A Maryland community has nixed a previously issued building permit for a private detention center that local officials said would be used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The Howard County government revoked the permit Monday, ending construction for the proposed
Independent journalist Georgia Fort said Monday that her arrest on federal civil rights charges stemming for her coverage of a protest inside a Minnesota church is part of a “strategic attack on the free press.” A grand jury indicted Fort, former CNN anchor Don Lemon and seven
The Pentagon says it is close to an agreement with Scouting America to keep providing financial support, but said the organization must show its commitment to implementing "common-sense, core value reforms.” The Defense Department (DOD) said that it has been reviewing its
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday touted a new $100 million effort to fight opioid addiction highlighting the country’s “fragmented” system for addressing substance abuse. Kennedy said HHS will implement the Safety Through
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) said on Tuesday that Republican senators will discuss employing a seldom-used interpretation of the Senate Rules to require that Democrats actively hold the Sente floor with continuous debate — a so-called standing filibuster — to
You’ll never guess which country launched a massive attack just hours after President Donald Trump announced yet another supposed temporary ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine. Sitting at his desk in the Oval Office Monday, Trump repeated his claim that Russian President
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee, in a new report, allege that a "culture of impunity" at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) led to the shooting deaths of two Minneapolis residents last month. U.S. citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti were both killed in
Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), said in a Senate hearing Tuesday that he has not seen any studies supporting the theory that any vaccines cause autism, a break from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has long
Bruce Springsteen's protest song ripping what he calls the "state terror" tactics by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is topping the music sales charts in the United States. "Streets of Minneapolis" was last week's highest-selling song in the United States,
The FBI’s raid of a Fulton County, Georgia, elections office last week confused local authorities and caused a dispute, despite the FBI possessing a judicial search warrant. Body camera footage from Fulton County police reveals that officials at the Fulton County Election Hub
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) warned against Democrats’ proposed reforms to immigration enforcement warrants, saying, “That is a road we cannot and should not go down.” Democrats in both chambers of Congress are pushing for tightened restrictions around immigration agents’
The French offices of Elon Musk’s X were raided Tuesday amid an investigation into the social platform, according to the Paris prosecutor’s office. The prosecutor’s office said in a post on X that its cybercrime unit had executed a search warrant at the company’s offices as
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) will speak with reporters Tuesday afternoon as Democrats raise concerns about Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard's presence during the recent FBI raid on an election office in Fulton County, Ga. FBI agents were seen removing documents from
The ACA was never meant to be frozen in time: It was meant to evolve.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday rejected President Trump’s call for Republicans in Washington to “nationalize” voting in the United States and “take over” the management of elections in 15 states. Thune said that while he strongly supports requiring voters
The recall is classified as Class III, the FDA’s lowest risk level, meaning it's "not likely to cause adverse health consequences."
"We are sorry for any inconvenience this recall may have caused," Costco says.
An internal message states employees must eat at the company's restaurants for "all or the majority of" their meals, depending on their location and schedule.
White House adviser and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is once again attacking the judicial branch after it ruined his plans to deport thousands of Haitian immigrants. On Monday evening, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s
A hybrid federal-state partnership could yield more efficient and effective disaster governance without sacrificing equity for under resourced locales.
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking temporary protected status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians on Monday. District Judge Ana Reyes implemented a stay on Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s order ending TPS for Haitians in the U.S.,
Democratic strategist James Carville said he favors Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) as the party's nominee for president in the 2028 election. “If I had to say one guy — I really don’t know him, very superficially — but if I were like betting the Kentucky Derby and I saw this
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche couldn’t care less about exposing the survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse. Don’t believe us? Listen for yourself. During an interview on Fox News Monday, Blanche was asked to answer for the thousands of redaction errors in the Department of
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to upend temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians. In an unsparing 83-page decision issued late Monday, Judge Ana C. Reyes of the Federal District Court in Washington, D.C., formally denied a motion
This was always about politics, not the Constitution or the law more generally.
