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Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to bring damaging winds, heavy rain and potentially life-threatening storm surge to the northern Gulf Coast when it makes landfall late Friday or early Saturday. The governors of Florida, Alabama and Georgia have declared states of emergency, along with several Mississippi counties. Thousands of National Guard soldiers are being deployed. According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias is now Category 3 storm with maxim

The projected path of Hurricane Isaias. National Weather Service/NOAA Hurricane Isaias, the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, is expected to strengthen as it approaches the northern Gulf Coast on Friday, bringing damaging winds, drenching rain and the possibility of life-threatening storm surge, prompting mandatory evacuation orders in Alabama and Florida. According to the National Hurricane Center, Isaias, now a Category 2 storm, is forecast to make landfall late Friday or early Saturday

By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to the mayor, city police and eyewitness accounts. Early reports indicate agents surrounded (the man) and a 5-year-old-child in his car before firing multiple rounds, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement. The mayor said the child was believed to ha

WASHINGTON (AP) The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being public. The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009. Hegse

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier returns to the San Diego Bay after deployment Thursday, Oct. 8, 2026, in San Diego. | Jae C. Hong Home is the sailor, home from sea. Robert Louis Stevenson penned that line almost 150 years ago but on Thursday, those words read sweet and new to thousands of sailors and Marines aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln. After an almost 11-month deployment to the Middle East, the sea-weary aircraft carrier arrived at its homeport at San Diegos Naval Air Station North

By Jan Wolfe and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Democratic Party officials sued US President Donald Trump on Wednesday, seeking a court order blocking his administration from using taxpayer money to pay for election-related TV ads. The lawsuit, filed by the Democratic National Committee in federal court in Washington, accused Trump of a blatant violation of the statutory ban on the use of appropriations for 'publicity or propaganda purposes.' Taxpayer-funded television ads glorif

Nidal Hasan, who was sentenced to death for the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, will be executed by firing squad on Dec. 3, according to a memo from the acting Army secretary. The execution, the first carried out by the U.S. military in more than 60 years, is scheduled for 1 p.m. CT, according to the memo issued Tuesday by acting Army Secretary Adam Telle. The Pentagon announced Monday that Hasan would be executed by firing squad after President Donald Trump approved the decision Friday.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a press conference at the House of Collections in Reykjavik, Iceland, on October 6, 2026. - Mark Schiefelbein/Pool/AFP/Getty Images The Trump administration is struggling to get clear answers about the death of a Russian laboratory worker at an institute dedicated to studying the plague, amid days of stonewalling from Russian officials about the mysterious circumstances surrounding the episode. The death of the technician at the Irkutsk Research Anti-