Susan Ferrechio

President Trump highlighted Chicago’s violent summer in a social media post made shortly after the dazzling July 4 fireworks display on the National Mall, comparing the city’s rising shootings to the Iran war.

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said Sunday the election of socialists in Democratic primaries will force the party “to have a battle over what we believe in.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed back Sunday against Vice President J.D. Vance’s veiled threat that the United States is Israel’s sole powerful ally “anywhere left in the entire world.”

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said Sunday that the renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool suffered “multiple gashes” to the industrial liner that add up to 350 feet of damage.

U.S. Senate candidate Mallory McMorrow dropped out of Michigan’s Democratic primary for U.S. Senate, likely helping consolidate support around the establishment’s pick, Rep. Haley Stevens.

A former Utah Valley University police officer testified Monday he heard a gunshot and saw Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk fall to the ground while engaging in a verbal exchange with students.

Prosecutors Monday began laying out their case against accused Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson in a Utah courtroom where they played graphic videos of the shooting, and heard testimony from a police officer who witnessed it and later discovered a sniper’s nest on the roof of a Utah Valley University building.

Prosecutors played video evidence Tuesday that they say shows Tyler Robinson perched on a Utah Valley University rooftop and fatally shooting Charlie Kirk before fleeing the scene.

Tyler Robinson, who Utah prosecutors say assassinated Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk, returned to his apartment after the shooting and told his roommate and romantic partner he “wished he hadn’t done it.”

It’s hard to imagine the federal government paying hunters to shoot and kill owls, but that’s exactly what has begun in the Pacific Northwest and California, where the destruction of up to 450,000 barred owls is underway in a desperate bid to save spotted owls.