Trump directs budget chief Vought to draft an order giving him a veto over health research grants after the NIH director refused to cut Harvard.
Trump announces an “AI Force” modeled on Space Force and a new AI czar, days after calling technologists’ fears AI could destroy humanity a “hoax.”
US military kills four in Caribbean strike on a boat it says carried drugs, offering no evidence, bringing boat-strike deaths to at least 231.
Secret Service bars CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters from the White House, deactivating badges, a day after Trump banned the outlets over “FICTION and LIES.”
Maine’s housing agency reopens eviction prevention aid Monday, paying past-due rent plus up to 12 months more for renters owing no more than $9,600.
State Department warns Americans in nine Middle East countries of potential “unforeseen escalation,” three days after Trump said “hopefully we’re toward the end” of the war.
Trump says he will demand makers split unnamed childhood vaccines into five doses at six-month intervals to cut autism, a link scientists have repeatedly debunked.
Homeland Security memo lists counties with non-English ballots, including one the Voting Rights Act requires to translate, under “requirements for prosecution of voter related charges.”
Cobb County, Georgia, superintendent pulls Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s 56-year-old novel “The Bluest Eye” from school libraries after reading only excerpts, with no review committee.
FAA readies the AI advisory tool from an $875 million contract for Washington airspace as soon as Monday, months after cutting its controller estimate by 2,000.
Federal judge orders EPA to reinstate $7 billion in Solar for All grants for 900,000 lower-income households, ruling Trump’s budget law cannot cancel existing grants.
Trump signs the late Sen. Graham’s Russia sanctions bill, gaining power to put 100% tariffs on the top five buyers of Russian oil and gas.
Trump signs orders expanding federal-land hunting and restoring lead ammunition, telling hunters “I don’t know what the hell that means” but “you wanted it.”
Justice Department defends firing Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey, James Comey’s daughter, as a no-cause Article II removal, a firing Laura Loomer demanded weeks earlier.
HHS Secretary Kennedy discloses over $250,000 in gifts, including flights to Fiji and Greece, from a security consultant who was a major 2024 campaign donor.
Trump says Donald Trump Jr. “paid back” the Russian oligarch who bankrolled his wedding party, contradicting the couple’s statement calling it a “wedding gift.”
ICE agent Christian Castro appears in federal court on charges of lying about the Minneapolis shooting, a day after Minnesota arraigned him for the shooting.
Federal judge refuses to declare Trump’s $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund” suit moot, saying officials “contradict themselves all the time” on whether it is dead.
Trump administration begins installing 30-foot wall panels in the Big Bend region a day after West Texas landowners sued to stop it.
Texas Gov. Abbott halts new Flock license plate reader permits on state roads, three weeks after freezing state funding for the 13,000-camera network.
Justice Department declares the federal ban on dealers selling handguns to 18-to-20-year-olds unconstitutional and will not enforce it while appeals courts remain split.
Trump says all 50 states joined most-favored-nation Medicaid drug pricing that “alone should win us the midterms,” as experts say Medicaid patients already pay little.
Trump plans to meet Venezuela’s US-installed leader Delcy Rodríguez at the UN next week, Axios reports, eight months after seizing Maduro with no election called.
Hundreds form a human chain around the fenced Kennedy Center as Trump, asked if he will demolish it, says his administration “saved” the “dump.”
US, Denmark and Greenland announce a defense deal banning Russian and Chinese bases, far short of Trump’s January demand for “complete and total control.”
Trump declares CNN, MS NOW and Politico banned from the White House over “fake news,” warns others will follow, but none enforced by day’s end.
40 states and DC force subprime auto lender Credit Acceptance to forgive $634 million for 55,000 borrowers after the federal consumer bureau dropped the case.
Two tankers hit in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran claiming one, hours after Trump tells Axios his “big decision” could be to “annihilate” the regime.
State Department approves a potential $24 billion sale of 48 F-35s to Saudi Arabia over lawmakers’ warnings China could obtain the jet’s technology.
Six Senate Democrats demand Office of Personnel Management halt collecting claims-level health records on 8 million federal workers and families, data the agency can re-identify.
HHS Secretary Kennedy names eight members to the task force that decides which preventive care insurers must cover free, four months after firing its chair.
Postmaster General Steiner says the Postal Service has stopped building the voter-screening system behind Trump’s mail-ballot order after the Supreme Court blocked it.
Appeals court lets HUD shift $1.3 billion in homelessness funding from Housing First to treatment while it appeals a ruling that it skipped public comment.
Pennsylvania Gov. Shapiro refuses CDC help with a 731-case measles outbreak until the agency’s dashboard, still showing zero deaths, acknowledges the state’s four.
Pentagon issues mandatory testosterone screening for male service members over 30, delivering Hegseth’s July promise to keep troops on the “leading edge of lethality.”
HHS Secretary Kennedy tells the vaccine-skeptic group he co-founded it has a “steadfast friend at the White House” as measles deaths reach four in weeks.
US Institute of Peace and its ousted board ask appeals court to block Trump from carving his name into their building, a contractor already chosen.
Federal judge sentences Minneapolis man to 14 months for spraying Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) with vinegar at town hall, rejecting the “harmless kitchen substance” defense.
Former ICE agent Christian Castro surrenders in Minneapolis on assault charges for shooting a legal immigrant, months after Texas Gov. Abbott stalled his extradition.
White House pulls ICE director nominee Lance Schroyer, a former Oklahoma trooper who guarded DHS Secretary Mullin’s home, after DHS officials questioned his credentials.
Federal judge orders 30 days’ notice before any Kennedy Center demolition, a day after Trump said it will be “ripped down” without his name.
California Gov. Newsom signs the nation’s first smoke-damage testing and cleanup standards, forcing insurers to pay after 13,000 claims from the 2025 Los Angeles fires.
UN-commissioned rights panel finds “reasonable grounds” the US committed war crimes in two Iran strikes that killed at least 178 civilians.
National Park Service awards a $389,355 engineering contract and posts a $49 million construction bid for Trump’s East Potomac golf course overhaul without telling Congress, Rep. Huffman reveals.
Federal judge gives Attorney General Blanche eight days to hand over Epstein interview notes and prove redacted names are victims or face contempt.
Family of Tierra Walker, who died of preeclampsia at 20 weeks after doctors denied an abortion, sues Texas Attorney General and Senate nominee Paxton over the ban.
Senate Agriculture Committee advances the farm bill on party lines, McConnell’s return supplying the vote it lacked in August, as Democrats hold out over food stamp cost shifts.
National Park Service finds Trump’s 250-foot arch would harm views of the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington Cemetery but says build it anyway with “mitigations.”
Federal judge finds ICE likely violated the First Amendment when agents tracked a Rochester man to three locations over a scathing email calling its director a Nazi.
White House chief of staff Susie Wiles says she is cancer free six months after her March breast cancer diagnosis, having worked through treatment.
