Three media groups President Donald Trump sought to ban from the White House press pool asked a federal judge to extend a restraining order blocking the president from instituting the restrictions.  The saga began Sept. 18, when Trump announced the ban due to his belief that CNN, MS Now, and Politico are “fake news” outlets […]

Vice President JD Vance is heading into competitive races this week as President Donald Trump begins his fall campaign push in Oklahoma and Alabama, two reliably Republican states without marquee contests expected to determine control of Congress. The split screen comes as Vance has emerged as one of the administration’s most prominent campaign surrogates and […]

The Minneapolis office in charge of agency performance reviews has found that the city’s community peacekeeping program, an activist alternative to traditional policing that was born out of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, is at “increased risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.” According to a recent 60-page report from the Minneapolis City Auditor’s Office, […]

The former special counsel who twice indicted President Donald Trump, Jack Smith, is scheduled to face Senate Republicans on Tuesday morning. Smith will appear as the sole witness at a 9 a.m. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters.” His appearance will […]