Kent Nishimura/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Senate on Thursday passed a short-term funding bill that averts a partial government shutdown that was expected late Friday night. The final vote tally was 77-13. The measure now heads to the president’s desk. The new funding deadlines for the government spending bills areRead More →

Raul Rubiera/Miami Herald/Tribune News Service via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former U.S. ambassador charged with spying for Cuban intelligence over a more than four-decade span told a judge Thursday he plans to plead guilty in his case, according to court records. Manuel Rocha, who rose through the ranks ofRead More →

Michael Gonzalez/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Donald Trump has made immigration a central campaign message and spent nearly every appearance on the trail talking about the issue while touting what he would do about it should he win another term. Both he and President Joe Biden are making competingRead More →

KOAT (SANTA FE, N.M) — David Halls, the first assistant director for “Rust,” gave emotional testimony Thursday about the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during the involuntary manslaughter trial of armorer Hannah Gutierrez. Actor Alec Baldwin was practicing a cross-draw in a church on the set of the Western movieRead More →

Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two of Donald Trump’s criminal cases face a key inflection point on Friday, as judges in Florida and Georgia weigh plans for the historic trials of the former president. In Florida, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon is set to consider moving the May 20 trialRead More →

@VolusiaSheriff/X (ORMOND BEACH, Fla.) — Florida authorities said they believe they’ve recovered the remains of a 16-year-old girl who vanished in 2004 in a mystery that took almost two decades to unravel. Detectives investigating the disappearance of Autumn Lane McClure found the remains while excavating her suspected burial site onRead More →