The Global Update

Idaho student killer Bryan Kohberger’s former friends from Pennsylvania and a classmate at Washington State University are baffled that the man they knew to be quiet and awkward pleaded guilty in the mass murder case that rocked the nation. Kohberger, a former WSU criminology Ph.D. student, pleaded guilty on July 2 to killing four University…

The House Democrats’ campaign arm on Monday announced it’s going up with digital ads targeting GOP lawmakers over their support for the sweeping Republican-crafted domestic policy package. The move comes three days after President Donald Trump signed into law what he and Republicans call the “big, beautiful bill.” The ads, backed by a modest buy,…

During a bloody Fourth of July weekend, more than 50 people were shot and six killed in Chicago, a notorious hot spot for violent crime.  Several mass shootings and drive-by shootings accounted for the violence that occurred between midnight on Thursday, July 3, and Sunday night, according to ABC 7, which tracked the violence.  On…

President Donald Trump’s 25th week back in the Oval Office in his second term is expected to include a trip to Texas to survey the tragedy and damage imposed after floodwaters devastated Hill Country, a third White House meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and ongoing tariff negotiations.  Trump announced Sunday that he signed…

Your personal data is a highly valuable commodity. Companies often treat it like a resource to be mined and traded. In practice, this means that everything you do on the Internet, what you search, what you click, where you shop, feeds a vast industry. Many people feel they have little control over this. In fact,…

California Gov. Gavin Newsom heads to South Carolina this week to spend two days meeting with voters in the state that officially held the first primary in the Democrats’ 2024 calendar. The trip by the term-limited governor with a large national profile is sure to spark plenty of 2028 speculation, since Newsom is considered a…

It didn’t grab many national headlines, but the decision by the Wisconsin Supreme Court not to hear two lawsuits aiming to redraw the battleground state’s eight congressional districts may have a sizable impact on the 2026 midterm elections. The liberal-majority court late last month, without explanation, refused to hear challenges brought by Democrats seeking to…

Justice Department lawyers and attorneys for Salvadoran migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia will square off in court Monday as a federal judge in Maryland weighs a flurry of motions over his U.S. custody – and the Trump administration pushes to dismiss the civil case entirely – in a closely watched legal battle that’s become a flashpoint…