM EST A tax strike rally has been planned in numerous locations around the U.S. on January 3. Posting on X and Facebook, multiple social media users have shared posters and images ... (Newsweek)