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House Republicans are gearing up to investigate the Department of Justice and the FBI, including their "ongoing criminal investigations," setting up a showdown with the Biden administration and law enforcement agencies over their criminal probes, particularly those into former President Donald Trump.
Despite an injection of funding, the agency still has not recovered from an exodus of scientists and policy experts, both insiders and critics say.
Move targeting power-plant emissions is part of a broader Biden administration push on environmental and climate rules
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday reaffirmed the basis for a rule that requires “significant reductions” in mercury and other harmful pollutants from power plants, reversing a move late in former President Donald Trump's administration to roll back emissions standards.
The moves sets the stage for the agency to issue tighter controls on mercury, a neurotoxin emitted by power plants.
The proposal comes after the Trump administration weakened regulations that required coal plants to treat polluted wastewater with modern filtration methods.
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The Biden administration said on Tuesday it rescinded a land swap deal struck by former President Donald Trump's interior secretary that would have allowed a new road to cut through an Alaska wildlife refuge.
The US Federal Reserve's report on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights the need for stronger banking oversight and regulation. The report also criticizes a Trump-era law that rolled back some banking regulations and calls for tougher rules around interest-rate risk, liquidity, and capital requirements.
The document is a key opening salvo as the Fed and other regulators consider how to improve their policing of financial risks.
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Former Goldman Sachs president and Trump adviser says FDIC likely to seize control of First Republic Bank before selling it
"I was not a big fan of Powell," said former President Donald Trump, who appointed Powell as Fed Chair in 2017.
The Republican plan to raise the nation’s borrowing authority by cutting federal spending would cap the EPA budget at a level that would devastate the agency’s efforts to rebuild after decades of eroding resources and the attacks of the Trump years. EPA spending in real dollars in 2020 was less than half what it had…
President Joe Biden’s nominee to head the National Archives was confirmed on Wednesday by the Senate after a months-long partisan battle over the agency’s role in the investigation into sensitive documents seized at Donald Trump’s Florida home.
U.S. taxpayer resources that were "misused" by former Architect of the Capitol Brett Blanton were repaid to the federal government, Sen. Chuck Grassley announced
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are sending fewer immigration detainers to local law enforcement during the Biden administration, as compared to the Trump administration.
This overturns a decision by the Trump administration.
The former president's plan for a "spectacular" new HQ has come in for criticism from leading figures in the GOP.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) is requesting a transcribed interview with a former Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) official for allegedly flagging consumer transactions that had the phrases “TRUMP” or “MAGA” in them. On behalf of the Judiciary Committee’s Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government, Jordan sent a letter requesting testimony to Noah Bishoff, the…
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) denounced a House committee’s vote to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas as a “sham” on Wednesday and said House Republicans are pushing it only to “appease” former President Trump. Schumer condemned the House impeachment proceedings as “absurd,” signaling that Senate Democrats will likely bury articles of impeachment against…
The panel will have 45 days to review the policies and procedures of the Secret Service before, during and after the July 13 rally.
The Director of the US Secret Service has admitted to Congress that she and her agency failed when a would-be assassin wounded Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on 13 July.
Ms Cheatle says she takes full responsibility for the agency’s mis-steps related to the attack at Mr Trump’s Pennsylvania rally.
Kim Cheatle said that the roof from which the shooter fired had been identified as a potential vulnerability days before the rally
Mr Trump also promised to cut 10 government regulations for every new regulation implemented if he is elected in November.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Thursday he would appoint billionaire Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he wins the U
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defended Project 2025 and said it has been mischaracterized by its critics.
The regulations at issue for Trump Tower were prompted by a Clean Water Act provision intended to help restore lakes and rivers by forcing polluters to reduce water withdrawals.
Donald Trump's wife Melania has made a dramatic claim that her personal rights were violated when FBI agents entered their Mar-a-Lago home over allegations that the former US president had kept classified documents
The back-and-forth during the debate shed light on how a Trump administration would treat publicly owned land.
Documents obtained by HuffPost show the agency spent several days accommodating the former president’s effort to take credit for COVID-era payments.
The second Trump administration is beginning to populate, with the president-elect appointing a border czar, nominating an ambassador to the United Nations and choosing a leader of the Environmental Protection Agency. But the most important appointment President-elect Trump has made so far is his first — Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff.…
Lander gave the bleak assessment at a press conference announcing a report on the impacts of the 2024 elections — saying that if Trump cuts federal funding, key infrastructure projects, schools and housing could be imperiled.
In picking Rep. Matt Gaetz as his nominee for attorney general, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to install a fierce loyalist who has been seen as divisive even within his
Click for the latest from The Hill {beacon} Energy & Environment Energy & Environment The Big Story FEMA chief testifies over agency skipping Trump homes The head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) faced intense questioning from Republicans over a since-fired employee’s directive that staff avoid houses with Trump campaign signage after Hurricane…
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vow their Department of Government Efficiency will end work-from-home for federal bureaucrats — but we don’t see why President-elect Trump should wait on DOGE to pull the plug.
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency partner Vivek Ramaswamy are compiling a list of Uncle Sam’s biggest boondoggles for Donald Trump.
President-elect Donald Trump announced a slew of new administration picks on Wednesday, including his choices to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IRS and NASA — as well as the first ever envoy for "hostage affairs."
Ferguson is already one of the FTC's five commissioners, which is currently made up of three Democrats and two Republicans.
The CWA feels that comments made by AT&T's CEO are similar to ones made before that the carrier lied about.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California withdrew requests Tuesday for the federal government to allow the state to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs in anticipation of the Trump administration rejecting them.
U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order to override California's water-management practices, criticizing the state's wildfire response. This move follows his visit to the fire-stricken Los Angeles area, reflecting an ongoing tension between federal and state approaches to environmental management.
Trump administration proposes ‘deferred resignation program’ which would allow federal employees to remain on the payroll through Sept. 30 but not have to work
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous
The Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday.
Remaining workers would oversee the limited life-saving programs the Trump administration intends to continue for the time being.
A U.S. judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's controversial buyout plan for federal workers, offering hope to unions and opponents. The plan, which aims to reduce the federal workforce, has sparked legal challenges and protests. Over 60,000 federal employees have already accepted the buyout offer.
The courts are slamming the brakes on some of President Donald Trump's efforts to quickly trim and transform the federal government.
The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters.
President Trump, with Elon Musk, aims to radically transform the U.S. government by downsizing the civil service and cutting spending. His plans, which include closing agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development, have sparked controversy and face legal challenges. The focus is on eliminating fraudulent payments.
A federal judge removed the hold he'd placed on President Trump's buyouts of federal workers on Wednesday, ruling that neither he nor the unions that sued to block it...
Trump has said he wants to use financial incentives to encourage government employees to quit
Trump wants to use financial incentives to encourage government employees to quit. According to the White House, tens of thousands of workers have taken the government up on its offer.
Danielle Sassoon, who resigned from her position as Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, oversaw all investigations into federal crimes in the Southern District of New York, including the corruption case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams that the Trump administration has directed be dropped.
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk's support, is making sweeping changes across the U.S. federal government, impacting the judiciary system by challenging lease use and firing thousands of probationary staff. It halts crucial programs such as wildfire prevention and dismantles renowned disaster response teams, sparking both support and frustration.
Officials at DHS said they had fired hundreds of employees across several of its agencies.
President Donald Trump's administration has agreed not to fire additional staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following a court order, temporarily halting a feared mass layoff. This decision came amid allegations of plans to dismantle the agency, opposed by employee unions and advocacy groups.
Positions cut also appeared to focus on agency’s centers for tobacco products, including oversight of e-cigarettes
A quarter of the personnel working in nearly five dozen U.S. laboratories trying to solve the latest avian influenza outbreak have been laid off as the Trump administration reduces the size of the federal workforce.
A former FDA official said cutting recent hires could backfire, eliminating staffers who tend to be younger and have more up-to-date technical skills.
The order will direct all federal agencies and departments to identify taxpayer-funded benefits illegal immigrants benefi from and "take corrective action."
Here's a look at some of the broad and specific ways federal agencies and employees are being affected by the Trump administration and DOGE's reductions so far.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration is once again targeting California's controversial high-speed rail project, with federal transportation officials on Thursday announcing an investigation and possible withdrawal of about $4 billion in federal funding.
President Trump's initiative to reduce the federal workforce has led to the Pentagon announcing 5,400 job cuts. Legal challenges and public backlash persist, with criticism over the impact on government services. Amid this, prominent figures like Elon Musk are playing significant roles in reshaping federal employment landscapes.
Order by Trump-appointed judge setback for government employee unions who have filed lawsuit against firings
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, threatens to fire federal workers who fail to report their weekly accomplishments. This follows President Trump's call to downsize the federal workforce. The move has sparked union outrage and raised legal questions about authority and execution.
In President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest move targeting the federal workforce, employees began receiving emails Saturday afternoon asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
The billionaire working to strip the federal government of its workforce made the demand after President Donald Trump told him to "GET MORE AGGRESSIVE."
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has sacked a whopping 2,000 workers and put thousands more on leave in the latest USAID chaos.It comes a day after Tesla tycoon
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and placing all but a fraction of other staffers worldwide on leave .
