The House of Representatives voted 220-205 on Tuesday to pass a continuing resolution that would fund federal agencies at existing levels through December 4, a move designed to prevent a third government shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections. The measure now heads to the Senate, where its future is
New York City is bracing for the most logistically complex week in its modern history as three unprecedented events converge on the same metropolitan footprint. The Semiquincentennial celebrations, Macy’s 50th anniversary fireworks, and the Sail 4th 250 tall ship parade are expected to draw 8 to 10 million visitors during
The First Widespread Heat Wave of 2026 Arrives as Millions Prepare for Outdoor Independence Day Celebrations, World Cup Matches, and America 250 Events A sprawling heat dome is settling over the eastern two-thirds of the United States this week, bringing the kind of sustained, dangerous heat that transforms a holiday
The Economist Who Steered U.S. Monetary Policy Under Four Presidents Shaped Modern American Capitalism — And Drew Blame For Its Worst Crisis Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve chairman whose 18-year tenure at the helm of the U.S. central bank coincided with one of the longest economic expansions in American
Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday morning, forming off the middle Texas coast and putting five states under a flood threat the National Hurricane Center has labeled life-threatening. The system’s wind profile is modest, but its rainfall payload is anything but.
The federal student loan system is about to look fundamentally different. On July 1, 2026, the most sweeping changes in decades take effect, reshaping how much students and parents can borrow and how they pay it back. For new borrowers, a tangle of repayment options collapses into just two choices.
The latest results from the country’s longest-running educational gauge deliver a split verdict: the youngest students tested are climbing out of the pandemic’s academic hole, while the teenagers just ahead of them remain stuck. The findings, drawn from the 2025 Long-Term Trend assessment released June 10 by the National Center
The flag that has flown over the United States for more than six decades is often traced to a high school history assignment and a teenager who refused to accept his grade. The story of Bob Heft has become a fixture of American folklore, repeated in classrooms and patriotic ceremonies.
In the middle of the Civil War, with the nation tearing itself apart, the federal government made a quiet decision that would shape American life for generations. On July 2, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act, a law that used federal land to fund a new kind of
A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York has put a number to something many American families already feel at the grocery checkout: hunger in the United States has climbed past the levels recorded during the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings, released on May 27,
The motorsports world lost one of its defining figures Thursday with the death of Kyle Busch, the two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and the winningest driver across the sport’s three national series. He was 41. The Busch family, Richard Childress Racing, and NASCAR announced the death in a joint statement
By: Matthew Kayser A motorcycle crash can change your day in seconds. One moment you’re on the road, and the next you’re dealing with injuries, damage, and a lot of unanswered questions. In those first moments, it’s hard to know what matters most or what to do next. That’s why
Something remarkable is happening in the fight against cancer in America. For the first time since scientists began tracking the disease in a systematic way, the five-year survival rate for all cancers in the United States has reached 70% — up from 49% in the mid-1970s. That number, drawn from
The American consumer just got hit with the steepest inflation reading in nearly three years. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on May 12, 2026 that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.6% in April and 3.8% on a 12-month basis, the highest annual reading since May 2023. Energy prices drove
The White House on May 4 released its 2026 National Drug Control Strategy, a 195-page blueprint that aims to reshape how the federal government responds to addiction, overdose deaths, and the cross-border drug trade. The document arrives at a moment when overdose mortality remains one of the country’s most persistent
America’s oldest public hospital is stress-testing the health care system from the inside — before a real outbreak forces the issue. Bellevue launched one of the more unconventional public health preparedness programs seen in recent years. Trained clinical evaluators, posing as ordinary patients, began walking unannounced into health care facilities
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a direct warning to Congress: the emergency funds keeping roughly 50,000 Transportation Security Administration workers on payroll will run out in early May, setting up a potential return to the airport security disruptions that gripped the country earlier this year. The disclosure comes
