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Columbia student sues Trump after official says her permanent legal status in the US is revoked
Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 21-year-old junior at Columbia University said she was the person whom federal agents were after when they showed up at a residence on West 113 Street earlier this [Read More…]

Leading Democrats react to Trump administration inadvertently sharing highly sensitive war plans
Pool (WASHINGTON) — Top Congressional Democrats are expressing outrage after members of President Donald Trump’s administration inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to an unsecured message thread discussing highly sensitive war plans [Read More…]

Democrats host town halls to hear from voters, fire up supporters — but is their message resonating?
ABC News (BETHLEHEM, PA) — At a “People’s Town Hall” on Thursday held by the Democratic National Committee, in a church located in a Pennsylvania district that Democrats lost to Republicans in 2024, party leaders [Read More…]

House Republicans eye hearings on Judge Boasberg, bill to rein in federal judges
(Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Donald Trump’s battle with the judiciary escalates, House Republicans are eyeing ways to rein in judges from blocking parts of his agenda. House Judiciary Chairman Jim [Read More…]

Trump officials accidentally shared Yemen war plans via group chat with media: Report
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Members of the Trump administration coordinated highly sensitive Yemen war plans on an unsecure group chat, which accidentally included Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, he wrote in a [Read More…]

Trump admin asks Supreme Court to block reinstatement of fired probationary employees
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a district court judge’s order that 16,000 terminated federal probationary employees across six agencies and departments be [Read More…]

Trump appoints former personal attorney Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey
Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday named Alina Habba, his personal attorney-turned-White House counselor, to serve as the next interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. [Read More…]

Usha Vance, US officials to visit Greenland as prime minister blasts ‘aggressive American pressure’
Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation traveling to Greenland this week, after President Donald Trump’s repeated statements that the U.S. [Read More…]

Supreme Court to hear Louisiana race and redistricting case
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a Louisiana case involving politics, race and voting maps with potential implications for the 2026 midterm elections. The justices [Read More…]

Trump appoints Alina Habba as US attorney for New Jersey
Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday named Alina Habba, his personal attorney-turned-White House counselor, to serve as the next interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. [Read More…]

Usha Vance, US officials to visit Greenland as Trump pushes for US ownership
Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation traveling to Greenland this week, after President Donald Trump’s repeated statements that the U.S. [Read More…]

Supreme Court to hear Louisiana race and redistricting case
Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The United States Supreme Court on Monday will hear arguments in a Louisiana case involving politics, race and voting maps with potential implications for the 2026 midterm elections. The justices [Read More…]

Trump suggests Tesla vandals should be sent to prison in El Salvador
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump seemed to issue a warning to individuals who participate in Tesla vandalisms, as reports of destruction to vehicles, dealerships and charging stations surge across the country. Early [Read More…]

Pentagon changed course for Musk visit after report about him viewing China war plans: Officials
Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Tech billionaire Elon Musk was slated to visit the Pentagon on Friday and attend a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that would touch on China, among [Read More…]

Trump says student loans, special needs programs will be moved to new departments
President Donald Trump stands with Secretary of Education Linda McMahon /Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump announced Friday that two key functions of the agency he is seeking to dismantle, the Department of [Read More…]

Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman grilled at town hall about DOGE: ‘Where is this fraud?’
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman tangled with a fiery town hall audience in her home state on Thursday night as she went back and forth with constituents over [Read More…]

Musk PAC offers $100 to WI voters who sign petition against ‘activist judges’
Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Elon Musk’s political action committee is offering Wisconsin voters $100 who sign a petition opposing “activist judges” ahead of the April 1 Wisconsin Supreme Court election, [Read More…]

‘Hitting a fly with a sledgehammer’: Judge blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security records
(spxChrome/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Government Efficiency approach’s to identifying fraud at the Social Security Administration “is tantamount to hitting a fly with a sledgehammer,” a federal judge said Thursday, blocking DOGE’s unlimited [Read More…]

Nationwide injunctions are central to Trump’s feud with judges. Here’s what to know
(SimpleImages/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — In President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with the judiciary, he and his Republican allies have zeroed in on a similar message. No single judge, they argue, should be able to use [Read More…]

Foreign adversaries, private sector, state governments may swoop in to recruit fired federal workers, experts say
People hold signs as they hold an “informational picket” over DOGE’s reductions to the federal workforce outside the Jacob K. Javits Federal Office Building on March 19, 2025 in New York City. Federal workers and [Read More…]