On Tuesday, federal prosecutors announced charges against 15 people in Minneapolis they say "conspired to impede or injure federal officers." ... Read full Story
Rhode Island's top federal judge rebuked Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials Tuesday after an "unfounded public attack" on another judge. ... Read full Story
General Motors announced a new partnership Tuesday with Lockheed Martin to "strengthen America's manufacturing and defense industrial base." ... Read full Story
The District of Columbia is having its first ranked-choice election, and Oklahoma is voting on whether to raise the state's minimum wage on Tuesday. ... Read full Story
Luigi Mangione is expected to appear in court Wednesday for the latest hearing in his state murder case. The hearing was delayed from Tuesday. ... Read full Story
The Department of Education will shift two of its major departments, civil rights and special education programs, to other government agencies. ... Read full Story
SpaceX has reached an agreement to buy AI coding company Cursor for $60 billion, a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says. ... Read full Story
Voters are heading back to the polls in Georgia Tuesday for primary election runoffs featuring Republican contests for U.S. Senate and state governor. ... Read full Story
The FBI said it blocked a planned attack that targeted the UFC Freedom 250 event at the White House on Sunday involving 23 people on a Signal chat. ... Read full Story
Alaska's top elections official ruled Monday that a challenger with the same name as Sen. Dan Sullivan will not appear on the state's primary ballot. ... Read full Story
Police in New Jersey said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fired his gun at a fleeing vehicle moments after being struck. ... Read full Story
Edwards Air Force Base in California confirmed a B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after taking off from the base on Monday morning. ... Read full Story
California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday said the federal government was investigating him in what he described as an abuse of the grand jury process. ... Read full Story
The Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a public service announcement Monday to warn of a phishing scam that targets Microsoft 365 users. ... Read full Story
President Donald Trump said that he will hold a rally on the National Mall during America's 250th anniversary celebration on the Fourth of July. ... Read full Story
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up former Trump adviser Carter Page's lawsuit against former FBI director James Comey, it decided Monday. ... Read full Story
“Game 3 of the World Series was a stone-cold thriller, with peaks of high drama and longueurs of exquisitely tense tedium ...” — Steve Rushin, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2025
Did you know?
You’ve probably come across long, tedious sections of books, plays, or musical works before, but perhaps you didn’t know there was a word for them. The French borrowing longueur has been doing the job for us since the late 18th century. As in English, French longueurs are tedious passages, with longueur itself literally meaning “length.” An early example of longueur used in an English text is from 18th-century writer Horace Walpole, who wrote in a letter, “Boswell’s book is gossiping; ... but there are woeful longueurs, both about his hero and himself.”