The Supreme Court on Tuesday considered whether the Biden administration's restrictions on homemade firearms are consistent with the Gun Control Act (GCA) of 1968. As with the Trump administration's ban on bump stocks, which the Court rejected in June, the issue is not whether the rule violates the Second Amendment but whether it exceeds the authority that Congress gave the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). Unlike in that case, however, most of the justices seem...

An ethics complaint filed against a Democrat candidate in a critical U.S. Congressional race in Oregon alleges that she engaged in a “willful coverup of a sexual assault of a minor” who volunteered with one of her previous campaigns, something her current campaign denies. The bombshell complaint against State Rep. Janelle Bynum (D), the Democrat nominee in Oregon’s Fifth U.S. Congressional District who party leaders like House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) have helped prop up, came to...

President Joe Biden postponed his trip to Germany and Angola Tuesday to oversee the response to Hurricane Milton, which is heading toward Florida just days after Hurricane Helene ravaged the southeastern United States. Patsy Widakuswara reports. Jose Pernalete contributed to this report.

Sirius XM radio host Howard Stern suggested Tuesday there would be a climate catastrophe if Vice President Kamala Harris did not win the 2024 election. During an hour-long live interview with the Democratic presidential candidate, Stern repeatedly ripped into Harris' opponent, former President Trump, and expressed disbelief that anyone would vote for him. At one point, he claimed the sun would "go out" if Trump was re-elected. "With all this pressure on you right now, and you've got to win, you...

You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading. John Morales, who has forecast weather for decades, went viral after choking up on air while discussing Hurricane Milton. John Morales, one of South Florida’s longest running meteorologists, was delivering his weathercast for WTVJ/NBC6 in Miami on Monday when his voice cracked. Beside him, on a split screen, an image of Hurricane Milton whorled, giant, angry and red. The storm had just made the leap to a Category 5 monster...

Vice President Kamala Harris proposed a new plan on Oct. 8 that would require Medicare to cover the cost of long-term home care. With the election only 27 days away, the Democratic nominee made the announcement first on ABC’s “The View.” Harris said that caregivers are facing challenges in balancing their lives, particularly when they are working while also needing to care for their aging parent and their children. “We’re finding so many are them having to leave their jobs, which means losing a...

An Afghan national was arrested and charged with acquiring weapons and planning an ISIS-inspired attack on election day, the Justice Department said. Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, a 27-year-old resident of Oklahoma City, was arrested by FBI agents alongside a juvenile co-conspirator and charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists and conspiring to acquire firearms for use in the attack. The co-conspirator was not named in the criminal complaint, but prosecutors identified him as...

Elder abuse continues to be a problem across the U.S. and a new report from RP Legal Group has ranked states for the number of reported incidents, based on data from the National Adult Maltreatment Reporting System. Washington state saw the highest proportion of mistreated elderly home care patients, with 3,597 cases for every 100,000 people age 65 and older. Missouri, Texas, Maine and Oregon also produced concerning statistics. Financial exploitation was a major source of elderly mistreatment...

In Michigan’s Macomb County, the Republican head of the board that will certify November’s election results called on former U.S. President Donald Trump to fight to stay in power after his election loss in 2020. In North Carolina’s Henderson County, a Republican election board member emailed legislators in August to claim, without evidence, that Democrats were flooding the state with illegal votes.

Donald Trump has had as many as seven private phone calls with Vladimir Putin since leaving office and secretly sent the Russian president COVID-19 test machines during the height of the pandemic, Bob Woodward reported in his new book “War.” In the famed Watergate reporter’s latest book, Woodward reports that Trump asked an aide to leave his office at his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago, so that the former president could have a private call with Putin in early 2024. The aide, whom Woodward doesn...