A judge spent much of an hourslong hearing on Wednesday lecturing Justice Department attorneys as she weighed whether to grant an injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order on transgender service members. Judge Ana Reyes peppered the attorneys with rhetorical questions, berated them for what she said was a gross lack of preparedness, and painstakingly […]
The Trump administration is gutting a division at the Department of Justice that oversees prosecutions of public officials accused of corruption. Only a small number of employees at the Public Integrity Section, which oversees some of the country’s most high-profile and sensitive prosecutions, will remain as prosecutors are being ordered to take other roles within […]
The United States Department of Agriculture is temporarily pulling its funding for the University of Maine System a week after the Trump administration sent a violation notice to Gov. Janet Mills (D-ME) for allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports. USDA sent an email to the university ordering “awarding agencies and staff offices to […]
President Donald Trump‘s newly implemented tariffs on steel and aluminum went into effect overnight on Tuesday, inviting varying levels of retaliation from the United States’s top trading partners. The president had previously announced the new metals tariffs in February but delayed implementation until Tuesday to allow goods already in transit to escape the new fees […]
President Donald Trump is poised to use his meeting with new NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte to implore NATO members to “pay their fair share.” Rutte, who replaced longtime secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg last October after Stoltenberg’s term was extended amid the Russia-Ukraine war, is expected at the White House on Thursday as Trump and his allies, […]
The North Carolina Senate pushed forward legislation to bar the Democratic state attorney general from filing lawsuits against presidential executive orders. Senate Bill 58 passed in a 29-19 party-line vote, with Republicans in the supermajority pushing the legislation forward for consideration in the state House. The bill would disable the state attorney general from participating […]
President Donald Trump’s political and economic agenda dividing the nation is raising new concerns about a possible “civil war” among America’s “preppers” and has gun sellers readying for a summer rush. With political violence surging from the left against Elon Musk’s trademark Tesla vehicles for his part in cutting liberal spending and in cities targeted […]
President Donald Trump did not hesitate to knock one of his longtime critics during a meeting with Irish Taoiseach Micheal Martin. Trump and the prime minister of Ireland were taking questions from the press when the president was asked about comedian Rosie O’Donnell’s decision to leave the United States for Ireland following his election. The […]
The top two challengers for Oakland’s open mayoral seat got into a testy exchange Tuesday night after a former councilman said the people who supported the city’s disgraced mayor were now backing former Rep. Barbara Lee. Lee, 78, represented the San Francisco Bay Area city in Congress for 26 years but lost a primary election last year […]
LEESBURG, VA — The spending bill fight threatens to divide congressional Democrats despite House lawmakers insisting they are “united” in protecting working-class people from President Donald Trump and standing up to GOP policies. House Democrats almost unanimously rejected the Republican-led continuing resolution on Tuesday, and leadership is hopeful Senate Democrats will do the same. “We’re […]
