Air Force crews flew every American bomber out of England on Sunday, some before the tankers meant to refuel them on the way home were in the air. Commanders ordered them back from RAF Fairford after new warnings of an Iran-backed plot against the base, a week after British police arrested five men nearby. For … Read more
Vladimir Putin pitched Donald Trump’s son-in-law on a Russian oil deal at the Kremlin last month. The Treasury Department rejected a bid for Lukoil’s refineries and gas stations last November, calling the would-be buyer “the Kremlin’s puppet.” This time the leading bidders include an Emirati royal who is effectively Jared Kushner’s business partner, and the … Read more
Reporters started a private school in Arkansas with $45 and an American flag. They aren’t teachers and don’t intend to run a school. ProPublica and three local newsrooms wanted to see how easily states approve new private schools and send them tax money. They tried in three states and succeeded in two. In West Virginia, … Read more
Renee Good’s family sued Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem and Tom Homan today over her killing by a federal immigration agent in Minneapolis. The day before she died, the administration sent 2,000 immigration agents into the Twin Cities. The suit calls her death the “predictable and intended product” of that operation. She stopped across the street … Read more
Attorney General Todd Blanche wants the judges who caught ICE breaking 96 court orders blocked from hearing any of its cases. Today Blanche accused all but one of Minnesota’s federal judges of misconduct for talking to the New York Times about Operation Metro Surge. In January, Judge Patrick Schiltz, a George W. Bush appointee, counted … Read more
Donald Trump wants the man who brokers America’s deportation deals in Africa to be his ambassador to Cameroon. Christian Ehrhardt runs the State Department’s Office of Remigration. Cameroon signed on last December, agreeing to take up to 1,000 people who aren’t from there, the same day the US approved nearly $400 million in health aid. … Read more
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp suspended his state’s gas tax today for the third time this year. His emergency order blames “global markets” and never mentions the war with Iran, now seven months old. The only federal action it cites is the energy emergency Donald Trump declared on his first day back in office. Also today, … Read more
The White House spent $319,000 of your money to run one of Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign ads during Sunday’s NFL games. The 30-second spot is nearly identical to the one his campaign aired two years ago, black and white, Trump walking down a hallway while his voice promises a “final battle” against “globalists” and “warmongers.” … Read more
North Carolina’s Columbus County set up a checkpoint Thursday night and asked Latino drivers where they were born. Electrician Javier Carbajal showed a deputy his license on the drive home from work and was ordered out of the car anyway. His passenger, also an electrician, couldn’t produce papers and was taken. Siembra NC counts at … Read more
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let Homeland Security use a searchable citizenship database built from Social Security data to check voters before the midterms. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in dissent that burdening even a few lawful voters outweighs the “nonexistent harm” of stopping the government from doing what it likely has no authority … Read more
Republican Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas wants ICE to call the sheriff before it comes to town. Agents started pulling people over in Dodge City, Garden City and Liberal before dawn Tuesday, and local police learned about it the same way everyone else did. A meatpacking plant delayed its shifts, and the Dodge City schools … Read more
Police in Springfield, Missouri, handcuffed a woman at Monday night’s city council meeting and ticketed her for a disturbance, listing the evidence as “middle finger to mayor.” She came to speak against the city’s 41 Flock license plate cameras, but the council had just voted to shelve a review of them and cancel public comment … Read more
Donald Trump stood before the United Nations General Assembly today and asked the world’s leaders whether he should drive Iran “into hell.” He framed it as a choice between a deal and the decision to “annihilate the Islamic Republic,” and told the room the deal would probably come “right after the election.” Iran, he said, … Read more
Donald Trump cut the ribbon on his new White House helipad Monday with a pair of golden scissors, but nobody could understand a word he said. He’d banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House three days earlier, and every other network in the TV press pool refused to take CNN’s scheduled slot. … Read more
An ICE agent shot a DoorDash driver in Austin just before 1 p.m. today, and by 4:30 the hospital had released him into ICE custody. Wilber Garces Perez, 28, was shot in the torso in the middle of a delivery. Hospital staff walked his wife and his lawyer off the property when they came to … Read more
Iran-backed Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Riyadh today, three days after Donald Trump said “hopefully we’re toward the end” of the war. Saudi Arabia says it shot the missile down. By evening, American embassies in nine countries were warning citizens that airspace across the region could close, and the State Department said the fighting … Read more
