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The dim tunnel passage hugs narrow, winding concrete steps that lead 55 feet down, with a ceiling no higher than 4 1/2 feet, making it a claustrophobe’s nightmare. The underground passage stretching from Tijuana, Mexico, to a warehouse in California…

On June 16, American voters in Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Washington, D.C., went to the polls, or, in many cases, returned to them, to make their picks for a series of local and federal offices. The top races of the…

Tulsa businessman and former state Sen. Mike Mazzei will face Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond in the Aug. 25 gubernatorial primary runoff election. Drummond received 26.3 percent of the vote to Mazzei’s 25.9 percent. The runoff was triggered because neither…

Rep. Barry Moore (R-Ala.) won the Senate GOP runoff in Alabama on June 16. Moore’s rival has yet to be determined as the race between petcare business owner Dakarai Larriett and attorney Everett Wess for the Democratic nomination remains uncalled.…

Self-funded billionaire Rick Jackson won the Republican nomination for Georgia governor, defeating Trump-backed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones in the June 16 runoff. While Jones entered the night as the frontrunner, boosted by the powerful endorsement of President Donald Trump, results…

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Collins of Georgia holds a runoff election night party on the evening of June 16.

BRUNSWICK, Ga.—Georgia Rep. Mike Collins prevailed in the U.S. Senate Republican primary runoff on Tuesday and will take on Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in the general election this fall. Collins, who received a late endorsement from President Donald Trump…

GENEVA—U.S. President Donald Trump participated in a series of high-level meetings on June 16, the first full day of the summit of the G7 group of leading industrial nations in Évian-les-Bains, a lakeside town in eastern France. He joined a roundtable…

A federal judge in Georgia has formally recused herself from a federal election records case after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sought her voluntary ouster from the legal proceeding. U.S. District Judge Eleanor Ross signed the order June 15,…

President Donald Trump attended the second day of the G7 summit in Evian, France, with the Iran deal taking center stage. The president pushed back on claims about the deal. NTD has the latest from his sit-down with Middle East…

Senate Republican and Democratic leaders hold their weekly press conferences on June 16.

The U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Airland holds a hearing at 4:15 p.m. ET on June 16 to examine Army force modernization as part of its review of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization request and the Future Years Defense…

President Donald Trump invoked the Defense Production Act June 16 to boost weapons production, saying the existing conditions of the munitions industry and supply chains in the United States could pose a national defense threat. Trump’s memo authorizes Secretary of…

U.S. Vice President JD Vance said on June 15 that United Nations inspectors will return to Iran to evaluate the country’s nuclear facilities as part of any deal with the United States to end hostilities. “Yes, absolutely,” Vance told NBC…

The U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota and Homeland Security Investigations hold a news conference at 12 p.m. ET on June 16 to announce criminal charges against multiple defendants accused of conspiring to impede or injure federal officers in…

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani have backed different candidates in a contested Democratic congressional primary, where early voting is underway for the June 23 primary. Jeffries has thrown his support behind longtime…

Moderna’s messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) influenza vaccine is effective, but uncertainties remain, Food and Drug Administration reviewers said in a document released on June 16. Data from a Phase 3 trial show the mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-1010, had a…

The Small Business Administration (SBA) has removed almost two dozen foreign products from federal agency procurement to ensure priority for domestically produced goods. [source] The move, taken in collaboration with the General Services Administration (GSA), resulted in the foreign products…

GENEVA—U.S. President Donald Trump kicked off his G7 summit meetings on June 16 in the French spa town of Évian-les-Bains, joining a roundtable discussion with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other G7 leaders. “We had a very good meeting,” Trump…

Today, voters in Georgia, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Washington, D.C., will go to the polls—or in some cases, return to the polls—to make their pick for a series of local and federal offices. The top races of the night, as far…