The Latest Breaking News from Chuck Schumer

The California Democrat, the oldest sitting member of Congress, said she will accomplish as much as possible before she steps down.

Many Democrats defended the Biden administration's cautious approach. But lawmakers of both parties urged the president to address the nation.

Republicans have pushed for banning the popular social media app.

The US Air Force general in charge of North American airspace says he cannot rule out aliens for the spate of mystery objects.

Officials briefly shut down air traffic over Lake Michigan but reopened it after an hour. Concerns are high in Washington about a large-scale Chinese aerial surveillance program.

Washington (AFP) - A US warplane shot down another flying object on Sunday, this time over Lake Huron on the US-Canadian border, the fourth in a dramatic series that began with the downing of a suspected Chinese spy balloon a week ago.

'The bottom line is until a few months ago we didn’t know about these balloons'

A US fighter jet shot down an “unidentified object” over Lake Huron on Sunday on orders from President Joe Biden. It was the fourth such downing in eight days and the latest military strike in an extraordinary chain of events over US airspace that Pentagon officials believe has no peacetime…

Washington (AFP) - The US and Canada were working Sunday to recover the remnants of three mysterious objects shot down over their territory, amid growing jitters that resulted in several brief air-space closures in recent days.

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WASHINGTON — The White House said it’s too early to characterize the two latest objects shot down by U.S. fighter jets over North America after Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said they are believed to have been high-altitude balloons.