Donald Trump announced three big wins on Friday and oversold every one of them. He banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House “effective immediately.” By evening nobody had left, and his own press office didn’t know the details. He said Denmark gave America “permanent control” of Greenland. Denmark says it agreed to … Read more
A federal judge told Donald Trump he cannot tear down the Kennedy Center without asking 30 days in advance. Trump said Wednesday the building would “end up being ripped down” without his name on it. Hours later a photographer caught him on Air Force One reading a poster that said “Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED,” and by … Read more
Congress sent its first Epstein contempt case to Donald Trump’s Attorney General on the day a judge warned he could be next. Billionaire investor Leon Black paid Jeffrey Epstein more than $170 million between 2012 and 2017. He walked out of a closed-door interview with Congress in June and skipped the deposition where members planned … Read more
Donald Trump’s Pentagon stopped answering questions about his war, so the troops and the accountants answered for him. The Congressional Budget Office says the Iran war has cost $38 billion through August 1, and it noted the Defense Department refused to answer its questions. The report found the war has used at least half of … Read more
The Supreme Court won’t let Donald Trump’s post office decide who gets a mail ballot. A federal judge froze his Postal Service rule for this election, and Monday the Court refused to lift that freeze. The rule would have let the post office refuse any ballot from a voter the state had not first reported … Read more
Donald Trump’s hand-picked board says the Kennedy Center goes broke unless his name goes back on the memorial. He took over the institution 18 days into his term. A judge ruled in May that Congress alone can rename it. Crews pried his name off in June, and a tarp has hidden the sign ever since. … Read more
The officials who planned to cut FEMA in half deleted their Signal messages about it. Judge Susan Illston ruled Friday that their plan broke the law. She found that Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Department stripped FEMA of control over its own people and committed the agency to getting rid of more than 10,000 employees, with … Read more
Todd Blanche got his job by promising senators in writing that his $1.8 billion payout fund was dead. Forty days later, on a Friday night, his Justice Department filed a two-line notice appealing the ruling that Donald Trump sued himself and the government never defended the case. The department’s first appearance is to appeal the … Read more
It took the US Supreme Court to make Missouri count 305,000 of its own voters’ signatures. They filed a petition in December protesting a map that carved up a Democratic seat in Kansas City at Donald Trump’s urging. Missouri’s secretary of state sat on it for eight months, then rejected it on primary day. When … Read more
Leitaea Lowrimore needed a lawyer to find a doctor who would keep her alive. Three emergency rooms in two states refused to treat the Oklahoma mother over six days in February. She had an ectopic pregnancy, one growing outside the womb, which ruptures and bleeds without treatment. One doctor said it could cost him “10 … Read more
A Border Patrol analyst in Spokane read a stranger’s bank activity, and a Montana trooper found a reason to pull him over. Nobody knows how a federal agent in Washington and a state trooper in Montana came to be talking about one black Chevy on Interstate 90, because the government won’t say. We know it … Read more
Donald Trump answered Canada’s tariffs with a Truth Social post, and the tariffs took effect anyway. Ottawa’s levies on $20 billion in American goods went live at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday, matching the 50% he put on Canadian wine, cement and hockey sticks last month. On Monday he posted “NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE … Read more
Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Sunday to let the Post Office refuse to deliver or return ballots that were already in the mail. North Carolina started mailing ballots on Friday. A federal judge blocked the Postal Service rule the same day because no state can comply with it in time. It requires every … Read more
Do you remember the 21st night of September? Donald Trump stood at Charlie Kirk’s memorial that night and told tens of thousands of mourners, “I hate my opponents, and I don’t want the best for them.” The same day his administration announced it would tie Tylenol to autism. If either one has blurred into everything … Read more
Police in Arlington, Virginia, opened a criminal investigation of ICE agents this week for a beating the federal government calls “necessary force.” José Mejía Hernandez was walking to a bus stop one morning last month when two men in plain clothes got out of an unmarked car. He ran. He says he remembers a jolt … Read more
Every judge on Missouri’s Supreme Court agreed that the congressional map Donald Trump wanted has never been the law. Missouri redrew its map last year at Trump’s request to erase the Democratic district in Kansas City. More than 300,000 voters responded with a petition demanding a referendum, which under the state constitution freezes a law … Read more
Donald Trump’s Justice Department told the states to turn in their immigrants or their neediest families will lose their welfare checks. Every state shares $16.4 billion in cash aid for needy families. For 28 years only welfare offices had to report undocumented immigrants to Washington. Now every state agency must, including the DMV and the … Read more
