9+ hour, 48+ min ago   (235+ words) Here is the strict context-preserving rewrite — only tightening wording, flow, and rhythm without changing the facts, chronology, figures, attribution, or meaning: WASHINGTON – The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is weeks away from being unable to make payroll,…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (281+ words) SEOUL — On the morning a cargo ship caught fire in the Strait of Hormuz, killing one crew member and sending four others to hospital, South Korea’s government was still deciding whether to send anyone there. That framing is not quite…...

18+ hour, 18+ min ago   (294+ words) Here’s a tighter version that keeps the context, facts, chronology, attribution, quote, and link exactly intact while giving the opening more punch: DETROIT — When Speaker Mike Johnson stood before the Republican National Convention this summer and called Democrats “barbarians at…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (289+ words) DALLAS — At American Airlines Center on September 9, the upper level was almost entirely empty. That was the backdrop to President Trump’s promise of a $5,000 payment to every American adult. “If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (190+ words) DUBLIN — The Iran war would end “very soon,” Donald Trump told reporters on the tarmac at Shannon Airport on Friday, according to Al Jazeera. The timeline he offered was not military or diplomatic. It was electoral: just after November. Trump…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (292+ words) “Today, we salute every member of the United States military who served in the war on terror,” Trump said at the annual Pentagon memorial ceremony. “It is a war on sick, horrible terror.” Then he tied it directly to the…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (216+ words) WASHINGTON – When Vice President JD Vance picked up the phone to call U.S. military commanders in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, he was not looking for the Pentagon’s consolidated position on the Iran war. He was looking for something…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (324+ words) A proposed rule filed by the Trump administration on Tuesday would change that. The proposal comes 56 days before the 2026 midterm elections. Critics immediately pointed to the timing. If implemented, excluding non-citizens from apportionment counts would shift political power and federal…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (244+ words) DALLAS — The arena looked like a presidential rally, because that is what the Republican Party needs it to be. President Donald Trump is scheduled to headline both nights of the September 9-10 convention. Vice President JD Vance will deliver a keynote…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (426+ words) BRUSSELS — The European Commission spent much of the summer defending a proposal to increase EU spending by 60 percent over its previous seven-year budget. Friedrich Merz spent Wednesday explaining why that number has to come down by several hundred billion euros....