For months, President Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth have celebrated tentative agreements with defense companies to expand production of Patriot air defense systems, Tomahawk cruise missiles and other weapons believed crucial for a war with China, Russia or North Korea. “Exquisite Class Weaponry,” the president said on Truth Social on March 6 after meeting…
One lesson of the Democratic Senate primary in Maine is that no one should underestimate the white-hot fury of the party’s voters. In October, Graham Platner’s insurgent campaign appeared doomed. Janet Mills, Maine’s Democratic governor, had just entered the Senate primary race, reportedly at the urging of Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader. Then a…
The Food and Drug Administration said on Friday that it would permit some patients with deadly pancreatic cancer to receive early access to a promising, highly coveted drug. The treatment, daraxonrasib, taken as three pills a day, is not yet approved for use. But many patients have been desperate to try it. The drug recently…
Ben SolakMay 1, 2026, 06:20 AM ET CloseBen Solak joined ESPN in 2024 as a national NFL analyst. He previously covered the NFL at The Ringer, Bleeding Green Nation and The Draft Network. Multiple Authors In nine months, some cheerful young player who was drafted in 2026 will be standing on the stage at the…
The monthly meeting in Lyon Township, a small town in southeast Michigan, was packed on a recent Monday, even though the main item on the agenda was an easement for a drain. Residents, holding notes and water bottles, lined up at the mic to talk about the actual issue on everybody’s minds: the proposed large-scale…
Leading up to this year’s Anzac Day, when Australia’s war dead are commemorated with a somber dawn service, several far-right, neo-Nazi-affiliated Telegram groups were abuzz with an action plan. It would be an act of “patriots,” carried out in “defense of one’s homeland,” the posts claimed. “Take a deep breath, the moment of action has…
Janet Mills, the 78-year-old two-term Democratic governor from Maine, did not want to run for Senate. But Senator Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat and minority leader, was dead set on her as his top recruit in a long-shot nationwide strategy for winning control of the Senate next year, long before there was any other…
Gov. Jeff Landry of Louisiana issued an executive order delaying House primary elections on Thursday, a day after the Supreme Court ruled Louisiana’s congressional map unconstitutional. He also requested that the legislature reconvene and pass new congressional maps. All other Louisiana races, including a hotly contested Senate primary, will continue, with early voting set to…
When Erika Rolo heard that the United States would restart direct commercial flights to Venezuela, she began obsessively checking the American Airlines website. For months, she saw nothing. Then, just over a week ago, Ms. Rolo, a Houston resident who was born in Venezuela, found one: American Airlines 3599 from Miami to Caracas. She pounced,…
For decades, Phoenix has struggled with smog that gets trapped in its bowl-like topography and is detrimental to human health. In 2024, when the city failed to meet a federal air pollution standard, it risked being hit with stricter rules designed to force more aggressive pollution limits. Then, President Trump returned to the White House….
