Mary McCue Bell

CFTC wants to include prediction markets in definition of ‘swap’

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing to formally define event contracts, including those tied to sports, politics, culture and weather, as swaps, in a change the agency says would confirm its exclusive jurisdiction over contracts traded on prediction markets.

October 19, 2026

Sen. Jon Husted jokes about Trump’s remarks on his football-player physique at Ohio event

Sen. Jon Husted on Sunday noted President Trump's laudatory comments about his muscular physique.

October 19, 2026

Trump administration bans cartel drones at southern border

The Trump administration is blocking drones from operating along the U.S.-Mexico border without permission, in an effort to strengthen airspace security in the region.

October 16, 2026

The 16-year-old shooter at an elementary school in Oregon identified

The gunman who killed three children and a teacher at an Oregon elementary school Thursday has been identified as 16-year-old John J. Griffin.

October 16, 2026

Trump claims executive privilege over Kennedy Center records

The White House has invoked executive privilege to shield certain records of President Trump's communications from being shared with Rep. Joyce Beatty as part of her legal challenge against plans to close the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for two years.

October 16, 2026

HHS proposes letting pharmacies make peptides

The Department of Health and Human Services is aiming to let pharmacies compound certain peptides, according to a filing posted Thursday.

October 16, 2026

Katie Zacharia addresses criticism of calling herself a ‘lawyer’

Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, is clarifying that while she has called herself a lawyer, she never passed the bar exam.

October 16, 2026

Ilhan Omar’s citizenship, marriages and finances give feds plenty of avenues to probe

Rep. Ilhan Omar could face decades behind bars, lose her American citizenship and, along with it, her House seat if federal investigators uncover evidence of criminal wrongdoing, legal experts say.

October 15, 2026

Bill Clinton to campaign for Florida Democrat David Jolly ahead of midterms

Bill Clinton will join David Jolly, the Democratic nominee for Florida governor, on the campaign trail in the former president's first public stumping ahead of the midterm elections.

October 15, 2026

Trump, after bipartisan backlash, cancels livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter

President Trump on Thursday canceled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream to the world the firing-squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan amid a growing chorus of opposition from religious figures, political leaders and a wide swath of the American public.

October 15, 2026

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs injured in prison altercation, taken to a hospital

Disgraced hip-hop mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs suffered a head injury during a fight with convicted Jamaican drug trafficker Christopher "Dudus" Coke at the Fort Dix federal prison in New Jersey last weekend, according to reports.

October 15, 2026

Agents seize Rep. Ilhan Omar’s phone, issue subpoenas in immigration probe

Federal agents have seized Rep. Ilhan Omar's phone and issued more than a dozen grand jury subpoenas as part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

October 15, 2026

Lindsay Clancy holdout juror says he had ‘a lot of evidence’ to convict her of murder

The holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial said he believes Ms. Clancy was "methodical" in the "execution" of her three children.

October 15, 2026

Is Katie Zacharia a lawyer? Watchdog wants California State Bar to confirm

The newly appointed White House press secretary, Katie Zacharia, says she's a lawyer, and an ethics watchdog is asking the State Bar of California to verify that.

October 14, 2026

Vance says White House will not ‘micromanage’ Justice Dept. probe of Rep. Ilhan Omar

The Trump administration has no plans to wade into the Justice Department's investigation into Rep. Ilhan Omar following a federal enforcement raid on her home, Vice President J.D. Vance said.

October 14, 2026

CVS settles lawsuit over opioid dispensing for $315 million

CVS reached a $315 million settlement Tuesday to resolve allegations that it illegally filled prescriptions for opioids and other controlled substances for over a decade and then sought payments for many of those invalid prescriptions from federal healthcare programs.

October 13, 2026

White House pushes super intelligence into classrooms with new student challenge

America is in a race for super intelligence, if you ask President Trump.

October 13, 2026

Tinder scammer exposure rose 8 times while AI models went years without updates, Hassan report says

Tinder showed the typical scammer's profile about eight times as often in December 2025 as in May 2024, even as internal company documents warned that most of its scam-detection artificial intelligence models had not been updated in years, according to a new report.

October 13, 2026

More Americans fear worse finances with a GOP Congress than a Democratic Congress: Poll

Nearly four in 10 Americans believe they will be worse off financially if Republicans keep control of Congress in the midterm elections, according to a new poll published Tuesday.

October 13, 2026

‘Not happy’: Trump considers firing Ambassador Guilfoyle

President Trump said he is considering firing Kimberly Guilfoyle as U.S. ambassador to Greece over a report that she asked one of his donors for $100,000 to pay off a personal debt.

October 12, 2026