Current news highlights major domestic issues in the U.S., including government layoffs, Elon Musk’s influence, Giuliani's legal settlements, bipartisan support for Ukraine, challenges to EPA climate fund claw backs, U.S.-China trade tensions, New York City's congestion program, and broader federal policies under the Trump administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world.
Judge says office of personnel management lacks power to order firings, including those of probationary employees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a comment by President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency does not plan to reduce its staff by 65%, the White House and the agency said
When President Donald Trump addresses the nation from Capitol Hill on Tuesday, he’ll get the first opportunityto sell Americans and Congress on his new proposal unveiled Sunday in a pair of social media posts more than an hour apart, that the US needs to create a strategic reserve of cryptocurrency.
Google is urging President Trump’s Justice Department to abandon plans to break up its illegal monopoly over online search – and argued that doing so would jeopardize national security.
The recent lease cancellations come as the Department of Government Efficiency continues to slash the budgets of federal agencies under the direction of President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion in debts to partners of the U.S.
Free training classes for firefighters and other first responders are provided through Fema at the Maryland site
There is a good chance that Google will be forced to sell off its Chrome browser, as the U.S. Department of Justice under Donald Trump is continuing...
Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government.
France, already bristling at Trump’s moves to slap hefty tariffs on imports, hit back through the ministry of foreign trade.
The effort would reflect a fundamental restructuring of how formerly independent agencies implement and enforce federal laws.
Emails and testimonials from workers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau document the administration’s efforts to lay off 90 percent of the employees.
The White House plans to reduce the workforce by 1,200 over several years and cut thousands of positions at other intelligence agencies
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration’s drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency’s independent scientific research.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration's drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency's independent scientific
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Kash Patel broke with the Trump administration Wednesday over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau, telling lawmakers, “We need more
President Donald Trump is expected to announce a new nominee for NASA administrator after withdrawing support for the initial choice, Jared Isaacman. The White House has emphasized the importance of the nominee aligning with President Trump's America First agenda, with further details to follow.
The Trump administration is targeting still more federal science funding, this time more than $30 billion at the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation and other agencies
A federal judge granted an injunction blocking the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing databases at the Office of Personnel Management ...
Jared Isaacman has opened up on why he believes his nomination to be NASA administrator was abruptly withdrawn by the White House.
Google is using a new AI model to forecast tropical cyclones and working with the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) to test it out. Google DeepMind and Google Research launched a new website today called Weather Lab to share AI weather models that Google is…
Kilmar Abrego Garcia: a name that's become near-synonymous with the Trump Administration's immigration crackdown.<br><br>Abrego Garcia was arrested by ICE agents on March 12th, as he was leaving his job in Baltimore. In the days and months that followed, the …
Cities prepare for nationwide protests on Saturday.
Thousands of Afghans in the U.S. fear deportation as the administration revokes some protections, despite Taliban threats and ongoing instability in Afghanistan. Many fear for their lives if forced to return.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday. Bean, who served as the de facto agency boss for five months …
Inflation isn't rising as expected, and Americans are feeling less anxious about it. But the fight to cut interest rates is heating up.
Customs and Border Patrol has confirmed it is providing "aerial support" to law enforcement efforts during the L.A. immigration demonstrations.
The deployment of troops to Los Angeles raises questions about what Trump can and can't do with the military on U.S. soil, and whether he's crossing the line.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta filed an emergency request to block expansion of what they called the Trump administration's "unlawful militarization."
Fascism. That's the only word for it.
The EPA has contradicted itself—and legal precedent—in its bid to undo Biden-era limits on power-plant climate pollution
The Department of Homeland Security sent termination notices to Cubans, Haitians, Venezuelans and Nicaraguans after the Supreme Court allowed the Trump...
Donald Trump wonders what masked protesters have to hide. The same could be said for masked ICE agents arresting people at court hearings.
Another one bites the dust at America's top cybersecurity agency The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has lost another senior leader: executive director Bridget Bean departed on Wednesday.…
We’ve noted many times that there are two major reasons the U.S. doesn’t have a functional privacy law for the modern internet era. One, we’re too corrupt and greedy to do the right thing, causing us to prioritize making money over literally everything else —…
The Justice Department argued that Trump’s public statements about the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case didn’t reflect the government’s actual position.
Sen. Alex Padilla tried to ask questions of Trump Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, but was handcuffed and forced to the ground instead
Trump deployed federal troops to Los Angeles as ICE raids sparked protests and citywide unrest.
Democrats have reacted with outrage to Senator Alex Padilla's rough removal from a conference about the LA protests.
The US president signed resolutions to roll back California laws designed to promote the use of electric vehicles.
The US Department of Transportation wants to make it easier for automakers and tech companies to deploy self-driving cars without traditional controls like steering wheels and pedals. In a letter sent to stakeholders, the department said it would streamline r…
But Elon Musk still needs to deliver the Cybercab before any of that can happen.
A recent arrest is being used to bolster a popular MAGA conspiracy narrative.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the Trump administration will continue to build up its deportation operation in Los Angeles. Nationwide protests are planned for this weekend.
The developer must also publish known failure modes, keep all documentation current, and push updates within 30 days of a version change.
Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who is pleading not guilty to charges over a clash with law enforcement at an ICE facility in New Jersey, joins Meet the Press...
President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to L.A. will be “the first, perhaps, of many,” he told reporters this week.
In April, DJI urged the US government to start the mandated security audit of its business -- an audit congress ordered as part of a structured approach for evaluating the security concerns of Chinese-owned companies. Now half a year has passed and DJI says t…
Editor’s Note: As I was getting this article ready to publish, a judge granted California a Temporary Restraining Order against the deployment of the National Guard. We’ll have a separate write up of that later. When the Secretary of Homeland Security announc…
Earlier this week, two new leaders of the US Food and Drug Administration published a list of priorities for the agency. Both Marty Makary and Vinay Prasad are controversial figures in the science community. They were generally highly respected academics unti…
Last year, Justin Sun was facing a federal investigation into his crypto empire, to the point that he avoided entering the US. Now, his company is going to be publicly listed on the American stock markets – and reportedly with the assistance of Eric Trump. Tr…
Moore did not publicly disclose a dozen stock trades that he made throughout April until Friday, which is well after a federal deadline for doing so.
Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night. The president issued the...
Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), has resigned just days after the Smithsonian Institution attempted to challenge President Trump's firing of her. [Read More]
When Andrew Ferguson made his pitch to Donald Trump to take over the organization, his one-page “pick me” plea talked about “ending” former FTC Chair Lina Khan’s “politically motivated investigations.” We pointed out at the time how hilarious it was that he t…
President Donald Trump promised his supporters “the largest deportation program in American history” — but he’s nowhere close. That distinction belongs to an early 20th-century program that likely saw 2 million people deported. When looking at more recent ti…
Federal judge on bench for 40 years lambasts grant terminations as 'racist' and anti-LGBTQ.
The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetter…
Jeremy Greenberg was in charge of coordinating federal help after hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies. He has resigned from leading FEMA's National Response Coordination Center.
They're taking the data from IRSengard, claim Dems; officials tell us that's not true A coalition of House and Senate Democrats has sent an aggressive letter to Palantir CEO Alex Karp questioning whether the controversial data intelligence biz is breaking fed…
Ted Johnson / Deadline: The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members — The Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the FCC, a move that gives Donald Trump and Republicans a 2-1 major…
President Donald Trump has supported use of asbestos in the past and blamed the mob for its bad reputation.
Can recognition for outstanding work suddenly be a bad thing?
The current Federal Communications Commission has threatened to revoke licenses for broadcasters over their political coverage.
The US central bank held rates steady despite backlash from President Donald Trump.
Immigration enforcement speeds up in L.A. regardless of military presence
Buried in the Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget is the near elimination of something called the Ecosystems Mission Area. It's a program that monitors living things and the health of the land and water they inhabit. NPR's Ari Daniel reports that care…
Experts say California is primed for a brutal fire season. Sweeping changes to federal emergency management agencies could make matters worse.
<p><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety an…
Congress is considering a policy that would stop states from having their own regulations around artificial intelligence.
For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.
A presentation slated to be shared at this week’s meeting of vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention claimed that a study in...
The agency that operates the bridge is concerned about a federal crackdown.
Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices
Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The president says state governments should do more.
“It’s just more salt in the wound on how incompetent all of this has been.”
National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.
So much for a "well-regulated" militia.
In a day full of terrible Supreme Court rulings there was one bit of good news: in their FCC v. Consumers’ Research ruling, the court rejected a bid by radical right wing Republicans to destroy a popular $8 billion FCC program that connects poor and rural sch…
Plus: US feds charge alleged masterminds behind infamous forum, Scattered Spider targets airlines, and hackers open a valve at a Norwegian dam.
The state and local health departments that rely on CDC funding say the money is not coming in on time and no one can tell them why. Some are laying off staff.
The Federal Reserve has moved to boost bank participation in the bond market.
The Trump administration freezes funding that education officials estimated at $6.5 billion — as feds evaluate 'priorities and ... statutory requirements.'
