Firefighters are taking advantage of a lull in the wind to make steady progress against the massive fires that have ravaged Los Angeles since Jan. 7. Officials are also easing evacuation orders and lifting curfews across the region as residents of burned neighborhoods return to face the damage. As of Saturday morning, the Palisades fire,…
Thousands of flights at three Texas airports were canceled on Tuesday amid a major storm that caused “extremely hazardous” travel conditions in the Houston region. An alert issued late Monday night by the Houston Airport System said, “To prioritize the safety of our passengers and staff, and due to extremely hazardous road conditions throughout Houston,…
A senior official with the Department of Homeland Security confirmed that President Donald Trump’s acting secretary of Homeland Security, Benjamine Huffman, fired the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard shortly after the start of Trump’s second administration. In a message sent to the U.S. Coast Guard workforce on Monday, Huffman announced that 61-year-old Adm. Linda…
A U.S. Border Patrol agent was reportedly shot and killed by an illegal immigrant during a traffic stop in Vermont on Monday shortly after President Donald Trump’s inauguration. In a post on X, formerly Twitter, NewsNation reporter Ali Bradley said sources indicated a Border Patrol agent was fatally shot on Monday by an illegal immigrant…
President Donald Trump issued pardons on Monday for over 1,500 individuals connected to the Capitol Hill protest on January 6, 2021, who had been prosecuted by former President Joe Biden’s Justice Department. As he was signing the executive order for the January 6 pardons, Trump was asked whether the January 6 protesters would be receiving…
Craig Watts, who once made a career of raising hundreds of thousands of chickens in North Carolina, knows the torment and the crushing financial stress that can come with the job. In the 1990s, he needed $400,000 in loans to build four chicken houses on his Robeson County farm. A decade later, Watts spent $100,000 to upgrade the…
If you’ve lost your home or business in this month’s wildfires, you can receive substantial relief on your property taxes now and in the future — whether you decide to rebuild or move. You will be able to reduce what you owe immediately and defer payment. Ultimately, you can retain the taxable value of your…
President Donald Trump vowed Monday to revert the name of Alaska’s 20,310-foot Denali, the tallest peak in North America, to Mount McKinley, reigniting a long-running dispute. “We will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley, to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs,” Trump said Monday after he was sworn…
President Donald Trump temporarily halted a ban on TikTok in the US, granting the company and its Chinese parent ByteDance Ltd. more time to reach a deal for the popular app that would resolve long-standing U.S. national security concerns. TikTok’s lifeline came via an executive order signed by Trump on Monday in one of his first acts after taking office. The…
Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., shot down rumors he plans to jump to the Republican Party after meeting with President Donald Trump. “It’s not going to happen,” Fetterman told Semafor on Monday night. “And even if I wanted to do that, that is a rocket sled to Palookaville to try to switch. I would make a pretty bad Republican.” Rumors have swirled…
