Judge Tanya Chutkan orders 48 hours notice before any work beyond artifact surveys at the site of Trump’s 250-foot arch, a day after Interior Secretary Burgum said excavation starts within 2 weeks.
US ends $45 million a year in HIV support for Namibia after the country refuses to hand over health data and biological specimens, the 5th African nation to reject at those terms.
US forces sink 3 Ecuadorian boats they call fuel stations for drug speedboats, as relatives of the detained crew say the men were fishing and no drugs were found.
Trump administration drafts rule paying married stay-at-home parents from a $12 billion child care fund now serving mostly single working mothers, with no new money, the New York Times reports.
US casts the only vote against a 164-1 UN resolution urging replacement of the Mercator map, which shows Greenland about the size of Africa, a continent 14 times larger.
Trump’s business partner Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner meet Putin in Moscow for the 8th time, as Russia says it remains “confident” of seizing the rest of eastern Ukraine.
Kennedy Center closes its Grand Foyer after a chunk of ceiling falls during storms, and management calls the “limited” damage proof of the 2-year shutdown a judge blocked in May
US Ambassador to Israel Huckabee tells Palestinian Americans in the West Bank that Israeli settler attacks are “an act of terror,” a label US envoys normally reserve for Palestinians.
Tulsa City Council spends $441,084 in opioid settlement money on a mobile mental health team that treats people where they are instead of jailing or hospitalizing them.
US destroys 1 Iranian oil tanker and disables 2 more after Revolutionary Guard fires ballistic missiles at an aircraft carrier, one day after Trump called the war “small potatoes.”
Arlington, Virginia, police open an investigation of ICE agents accused of a beating that left a man with a brain hemorrhage, as Homeland Security calls it “necessary force.”
Senate nominee Ken Paxton reports no rental income from 6 homes listed for rent and omits $1.3 million in golf resort mortgages, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune find.
Trump orders agencies to start removing gray wolves from the endangered species list and tells Interior Secretary Burgum to push states to let ranchers shoot them.
Prosecutors admit in court they have no evidence Olympian Davey Hearn damaged the Reflecting Pool yet fight a permanent dismissal, as Trump keeps claiming vandalism.
Justice Department antitrust official orders a “Pause on Canada” in cooperation during the tariff fight, then calls it a mistake after The Wall Street Journal reports it.
Fake website for Republicans’ first midterm convention redirects visitors to the Justice Department’s Epstein files 5 days before the Dallas event.
North Carolina’s Republican-led elections board votes party-line to toss more mail ballots over errors it previously let slide, the same morning counties begin mailing ballots.
Trump threatens to stop trading with countries running trade surpluses unless the Federal Reserve cuts rates, hours after a stronger-than-expected 162,000-job August report.
Justice Department sends Nevada 7 FBI subpoenas for voter data after judges tossed its lawsuit demanding the same files, one of 23 rejected.
Trump will fly the Qatari-gifted Air Force One to Ireland this month, 2 months after secretly leaving Turkey on another plane over security concerns.
Federal magistrate orders Justice Department to name who conceived its scrapped $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for people claiming unfair prosecution, rejecting weeks of resistance.
Pennsylvania coroner confirms a 2-month-old Lancaster County girl died of measles, one of 2 infant deaths the state had called only “measles-associated.”
ICE agent Christian Castro pleads not guilty to 6 counts of lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis and goes free on $75,000 bond.
US diesel hits a record $5.85 a gallon, up nearly 60% in a year, as Iran and Ukraine wars knock refineries offline.
Federal judge lets Pentagon fire 3 Stars and Stripes journalists for telling CBS their reporting should be free of government influence, finding no clear First Amendment violation.
Supreme Court lets party committees buy midterm ads at discounted rates long limited to candidates, after Republican committees vowed hundreds of millions to “obliterate” Democrats.
Federal judge extends block on Trump’s Postal Service mail-voting order, ruling states can’t “pivot this late,” the same day North Carolina mails its first ballots.
Sunnyvale, California, launches Beam, an all-electric ride-hailing service with $3.50 fares and $1.75 for seniors, teens and low-income riders, funded for the next 20 years.
Trump says the US has “essentially taken over Iran” while holding no Iranian territory, and calls the war “small potatoes” and a “military conflict.”
Federal appeals court refuses to rehear Philadelphia’s fight to restore President’s House panels on 9 people Washington enslaved, leaving the city only a Supreme Court petition.
Federal appeals court blocks a ruling that let one Idaho doctor perform abortions to protect a mother’s health or prevent self-harm, restoring the state’s near-total ban.
Trump’s store starts selling $55 “Lake America” hats the same day he signs the order renaming Lake Ontario, as Gulf of America hats sit discounted to $37.50.
House Republicans scrap the chamber’s last 2 weeks of votes before the midterms, returning Sept. 14 for one week, a day after Trump signed a stopgap spending bill.
Health Secretary Kennedy and Defense Secretary Hegseth quietly assign an Army doctor to probe whether 2,544 unverified troop deaths came from Covid vaccines, a deposition reveals.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to unblock Postal Service mail-ballot rules that 23 states are fighting, one day before North Carolina begins mailing ballots.
Labor Department watchdog finds ex-Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer presided over a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace and used government funds for personal travel.
Los Angeles schools quietly barred all students from generative AI on district devices this year, board says, as New York City blocks it through eighth grade.
Federal planning commission led by a Trump appointee advances permanent fencing and gates around Lafayette Square, the protest ground facing the White House, without a permanent fence since the 1800s.
ICE vetting official warns Homeland Security’s inspector general the agency hired recruits before background checks in its 12,000-officer surge, posing “grave national security risks,” the New York Times reports.
Interior Secretary Burgum says excavation for Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery starts within 2 weeks, while veterans and preservationists sue to stop it as unauthorized by Congress.
Fired pardon attorney Liz Oyer sues Justice Department, saying it ousted her in 2025 for refusing to fake an “independent review” restoring domestic-violence convict Mel Gibson’s gun rights.
Maryland Supreme Court lets voters decide 5-2 a constitutional amendment easing congressional redistricting, Democrats’ bid for all 8 House seats in answer to Trump’s Texas map push.
Missouri Supreme Court unanimously blocks the Trump-backed congressional map for November, ruling it “has never been the law” until voters decide a 305,000-signature referendum.
White House website launches arcade games where players catch “crossers” for a deportation high score, with an official calling it “a culture of fun and winning.”
Trump names Army civil works chief Adam Telle, a former Senate aide, acting Army secretary days after Dan Driscoll quit over tension with Defense Secretary Hegseth.
Billionaire Leon Black sues House Oversight to block Epstein subpoenas and skips his deposition, leaving Chairman Comer an empty chair and Democrats calling for contempt.
Treasury moves to strip tax-exempt status from up to 18,000 schools that consider race in admissions, invoking a 1983 ruling against a college that banned interracial relationships.
Forest Service will close nearly 2 dozen research facilities, dissolve all regional offices and move its headquarters from Washington to Salt Lake City, claiming $16 million in savings.
Justice Department charges ICE agent Christian Castro with lying about shooting a Venezuelan man in Minneapolis, one day after ProPublica reported it blocked civil rights charges against him.
Pitkin County, Colorado, home to Aspen, opens property tax rebates up to $2,000 for homeowners earning under 500% of the poverty level whose bills rose since 2023.