Sailors walked off the USS Abraham Lincoln onto a pier in Thailand today after 286 days at sea with no port call at all. Carriers normally pull into port about every six weeks to take on supplies and let the crew ashore. The Lincoln left San Diego the week before Thanksgiving, got sent to the … Read more
Construction crews at the White House are working 20 hours a day on a ballroom the Chief Justice says is likely illegal. Five justices let the work continue Monday by ruling that nobody has the right to sue over it, but never decided whether the ballroom is legal. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that federal … Read more
Donald Trump asked the FCC to punish a journalist for doubting him. Kristen Welker reported on NBC that his primary endorsement record was mixed. Six of his candidates lost Republican primaries in August. Trump called her a “Hostess,” accused her of “purposeful inaccuracy,” and said she would be reported to the FCC “for rebuke or … Read more
Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security used a tariff audit form to subpoena a Minneapolis reporter’s phone records. In February a federal judge twice refused agents a warrant for Georgia Fort’s YouTube account because they could not show she had committed a crime. He also ordered them to tell her if they tried again. Weeks … Read more
Immigration agents are getting electric shock gloves and robots that open doors. ICE signed a no-bid contract this week for 6,000 pairs of gloves that shock anyone “actively or passively resisting,” which covers a person who goes limp. The agency said today it would buy four-legged Boston Dynamics robots that can open a door on … Read more
Twenty masked federal agents held off a tribe’s police so contractors could start drilling for Donald Trump’s border wall. They came onto the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona at four in the morning Tuesday with a Border Patrol SWAT team and drill trucks to work three sites. The Nation had posted No Trespassing signs two … Read more
Twenty-four states took the Supreme Court up on its dare in two days. On Monday the Court unblocked Donald Trump’s mail voting order, ruling the states sued too soon because courts only review final rules. The final rule says the USPS will not deliver your ballot unless the envelope carries a tracking barcode and your … Read more
Donald Trump’s lawyers told a federal judge today that the Kennedy Center must carry his name or be torn down. A court ordered his name pried off the building in May after ruling the renaming illegal. His board voted it back on this month while he listened in by phone. Now the Justice Department calls … Read more
Six justices gave Donald Trump a head start on the midterms. The Supreme Court will let his election order take effect before any court rules on whether it’s legal. The federal government now tells your state who counts as a citizen, and your state tells DC the name and address of everyone who votes by … Read more
Dr. Oz took three questions on Face the Nation to say a childhood vaccine will not kill your child. Trump called the 55-year-old MMR vaccine “quite lethal” two weeks ago. Asked to clarify, his Medicaid administrator answered questions about parental rights. The third time he was asked, he said the vaccine is not lethal. On … Read more
The Prime Minister of Canada says America attacked his country. The 50% tariffs Trump long threatened hit at midnight Friday after US negotiators demanded in the final hours that Canada surrender its right to make trade deals with other nations. Canada stopped negotiating and set dollar for dollar retaliation for September 8. Asked why he … Read more
Donald Trump threatened to sue a think tank for $5 billion over numbers it published. The Center for American Progress measured crime in Washington, Los Angeles, and Memphis and found his National Guard deployments didn’t change the crime rate. His personal lawyer, not the White House counsel, sent a nine-page letter threatening the suit unless … Read more
ICE’s own emails now confirm it let Iran’s government edit America’s deportation lists. “Per request from the Iran Embassy [sic] I added a few cases,” one official wrote before the first of three flights that returned more than 100 Iranians. Detainees had sworn in court that Iranian officials somehow knew the details of their asylum … Read more
They can’t ban abortion everywhere, so they tried to ban telling you where it’s legal. Indiana moved to punish Planned Parenthood for telling minors which states allow abortion. Separately, HHS killed 53 teen pregnancy prevention programs that worked and ordered abstinence-only lessons in their place. Federal courts blocked both, with an appeals court ruling that … Read more
Governor Greg Abbott turned Texas into a sanctuary state for one ICE agent. Christian Castro shot a Venezuelan man through the front door of a Minneapolis home in January, then lied about it so thoroughly that federal prosecutors charged the man he shot. Minnesota later charged Castro with felony assault, Texas Rangers arrested him, and … Read more
Donald Trump threatened to bomb the country trying to end his war. Oman is a longtime American ally, the mediator both sides trust and the channel for every Hormuz negotiation. On Saturday, Iran announced the two countries had agreed on a plan to reopen shipping. Trump’s answer came Monday: “If Oman gets in the way, … Read more
Donald Trump just showed every nation the value of being America’s military ally. Hours before 18,000 South Korean soldiers began annual joint exercises with US troops, Trump ordered Hegseth on Truth Social to gut the drills because of his “very good relationship” with Kim Jong Un. He added, in what he called an unrelated point, … Read more