DOGE staffers have been working on changes at the ATF that would roll back dozens of gun restrictions. The DOJ wants to downsize the agency — a move some fear will hinder criminal investigations.
The Trump Administration is sending 200 Marines to Florida to aid federal immigration enforcement officers.
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Federal agencies could choose to fire workers en masse or offer options like buyouts. Here's what we know about how and when it could happen.
Republicans just gave US Immigration and Customs Enforcement a huge cash infusion, and President Donald Trump knows how he wants the agency to use it. During his first six months in office, the Trump administration was already using immigration enforcement t…
Business Insider spoke with 16 federal workers after the Supreme Court decision that will allow federal staff cuts to continue.
A “mission impossible” deportation campaign has left many employees burned out and morally conflicted.
Dan Bongino is considering resigning from the FBI over the handling of the Epstein files.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The case for a U.S. interest rate cut remains unresolved as Federal Reserve officials head into their policy meeting later this month, ...
Sen. Dick Durbin, the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee, wrote to Attorney General Pam Bondi on Friday, saying he received information she had “pressured the FBI” to put more than 1,000 personnel “on 24-hour shifts to review approximately 100,000 Epst…
Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott is in talks to attend the visit as well, the report added, citing a person familiar with the plans. Trump has raised the...
Hundreds of staffers at the National Institutes of Health, Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the National Science Foundation have signed public letters to leadership opposing the direction in which the agencies are headed
Nearly 4,000 NASA employees have chosen to accept the Trump administration's "deferred resignation" option, reducing the agency's workforce by more than 20%.
The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.
Supporters Of Appointment of Michael Boren Say He’s The Right Man To Reshape The US Forest Agency
“And yet, somehow, we’re going to go to Mars sooner.”
The Trump administration is releasing its proposal to undo the “endangerment finding,” the long-standing rationale and legal imperative for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agen…
The push to rehire retired workers comes as the administration has also sought to downsize large swaths of the federal government through mass layoffs and other changes.
The president fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on Friday after poor job numbers. A Federal Reserve governor resigned on the same day.
Reports indicate that newly appointed officials are going ahead with plans to end two orbital carbon tracking missions.
The Trump administration sent reduction-in-force notices to more than 1,400 staffers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in April.
A federal judge has delivered an extraordinary rebuke to the FTC’s Andrew Ferguson, finding that his investigation into Media Matters was motivated by “retaliatory animus” rather than legitimate antitrust concerns. In a scathing ruling, Judge Sparkle L. Sookn…
This marks the first time in history that the FBI has had two deputy directors.
Ally of the president has accused the first Black woman to sit on the central bank’s board of mortgage fraud
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill might be her ticket to building ICE Airlines.
Cook, who has been accused of mortgage fraud, has said she will not be bullied by Trump into resigning.
Now that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has signaled that the central bank could soon cut its key interest rate, he faces a new challenge: how to do it without seeming to cave to the White House’s demands. For months, Powell has largely ignored President…
President Trump says he's firing Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook, after a Trump ally accused Cook of making false statements on a mortgage applications. The president's authority to remove a Fed governor may be challenged in court.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been taken into custody and faces deportation again, this time to Uganda. And, Trump seeks to fire a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.
President Donald Trump said he was firing Lisa Cook from her position on the Federal Reserve board, but it's unclear if he has the authority to do so.
If the Supreme Court lets Trump replace Cook with a loyalist, he might soon achieve a full-blown takeover of the Federal Reserve.
Trump’s attempt to fire a Fed governor is illegal. Now we find out whether that matters.
Lisa Cook refuses to resign after Trump announces her dismissal from the Federal Reserve.
President Trump has said will fire Lisa Cook over alleged financial fraud, which could hand him more control of the Fed.
FEMA has suspended at least 30 employees after they warned that spending limits, staffing cuts, and gaps in leadership hurt the agency’s ability to respond to disasters. The employees received emails notifying them that they’d been put on administrative leave…
The government's colossal failure to respond after Hurricane Katrina led to major reforms at the nation's top disaster agency. Now, the Trump administration has reversed some of those changes.
More than 180 current and former FEMA employees signed the letter sent to the FEMA Review Council and Congress warning that FEMA's capacity to respond to a major disaster was dangerously diminished.
A new executive order signed by President Donald Trump removes NASA employees from federal labor-management protections, under the justification of national security.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Republican U.S. senator on the finance committee on Sunday stressed the importance of an independent Federal Reserve, diverging from ...
The EPA fired five agency employees who signed a June declaration decrying moves that contradict science and undermine public health, alongside four more served removal notices
Investors have grown jittery at President Donald Trump's moves to undermine the Federal Reserve's independence.
A new executive order excludes NASA and other agencies from their collective bargaining rights, citing national security reasons.
The Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agency has been in the midst of a particularly large crackdown on immigrants.
Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided t…
The Environmental Protection Agency has moved to suspend more than 100 staffers who signed a letter of dissent against the Trump administration’s policies in...
A weak jobs report released Friday likely sealed an interest rate cut at the Federal Reserve's next policy meeting this month, as the Trump administration...
Federal judge blocks Trump's attempt to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook can remain in her position while she fights President Donald Trump’s efforts to fire her. The ruling Tuesday by a federal...
Trump administration wants Lisa Cook to be removed from the Fed Reserve board by Monday, ahead of interest rate meet.
Workers at NASA are planning a third "Save NASA" protest at agency headquarters in D.C. on Sept. 15, as job cuts, Trump's union-busting order and FY26 budget proposals fuel fears of lasting damage.
Records confirm the Fed governor followed the rules, undermining the case used to justify her firing
President Donald Trump’s administration renewed its request Sunday for a federal appeals court to let him fire Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of ...
Fellow conservatives question FBI chief's qualification to head agency as he braces for Senate and House inquiry.
The White House is continuing its push to remove Federal Reserve Board of Governors' member Lisa Cook, filing a response in federal appeals court ahead of a 3 p.m. deadline on Sunday. The brief, filed in the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit…
Bill Pulte has posted at least 13 agency orders on his personal X account. They don't appear to be posted publicly anywhere else.
John Cassidy writes that some central-bank veterans are concerned about a scenario in which the President’s appointees gain effective control of the independent agency.
Well, they finally did it. A federal agency finally shattered the precarious base that upholds the edifice of prosecutions for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in America. That agency is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), which just entered into a deeply prob…
A U.S. appeals court declined on Monday to allow Donald Trump to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook - the first time a president has pursued such action...
Cook's claim that she was denied due process has a 'strong likelihood of success', court rules
Anthropic has declined requests from federal law enforcement contractors to use its Claude AI models for surveillance activities, deepening tensions with the Trump administration, Semafor reported Wednesday, citing two senior officials. The company's usage po…
Democratic lawmakers continued to grill FBI Director Kash Patel about the Jeffrey Epstein files. "Why don't you just release the entire file as you promised to do?" Rep. Jamie Raskin said.
The president is bent on consolidating his influence over the Federal Reserve.
The government insists the allegations that Cook engaged in mortgage fraud.
President Trump’s relentless attacks on the Fed risk triggering reflexive stubbornness among policymakers.
The FCC can do plenty of damage to free expression—even without revoking licenses.
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
A federal grand jury returned a criminal indictment against James Comey, the former director of the FBI who has long faced criticism from President Trump. Ed...
In a video posted following his two-count indictment by a federal grand jury, former FBI Director James Comey says he is innocent.
One of charges faced by ex-FBI Director James Comey focuses on his alleged role in the sharing of information about a probe related to Hillary Clinton, sources say.
The former director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigations has been accused of lying to Congress.
In a report titled “The Destruction of NASA’s Mission,” Senate Democrats claim NASA is preemptively carrying out “devastating” cuts by order of the Trump administration.
Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.
Over 80% of NASA's workforce is being told to stay home during the government shutdown.
Hundreds of thousands federal employees to be furloughed while others, including FBI, CIA agents, will work without pay.
A shortage of air traffic controllers may have played a role in ending the last government shutdown in 2019. U.S airlines are once again bracing for possible delays in commercial aviation.
Will Patel be held accountable?
President Trump has directed his administration to review aid that could be cut in Portland, Oregon, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday. "We will not fund states that allow anarchy," she said. Last week, Trump ordered the military to be…
The White House says furloughed federal workers aren't automatically entitled to back pay, and Congress may have to pass a law to grant it to them.
Flight delays and cancellations are climbing as sick calls involving air traffic controllers leave a number of airport towers and control facilities without enough staff to handle all flights.
So let me get this straight. The same administration that claims fentanyl is such a dire threat that it justifies sweeping tariffs against Canada, Mexico, and China is simultaneously pulling federal agents off drug interdiction duties to chase undocumented la…
The federal government began sending layoff notices Friday to about 4,200 employees across multiple agencies.
They include officers from the FBI, US Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
NASA has announced a new wave of layoffs at its Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as the agency undergoes a sweeping "realignment" of its workforce.
El Paso officials are condemning a DHS video at the airport, citing political bias, Hatch Act concerns, and a lack of local input.
In a letter to EPA Chief Lee Zeldin, Rep. Chellie Pingree inquired about a yet-to-be-released report on the toxicity of PFNA.
