House Oversight releases full video of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s Epstein depositions taken last week in suburban New York.
Supreme Court preserves New York City’s only Republican congressional district after Justice Alito calls state court’s minority voting rights remedy “unadorned racial discrimination.”
Supreme Court orders California schools to tell parents when children change names or pronouns, bypassing oral argument on its emergency docket.
Iran strikes U.S. embassies in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as Trump says war could last five weeks and State Department evacuates personnel in six Middle Eastern nations.
Education Department hangs banner of assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk on its headquarters alongside Booker T. Washington and Catharine Beecher.
Trump says the Iran war will take four weeks or less, the first public timeline for a military operation launched without congressional authorization.
San Francisco Ballet cancels Kennedy Center performances, the most prominent dance company yet to withdraw from Trump’s takeover of the institution.
Security forces kill at least 10 protesters who breached U.S. consulate perimeter in Karachi as anti-American unrest over Iran strikes spreads across Pakistan.
FBI investigates Austin mass shooting that killed two and wounded 14 at Sixth Street bar, citing terrorism indicators as governor links attack to Middle East conflict.
Iran war expands across eight countries as Hezbollah launches first attack on Israel in over a year and three American troops are killed in Kuwait.
More than 1,000 protesters rally in Trump-voting New Jersey suburb as bipartisan opposition mounts against DHS plan to convert $129 million warehouse into East Coast’s largest ICE detention facility.
DHS Secretary Noem diverts border security and deportation funds to buy nearly $300 million in luxury jets, alarming top Trump officials.
U.S. backs Pakistan’s “right to defend itself” as open warfare with Taliban-ruled Afghanistan kills hundreds along 1,600-mile border.
OPEC+ debates larger than expected oil output increase after Iran war shuts down Strait of Hormuz shipping and prices hit eight-month high.
Former National Security Adviser Flynn convened summit where 2020 election deniers and six federal officials discussed declaring emergency to seize control of midterms.
Trump’s hand-picked Pentagon inspector general stalls review of military targeting in drug boat strikes after raising political concerns.
House Minority Leader Jeffries and bipartisan sponsors pledge to force war powers vote on Iran strikes, bypassing GOP leadership.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei and entire defense council killed in U.S.-Israeli strikes as Tehran retaliates across Gulf states.
Social Security trust fund now projected to run dry in 2032, one year earlier than expected, after Trump’s tax law drained $168 billion from the program.
Classified inspector general report finds Noem’s shoes-on airport policy created security vulnerabilities she then buried by raising the report’s classification level.
EEOC rules federal agencies can restrict transgender employees from using bathrooms matching their gender identity, overturning 2015 protection.
NASA cancels Boeing’s multibillion-dollar rocket stage and restructures Artemis to attempt up to two lunar landings in 2028, citing China competition.
Radiohead demands ICE remove its song from anti-immigrant propaganda video and tells Department of Homeland Security to “go fuck yourselves.”
LAUSD board places Superintendent Carvalho on leave after FBI raids his home, district headquarters and a Florida residence tied to collapsed ed-tech company.
Mistakenly deported Babson College student refuses government flight from Honduras after learning feds plan to detain and re-deport her upon arrival.
Hegseth pulls Pentagon-sponsored military education programs from Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale, calling universities centers of “enemy ideologies.”
Trump bans all federal agencies from using Anthropic and Pentagon designates company a supply chain risk to national security, then signs identical safety terms with OpenAI hours later.
Pentagon forces Scouting America to roll back DEI programs and launch military service merit badge to keep Defense Department partnership.
Federal judge extends order blocking ICE from arresting Minnesota refugees, calls administration policy a “dystopian nightmare.”
DOJ indicts 30 more people for January anti-ICE protest at St. Paul church where pastor doubled as acting ICE field office director.
Department of the Treasury terminates collective bargaining agreements at IRS and Bureau of Fiscal Service, cancels all ongoing negotiations and arbitrations.
Washington state licensing agency pulls multilingual phone system after Spanish option played English responses in an accented voice.
Trump raises prospect of “friendly takeover” of Cuba as U.S. blocks oil shipments and Rubio holds secret talks with Castro’s grandson.
U.S. and Israel launch joint strikes across Iran in operation planned for months, triggering Iranian retaliation against Israel and U.S. bases across four Gulf states.
Bill Clinton becomes first former president deposed under congressional subpoena, denies any knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
DHS admits to Congress it deported 86 DACA recipients protected under U.S. law, claiming 241 of 261 detained had “criminal histories” but providing no details on charges.
Denver Mayor Johnston bans federal immigration agents from all city property and orders police to arrest agents using excessive force, citing the two fatal Minnesota shootings.
White House rapid response staffer secretly runs 300,000-follower pro-Trump X account that called a racist AI video depicting the Obamas as apes “a masterpiece,” Wired reports.
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end Temporary Protected Status for Syrian nationals, accusing lower courts of “persistent disregard” for the court’s prior rulings on TPS terminations.
DOJ sues five more states for unredacted voter rolls with Social Security data, bringing total past two dozen, four of the five states voted for Trump.
Justice Department exposed seven cooperating witnesses in Epstein file release by failing to redact jail records, only removing names after the New York Times confirmed their cooperation.
Sen. Wyden places hold on Trump’s nominee to lead NSA and Cyber Command, saying the career special operations officer has no cybersecurity or signals intelligence background.
Federal Reserve challenges Jeanine Pirro’s subpoenas in sealed court proceedings, seeking to block the criminal probe Powell calls pretext for Trump’s campaign to control interest rates.
Judge rules California must let 20,000 immigrant truck drivers keep their licenses despite Trump administration threats to revoke the state’s authority to issue commercial licenses entirely.
NYC Mayor Mamdani wins Trump backing for 12,000-unit federal housing project and a detained Columbia student’s release in one White House visit after bringing mocked-up newspaper front pages.
NTSB chair calls House Republican aviation safety bill “watered-down” and says it won’t prevent another crash like the Reagan National collision that killed 67 people.
FDA plans quarterly bonuses for staff who complete drug reviews ahead of schedule as agency works to hire 1,000 scientists after exodus under RFK Jr.
White House posts AI-labeled deepfake of Ottawa Senators captain Brady Tkachuk mocking Canadians on official TikTok, though Tkachuk has played for Canada’s capital city team since 2018.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks judge to toss smuggling charges as vindictive after unsealed records suggest DOJ leadership directed prosecution because he won his wrongful deportation case.
Hillary Clinton denies any Epstein knowledge in House Oversight deposition paused after Rep. Boebert leaks her photo, with Republicans also raising debunked Pizzagate conspiracy.
