Rihem Akkouche

A federal judge in Florida has ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to resume giving four Republican-led states access to an immigration database to check the citizenship status of people on their voter rolls, after another judge blocked it from continuing to use the database nationwide. U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II in A Florida federal judge ordered DHS to restore access to the SAVE immigration database for four Republican-led states, clashing with a DC ruling that had blocked nationwide use.

One of Mountain Mike’s Pizza’s biggest operators has filed for bankruptcy. While this popular pizza chain has recently opened dozens of new locations, the crust could not cover the costs for one franchisee. Last week, Rogue Fare LLC, which operates five Mountain Mike’s Pizza restaurants throughout the state of Oregon, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. A major Mountain Mike’s Pizza operator in Oregon has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, citing debts between $1 million and $10 million.

- President Donald Trump on Wednesday informed his Syrian counterpart Ahmed al-Sharaa that he had decided to remove the country from the U.S. list of designated state sponsors of terrorism. "I promised to remove all barriers stopping you from rebuilding your country, and very soon, you will finally be able to do so," Trump wrote in President Trump has informed Syrian leader Ahmed al-Sharaa that the US will remove Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, promising major investments and economic recovery.

Christine and Elmore Wonsley are not sleeping. They cannot. A week after their 18-year-old son left for a Fourth of July island trip with his friends and never came home, they sit with tightly clasped hands, wearing matching blue, holding onto each other and onto the faint, fading hope that someone — somewhere — holds Nolan Wells body found in Mississippi sparks investigation, racial tension and unanswered questions

Named for a hockey legend who won four Stanley Cups and skated through an entire era of greatness, the Gordie Howe International Bridge is finally ready to carry something more than symbolism across the Detroit River. The United States and Canada announced Friday they have resolved the dispute that delayed the bridge's launch, setting July Gordie Howe Bridge to open July 27 after US-Canada reach deal on tolls and profit sharing agreement

They came on a Friday evening, to the homes of journalists. Federal agents — not to the newsroom, not through the courts, but to the personal residences of four reporters — delivered subpoenas demanding that the journalists appear before a federal grand jury in Manhattan to answer for their reporting. The New York Times called NYT Air Force One subpoena issued to four reporters by DOJ over Qatar plane security story coverage

Oregon blinked — but it did not back down. The Oregon attorney general's office announced Friday it has withdrawn its court motion seeking to delay Paramount's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, a tactical retreat that the state framed not as surrender but as a strategic repositioning in a fight it intends to Oregon's Paramount deal delay motion withdrawn as state vows next steps in $110B Warner Bros merger

He had just returned from Ukraine. He had met with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday. He had spoken with President Donald Trump by phone, and by all accounts sounded well — perhaps a little tired, but well. Then, on Saturday evening, Senator Lindsey Graham was gone. The 71-year-old Republican senator from South Carolina Lindsey Graham death at 71 shocks Washington after senator returned from Kyiv just one day before

It started Saturday afternoon in the shadow of the Sierra Nevada mountains and moved the way wildfires move when they have nowhere to go but outward — fast, hungry, and indifferent to the efforts of the crews scrambling to stop it. The Elephant Fire, burning within the Tahoe National Forest east of the small mountain Elephant Fire Tahoe National Forest burns 2,300 acres at 5% containment near Loyalton Sierra County

Nearly three years after nearly 13,000 barrels of crude oil gushed into a Kansas creek and triggered one of the most significant environmental disasters in American pipeline history, the owner and operator of the Keystone Pipeline has agreed to pay more than $26 million to resolve violations of the Clean Water Act — with the Keystone pipeline $26M settlement filed after largest spill in pipeline history fouled Kansas creek