The Global Update

Republican leaders in the Senate convinced Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to vote in favor of President Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” with a series of spending initiatives for her home state. Negotiations over the bill stretched on to the eleventh hour before the bill was passed on Tuesday, with Murkowski opposing the legislation until she…

The federal website created to host the U.S. national climate assessments, congressionally-mandated and peer-reviewed reports that cover the effects of climate change in the U.S. has been inaccessible so far this week. A Fox News Digital review found that the websites for the U.S. Global Change Research Program and the pages for the national assessments…

Amid busy streets scattered with pedestrians, stray dogs and the Mexican National Guard lies Nogales, Mexico, where local business owners deliberate on how the second Trump administration has affected crime, border security and more.  “Drug trafficking has been controlled a lot, there’s barely any now. It’s not like it used to be,” Filiberto, a Mexican…

President Donald Trump’s latest crusade against the media has focused on CNN and The New York Times, but journalists say they’re unfazed despite legal threats from the commander-in-chief.  Trump, who has a decades-long history of litigation that long predates his time in politics, has launched major lawsuits in the past year against CBS News, ABC…

When you think of quintessential American pastimes, right up there with apple pie and Little League Baseball are fundamentally wrong hot takes following closely watched political campaigns. Much ink has already been spilled covering Tuesday’s Democratic primary election in the Big Apple which saw Zohran Mamdani’s convincing win over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo. At one…

The Department of Homeland Security is pulling back the curtain on widespread abuse and exploitation of unaccompanied minors who crossed the U.S. border during the last administration and were placed with unvetted sponsors. DHS launched a national child welfare initiative in February to identify and locate at-risk kids who may have been placed with improperly…

Archaeologists in a historic city recently came across the remnants of an expansive medieval hospital. The discovery was announced by the City of York Council on June 9. The ancient remains were found in a “void,” or sinkhole, that had recently opened on the street of St Leonard’s Place in York in the United Kingdom….

There’s a phrase I keep hearing these days: TAKE THE WIN. It can be applied to anyone – Donald Trump, Chuck Schumer, AOC – who notches a victory and then insists on demanding more, however unrealistic that might be. What brings this to mind is an extraordinary essay by Andrew Sullivan in the New York…

A fireworks facility in Yolo County, California caught fire and exploded on Tuesday, according to fire officials. Fire crews responded to the blaze along County Road 23 and County Road 86A in Esparto, California, shortly before 6 p.m.  Evacuations were ordered in the area as crews continued to battle the blaze. It was still actively…

The House Rules Committee has teed up President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” for a chamber-wide vote Wednesday after a nearly 12-hour-long session debating the massive piece of legislation. It now heads to the entire chamber for consideration, where several Republicans have already signaled they’re concerned with various aspects of the measure. Just two Republicans…