Military officials say recruiting off to strong start in 2025, building on recent trends

The U.S. military is tracking strong early-year recruiting figures across the services, a signal it will meet or exceed 2024 performances, military officials told ABC News. The Army and Navy, the two largest services and the most ailing from recruiting challenges, both say they’ve recruited at promising rates in the first quarter of fiscal year … Read more

Health impacts of 9 months in space as 2 NASA astronauts return home after extended stay on ISS

NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams are returning to Earth after spending an unplanned nine months in space. The pair performed the first astronaut-crewed Boeing’s Starliner capsule flight to the International Space Station (ISS) in June 2024. Wilmore and Williams were only supposed to spend about one week in space. However, issues … Read more

Chief justice’s rebuke of Trump shows deep concern about attacks on courts: ANALYSIS

Chief Justice John Roberts doesn’t use social media, much less follow President Donald Trump on his online platform Truth Social. But when Trump posted an attack on a federal judge just after 9 a.m. Tuesday, calling for his impeachment after an adverse ruling, Roberts took the extraordinary step of issuing a statement with equally extraordinary … Read more

Trump fires FTC commissioners, setting up a legal battle

President Trump fired the two Democratic members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Tuesday, setting up a challenge to a 1935 Supreme Court precedent prohibiting the firing of FTC commissioners for reasons other than “good cause.” The White House terminated commissioners Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya earlier Tuesday, The New York Times reported. … Read more

Lawmakers approve ban on devices that convert semi-automatic weapons

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama lawmakers on Tuesday approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns, after a deadly year that included multiple mass shootings. A bipartisan coalition pushed the Alabama legislation after several multiple mass shootings last year, including the shooting deaths of four people outside … Read more

Government releases thousands of declassified pages related to JFK assassination

The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The records were posted to the National Archives’ website Tuesday evening. “This release consists of approximately 80,000 pages of previously-classified records that will be published with no redactions,” said the announcement from … Read more

New York woman pleads guilty to mailing drug-soaked documents to prisons

An Albany woman pleaded guilty on Tuesday to mailing drug-soaked documents to inmates in correctional facilities in New York, according to federal prosecutors. Authorities said Maya McIntosh, 33, sold the illicit documents on social media — and disguised them as legal paperwork when she sent them. McIntosh, 33, pleaded guilty to “conspiracies to manufacture, distribute … Read more