By upi.com | | 9/4/2024 9:09 AM

Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to announce on Wednesday a robust $50,000 tax deduction for small business startup costs, a boost from the current $5,000, sources told media outlets. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/4/2024 1:41 AM

Seven GOP-led states have filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration's latest attempt at cancelling student debt, stating the plan will begin erasing loans as soon as this week if not stopped by the courts. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 11:59 PM

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul on Tuesday issued a subpoena for Secretary of State Antony Blinken to testify later this month on the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 10:46 PM

A Michigan judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must stay on the state's Nov. 5 ballot, rejecting the former presidential candidate's last-minute request to remove his name from contention in the state. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 10:22 PM

Former President Donald Trump waived his right to attend the arraignment of his revised Jan. 6 federal election interference case and will enter a plea of not guilty through his attorneys, according to a filing Tuesday. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 9:26 PM

Trump Media and Technology Group's shares hit a new low Tuesday, dropping below $18 for the first time since it began public trading in March. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 8:01 PM

The U.S. Justice Department announced terrorism charges Tuesday against six senior leaders of Hamas for their role in "planning, supporting and perpetrating the terrorist atrocities" in Israel on Oct. 7. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 7:52 PM

President Joe Biden and others affirmed the success of his administration's "Investing in America" infrastructure platform during the first of several planned presentations on the topic Tuesday afternoon. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 7:17 PM

A new $100 million high-performance computer system will advance research and development efforts by NOAA on a number of scientific and weather-related tasks, the federal government announced Tuesday. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 5:43 PM

A man is dead, two people still missing and six others injured after a Labor Day boating excursion in Connecticut ended in tragedy, according to multiple reports. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 4:47 PM

An 11-year-old boy is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two family members inside a home in Minden, La., early Sunday morning. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 2:42 PM

A federal judge in Georgia ruled that former President Donald Trump's campaign must stop using the song "Hold On, I'm Coming" after the estate of late R&B artist Isaac Hayes filed suit. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 2:14 PM

James Darren, best known for a wide range of television shows and movies from Gidget to T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, died on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 88. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 1:26 PM

A former top-level aide to New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was arrested on Tuesday with her husband on unspecified charges at their Long Island home after it got raided by the FBI in July. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/3/2024 12:53 PM

John Podesta is expected to urge Chinese leaders to make more significant commitments to greenhouse gas emissions as he starts a three-day trip to Beijing on behalf of the Biden administration on Tuesday. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/2/2024 6:44 PM

A suspect is in custody after four people died in a shooting on a Chicago Transit Authority train in suburban Chicago on Monday morning. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/2/2024 5:59 PM

Nine people were hospitalized, including six children with "very life-threatening injuries" after being ejected from an SUV on Interstate 35 in northeastern San Antonio on Sunday night, police said. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/2/2024 2:26 PM

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were together in Pittsburgh on Monday for a Labor Day campaign event in the Steel City in their first joint event since Harris accepted the Democratic nomination. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/2/2024 11:47 AM

U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona captured more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition and 285 pounds of narcotics in a series of stops at the end of August. ... Read full Story

By upi.com | | 9/2/2024 1:32 AM

Thousands of hotel workers have gone on strike across the United States following months of failed negotiations on higher wages, fairer staffing and better workloads. ... Read full Story