16 min ago - 05/17/2026 07:19 AM EDT PARIS — A French investigating judge will examine a complaint by two rights groups accusing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of involvement in the 2018 killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, France’s national a ... (Politico)

50 min ago - Published May 16, 2026 at 06:30 PM EDT updated May 16, 2026 at 07:50 PM EDT Republican Senator Thom Tillis issued a warning to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over reports that he plans to sideline another top general. Reports emerged in December that ... (Newsweek)

1 hr ago - May 16th, 2026, 7:35 pm Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) accused members of President Donald Trump’s administration of preferring to see Black Americans “pick cotton” than pick the president. Pressley made the claim during an interview on ... (MEDIAite)

1 hr ago - May 16, 2026, at 7:29 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 16 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald ⁠Trump ⁠threatened a primary ⁠challenge on Saturday for hardline conservative Representative Lauren ​Boebert, until now a staunch Trump ally, afte ... (US News & World Report/Reuters)

2 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 6:58 PM EDT Updated 10 hours ago NEW YORK, May 16 (Reuters) - A Kansas judge has temporarily blocked a law banning gender-transition treatments for minors in the state. State District Judge Carl Folsom III ​granted an injunction re ... (Reuters)

2 hrs ago - 05/16/26 5:55 PM ET Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) offered harsh criticism for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Saturday over reported changes at the Pentagon, including a shift in U.S. military posture around the globe and the exits of multiple senior m ... (The Hill)

3 hrs ago - Saturday 16 May 2026 16:45 EDT A company that was asked to sponsor Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s new reality show did not get involved in the project amid apparent ethical concerns, according to a new report. Duffy and his family are set ... (The Independent)

3 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 4:40PM ET A former assistant to Jeffrey Epstein appears to have played a much more damning role than Republicans would like to believe, alleged a Democratic member of the House Oversight Committee. "Sarah Kellen comes up a lot," said Rep ... (Raw Story)

4 hrs ago - Updated 12:52 AM EDT, May 17, 2026 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Sen. Bill Cassidy was decisively defeated in Saturday’s Republican primary in Louisiana, unable to convince voters that he deserved another term five years after voting to convict P ... (AP)

4 hrs ago - Updated May 16, 2026, 4:33 PM ET PUBLISHED May 16, 2026, 5:00 AM ET The USS Gerald R. Ford, America’s largest and newest aircraft carrier, returned to port in Virginia on Saturday after nearly a year at sea that included participating in the cap ... (CNN Politics)

5 hrs ago - May 16, 2026 3:36PM ET Hundreds of diplomats are being forced out of their jobs by the Trump administration despite ongoing crises around the world, according to a new report. According to CNN, the State Department finalized the firing of nearly 250 ... (Raw Story)

9 hrs ago - Ballroom security money nixed by Senate parliamentarian Republicans proposed sending $1 billion to the Secret Service, with some to be used on the controversial White House project. Artist renderings of the new White House East Wing and Ballroom are ... (Politico)

11 hrs ago - Travis Gettys May 16, 2026 4:11PM ET ............... Sue Gordon, who resigned as deputy director of national intelligence during Trump's first term, told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace she was concerned with the president's indifferent attitude to Chinese ... (raw story)

12 hrs ago - Sat 16 May 2026 09.02 EDT Last modified on Sat 16 May 2026 09.19 EDT Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert suggested that Donald Trump blocked funds for a clean drinking water project in her state over the prosecution of election denier Tina Peters ... (The Guardian)

12 hrs ago - Updated 7:49 AM EDT, May 16, 2026 VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Leo XIV has created a study group on artificial intelligence, the Vatican said Saturday, as he gears up to release his first encyclical that is expected to emphasize the need for an ethi ... (AP)

13 hrs ago - 6h (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration allowed a waiver that encouraged more Russian crude sales to lapse, even as the Iran war stokes concerns about global oil supplies and higher fuel costs. The expiration effectively ends for now a brief per ... (msn/Bloomberg)

13 hrs ago - Saturday 16 May 2026 06:43 EDT Donald Trump has doubled down on his remark about not considering the financial plight of everyday Americans when considering foreign policy, saying that what he had said was a “perfect statement.”. “I
... (The Independent)

13 hrs ago - By Garrett Behanna May 16, 2026 / 6:16 PM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh Frontline healthcare workers at Butler Memorial Hospital overwhelmingly approved their first union contract on Friday, avoiding a planned strike that was scheduled to begin. The three-yea ... (CBS News)

14 hrs ago - May 16th, 2026, 8:22 am Pete Hegseth has drawn the right D.C. Circuit panel for seeking deference to his "considered national-security judgment" in the coming week, but the so-called "WOKE" AI developer he designated a "supply-chain risk" says the d ... (Law & Crime)

14 hrs ago - Sarah Clifton, Sarah D. Wire and Jeanine Santucci, Updated Sat, May 16, 2026 at 2:45 PM CDT SELMA, AL ‒ Over 60 years ago, on the March 1965 day dubbed "Bloody Sunday," the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, was filled with a crescendo of ... (yahoo.com)