Susan Ferrechio

Mounted police and law enforcement in riot gear faced off with crowds of protesters who blocked streets near the Republican Party’s midterm convention on Thursday.

The Republican National Committee left an empty chair for Charlie Kirk at the party’s midterm convention and tried to fill the void with a moving tribute one year after his assassination on a college campus in Utah.

President Trump headlined the second and final night of the Republican’s midterm convention, but Vice President J.D. Vance debuted as the party’s political future. Mr. Vance, 42, delivered the penultimate speech at a convention dedicated to getting Republicans elected in the 2026 midterms.

Republicans aren’t making any promises about handing out $5,000 checks to every adult American.

President Trump insisted Sunday that “negative forces” are hyping the dangers of artificial intelligence.

A string of new, terrifying warnings from the artificial intelligence community has put Congress, the White House and the A.I. industry on notice: Slow the progress of the rapidly developing technology before a swarm of bots takes over the Internet and “kill all humans.”

A plane carrying Rep. Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor in Wisconsin, crash-landed in a lake Saturday night, forcing Mr. Tiffany and the pilot to swim to safety.

Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona Democrat weighing a 2028 run for the presidency, said he supports tearing down the $600 million White House ballroom and $100 million Great Triumphal Arch the Trump administration is currently building.

President Trump said the U.S. is already equipped to regulate artificial intelligence and prosecute misuse of the technology without new regulations that Democrats are proposing.

The Trump administration Monday beat back doomsday demands — and calls by former President Barack Obama — to hyper-regulate artificial intelligence, arguing the chilling warnings put forward by industry leaders and Democrats are a coordinated election-year ploy.