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.
Vance says “I wouldn’t call it a war” and there is “no active shooting” in Iran, as US strikes resume and Israel’s Netanyahu calls toppling the regime “within reach.”
House Veterans’ Affairs Committee votes 19-0 to subpoena Oracle’s Larry Ellison after the VA nearly tripled Oracle’s $10 billion health records contract it once vowed to finish without overruns.
Justice Department blocks civil rights charges against ICE agent Christian Castro, who shot a Venezuelan immigrant through a Minneapolis door, over the prosecutor’s “strongest possible” objections, ProPublica reports.
ICE plans to pay up to $5 million to compile voter rolls and voting histories from all 50 states, after courts rejected DOJ’s demands for the same data.
Justice Department declares all agencies in every state must report suspected undocumented immigrants or risk future welfare funds, reinterpreting a 1996 law prior administrations applied only to benefits offices.
Trump floats renaming the Strait of Hormuz “TRUMP STRAIT,” claiming US control of a waterway shared by Iran and Oman, weeks after vowing to declare it US territory.
FAA proposes permanent flight restrictions around Mar-a-Lago at the Secret Service’s request, covering times Trump is away, near the airport renamed for him in July.
Captured Venezuelan leader Maduro asks a Manhattan judge to toss his drug indictment on head-of-state immunity, arguing no US court has ever tried a sitting foreign leader.
National Park Service fences off swaths of the National Mall to demonstrators and events through Jan. 24 for turf repair, a closure spanning the midterms.
Trump administration threatens to end federal artifact loans, grants and contracts to the Smithsonian “under current leadership,” escalating a year-long campaign over its slavery and diversity exhibits.
Pentagon yanks decades of classified deployment records off its secret network, days after the Washington Post reported top commanders used them to warn the Iran war is unsustainable.
Immigrant rights group CHIRLA sues Homeland Security to halt voter roll matching that claims 190,000 noncitizens registered in California, a figure it calls “almost certainly widely incorrect.”
Federal judge blocks Trump’s second birthright citizenship order as “almost certainly unconstitutional,” citing the Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling against the first 2 months earlier.
Justice Department sides with OpenAI against The New York Times, arguing a copyright win for news publishers would “threaten national security” and subsidize “old mainstream media.”
New York City bars nearly 600,000 public school students through eighth grade from using generative AI for a year, as Mayor Mamdani rejects the tech industry’s “inevitable” framing.
FBI opens probe into dark web service selling 153 million driver’s license scans, including Defense Secretary Hegseth’s, apparently siphoned from ID verification firm idscan.net, Krebs on Security reports.
Federal judge rejects Justice Department’s bid to break up Google’s ad tech business, ordering behavior changes instead, 16 months after ruling it an illegal monopoly.
Chevron commits $7 billion to more than double Venezuela oil output by 2031, 8 months after US forces seized Maduro and took over the country’s oil exports.
US Mint starts selling $1 coins with Trump’s face after its advisory committee refused to review them, putting the first sitting president on US currency since Coolidge in 1926.
