Border Patrol agent shoots person near Canadian border in New Hampshire after the individual allegedly fired at the agent, FBI investigating.
Bipartisan calls grow for Rep. Tony Gonzales to resign over affair with congressional staffer who later died by suicide, as explicit text messages surface.
Pentagon reverses support for aviation safety bill requiring military tracking signals, 13 months after a collision between an Army Black Hawk and a regional jet killed 67 people.
FedEx becomes first major company to sue for refund of Trump’s tariffs after Supreme Court ruled them illegal, joining Costco and others with pending claims.
FEMA warns its national emergency functions are “significantly constrained” during shutdown days before State of the Union, with continuity staff furloughed and disaster work frozen.
Federal judges reject Republican effort to restore a congressional map that split Salt Lake County four ways after voters created an independent redistricting commission.
Trump settles copyright lawsuit with Isaac Hayes estate over unauthorized use of “Hold On, I’m Coming” at least 133 times at campaign rallies.
Only witness to federal agent’s fatal shooting of U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas dies in car accident days after his draft affidavit contradicted DHS account.
Education Department transfers school shooting emergency grants and community schools oversight to HHS as McMahon continues dismantling the agency only Congress can legally close.
British police arrest former UK Ambassador to the U.S. Lord Mandelson on suspicion of passing market-sensitive government information to Jeffrey Epstein while serving as a cabinet minister.
U.S. military kills three more people in Caribbean boat strike, bringing total to at least 150 dead across 44 strikes since September with no evidence released.
Judge Cannon blocks public release of Jack Smith’s classified documents report, citing her own 2024 ruling that his appointment was unconstitutional.
France bars U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner from direct access to government ministers after he skips formal summons over State Department comments calling a French activist’s death “terrorism.”
U.S. women’s hockey team declines Trump’s State of the Union invitation, one day after he told the men’s team he’d “be impeached” if he didn’t invite them.
FBI Director Kash Patel celebrates in Team USA’s hockey locker room in Milan after the FBI denied his Olympics trip on a government jet was personal, calling reporting on it “designed to mislead.”
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during the shutdown, then reverses PreCheck hours later after travel industry leaders raised alarms about 20 million affected members.
Secret Service shoots and kills armed 21-year-old who drove through Mar-a-Lago’s north gate with a shotgun and gas can while Trump was at the White House.
Greenland’s prime minister rejects Trump’s offer to send a hospital ship, noting Greenland already provides free health care and telling Trump to stop making “random outbursts on social media.”
France summons U.S. Ambassador Charles Kushner after the State Department called the beating death of a French far-right activist evidence that “violent radical leftism” is a public safety threat.
EU demands United States honor July trade agreement after Trump raises global tariff from 10% to 15% in response to Supreme Court ruling blocking his emergency tariffs.
DHS suspends TSA PreCheck and Global Entry starting Sunday as 61,000 TSA employees work without pay in the second week of a shutdown while ICE operates uninterrupted on $75 billion in pre-secured funding.
NIST restricts foreign scientists’ lab access and cancels hiring plans, threatening the agency that sets U.S. standards for cybersecurity, semiconductors and AI with roughly 800 international researchers annually.
Federal judge seizes control of Arizona’s entire prison health care system after 14 years of litigation, two contempt findings and 131 of 154 court-ordered health standards violated, covering at least 25,000 incarcerated people.
Trump announces he is sending a Navy hospital ship to Greenland to treat people “not being taken care of,” though Greenland provides free health care and both Navy hospital ships are in an Alabama shipyard until at least April.
NASA’s Artemis II moon rocket requires rollback to its assembly building after a helium pressurization failure, pushing the first crewed lunar mission since 1972 from March into April.
Trump approves FEMA emergency disaster relief for Washington after a Potomac River sewage line collapse that the city estimates will cost $20 million to repair and remediate.
JPMorgan admits for the first time that it closed Trump’s bank accounts after the Jan. 6 attack, as his $5 billion lawsuit alleges the bank also placed him on a reputational blacklist shared across the industry.
New Mexico orders investigation into forced sterilization of Native American women by the Indian Health Service, which a 1976 federal audit found sterilized 3,406 women without informed consent before the government stopped counting.
Maxwell challenges Epstein transparency law as unconstitutional to block 90,000 pages of depositions and private records from Giuffre’s civil defamation lawsuit against her.
Trump raises global tariffs to 15%, the maximum allowed under a separate trade law, one day after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariff powers 6-3.
Trump demands Netflix fire board member Susan Rice after she warned corporations will face accountability when Democrats return to power, as the Justice Department reviews Netflix’s proposed acquisition of Warner Bros.
Trump reversed support for UK’s Chagos Islands deal after Britain refused to allow U.S. forces to use RAF bases for strikes against Iran.
U.S. Ambassador Huckabee tells Carlson “it would be fine” if Israel took territory from the Nile to the Euphrates, then tries to walk it back as “hyperbolic.”
South Carolina hospitals are not required to report measles hospitalizations, leaving doctors unable to tell patients how severe the outbreak is as cases approach 1,000.
FCC chairman asks broadcasters to pledge daily Pledge of Allegiance and “patriotic, pro-America programming” while actively threatening stations’ licenses over content he dislikes.
DHS seeks to build a single biometric search engine combining face recognition, fingerprints and iris scans across all its agencies after dismantling its own privacy review process.
Leaked DHS document reveals plans for “mega” detention centers holding 7,000 to 10,000 people each, more than double previous estimates, with all facilities operational by November.
ICE quietly changes cause of Cuban detainee’s death from “medical distress” to “spontaneous use of force” weeks after medical examiner ruled it a homicide by asphyxiation during restraint.
Lawmakers find ICE holding facility in Mesa designed for 12-hour stays has detained people for days and weeks with no beds, showers, medical staff or oversight policies.
Federal judge rebukes Justice Department for concealing a press freedom law when seeking a warrant to raid Washington Post reporter’s home, seizing her phone, computers and records.
CIA Director Ratcliffe retracts 19 intelligence reports after a review by Trump’s Intelligence Advisory Board flagged them for political bias, spanning three administrations.
Ambassador Bridge owner gave $1 million to Trump’s super PAC 24 days before Trump threatened to block the competing Gordie Howe Bridge from opening.
Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously strikes down the state’s charter school law, ruling it violates the constitutional requirement for a common school system overseen by elected boards.
EPA rolls back mercury and toxic emission limits on coal plants nationwide, returning to weaker Obama-era standards the Biden administration had tightened.
Appeals court allows Trump administration to halt reinstallation of Philadelphia slavery exhibit one day after panels honoring nine people enslaved by George Washington were restored.
Deputy AG Blanche fires court-appointed U.S. attorney for Eastern District of Virginia hours after federal judges unanimously selected him, the third such firing in seven months.
Gov. Spanberger signs Virginia Democrats’ proposed congressional map favoring 10 of 11 seats, sending it to an April referendum still blocked by a state court judge.
NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch after successful fueling test, sending four astronauts around the moon for the first time since 1972.
U.S. military kills three more people in a boat strike in the eastern Pacific, bringing the total to at least 148 dead across 43 attacks since September with no evidence released.
Fifth Circuit lifts injunction blocking Louisiana’s Ten Commandments classroom law, allowing enforcement despite two prior courts ruling it unconstitutional.