J. Edgar Hoover built America's secret police to persecute immigrants and crush dissent. Maybe we needed a reminder
As the shutdown stretches into its 20th day, air traffic controllers, SNAP recipients, and federal employees are feeling the impact.
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration said late Sunday that air traffic control staffing issues were delaying travel ...
On Friday, after months of internal discussions, federal agencies began posting on the left-friendly social network. Within days, they dominated a list of the most-blocked accounts.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is reportedly in a power struggle with Jared Isaacman, an Elon Musk ally, over who will lead NASA.
Judges will soon take the bench across 16 states, the Justice Department said. These include courts that saw the biggest losses of judges this year.
America's 13,000 air traffic controllers will soon receive their first $0 paycheck. They hold a delicate power in Washington's government shutdown.
A new round of furlough notices were issued to EPA employees last week, while the Interior Department disclosed plans to cut positions affecting national parks, endangered species, and toxic contamination research.
This morning, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted 3-0 to let itself retroactively ban gadgets and radio components that it previously approved for entry into the United States, if the company that makes them is deemed a national security risk. O…
Billionaire entrepreneur Jared Isaacman has re-emerged as the front runner for NASA Administrator, but it appears Acting Administrator Sean Duffy wants to secure the role for himself.
Al Jazeera's Linh Nguyen looks at how ICE is expanding its surveillance network.
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday he has decided to nominate Jared Isaacman to serve as his NASA administrator, months after withdrawing the tech billionaire's nomination because of concerns about his political leanings.
ICE plans to establish a "National Call Center" to help law enforcement track unaccompanied migrant children for potential removal.
Travelers can expect to see fewer flights to many major U.S. cities starting Friday morning, when the Federal Aviation Administration said it would reduce...
We’re officially in the longest government shutdown in history, and the FAA said they’ll be cutting air traffic by 10% beginning Friday.
The 40 airports impacted by the cuts span more than two dozen states. The Federal Aviation Administration said the reductions would start at 4% and ramp up to 10% by Nov. 14.
Airlines are canceling hundreds of flights to comply with the FAA's order. But there are still questions about the plan, which the agency says will keep the skies safe during the government shutdown.
Duffy said the FAA's decision to increase air traffic reductions to 10% is necessary as air traffic controllers call in sick while not receiving pay during the government shutdown.
"There's millions of people that are on the non-detained docket."
Thought flying during a government shutdown couldn’t get any worse? Think again. The Federal Aviation Administration is preparing to cut flight capacity by up to 10% at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports—a move that could ground thousands of flights per day…
An expert talks about the Office of Space Commerce (OSC) and its role in the wider regulatory landscape affecting commercial use of outer space.
The president sharply criticized air traffic controllers who took time off during the shutdown, saying he's "NOT HAPPY" with them.
Air travelers could face more frustration as busy U.S. airports need to meet a higher Federal Aviation Administration target for reducing flights Tuesday...
A new deal to end the government shutdown may briefly restore staff to U.S. Education Department offices that had been gutted by layoffs.
The longest federal government shutdown in history is now history, and agencies and services are starting to slowly come back to normal.
The shutdown came at a bad time for air travel.
Jen Psaki shares new bombshell reporting from Pro Publica on the unseemly ties between Department of Homeland Security insiders and companies paid hundreds...
Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive: Internal memo: CISA will increase its hiring efforts in 2026 to rebuild after the Trump administration's cuts and prepare for a potential US conflict with China — The agency will also change some of its workforce policies t…
Richardson is the second official President Donald Trump has appointed to lead FEMA since the start of his second term.
The mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina, said that federal agents will be continuing their operations in the area Tuesday.
Regulator sides with telcos that claimed new cybersecurity duties were too ‘burdensome’ The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote this week on whether to scrap Biden-era cybersecurity rules, enacted after the Salt Typhoon attacks came to light in …
FBI Director Kash Patel said the agency is working to meet the 30-day release deadline for the files.
Trump's Environmental Protection Agency says strict air quality standards were introduced without sufficient review.
A report from sources inside the FBI claims that the bureau is floundering under the Trump Cabinet pick.
The U.S. Senate will hold its second hearing to consider billionaire tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman's nomination for NASA chief on Wednesday (Dec. 3), and you can watch the action live.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On Oct. 2, the second day of the government shutdown, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at Mount Rushmore to shoot a television ad. Sitting on horseb…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve's regional bank presidents live in their districts...
The move is another effort by the Trump administration to have more control over the US Federal Reserve.
The Federal Aviation Administration told airlines they could be fined $75,000 per flight if they didn't trim their schedules during the shutdown.
The Trump administration's elevation of a vaccine skeptic to lead a high-profile office within the Food and Drug Administration is raising alarm among multiple senior FDA officials, who told CBS News the appointment will harm the agency's reputation as a reli…
The EPA has revised its assessment of the health risks posed by the carcinogen, less than a year after the Biden administration issued its own verdict.
The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. One agency lost 95% of its staff, while others...
Months after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency were found in the Federal Communications Commission directory, the FCC is being accused of slow-walking demands for information about what they did there. On February 24th, advocacy group Freq…
More than a year after his initial nomination, the U.S. Senate has voted to confirm billionaire private astronaut Jared Isaacman as NASA administrator.
The episode has deepened concerns that had already emerged from the Justice Department's much-anticipated document release.
The ghost of Elon continues to haunt the federal government.
The Department of Homeland Security is pausing immigration applications from 20 additional countries following increased scrutiny on people who seek legal pathways for immigrating to the U.S.
The Goddard Space Flight Center Library in Greenbelt, Md. reportedly closed on Friday, Jan. 2
Officials announced the suspect has been charged with attempting to provide 'material support' for 'terrorism'.
The powers that be at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement are planning on a massive recruitment drive in 2026—but the people they’re hoping to attract aren’t your typical feds.The deportation agency has earmarked $100 million for online advertisements ov…
The media’s takeaways from the December oral arguments in the Trump Justice Department’s bid to the Supreme Court to invalidate multi-member “independent agencies,” were unanimous: It was a big win for Trump and for legal conservatives’ decades-long drive to …
Quelle surprise! The CIA is yet again up to no good.
FBI Director Kash Patel suffered through a series of embarrassing malfunctions as he appeared on Fox News to heap praise on the Trump administration’s...
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The nation's health department starting Monday can resume sharing the personal data of certain Medicaid enrollees with deportation officials, according to a ...
Following reports that closing the agency’s largest research library would result in the loss of precious scientific and historic materials, Jared Isaacman wants to set the record straight.
It’s hilarious that a single Salvadoran migrant has made the Trump administration look so pitiful. During one of its first purge efforts, the administration deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia and another 100-plus migrants to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison. Si…
An American Academy of Pediatrics official warns that changes made by political appointees could harm children.
Homeland Security said Tuesday that it launched what it described as the largest immigration enforcement operation ever carried out, tied to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents in Minnesota.
The Department of Homeland Security accused the victim of being a "rioter" and that the ICE officer who pulled the trigger was "fearing for his life." Mayor Jacob Frey rejected claims of self-defense.
"[DHS is] already trying to spin this as an action of self-defense," Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey said following the shooting. "Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
A federal officer shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday, shortly after the Trump administration deployed thousands of immigration agents to the city. Although the full circumstances of the killing remain unclear, video of the shooting shows an o…
A Trump-appointed judge in Richmond, Virginia issued an unusual order on Tuesday that threatens one of President Donald Trump’s most high-profile Department of Justice appointees with disciplinary sanctions — or even with forbidding her from practicing in the…
Mayor alleges ICE officer ‘recklessly’ shot her adding immigration agents are ‘causing chaos in our city’.
ICE is under scrutiny following the fatal shooting of Minneapolis woman Renee Nicole Good.
Hundreds of people have taken to the streets of Minneapolis to protest the killing of 37-year-old Renee Good.
The widely-criticized campaign ended at the end of 2025
A judge ruled U.S. attorney Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed. She's continued at the Justice Department anyway for the last six weeks.
"They identified somebody they wanted in this crowd, they aggressively went after them, they pushed their way in, now they're shooting pepper balls towards the crowd," CNN senior national correspondent Ryan Young reported.
"What happened to the police body cameras?" one Uber driver in Minnesota asked a Border Patrol agent.
ABC News' frame-by-frame review of video from Wednesday's ICE shooting in Minneapolis examines what happened before, during, and after the incident.
Shots were fired just 40 seconds after the ICE agent left his vehicle.
The Minneapolis shooting will get less official scrutiny because of cuts by the Trump administration.
Remember when government agents didn't wear masks? While watching us now seems like the least of its sins, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was once best known (and despised) for its multi-billion-dollar surveillance tech budget.…<!--#include …
Frazzled agents, quick triggers, and a motor-powered protest movement are creating a uniquely dangerous moment on U.S. streets.
In scaling back oversight, the administration has emboldened the agency.
The USDA announced that the agency suspended federal financial awards to Minnesota and Minneapolis "effective immediately."
