New law requires IRS to tell taxpayers the specific line where math errors occurred on their returns instead of sending vague correction notices.
Trump appoints his 26-year-old assistant to the arts commission set to vote Thursday on advancing his controversial White House ballroom project.
FBI formally refuses to share evidence with Minnesota investigators in Alex Pretti shooting, as bystander video appears to show agents took his gun before killing him.
Trump attacks $16 billion Gateway tunnel project days after court forced release of frozen federal funds, denying he demanded Penn Station and Dulles be renamed for him.
Trump blames Maryland Gov. Moore for month-old Potomac sewage spill from a federally regulated pipe and deploys FEMA, currently shut down, to lead cleanup.
TSA officers work without pay as DHS shutdown enters its first weekend, with more than 5,100 flights delayed Saturday and 1,110 officers leaving the agency in October and November alone.
Federal Reserve research finds the average U.S. tariff rate jumped from 2.6% to 13% in 2025, with American consumers and businesses absorbing 94% of the cost through August and 86% by November.
Six months after an explosion killed two workers at the nation’s largest coke plant, Trump exempted the facility from Biden-era benzene monitoring rules at U.S. Steel’s request.
TSA requires 61,000 airport workers to stay on the job without pay after DHS funding lapses, weeks after a 43-day shutdown left many still recovering financially.
Congressman Raskin confirms a whistleblower’s account of inhumane conditions at a Baltimore ICE facility after a surprise inspection found 55 detainees packed into a single room.
WHO formally condemns a CDC-funded trial that would withhold a proven hepatitis B vaccine from 7,000 newborns in Guinea-Bissau, calling the study unethical and scientifically unjustified after two months of global backlash.
Two top RFK Jr. aides leave HHS in a White House-driven shakeup to sharpen health messaging ahead of midterm elections, including the acting CDC director who rarely visited the agency.
State Department orders roughly 1,400 nonprofit public libraries to stop processing passport applications, threatening closures and layoffs in states where most libraries are nonprofit entities.
Two Washington golfers sue to block Trump’s overhaul of a century-old public golf course where crews are dumping White House demolition debris on historic parkland.
FBI used warrantless “assessment” authority to gather intelligence on over 1,000 journalists, religious organizations, and politicians between 2018 and 2024, watchdog report finds.
Intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard blocked a whistleblower complaint from Congress for eight months that centered on an intercepted conversation referencing Jared Kushner and Iran.
Senate leaves for recess after failing to fund DHS, with ICE and Border Patrol unaffected because last year’s reconciliation bill already gave them billions.
Speaker Johnson calls DOJ’s tracking of lawmakers’ Epstein file searches an “oversight,” declining to confront the agency as bipartisan members call it spying.
Customs and Border Protection chief tells senators Alex Pretti was “fighting back nonstop” after watching video showing the unarmed nurse standing with his hands up before agents shot him.
Government loses three hard drives plaintiffs purchased to store court-ordered ICE detention footage, then claims it ran out of storage space and has no footage from isolation cells.
New Jersey launches website for residents to report ICE conduct and signs executive order barring federal immigration enforcement on state property without judicial warrants.
DOJ fires a U.S. attorney hours after federal judges appointed him in Albany, with Deputy AG Blanche announcing on X: “You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”
California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota sue to block $600 million in CDC public health funding cuts the states say are driven by political retaliation over immigration enforcement disagreements.
CBO projects national debt will hit $64 trillion in a decade, with Trump’s tax and immigration policies canceling out the $3 trillion in deficit reduction from his tariffs.
IRS improperly shared confidential tax data of thousands of immigrants with DHS, breaching legal protections courts had already ruled violated taxpayers’ rights.
AG Bondi brought a printout of Rep. Jayapal’s Epstein file search history to Wednesday’s hearing, prompting Rep. Raskin to call for an Inspector General investigation into DOJ surveillance of lawmakers.
Bondi lashes out at lawmakers during House Epstein hearing as Democrats and Rep. Massie accuse DOJ of exposing survivors’ identities while shielding potential co-conspirators.
Trump calls Oklahoma Gov. Stitt a “RINO” after Stitt, as NGA chair, pushes back on excluding Democratic governors from annual White House dinner.
Pentagon lets CBP fire an anti-drone laser near Fort Bliss without FAA coordination, triggering a chaotic airspace shutdown the administration blames on a cartel incursion.
ICE secretly leases more than 150 offices across nearly every state, with DHS ordering GSA to hide locations and bypass competitive bidding.
Commerce Secretary Lutnick confirms he lunched with Jeffrey Epstein on his private island in 2012, contradicting his claim he cut all ties in 2005.
State Department will begin proactively revoking passports of parents owing more than $100,000 in child support, expanding a 1996 law that currently affects fewer than 500 people.
Trump excludes all Democratic governors from the White House business meeting during the annual National Governors Association conference, prompting NGA to cancel the session entirely.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demands a full list of ongoing inspector general investigations while her office sends the independent watchdog “reminder” emails about a never-used power to kill probes.
Trump disinvites Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and Colorado Gov. Jared Polis from the traditionally bipartisan White House governors dinner while restricting the formal meeting to Republicans only.
Army civilians who worked during the government shutdown were told to record their timesheets as furlough days, in what employees say violates the Anti-Deficiency Act and forced them to falsify federal records.
Trump administration’s yearlong retreat from consumer enforcement at the CFPB cost Americans an estimated $19 billion in financial relief, including dropped lawsuits against Capital One and Zelle.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s office told a whistleblower’s attorney he has no legal right to brief Congress about a classified complaint.
Group organizing America’s 250th birthday celebration offers access to Trump for $1 million donations, with speaking roles at July 4th events starting at $2.5 million.
IRS is reassigning up to 1,400 back-office employees to frontline filing season work with little training after losing 27% of its workforce, as CEO Bisignano runs both IRS and Social Security simultaneously.
Social Security is reassigning benefits processors to answer phones after shedding 7,400 employees, with workers receiving three hours of training and fearing backlogs will grow.
Whistleblower from Baltimore ICE detention facility describes detainees lying in feces, 50 people in cells meant for far fewer, and women given diapers instead of sanitary products.
DHS allowed one congresswoman into Minneapolis detention facility after she produced a court order but denied entry to two other lawmakers, as the doctor-turned-representative found no measles protocols in place.
White House excludes Democratic governors from its annual meeting during the National Governors Association weekend, breaking a bipartisan tradition of more than 60 years.
Navy Secretary John Phelan, a major Trump donor, was listed on a 2006 Epstein flight manifest alongside a French modeling agent later charged with rape of a minor.
House Oversight chair Comer is investigating Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband after his two companies surged from $51,000 to $30 million in one year.
Justice Department will let lawmakers view unredacted Epstein files starting Monday, but is withholding 2.5 million pages and banning electronic devices from the reading room.
Maryland man charged with attempted murder after allegedly arriving armed at OMB Director Vought’s Arlington home, with digital evidence showing he solicited others to kill him.
OPM finalizes rule converting roughly 50,000 career federal workers to at-will status, reviving the Schedule F policy Biden repealed in 2021.
Judge orders Musk to sit for deposition over USAID shutdown, ruling he cannot claim high-ranking official protections because his role was informal.
