Today is Thursday, Oct. 23, the 296th day of 2025. There are 69 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1983, 241 U.S. service members, most of them Marines, were killed in a suicide truck-bombing at the U.S. Marine Corps barracks at Beirut International Airport in Lebanon, while a ...

What do you do when voters have rejected your party’s policies and the losers have nothing new to offer? Answer: You stage large demonstrations that include name calling (this from Democrats who have called for “lowering” the rhetorical temperature). Anyone who believes last ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Head Start programs for preschoolers nationwide are scrambling for federal funds. The federal agency tasked with overseeing the U.S. nuclear stockpile has begun furloughing its 1,400 employees. Thousands more federal workers are going without paychecks. But as President ...

Today is Wednesday, Oct. 22, the 295th day of 2025. There are 70 days left in the year. Today in history: In 2012, cyclist Lance Armstrong was formally stripped of his seven Tour de France victories and received a lifetime ban from Olympic sports after the International Cycling Union chose ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a quick study in the art of laying it on thick, announced that he was teaming up with Israel's Knesset speaker to invite parliamentary leaders from around the world to jointly nominate Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize — and for nothing less than inaugurating "a new ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether people who regularly smoke marijuana can legally own guns, the latest firearm case to come before the court since its 2022 decision expanding gun rights. President Donald Trump's administration asked the justices to ...