UPDATE: Agent's footage raises new questions about tactics... (Top headline, 1st story, link) Related stories:'Fucking bitch'... Minnesota prosecutors will conduct own review... America Watches Shooting and Comes to Two Different Concl…
A memo from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, obtained by NPR, instructs her staff that visits should be requested at least seven days in advance.
Experts say US homeland security secretary misused the 'domestic terrorist' label to justify shooting Renee Good.
The CIA has been the target of numerous rumors, spanning everything from its knowledge of UFOs to its alleged administration of covert drug trials.
The state of Minnesota, along with the Twin Cities, have sued the US government and several officials to halt the flood of agents carrying out an Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation.
Powell called the probe "unprecedented" and came after his refusal to lower interest rates after demands by Donald Trump.
The Justice Department has subpoenaed the Fed over chair Jerome Powell's testimony over the central bank's headquarters renovation. Powell calls it part of a pressure campaign over interest rates.
Powell described the move as a part of a broader effort to pressure the central bank on monetary policy.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal...
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said Sunday in a video statement the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department...
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Jonathan Ross positioned himself in front of Good's car and continued firing even after he was no longer in its path.
Powell rebuked the probe as an effort to undermine the Fed's independence.
A bipartisan group of top economic officials called the DOJ probe into Jerome Powell an "unprecedented attempt" to undermine the Fed's independence.
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The Justice Department investigation into Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is sparking backlash and spotlighting the clash between the White House and the Federal Reserve Chair.
The stunning reversal goes against the agency’s own mission statement.
Officials will examine video footage and policy guidelines as part of the investigation, experts told the BBC.
“I cannot think of another high-profile federal agent shooting case like this when the Civil Rights Division was not involved," a former associate AG under Obama told the Washington Post.
Two citizens engaged in community patrols detail how ICE smashed windows, arrested them and promised money in exchange for immigrant names.
Trump’s binge-and-purge approach to handling the DOJ definitely isn’t working out for him. The administration has been steadily pushing prosecutors out for failing to be MAGA enough, especially when it comes to Trump’s steady stream of vindictive, politically…
ICE activity has increased exponentially since Trump’s return to office, bringing with it an exponential increase in rights violations committed by federal officers. Multiple lawsuits have been filed and, without exception, courts have safeguarded the rights …
The FBI is solely leading the inquiry into the killing of Renee Macklin Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross without help from Minnesota authorities. Legal experts explain why the move is unusual and why joint investigations are the norm.
The State Department is freezing immigrant visa processing for 75 countries in an effort to clamp down on applicants it deems likely to become a public charge.
Attorney General Bondi accused the journalist of reporting classified information allegedly leaked by a federal contractor, who she said has been arrested.
ICE agents seemingly believe they can get away with anything, even stealing and selling the phone of a 16-year-old citizen.
ICE is currently operating outside of even Homeland Security's own regulations.
Last week, we wrote about how ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year-old poet and mother, on a Minneapolis street in broad daylight. We wrote about how the Trump administration immediately began lying about it despite multiple video ang…
We’ve always known the ultimate goal was to subject everyone to biometric collections, whether it’s at border crossings or international airports. At some point, the tech will move inland and become an annoying part of traveling from Point A to B because nati…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the year 2025 (nearly triple their 2024 budget) and at least anot…
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: President Donald Trump’s Justice Department is going a…
The Environmental Protection Agency is taking a major step toward changing its math to favor polluters over people: It’s going to stop tallying up the dollar value of lives saved and hospital visits avoided by air pollution regulations. Instead, the agency w…
Jonathan Ross -- the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good while she was behind the wheel of her car in Minneapolis last week -- reportedly suffered internal bleeding from their confrontation ... according to Trump administration officials. Two…
The Trump administration has been dealt its first legal setback in its unprecedented effort to consolidate voter data traditionally held by states.
Hannah Natanson had a phone, two laptops and a Garmin watch seized. The Justice Department says this is part of an investigation into a Pentagon contractor accused of taking home classified information.
The Department of Homeland Security says the shooting happened after the agent came under attack. Protestors have taken to the streets in Minneapolis, clashing with federal agents, after Renee Macklin Good's killing last week.
A Justice Department memo offers new details about how the US planned to pull off the daring nighttime mission.
Department of Homeland Security's AI initiatives in action...
Isaac Chotiner interviews Deborah Fleischaker, a former D.H.S. oversight official, on ICE’s accountability mechanisms, which have been “gutted beyond recognition.”
The City of Minneapolis confirmed a man was shot and taken to hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
“Her time at DOJ has been disastrous for the [Civil Rights] division," the co-founder of Global Extremism told Jezebel.
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Tensions are rising in Minneapolis as the Trump admini…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents got a heated reception upon entering a restaurant in Minnesota ... with customers screaming profanities at them and demanding they get out. Video of the wild interaction this week has surfaced online ...…
One week after Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent, a federal officer has shot another person during a targeted operation in Minnesota, authorities said. Tricia McLaughlin, Department of Homeland Security Assistant Secretary, tells TMZ ...…
“Given the industry’s history of investor-harm... this turn raises troubling questions about the SEC’s priorities and effectiveness."
Thousands of employees whose contracts end this year will lose their jobs, FEMA managers said at personnel meetings this week. The cuts could hobble the nation's disaster agency.
By Sara Merken NEW YORK, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit that sought an unredacted statewide voter...
The medical examiner said that following a struggle with ICE staff, Geraldo Lunas Campos died of asphyxiation.
Last May we noted how Verizon was lobbying the Trump administration to eliminate rules making it easier to switch mobile providers (and bring your phone with you). And as usual with the pay-to-play Trump administration, the Trump FCC is tripping over itself t…
The DOJ can’t indict a ham sandwich these days. That old saying doesn’t ring as true as it used to now that most of the DOJ’s work is just vindictive prosecutions. It’s not just cases being tossed because DOJ prosecutors weren’t legally appointed to their pos…
Reports of Trump administration investigating top Democrats in Minnesota as violent ICE crackdown continues.
The court injunction bars federal agents from detaining or retaliating against peaceful protesters or observers.
Critics say federal agents are following a playbook to give themselves an excuse to react violently
If you are so unfortunate as to need assistance from the Social Security Administration, good luck with that.
Two decades after its founding, the Department of Homeland Security has become exactly what its critics feared.
I live in Minneapolis. I grew up not far from here, in a suburb of St. Paul; after stints on both coasts, my wife and I settled here to raise our daughters in a freezing state that had always welcomed us warmly. As the ongoing occupation by over 3,000 ICE age…
A federal judge refused Monday to temporarily block the Trump administration from enforcing a new policy requiring a week's notice before members of Congress...
Protesters continued to clash with law enforcement over the weekend.
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held.
“Let me be clear with you, [USDT] is used a lot for laundering money,” the suspect is quoted as saying.
US Justice Department says no to probing the ICE agent, despite public outrage over Renee Good's shooting in Minnesota.
By Maria Alejandra Cardona SAINT PAUL, Minnesota, Jan 19 (Reuters) - A Minnesota man told Reuters on Monday he felt fear, shame and desperation a day after...
The Minnesota attorney general and St. Paul mayor have also been subpoenaed as local, state and federal officials have clashed in the aftermath of the shooting of Renee Good by an ICE agent.
President Donald Trump is seeking to stop his own Justice Department from releasing a whole new set of files he’d rather keep away from public view. Trump...
Do you still want to cling to this pretense, Trump supporters? Do you still want to pretend ICE efforts are targeting “the worst of the worst?” Are you just going to sit there and mumble some incomprehensible stuff about “respecting the laws?” Go ahead. Do it…
New court documents claim the feds could access Slack channels, Signal chats, email, and more.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission voted 2-1 to roll back the agency's 2024 harassment guidance in its entirety. The document gave employers information on what makes up unlawful harassment.
The group Whistleblower Aid says it represents two anonymous U.S. government officials. The group argues the ICE memo violates the Fourth Amendment and DHS policies.
The National Institutes of Health’s move to end support for research using fetal human tissue is “clearly a political decision, not a scientific one,” one expert says
Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.
The thing afforded the highest protections of the Fourth Amendment is a person’s home. This isn’t even a controversial statement. It has been that way ever since this amendment was ratified. But, under Trump, we’re constantly seeing that the administration co…
We spent a lot of time last year calling out how dangerous it was that Elon Musk and his inexperienced 4chan-loving DOGE boys were gaining access to some of the most secure government systems. We also highlighted how it seemed likely that they were violating …
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: Over the past few weeks, ICE’s actions have gotten a l…
A federal judge in Georgia on Friday dismissed a U.S. Justice Department lawsuit seeking voter information from the state, ruling the federal government had ...
We are being led by deeply unserious people. Not only that, but people who are manufacturing cruelty upon their very own constituents. That’s how bad this has gotten. This week, the DOJ arrested three people in Minnesota for protesting ICE’s goonish activity …
The Department of Veterans Affairs gutted its workforce. Lawmakers say veterans are now paying the price.
On Saturday, a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis shot and killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti at close range after Pretti had been pepper-sprayed, beaten, and forced onto his knees by other agents. Pretti, 37, was a US citizen and reportedly in the area to observe a…
The U.S. citizen shot to death by federal agents in Minneapolis has been identified. Alex Jeffrey Pretti -- a 37-year-old man -- was the individual killed by feds, according to the Associated Press, which cites Pretti's parents. AP says Pretti is…
Federal ICE and DHS agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, two weeks after the killing of Renee Good.