President Trump slammed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) and his wife Monday, as the House prepares to vote on a key funding package that could reopen the government after a partial shutdown. "People are saying that Thomas Massie became a Liberal because his new wife, blessed be
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Monday the Texas Democrat who won a state Senate seat over the weekend “looked like a Republican,” which he argued helped him successfully flip the district. “This is a state Senate race, and it's a special election. Democrats
U.S. Attorney for D.C. Jeanine Pirro on Monday threatened jail time for people who bring firearms into Washington. "I don't care if you have a license in another district, and I don't care if you're a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else," Pirro said on Fox News. "You bring a
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) has given former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton a noon EST deadline to clarify the terms they are agreeing to for a deposition in the panel’s investigation of convicted
Elon Musk’s lewd image generator on his X platform has gotten him into trouble in France. Prosecutors in Paris have asked Musk, along with former X CEO Linda Yaccarino, to appear for questioning over the spread of deepfake pornography and antisemitic content on the social media
Texas state Sen.-elect Taylor Rehmet (D) said President Trump was a nonfactor in his Tuesday election victory, when the candidate flipped the district from red to blue. “Well, I don‘t believe he was able to vote in this race. He doesn‘t live here in Senate District 9,” Rehmet
Trump encouraged the protests not only to continue but to escalate; his failure to deliver on his promise of support contributed to the deaths of tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is voicing support for pop superstar Bad Bunny ahead of his performance during halftime of Super Bowl LX on Sunday, as some conservatives express annoyance with the artist over his anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comments over the
President Trump announced late Monday he is seeking $1 billion to settle investigations into Harvard University after The New York Times reported his administration was dropping its cash ask in negotiations with the school. "Strongly Antisemitic Harvard University has been
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro’s anti–Second Amendment declaration has left the Trump administration’s own base outraged. “You bring a gun into the District [of Columbia], you mark my words: You’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate James Fishback said Monday he joined the dating app Tinder to meet young female voters in the state. Fishback, 31, wrote on the social platform X that he joined Tinder “to meet young female voters where they are, and share my plan to
House Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (Calif.) and other top Democrats will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as the lower chamber of Congress is set to vote on a funding package to end the partial government shutdown. Democrats have a big decision to make after the
We have not just left a treaty; we have voluntarily blinded our own national security apparatus.
Donald Trump is now demanding $1 billion from Harvard after The New York Times reported he’d backed down from a request for the university to pay his administration off. For a moment, it appeared that Trump’s extortion scheme had failed at Harvard. Six other elite schools
The Trump administration is running out of excuses to explain away the president’s relationship with deceased child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche told Fox News Monday evening that pretty much everyone who partied with the “pedophile
Rear Adm. David C. Barata will testify before a House Homeland Security panel Tuesday morning on the U.S. Coast Guard's (USCG) moves to combat narcoterrorism, including the continued strikes on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. The hearing comes a month
Former CNN anchor Don Lemon said Monday that his attorney offered to turn him in to federal authorities before he was arrested and indicted on federal civil rights charges stemming from his coverage of a protest inside a Minnesota church earlier this month. Lemon told ABC’s
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche said Monday that there is a chance anyone who attended parties with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could be prosecuted but noted that "it isn't a crime to party with Mr. Epstein." "Well, look, I’ll never say no, and we will always
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Republican leaders will speak with reporters Tuesday morning as lawmakers are set to vote on legislation to end the partial government shutdown. The House Rules Committee on Monday night advanced the bill, teeing up what will be a tight
A trio of Senate Democrats are warning the consumer credit reporting agency Equifax against price gouging for its services as a significant number of Medicaid beneficiaries are expected to go into the job market to find employment in order to keep receiving benefits under the
The practical takeaway for executives is direct. Treat flexibility like any other operating system.
After nearly two months of post-Thanksgiving semi-hibernation, Maine’s Senate race is waking up . Although Democratic primary voters won’t head to the polls until June to decide who will take on longtime GOP incumbent Susan Collins, Graham Platner, the progressive populist
George Zinn, accepted a plea deal as he faced charges of obstruction of justice and sexual exploitation of a minor.