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Schumer moves to block Trump nominees for 2 key New York prosecutor positions
Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Wednesday that he’ll use a Senate procedure that allows home state senators to object to judicial nominees to attempt to block President Donald Trump’s picks [Read More…]
Trump DOJ files civil suit against Maine in standoff over transgender athletes in women’s sports
Attorney General Pam Bondi ; Andrew Harnik/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department has filed suit against Maine in an effort to challenge the state’s policy regarding transgender athletes competing in girls’ and women’s sports, [Read More…]
Protesters tased, arrested at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia town hall
Pool via ABC News (COBB COUNTY, GA) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in the House, faced several protesters who were removed by police for disrupting her town [Read More…]
6 times the Trump administration has clashed with opponents over court orders
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — In the nearly three months since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, lawyers challenging his actions in court have alleged that his administration has violated court orders on a half dozen occasions, [Read More…]
Biden says damage Trump has done to Social Security is ‘breathtaking’
Scott Olson/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden in one of his first public speeches since leaving the White House offered a full-throated rebuke of the Trump administration’s efforts to cut Social Security on [Read More…]
US puts $8M bounty for arrest of Mexican drug cartel leaders charged with trafficking fentanyl
U.S. Department of State The Justice Department on Tuesday unsealed drug trafficking charges against the two leaders of the Mexican drug cartel La Nueva Familia Michoacana Organization (LNFM) and offered up to $8 million for [Read More…]
Trump wants to send US citizens to foreign prisons. Legal experts say he can’t.
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has deported hundreds of migrants it alleges are MS-13 gang members — calling them “terrorists” — to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison. Could American citizens convicted of [Read More…]
Obama blasts Trump administration’s ‘unlawful’ Harvard demands
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Barack Obama in a statement late Monday praised Harvard University for rejecting President Donald Trump’s demands as the university faces a funding freeze for alleged inaction on antisemitism. [Read More…]
Is Trump’s Ukraine peace effort stalled amid Putin’s relentless strikes?
Contributor/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — After a devastating missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy appeared to have killed dozens of civilians gathered for Palm Sunday celebrations, President Donald Trump downplayed the incident as a [Read More…]
Biden to make one of his first post-presidency speeches to defend Social Security
James Devaney/GC Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Joe Biden will deliver one of his first public speeches since leaving office 85 days ago, expected to speak about safeguarding Social Security amid Republicans’ current threats to [Read More…]
Obama praises Harvard for rejecting White House demands as Trump says it should lose tax-exempt status
Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Former President Barack Obama in a statement late Monday praised Harvard University for rejecting President Donald Trump’s demands as the university faces a funding freeze for alleged inaction on antisemitism. [Read More…]
Vice President JD Vance fumbles Ohio State football team’s national championship trophy
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Vice President JD Vance fumbled The Ohio State University football team’s national championship trophy during a celebration at the White House on Monday. President Donald Trump hosted the Buckeyes after [Read More…]
‘Homegrowns are next’: Trump doubles down on sending American ‘criminals’ to foreign prisons
Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his idea of sending U.S. citizens to foreign prisons, telling El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele he wanted to send “homegrown criminals” to [Read More…]
El Salvador’s Bukele, meeting with Trump, says he won’t return migrant wrongfully deported
Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC (WASHINGTON) — El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, sitting next to President Donald Trump in the Oval Office, said on Monday he will not return Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant from Maryland who [Read More…]
Trump hosts El Salvador’s Bukele amid deportation controversy
Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Monday is hosting El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele, the self-described “world’s coolest dictator” who has become a key ally in the administration’s controversial migrant deportations. The two men [Read More…]
Democrat-sponsored bill seeks ethics checks on special government employees like Elon Musk
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A new legislative push led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is seeking to bar special government employees like tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon [Read More…]
Military academies criticized for removing DEI-related books from libraries
wellesenterprises/Getty Images/STOCK (ANNAPOLIS, Md.) — At the U.S. Naval Academy, it’s not what’s on the shelves that’s drawing attention — but what’s missing. The institution’s Nimitz Library has been stripped of 381 titles, according to [Read More…]
Trump administration reviewing case of FBI informant convicted of lying about Bidens
Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Department of Justice said it is reviewing the criminal case brought against a former FBI informant convicted of peddling lies about former President Joe Biden and his [Read More…]
What to know about Trump’s health as he undergoes latest physical
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump undergoes his annual physical at Walter Reed Medical Center on Friday, marking his first such exam of his second term. “I have never felt better, but nevertheless, [Read More…]
RFK Jr., intent to focus on chronic disease, continues to be dogged by impacts of HHS cuts
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Far as he was from Washington, D.C., as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. hiked to the top of a towering sandstone arch in rural Arizona with [Read More…]