Footage circulating on social media shows US officers wrestling a person to the ground before several shots ring out.
Todd Blanche ordered changes to crypto prosecutions while owning more than $150,000 in digital assets.
Federal immigration agents shot and killed a 37-year-old Minneapolis resident on Saturday morning, the second time this month that federal agents killed a civilian.Video of the incident shows at least seven masked agents working to tackle the man to the groun…
Video on Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
Video Saturday showed federal agents wrestling a man to the ground outside a donut shop before shots rang out.
But ex-CISA boss and new RSAC CEO Jen Easterly will be there exclusive The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency won't attend the annual RSA Conference in March, an agency spokesperson confirmed to The Register.…
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Saturday outlined terms to “restore the rule of law” in Minnesota, just hours after a second person was fatally shot by federal...
Two witnesses said in court filings that the victim did not brandish a gun, refuting claims by the Trump administration.
Videos show the victim holding a phone in his hand, not a handgun, as he tried to help other protesters.
A bystander footage has captured the moments before Pretti was shot dead by a Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis.
In its efforts to rapidly boost its ranks, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has been making appeals on social media in language familiar to right-wing extremists.
Just days ago, the Trump administration used AI to doctor an image of a suspect. How can we trust body cam footage in their possession?
If you want to understand how little the current administration cares about the First Amendment, look no further than a pre-dawn FBI raid on a journalist’s home—conducted in apparent violation of a federal law specifically designed to prevent exactly this kin…
First, there’s the lies: the immediate, reflexive flurry of posts meant to portray anyone federal immigration officers kill as a threat to public safety. When an officer murdered Renee Good, the administration claimed she was a terrorist who was trying to run…
Since early January, a massive surge of federal immigration enforcement in Minneapolis has provoked national outrage. There have been two fatal shootings by federal immigration agents since the year began. On January 24, Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old US citizen,…
The former FBI director is sharing his concerns after no longer being restrained by a government badge.
The judge ordered the acting head of ICE to appear in his courtroom on Friday and explain why he should not be held in contempt of court.
Customs and Border Protection commander-at-large Greg Bovino is returning to El Centro, California, to resume his duties as chief of that sector, sources told ABC News.
Outrage is growing in Italy over the deployment of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to assist US security operations at the Winter Olympics next month.
This story appeared in The Logoff, a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here. Welcome to The Logoff: After killing Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the week…
A federal agent shoves a woman to the ground. A young man walks over to help her up. Then the agent pepper-sprays them both. Despite the burning in his eyes, the young man keeps trying to get the woman upright — until a pack of masked, camouflaged officers w…
The chief judge of Minnesota’s federal district court, a George W. Bush appointee who clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia, just issued a remarkable order commanding the head of ICE to appear personally before him to explain why he should not be held in contemp…
The FBI would not clarify whether the action is tied to the 2020 election, but last month the Department of Justice announced it's suing Fulton County for records related to the election.
The FBI said Wednesday that there is court authorized activity at the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center.
New details have emerged in the killing of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis. ABC News' Matt Rivers reports.
Hint: The answer starts with “mid” and ends with “terms.”
First off, there’s a chance my headline (which went through several iterations) undersells what’s actually going on here. What’s detailed below is yet another jaw-dropping act of executive hubris, with the DOJ again deciding it can do whatever the hell it wan…
FBI searches Fulton County election office in Georgia over 2020 election concerns linked to Trump-Biden contest.
CFTC chairman Michael Selig said the agency would reverse previous statements on prediction markets, write new rules, and speak up in lawsuits.
A top Fulton County, Georgia, official is blasting the Trump administration for the FBI's seizure of 2020 election ballots, calling it an attempt at "intimidation."
The acting head of the US government’s top cybersecurity agency reportedly uploaded sensitive government files into a public version of ChatGPT.
Governors offered atomic megasites and federal cash as hundreds of pages of regulations go missing The Department of Energy (DOE) is inviting US states to host "Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses" to revitalize atomic power amid reports the agency has weak…
The call is coming from inside the house opinion Maybe everything is all about timing, like the time (this week) America's lead cyber-defense agency sounded the alarm on insider threats after it came to light that its senior official uploaded sensitive docume…
Two agents placed on administrative leave as outrage continues over killing of intensive care nurse Alex Pretti.
As part of the government's affidavit, an FBI agent testified to the suspect approaching Omar with a syringe.
The Department of Justice on Friday released more than 3 million pages, more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images in its files tied to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
A spending agreement under consideration in the Senate would temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security while lawmakers negotiate provisions to rein in federal immigration agents.
Additional material from the DOJ's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is being released to the public today, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says.
The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis is providing insights into the surveillance technologies the government is using in its mass deportation campaign. Department of Homeland Security officials insist their immigration enforcement o…
ICE is required to issue a full report to Congress on any detainee death within 90 days. They've skipped the last 8 deaths entirely.
Trump administration officials have falsely linked Alex Pretti and Renee Macklin Good to domestic terrorism. It's part of a larger pattern by the Department of Homeland Security.
Brett Matsumoto, who has been with the BLS for over 10 years, may end the monthslong search for a new commissioner after Trump fired the last one.
Millions of pages from the Justice Department's files on the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were made public.
Last week, a federal magistrate judge told the DOJ it could not arrest journalist Don Lemon. The DOJ appealed and lost that appeal too. The legal system said no. So the DOJ arrested him anyway. On January 18th, protesters interrupted services at a Minnesota c…
Cybersecurity experts say that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement seems to be indifferent to how their artificial intelligence tools work.
The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism. The post The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting appeared first on The Intercept.
An investigation found Todd Blanche owned at least $159,000 in related assets when he shut down crypto probes.
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
A new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office calculates the cost of efforts to fire civil rights staff, and questions the department's ability to enforce federal civil rights laws.
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) advanced American farmers and equipment owners’ lawful right to repair their farm and other nonroad diesel equipment.
The ICE-tracking service says it doesn't store usernames or addresses ICE-reporting service StopICE has blamed a US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agent for attacking its app and website and sending users text messages warning them that their information…
Trump’s going to win the election he lost, no matter what he has to do to make that happen. Surrounding himself with a better set of sycophants this time around has really allowed him to gain some ground in his “be the despot you wish to see in the world” eff…
Let’s just clear the air right up front: this is just the government mugging Somalis because they’re currently at the top of Trump’s shitlist. Prior to last month’s escalation (and subsequent murder) because some white MAGA shitbird became famous for supposed…
Two agents involved in the shooting deaths of US citizens in Minneapolis are reportedly part of highly militarized DHS units whose extreme tactics are generally reserved for war zones.
The Trump administration tried to end or privatize the government Energy Star efficiency program. But now Trump has signed a budget bill that fully funds the program and leaves it even stronger.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard arranged for agents who searched a Georgia election site last week to have a phone call with President Trump, sources say.
Investigators are working to determine what substances were found inside a home described as a possible biological lab, with over 1,000 samples sent for testing, authorities said.
DoE trims NEPA paperwork for advanced reactors The Department of Energy says advanced nuclear reactor designs - many of which have so far existed mainly at the experimental, testing, or demonstration stage - generally pose limited environmental risk and can q…
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. As the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement have intensified over the past year, politicians and journalists alike have begun referring…
The administration’s racist goon squads have absolutely been steamrolling the Constitution since Trump’s return to office. When ICE et al started roving throughout the nation looking for anyone non-white enough to be foreign, all rights were considered expend…
ICE agents dropped customized ace of spades playing cards, recalling a practice by U.S. soldiers during the Vietnam War. The post Federal Agents Left Behind “Death Cards” After Capturing Immigrants appeared first on The Intercept.
Unsealed transcript reveals a judge bought the DOJ’s arguments about “bounties” on an ICE agent, when his name and location were on LinkedIn. The post Judge Censored an ICE Agent’s Face Over “Threats.” His Info Was a Google Search Away. appeared first on The …
"Border tsar" Tom Homan said about 2,000 would remain, and the US government is equipping more officers with body-worn cameras.
Judge sharply questioned DOJ lawyers for a legal precedent for the Pentagon's attempt to punish Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a frequent critic of President Donald Trump.
Calls by a former and current DOJ official for lawyers who "support President Trump" to join the DOJ "flatly contradict" federal laws, an ex-prosecutor says.
“A court order is not advisory, and it is not conditional,” U.S. District Court Judge Jerry Blackwell said.
Accountability, transparency, and trust must be centerpieces of “New ICE.”
DHS Attorney Julie Le had been assigned 88 cases in less than a month, amid another wave of resignations and prosecutors quitting in protest.
