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Newsom Signs California Law Banning Sales of Single-Use, Battery-Powered Vapes

California will ban the sale of single-use, battery-powered vapes to fight plastic pollution under a law signed Monday by Gov. Gavin Newsom.

Trump denies offering to sell U.S. arms to China at Xi summit

President Trump on Monday said he did not discuss an offer to sell U.S. weapons to China during the recent summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

After a chaotic weekend in the Trump-media standoff, it's now a wait-and-see game for networks

Is the standoff over between the White House and the nation's main broadcast networks? Not exactly.

Colombia issues lengthy sentences against ELN rebel leaders for recruiting children

A judge on Monday sentenced in absentia 11 commanders of Colombia's largest remaining rebel group to prison for recruiting 60 children as young as 8 into their ranks between 2004 and 2018.

Judge sets $5M bond for third man charged in death of Black woman whose body was later hung in tree

A Mississippi judge set a $5 million bond Monday for a third man charged in the death of a Black woman whose body was found hanging from a tree in August.

Trump can't force election changes by blocking counterterrorism funds to states, judge says

A federal judge on Monday blocked the authority of President Donald Trump's administration to withhold some federal counterterrorism funding from states that don't meet its election administration demands.

NASA ramps up support to get Boeing's astronaut capsule flying after Butch and Suni fiasco

NASA is throwing extra support and money behind Boeing's troubled astronaut capsule to get it fixed and flying again as soon as possible.

Justice Alito recuses from major climate-change case to be heard next week

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. will recuse himself when the Supreme Court hears a major climate change case next week.

Former 'American Idol' singer Caleb Flynn is on trial in wife's killing. He says a burglar did it

A former Ohio music pastor who once appeared on "American Idol" is on trial on charges that he killed his wife while having an affair more than a decade after gushing to TV viewers about how she encouraged him to chase his dreams on the singing competition.

Comer Winds Down Role Atop Panel That Exposed Fraud, Biden's Autopen and Epstein's Powerful Friends

Who knew the U.S. government loses up to $521 billion every year to fraud?

Contradicting Trump, Pope Leo says artificial intelligence safety concerns not 'fake news'

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that concerns about artificial intelligence going rogue are not 'fake news' and should be taken seriously, insisting that safety issues raised by AI experts should be discussed and acted on.

A new 'Last Supper'? Why America's defense tech boom may be slowing down

The bullet train of growth in the advanced defense tech sector may be slowing down, as a perfect storm in Washington, Silicon Valley and Wall Street could spark a wave of consolidation in an industry that until recently seemed poised for endless expansion.