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A Delta Air Lines flight traveling from Salt Lake City, Utah, to Amsterdam was forced to make an emergency landing in Minneapolis after encountering severe turbulence that left 25 people injured, the airline and authorities confirmed.

In a development that could reshape the historical understanding of the Trump-Russia investigation, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Thursday released the long-classified appendix to Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report. Known as the “Durham annex,” the newly public document reveals extensive intelligence pointing to a Clinton campaign-backed scheme to falsely link Donald Trump to Russia, and a disturbing pattern of inaction and political bias within the FBI and intelligence community under the Obama administration.

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly rejected two resolutions Wednesday that sought to block arms sales to Israel, as lawmakers debated America’s ongoing support for its closest ally in the Middle East amid growing concerns over civilian casualties in Gaza.

FBI Director Kash Patel has uncovered thousands of sensitive documents tied to the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation hidden inside multiple “burn bags” stored in a previously undisclosed secure room at FBI headquarters, Fox News Digital reports.

In a closely watched decision Wednesday, the Federal Reserve voted to hold interest rates steady for the fifth consecutive meeting, keeping its benchmark federal funds rate in a range of 4.25% to 4.5%. The 9-2 vote revealed rare dissent within the Fed’s leadership, as two Trump-appointed governors–Michelle Bowman and Christopher Waller–called for an immediate rate cut, citing risks to the labor market and signs of cooling inflation.

The U.S. economy surged past forecasts in the second quarter of 2025, growing at a robust 3% annualized rate, according to new data released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The figure marks the strongest performance since Q3 2024, when GDP rose 3.1%, and significantly exceeds Wall Street’s consensus estimate of 2.5%.

President Donald Trump’s allies are doubling down on investigations into members of the Obama administration, with two Republican lawmakers calling for a deeper investigation into former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “email controversy.”

Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite and convicted sex trafficker linked to the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn her conviction, arguing that she was protected under a non-prosecution deal Epstein reached with federal prosecutors more than a decade ago.

New data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration shows that while some progress has been made in reducing mental illness and substance abuse, 86.6 million Americans aged 18 and older had either a mental illness or substance use disorder in 2024.

A federal judge in Massachusetts said the federal government must continue to provide funds to Planned Parenthood through Medicaid on Monday.

In a major development with far-reaching political implications, CIA Director John Ratcliffe revealed Sunday that newly declassified intelligence will expose the FBI’s active role in promoting the now-debunked Steele dossier and fueling false claims of Trump-Russia collusion ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino issued a bombshell announcement on Saturday, revealing that recent findings from ongoing federal investigations into public corruption and the weaponization of government have left him “shocked to [his] core.”

As Congress heads into August, conflicts and scandals are poised to derail a seemingly quiet end to the summer in Washington, with the investigations into and debates about former President Joe Biden’s mental decline, Jeffrey Epstein and Russiagate just heating up.

With the southern border crisis largely eliminated, Republicans and the Trump administration are setting their sights on China as the next major threat to U.S. domestic security.

Despite weeks of vocal demands for transparency surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case, Senate Democrats on Wednesday blocked a Republican-led resolution that would have unsealed all court documents related to the late sex offender and his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell.

In a landmark decision hailed by health advocates and parents alike, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. signed a formal policy Tuesday adopting new CDC recommendations to remove the mercury-based preservative thimerosal from all influenza vaccines distributed in the United States.

The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell for the sixth straight week, underscoring the continued resilience of the U.S. labor market. Yet behind the encouraging headline, economists warn that the broader employment picture is showing signs of softening.

A federal judge in Florida on Wednesday rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to unseal grand jury transcripts from a 2005-2007 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, marking a setback in President Donald Trump’s push for greater transparency in the high-profile sex trafficking case.

In a sweeping move to stake America’s claim in the global artificial intelligence arms race, President Donald Trump on Wednesday unveiled a comprehensive AI strategy aimed at deregulating the industry, accelerating innovation, and asserting international leadership–firmly casting the United States as the future epicenter of AI advancement.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and several Republican cosponsors, introduced the Stop Financial Underwriting of Nefarious Demonstrations and Extremist Riots (Stop FUNDERs) Act to hold accountable financiers of rioters and vandals.