The two murders by immigration officers during Trump’s vengeful “surge” in Minneapolis, Minnesota have grabbed most of the headlines recently. And deservedly so. The violent rhetoric used by nearly every administration official — combined with a lack of train…
Kash Patel, FBI Director, is not very good at his job. There are plenty of examples to demonstrate that notion, from him apparently completely misunderstanding the purpose and protections of the 2nd Amendment and Minnesota gun laws (whatever your thoughts on …
“I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep,” a lawyer representing Donald Trump’s government told a federal judge on Tuesday. Julie Le, the lawyer, who was temporarily detailed to the US Attorney’s Office in Minneapolis…
Benjamin North, who had faced a college allegation, said discrimination against men pervaded the handling of campus sexual assault claims, including his own. The post EEOC Quietly Hired Lawyer Who Crusaded for Cases of Discrimination Against Men — Including H…
The EPA enforced a record low number of environmental laws and regulations during the first year of President Trump's second term in office.
I have to admit: the first one-and-a-half paragraphs of this CNN report had me thinking the Trump administration was shedding another pretense and just embracing its inherent shittiness. Justice Department officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss how …
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's probe is latest effort by Trump administration to stymie diversity policies.
In the documents the Department of Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua.
The suspect landed in Andrews Air Force Base, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Back in August, we wrote about the Department of Justice’s unprecedented decision to file a judicial misconduct complaint against D.C. Chief Judge James Boasberg. The complaint, which Attorney General Pam Bondi tweeted about in what was itself likely a violat…
Spencer Ackerman on how the politics of counterterrorism led to ICE and CBP completing their transformation into a death squad — and why the agencies are unreformable. The post “Terrorist”: How ICE Weaponized 9/11’s Scarlet Letter appeared first on The Interc…
The policy change orders the removal of any post made by official State Department accounts on X before President Trump returned to office in 2025.
Amid an ongoing standoff between Harvard and the White House, the Defense Department said it plans to cut ties with the Ivy League — ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.
Trump promised Americans higher tax refunds this year, but staffing cuts at the IRS could lead to customer service delays.
Some state election officials say they no longer trust their federal partners.
ICE access to Medicaid data is forcing hospitals and states to consider alerting immigrant patients that information from emergency medical coverage applications could be used in efforts to remove them from the country.
Live Nation executives have reportedly sidestepped the Justice Department's antitrust division to negotiate directly with more sympathetic senior officials in the hopes of avoiding a monopoly trial. Citing "people familiar with the matter," Semafor reports th…
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
FBI Director Kash Patel released images of an "armed individual" in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of "Today" show host Savannah Guthrie.
FBI Director Kash Patel released video of an "armed individual" in connection with the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of Savannah Guthrie.
Amid funding fight and polls showing 60% of Americans disapproving of ICE's immigration enforcement operation, senior officials to testify Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
An FBI investigation of the 2020 election in Fulton County, Ga., was initiated by a lawyer who aided President Trump's unsuccessful efforts to overturn that election, an unsealed affidavit says.
Trump administration Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin posted on Twitter, aka X, hinting that the government may work to get rid of...
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Aviation Administration said on Tuesday its contract with national security firm Peraton, the ...
Investigators said one immigration enforcement official got away with physically assaulting his girlfriend for years. A third is charged with taking bribes ...
In a rare appearance on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies Wednesday amid multiple controversies before the House Judiciary Committee.
The DOJ failed to secure indictments for Democratic members of Congress who participated in a video telling the military they could disobey illegal orders.
Attorney General Pam Bondi was being questioned by Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler when she sparred with his Democratic colleague.
Senior FDA official Vinay Prasad reportedly overrode his staff in deciding to reject Moderna's application for a new seasonal flu shot.
Patel is already doing what he does best: rushing to tweet and potentially bungling the investigation in the process.
We told you this was coming months ago. The Trump Department of Justice (DOJ) says it has initiated a broad investigation of Netflix’s business practices and it’s planned $82.7 billion merger with Warner Brothers. The Trump DOJ’s pretense is that they’re just…
Close-up detail of a law enforcement agent. New Jersey officials say they’re investigating after an ICE officer discharged a firearm in Roxbury Township. [ more › ]
The hours-long closure of El Paso airspace stemmed from the use of an anti-drone laser deployed by Customs and Border Protection, according to reports from The New York Times and the Associated Press. Sources tell The Times that CBP officials didn't give the …
Minneapolis was not the war zone I expected to find. Depending on who you are and where you live, things can seem, for a few fleeting moments, almost normal, like a few blocks or neighborhoods over people aren't being tear gassed or rounded up by ICE or, in t…
Jayapal said lawmakers need to be assured the DOJ "is not spying on us."
At no point in the video footage is a driver seen ramming the agents' vehicle.
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the endangerment finding, the legal bedrock for the agency's actions against planet-warming pollution.
The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regulation of greenhouse gases from cars and trucks
The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here’s what that could mean
It sure is odd how "pending investigations" suddenly show up right when Pam Bondi is called to testify on the Epstein Files.
The DHS and its components want to find non-white people to deport by any means necessary. Of course, “necessary” is something that’s on a continually sliding scale with Trump back in office, which means everything (legal or not) is “necessary” if it can help…
Yesterday, Attorney General Pam Bondi appeared before the House Judiciary Committee. Among the more notable exchanges was when Rep. Pramila Jayapal asked some of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims who were in the audience to stand up and indicate whether Bondi’s DOJ h…
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The Trump administration is about to tear down a load-bearing ruling that considers climate change as a threat to Americans’ health. Today, the Environmental Protection Agency is announcing that it will publish its final rule to dismantle the endangerment fi…
Bondi clashed with Democrat representatives Jasmine Crockett and Ted Lieu during her Epstein files hearing.
The visit suggests a possible FBI probe into Extinction Rebellion NYC as the Trump administration increases surveillance of activist groups. The post FBI Counterterrorism Agents Spent Weeks Seeking a Climate Activist — Then Showed Up at His Door appeared firs…
After the DOJ dodged questions for months, Bondi acknowledged in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that she had a list of targets under NPSM-7. The post Pam Bondi Admits DOJ Has a Secret Domestic Terrorist List appeared first on The Intercept.
The recent request goes against decades of precedent, and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions.
Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis was shot in the leg during the incident. Another Venezuelan man was also accused of attacking an immigration officer.
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's repeal of the foundation for federal climate regulation will immediately free...
The top federal prosecutor in Minnesota is asking a judge to dismiss charges against two men accused by the Trump administration of allegedly attacking an ICE agent.
The Department of Homeland Security is all but certain to run out of funding at the end of the day Friday as lawmakers leave Capitol Hill with no solution in sight.
The cut CDC funds for HIV and STD prevention will punish every Trump voter who is unlucky enough to happen to live in a blue state.
Judge Boasberg got his vindication in the frivolous “complaint” the DOJ filed against him, and now he’s calling out the DOJ’s bullshit in the long-running case that caused them to file the complaint against him in the first place: the JGG v. Trump case regard…
The Trump administration has fired one of the few remaining members of the administration that had even a passing interest in antitrust enforcement. DOJ antitrust boss Gail Slater has been fired from the administration after having repeated contentious run in…
Trump administration rescinds 'endangerment finding' that serves as the legal bases to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
Impasse comes as Trump's Democratic rivals demand reforms to immigration operations after deadly shootings in Minnesota.
The Trump Justice Department is protecting the powerful at the expense of Epstein’s victims, says an attorney representing nine of his accusers. The post Attorney for Epstein Survivors Warns That Justice Is Impossible With Bondi as AG appeared first on The …
Congress cleared out for their week-long recess early — running out the clock on a DHS shutdown
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend tens of billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can disappear thousands of people. In a memo shared with New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE outlined its $38.3 billion plan to launch a…
Attorney General Pam Bondi faced pointed questions on Capitol Hill, and lawmakers continued to press the Justice Department about its decision to redact certain information.
Lawmakers remain at an impasse over immigration enforcement, with Department of Homeland Security funding set to run out at the end of the day Friday.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit against Harvard University, accusing it of withholding admissions data.
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.
The FBI director is also facing criticism over his handling of the Epstein files
White House claims victory in retreat — but crackdown continues and so does resistance
The EPA just delivered news that millions of fed-up American drivers have been waiting for: Automatic start-stop technology is no longer being propped up by federal regulation.On February 12, 2026, President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin annou…
The Department of Homeland Security is buying a lavish $70 million Boeing 737 MAX dubbed the "sex plane," and the Wall Street Journal reveals Secretary Kristi Noem traveled aboard the jet with Corey Lewandowski, fueling long-standing reports of their extramar…
On Friday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was asked simple and important questions about reporting that the Trump administration closed down El Paso’s air space and shot down a party balloon it mistakenly thought was a foreign drone. We…
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the highly controversial and violent ICE raids in Minneapolis was a resounding success, ignoring the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by rogue mask-wearing agents. When Tom Homan basically ended the o…
The U.S. attorney is stumbling in Trump’s revenge tour — and it’s a sign of more struggles to come.
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie says he doesn't approve of how AG Pam Bondi conducted herself after Wednesday's clash over DOJ's Epstein files in House hearing.
Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote in a letter to members of Congress that all of the Justice Department files on Jeffrey Epstein have been released in accordance with a law passed last year to disclose the millions of documents related to the the convicted sex…
The Justice Department was reformed in the wake of Watergate. A similar process will be needed after Bondi's abuses
Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin beclowns himself once again when asked about the DOJ trying to prosecute Trump's political enemies. Mullin made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN and was asked about the Trump Department of Justice's fai…
Even as the FBI continues to refuse to share evidence, the DOJ is investigating two ICE agents in Minnesota for lying.
