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Jeffrey Epstein in 2004.Rick Friedman / Corbis via Getty Images fileShareAdd NBC News to GoogleSept. 16, 2026, 6:25 PM EDTBy Corky SiemaszkoTwo women filed a federal class-action lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein’s estate, claiming their photographs were found in his vast collectio...
The bill was championed by GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, who suddenly died after announcing a deal had been reached with the White House to move forward.
The pending munitions package is worth $2.8 billion.
Trump's 39% job approval and a 26-point endorsement gap could spell trouble for GOP candidates, a new Fox News survey finds before Election Day.
Barack Obama is urging Washington to slow AI development. But, in 2016, his White House praised the technology as the cutting edge of innovation.
GAO report shows how use paid administrative leave rose by 435% from 2023 to 2025 and incurred a sixfold costThe US government paid federal workers $9.5bn not to work in 2025 as part of the Trump administration’s attempts to shrink the federal workforce.As part of efforts by the ...
Broad scientific consensus has established no connection exists between childhood vaccines and autism, though the Trump administration has repeatedly sought to re-examine the topic
He urged China to take stronger action to stem the flow of precursor chemicals used to produce fentanyl, methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs
Chinese President Xi Jinping's health has become the subject of fresh speculation after Wanjun Xie, chairman of the China Democracy Party, claimed that Xi fainted during the BRICS summit in New Delhi and later suffered a severe ischaemic stroke.
Marine Le Pen, the French far-right leader and presidential candidate, kept open the possibility of censuring the government over the 2027 budget, while at the same time pledging not to take action that could damage the country’s strained finances.
Can the US and its political culture ever be liberated from the fangs and tentacles of genocidal Zionism? Might we see a day when the US is decolonised and declares its independence from Israel and the Israeli operatives inside its own borders?
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Conservative New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald resigned Tuesday after admitting he violated the state's judicial code of conduct, ending a five-year tenure that collapsed under an ethics investigation into a personnel move that netted a top ally nearly $5...
"We urge all parties to take effective measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz at an early date", said Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
BOGOTA, Sept 16 - The United States has removed Venezuela from its list of countries which have failed to demonstrably combat illegal drug trafficking for the first time in more than 20 years, U.S. President Donald Trump said in a statement on Wednesday, adding he may consider re...
President Bola Tinubu and Vice President Kashim Shettima. Credit: State House
The corruption case against embattled former Speaker of Parliament Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula will return to court on Wednesday morning.