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Appeals court upholds restrictions on Los Angeles immigration arrests
Mario Tama/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — An appeals court upheld a lower court’s order to temporarily block federal immigration agents from conducting immigration-related arrests in Los Angeles without probable cause. In the ruling on Friday [Read More…]
Democratic governors throw support behind Newsom, back partisan redistricting
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images (MADISON, WI) — — A number of high-profile Democratic governors are ready to fight — ardently throwing support behind their colleagues who have said they will draw new Congressional maps to favor [Read More…]
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to shut down after federal funding cuts
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin a “wind-down of its operations” and cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September following Congress’ vote earlier [Read More…]
Trump moves nuclear submarines in response to Russia’s ‘highly provocative’ statement
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said on Friday he’s ordered two nuclear submarines to move in the “appropriate regions” in response to what he called “highly provocative statements” from the deputy chair [Read More…]
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to begin shutting down its operations
ABC News (WASHINGTON) — The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced Friday that it will begin a “wind-down of its operations” and cut a majority of its jobs by the end of September following Congress’ vote [Read More…]
Republican Rep. Bryan Steil booed defending Trump tariffs at Wisconsin town hall
Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (ELKHORN, Wis.) — In a rowdy town hall on Thursday night, Wisconsin Republican Rep. Bryan Steil was booed when he expressed support for President Donald Trump’s trade policies. [Read More…]
Trump to sign order to revive Presidential Fitness Test for students
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Kids in America’s public schools will soon be lacing up their sneakers for the Presidential Fitness Test as President Donald Trump is set to announce its return more than a [Read More…]
1,350 more National Guard members withdrawn from Los Angeles
David McNew/Getty Images (LOS ANGELES) — The Pentagon has announced that 1,350 more federalized members of the California National Guard will be withdrawn from the security mission in Los Angeles that started in early June [Read More…]
Federal government paying 154,000 people not to work
Michael A. McCoy/For The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The federal government is paying more than 154,000 federal employees not to work as part of the deferred resignation program, an administration official confirmed [Read More…]
Bessent tries to clarify comments suggesting Social Security could be privatized
Al Drago/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is trying to walk back his suggestion that the so-called Trump savings accounts for newborns could be a “back door” to start privatizing Social Security. Bessent [Read More…]
NTSB questions flight training procedures during congressional hearings over January plane crash
Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Transportation Safety Board on Thursday continued to grill officials from the Army, air traffic controllers and members from the Federal Aviation Administration over protocols following the January deadly air [Read More…]
Former Biden adviser Mike Donilon testifying in House committee probe into Biden mental fitness
Drew Angerer/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Mike Donilon, former President Joe Biden’s senior adviser, is appearing for a closed-door interview on Thursday in the House Oversight Committee’s probe into the former president’s mental fitness while in [Read More…]
Texas Republicans propose new congressional maps that could allow GOP gains
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images, FILE (TEXAS) — New congressional maps were proposed by Republican state legislators in Texas on Wednesday, following a push by President Donald Trump for maps more favorable to Republicans to help the GOP keep [Read More…]
Senate Democrats try to force DOJ to release Epstein files using little-known law
Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Senate Democrats on Wednesday said they are attempting to force the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files through a little-known, decades-old law. All seven Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee [Read More…]
Hegseth aide berates ‘sham’ review by IG office of secretary’s Signal chat
Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A top aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is berating independent auditors at the Pentagon for their ongoing review into the secretary’s use of the Signal messaging app, calling the [Read More…]
Kamala Harris says she won’t run for governor of California in 2026
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris will not run for California governor in 2026, after months of considering the prospect of being the chief executive of her home state. [Read More…]
Helicopter pilots never heard command to pass behind jet, NTSB says in DC crash hearing
Bryan Olin Dozier/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The pilots of a Black Hawk helicopter that collided with a passenger jet near Washington Reagan National Airport in January never heard an air traffic controller’s instruction [Read More…]
Families of DC plane crash victims break down in hearing as new video is released
Bryan Olin Dozier/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The National Transportation Safety Board began its three days of investigative hearings on Wednesday into January’s midair collision between American Airlines Flight 5342 and a Black Hawk helicopter near [Read More…]
Former Biden counselor Steve Ricchetti to testify before GOP-led panel amid probe into Biden’s mental fitness
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Ricchetti, who served as a counselor to former President Joe Biden, is set to appear for a closed-door interview with the Republican-led House Oversight Committee on Wednesday as its [Read More…]
Democratic senators ask Blanche to commit that DOJ won’t advocate for pardon or commutation for Maxwell
Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Sen. Dick Durbin, the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., sent a letter to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche Monday [Read More…]