Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director, filling a chair vacant since Kennedy ousted her predecessor for disagreeing on vaccine policy.
U.S. suspends government operations in Michoacán over an unspecified threat, halting USDA avocado inspections in Mexico’s top producing state.
GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards quits his toss-up North Carolina race days after House Ethics recommended censure, leaving Republicans 3 months to find a nominee.
Federal judge refuses to delay her takeover of Arizona’s prison healthcare system, ruling harm to the state pales beside inmates’ unconstitutional suffering.
Federal judge orders ICE to release a Cambodian refugee brought to Providence as an infant in 1976, detained at a check-in to deport him.
Hendersonville, Tennessee unanimously waives the $126 building fee for neighborhood food-sharing boxes and little libraries after residents say the cost deterred new ones.
Trump vows to hunt down and jail leakers of missile-shortage reports as Iran and Oman agree on a route to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Kansas judge strikes down decades of abortion restrictions as “not even a close call,” hours before being sworn onto the state Supreme Court.
Senators demand the CFTC crack down on prediction markets offering wildfire bets, warning they could incentivize arson as Spokane burns.
Trump posts an AI image of himself as a decorated general beside Patton and MacArthur, promoting a “DronePort” rising over the White House ballroom.
Rand Paul’s Fauci diary dump exposed more than 20 people’s names and medical histories, a NOTUS review finds, with some still unredacted.
DC National Guard deployment will cost $1.4 billion more through January 2029, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s office finds, as troops enter a second year on patrol.
HHS hands a 26-employee Texas firm with no listed immigration expertise up to $150 million a year to represent 24,000 unaccompanied children in court.
Judge “reluctantly” grants DOJ’s request to dismiss the final Jan. 6 prosecution against eight Oath Keepers, writing that the epilogue “excuses criminal acts.”
Workers dismantle the presidential seal lettering from Trump’s White House helipad days after installing it, with the White House declining to explain.
GOP Rep. Max Miller demands an ethics probe of himself as his ex-wife’s lawyer says his document dump included a sensitive photo of their toddler.
State Department revokes the Brazilian ambassador’s visa in retaliation for Brazil delaying approval of Trump’s ambassador pick until after its October election.
Family of a Salvadoran man who died at Delaney Hall says he was denied his diabetes and seizure medications, demanding an independent investigation.
Appeals court rules EPA cannot claw back $20 billion in clean energy grants terminated over a policy disagreement.
Spokane County arrests a convicted killer on arson charges for allegedly starting the Old Trails Fire, one of three burning into Spokane.
Minnesota bars criminal prosecution of children 12 and younger, diverting them to county social services for support instead.
Trump threatens Iran with “decapitation” while sources tell CBS the U.S. has used nearly all its long-range precision missiles.
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Watchdogs demand ethics probes of FCC chair Carr and Commissioner Trusty for accepting luxury Paramount gala tickets hours before it launched a merger they must approve.
Louisiana prepares to transfer 130,000 acres of coastal marshland from an ExxonMobil pollution settlement to SpaceX for a Starship launch site, the Times-Picayune reports.
ICE added an estimated 920,000 DNA profiles to the FBI’s criminal database last year, a WIRED review shows, as border agents swabbed children as young as 4.
Prosecutors drop the last 3 Reflecting Pool vandalism cases, blaming the Trump administration’s own rushed contractor as Trump insists “VANDALS” caused the damage.
Jay Clayton is sworn in as director of national intelligence after refusing at his confirmation hearing to acknowledge Trump lost the 2020 election.
Transgender federal workers sue OPM over canceled insurance coverage of gender-affirming care, arguing the same treatments remain covered for other employees.
House Ethics panel recommends censure for GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards, finding his conduct toward 2 young staffers violated the “spirit” of harassment rules.
CBP halts new well drilling for border wall construction after New Mexico found contractors illegally drilled 8 wells pumping ranchers’ groundwater during a drought.
Federal judge blocks New York’s ban on masked ICE agents as unconstitutional state regulation of federal officers, while letting the state’s 287(g) prohibition stand.
New Jersey Congressman Rob Menendez discloses a second detainee death at Delaney Hall after an oversight visit, accusing ICE of intentionally hiding custody deaths.
Water system cyberattacks spread to Michigan as utilities in at least 7 states report intrusions to the FBI, some forcing full shutdowns.
Michigan reports the outbreak’s first two deaths as cyclosporiasis cases top 11,000, with the last federal update on the multistate outbreak ten days old.
Senate GOP holdouts Cornyn and Tillis agree to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after DOJ puts the weaponization fund’s death in writing.
Trump says Pirro “choked” in dropping Reflecting Pool charges against an Olympian, rejecting his own prosecutor’s 20-page memo finding no evidence of vandalism.
Capital One tells a court it closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts after an anti-money laundering review, rejecting the family’s political-bias lawsuit.
25 states sue to block Trump’s third round of worldwide tariffs, calling forced-labor claims a pretext to revive taxes the Supreme Court struck down.
Rochester City Council unanimously approves $125K in emergency housing, legal and family-preparedness support for immigrants and refugees facing ICE detention.
Iran and U.S. officials both deny Trump’s claim that direct talks began Monday, two days after he canceled strikes on Iranian energy sites.
Acting AG Blanche formally kills the $1.8 billion payout fund for Trump’s prosecuted allies to win two GOP holdouts, a day after Trump vowed to revive it.
Senate appropriators reach a bipartisan deal funding the government through Dec. 11 and blocking OMB Director Vought’s rule giving the White House final say over federal grants.
Wildfires burning into Spokane destroy more than 600 structures and force 60,000 evacuations, with all three fires at zero percent containment.
GOP Sen. Moreno says former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller should not serve in Congress, two days after declining to say whether Miller should quit the race.
Illinois begins one-time $400 food payments to households cut from SNAP by new federal work requirements, with automatic enrollment.
U.S. and Iran open negotiations Monday on a proposal to reopen the Hormuz Strait and end the naval blockade after Trump calls off weekend strikes.
Trump floods Truth Social with more than 40 posts including AI images of himself kissing a Jesus statue, arresting an alien, and looming over Greenland.
DOJ demands a New York Times freelancer’s testimony and 2 years of notes to unmask sources on a botched SEAL mission that killed unarmed North Koreans.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
