Marc Levy

WASHINGTON (@AP) — The U.S. Defense Department will remove media offices from the Pentagon after a federal judge sided with The New York Times in a lawsuit challenging limits on reporters’ access to the building, a department official announced Monday.

WASHINGTON (@AP) _ The Supreme Court's conservative majority on Monday sounded skeptical of state laws that allow the counting of late-arriving mail ballots, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The court heard arguments in a case from Mississippi that also could affect voters in 13 other states and the District of Columbia, which have grace periods for ballots cast by mail. An additional 15 states that have more forgiving deadlines for ballots from military and overseas voters also could be impacted.

From 2022: Not only did Fetterman come from the party’s progressive wing, but he is irreverent, blunt and, well, something to see. But the Jan. 6 insurrection stiffened the resolve among Democratic state committee members to vote for the candidate who is most electable. For many, that means voting for Lamb, viewed as a more moderate, more conventional candidate with a resume that has more crossover appeal. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/2022-m…

People re-litigating this primary like it was some heartbreaking squeaker is so funny to me Fetterman won by 32 pts, carrying every single county He wasn’t some secret moderate who duped everyone into thinking he was progressive He was a fundamentally different guy pre-stroke

CAIRO (@AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday said the U.S. will “obliterate” Iranian power plants if it doesn’t fully open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours. Trump issued the ultimatum in a social media post from Florida.

NEW YORK (@AP) _ Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation's premier law enforcement agency into a terrorism-fighting force after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and who later became special counsel in charge of investigating ties between Russia and Donald Trump's presidential campaign, has died. He was 81.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — A federal arts commission on Thursday approved the final design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump’s image to help celebrate America’s 250th birthday on July 4.

WEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (@AP) — The suspect in an attack on a synagogue in Michigan is dead, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press. WDIV-TV reported that a truck crashed into the Temple Israel synagogue in West Bloomfield Township, Michigan. FBI Director Kash Patel said agents were on the scene of an “apparent vehicle ramming and active shooter situation” at the synagogue.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — Outdated intelligence likely led to the United States carrying out a deadly missile strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed over 165 people, many of them children, in the opening hours of the conflict, according to a U.S. official and a second person briefed on findings of a preliminary U.S military investigation into the incident.

NEW YORK (@AP) _ The FBI found explosive materials in a Pennsylvania storage unit after two men were charged with bringing homemade bombs to a protest outside the home of New York City’s mayor, authorities said Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (@AP) _ Alexander Butterfield, the White House aide who inadvertently hastened Richard Nixon’s resignation over the Watergate scandal when he revealed that the president had bugged the Oval Office and Cabinet Room and routinely recorded his conversations, has died. He was 99.

PHILADELPHIA (@AP) _ A man who helped recruit players into a sprawling NCAA basketball point-shaving scheme has pleaded guilty.

CHICAGO (@AP) — Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and shipping in the Middle East.

JERUSALEM (@AP) — Iranian state TV on Sunday said Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the country’s late supreme leader, has been named his successor. He had long been considered a contender, even before an Israeli strike killed his father at the start of the war, and despite never being elected or appointed to a government position.

High-voltage transmission lines are being planned in accelerating numbers in the United States to deliver power, sometimes across hundreds of miles, to enormous data centers run by the world’s biggest tech companies. Landowners and locals are fighting back. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/ai-tru…

WASHINGTON (@AP) -- Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to two officials familiar with U.S. intelligence on the matter.

WASHINGTON (@AP) - American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain. The unemployment rate blipped up to 4.4%. The Labor Department reported Friday that hiring deteriorated from January, when companies, nonprofits and government agencies added a healthy 126,000 jobs. Economists had expected 60,000 new jobs in February.

WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Donald Trump said he’s replacing his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and will nominate in her place Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin.

In Greece, an exhibition of just-discovered photos — the first verified images ever made public — of the execution of 200 prisoners by Nazi occupation forces on May 1, 1944 has resurfaced memories of one of the country’s most poignant symbols of wartime resistance. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/greece…

WASHINGTON (@AP — The U.S. military says three service members have been killed and five seriously wounded in the Iran operation. Central Command made the announcement on social media Sunday without providing additional information.