Have the Epstein files shifted US politics beyond news hype?
The Trump administration is proposing massive changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. We asked disaster experts to weigh in.
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Jonathan Blitzer on how the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the Homeland Security agency responsible for processing visas and green cards, has become a site for easy arrests and deportations under the Trump Administration.
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website, a Nature investigation finds
Here we go again. The Trump FTC has threatened Apple and CEO Tim Cook with a fake investigation claiming that Apple News doesn’t do a good enough job coddling right wing, Trump-friendly ideology. The announcement and associated letter pretends that Apple is v…
Companies are being subpoenaed for personal info
Medical and environmental groups are challenging the EPA’s decision to break with the long-standing scientific evidence that climate change endangers human health
After initially rejecting Moderna’s application for review, the FDA will now consider the company’s mRNA flu shot
Federal Communications Commission faces backlash after comedian Stephen Colbert blamed its rules for scuttled interview.
Thomas Albus, the federal prosecutor investigating the 2020 Georgia vote, meet with Trump admin lawyers last fall.
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr said that the agency “has an enforcement action underway on ABC’s The View after the show featured James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, as a guest. “We’re taking a look at it,” Carr told reporters on Wednesday, but…
Wants SLAs, revamped contracts for cloud ops The US Congress’ spending watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, has pressed the National Science Foundation’s CIO to improve how the agency plans, manages, and procures technology.…
CIO says sweeping reorg followed deep cuts as agency pushes cross-functional teams and AI Job cuts at the IRS's tech arm have gone faster and farther than expected, with 40 percent of IT staff and four-fifths of tech leaders gone, the agency's CIO revealed ye…
If confirmed by the US Senate, Jim O'Neill would be the first non-scientist or engineer to lead the agency, a big funder of US basic research.
Earlier this month, the FBI decided it was going to help Donald Trump steal back the election he’s claimed for half-a-decade was stolen from him. The state whose Secretary of State was asked directly by the outgoing president in January 2021 to “find 11,780 v…
Environmental group says FBI is visiting activists' homes as Trump administration rolls back pollution protections.
The US Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the climate change finding as part of a push to slash regulation.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed portions of the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, but will allow other claims to proceed to trial next month. The Justice Department and 39 states sued Live Nation in 2024, with claims that comp…
House Democrats are demanding answers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and urging it to halt rumored changes they say could undermine its mission.
Mercury pollution from coal plants has been tied to serious neurological problems, especially in children and babies
It was never revealed until now that the shooters of Ruben Ray Martinez were agents of ICE. Like Renee Good, he died at the wheel of his car.
It’s all well and good that we have a system of laws and rules in place. For the most part, the bumpers on the bowling lane help keep a lot of stuff on the field of play (to mix metaphors), even if powerful politicians would rather have the rules apply to eve…
We are calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data. In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Department of the Interior announced today it would revoke two public land orders to open more than two million acres of public lands in Alaska to drilling and mining. In an announcement late Friday afternoon, Interior Secretary Doug Bu…
A man who "appeared" to be armed was shot and killed by Secret Service agents after "unauthorized entry into the secure perimeter at Mar-a-Lago," the agency said.
The rare move will result in longer lines, likely frustrating many travelers.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem suspended TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during the ongoing government shutdown, claiming it conserves staff—but TSA’s own documented findings clearly show the opposite. Eliminating expedited security means longer lines, increased sta…
ICE agents don't care if you're a frail senior citizen; they'll still delight in the opportunity to inflict some physical punishment.
Deadly outbreaks of retaliatory violence have rocked Jalisco since the Sunday raid, killing at least 73 people
Kristi Noem isn’t shaking up DHS, she’s doubling down on violence and propaganda
An NPR investigation found that the DOJ withheld some Epstein files related to abuse allegations against Trump. And, what you need to know ahead of the president's State of the Union address tonight.
Checks and balances. That’s the mantra. That’s what makes America great. That’s the system we deployed to prevent being just another iteration of the British empire. It was never perfect, but it seemed to get the job done most of the time. The gentleman’s agr…
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The DOJ possibly withheld some documents about an alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim who accused President Trump of assaulting her when she was a minor, House Democrats say.
Well, we always knew it would come to this. In a blow to the First Amendment and privacy, the Trump administration last week approved a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) plan to collect social media handles from people applying to change their…
Trump administration has sought to penalise pro-Palestine political activity and deport foreign-born student activists.
The agents were fired after FBI Director Kash Patel told Reuters that phone records belonging to him and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles had been subpoenaed.
ICE will not be deployed at polling places during the midterm elections later this year, state election security administrators were told during a call.
Most of Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr’s time lately has been split between destroying all consumer protection oversight and threatening media companies with fake investigations if they’re not appropriately deferential to our mad idiot king. The latter has tende…
I’ll take my joy where I can. And this iteration of the Trump DOJ continues to provide bright bursts of schadenfreude-tinted sunshine. Any competent DOJ can close cases. Any barely competent prosecutor can push a case past a grand jury. Any sufficiently slipp…
Columbia University says federal immigration agents entered a residence hall under the guise of searching for a missing person and then arrested Ellie Aghayeva, a student from Azerbaijan.
Trump has pushed to strip migrants of Temporary Protected Status, arguing that their countries are no longer unsafe.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, is getting a new acting director, as reported by ABC, less than a year after Madhu Gottumukkala took charge of the agency as deputy director …
The Trump administration wanted the Department of Defense to be able to use Claude for "any lawful purpose."
DOJ said it's reviewing if files were "found to have been improperly tagged."
Ranking members of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure released a statement on the incident on Thursday.
The BBC's Tom Bateman explains what Trump-Related Epstein files the Department of Justice is accused of withholding.
ICE can’t keep up with the baseline set by resident ghoul/White House advisor Stephen Miller. Miller has demanded 3,000 arrests per day, which he presented as the minimum he would be satisfied with. To reach this goal, tons of talent from other federal law en…
There has been a weeks-long feud between Pentagon and Anthropic over concerns about how military could use AI at war.
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the Department of Justice’s handling of the Epstein investigation, and more.
The focus of the hearing is likely to be on how Kristi Noem is pursuing President Trump's mass deportation efforts in his second term, after two U.S. citizens were killed by immigration officers.
Yesterday, the Justice Department gave up trying to justify President Donald Trump's executive orders targeting law firms. Now it wants another shot.
Her testimony comes as part of her department is shut down amid funding fight.
The Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE and Border Patrol, is using a broad web of surveillance tools — purchased as its budget has ballooned under this administration — to monitor, apprehend and intimidate the people it seeks to deport and th…
The theft initially grabbed attention over reports that the son of an executive in charge of the crypto stash was involved.
Hey look everyone! More of that famous populism Trump rode into power on! The Trump FCC has announced they’re rubber stamping the approval of a merger between two of the nation’s biggest cable companies (Charter, Cox), creating the biggest cable company in th…
House Oversight Committee votes to subpoena Bondi over Justice Department's handling of files in Epstein investigation.
The Justice Department has published additional Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor after an NPR investigation found dozens of pages were withheld.
The DOJ has released three previously withheld FBI interview reports from 2019 related to a woman who made uncorroborated allegations against President Donald Trump.
ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos — passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistleblowers — told ICE agents they don’t need judicial warrants to arrest p…
Files summarise a woman's accusations against Trump over alleged sexual encounter when she was aged between 13 and 15.
Agency says process being worked out to mediate disbursement of $166bn in tariff costs to more than 330,000 importers.
DHS has built a national police force with massive surveillance capabilities — which it could use to interfere with our elections. The post Surveillance, Propaganda, Intimidation: Dems Need to Wise Up That ICE Is a National Security Threat appeared first on T…
One year after the Trump administration threw the EPA into chaos, former employees continue to push back—and to dream of an agency reborn.
Anthropic says the Pentagon is "seeking to destroy the economic value created by one of the world’s fastest-growing private companies."
A proposed $1.3-billion U.S. Army Corps of Engineers port expansion in North Carolina threatens to unearth decades of “forever chemicals.” The government’s initial plan: don’t test the mud
The DOJ argued Live Nation was a monopoly controlling the concert industry, needing to be broken up. Instead, the billionaires win again.
On Wednesday of last week, I wrote a post about how the Trump administration had quietly given up defending its unconstitutional executive orders targeting law firms. The DOJ was dropping its appeals, the firms that fought had won, and the firms that capitula…
The defense secretary has made clear that Pentagon managers are to encourage workers, including civilians, to volunteer to assist in the administration's immigration crackdown.
The FDA ultimately ruled against approving leucovorin for autism, citing a lack of "sufficient data."
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved a generic medication for a rare brain disorder, while walking back suggestions by President Donald Trump...
The Department of Justice is quietly restarting a decades-dormant program to restore gun rights to felons. One of them was an alleged fake elector in 2020.
The FBI has warned police departments in California that Iran wants to retaliate for American attacks by launching offensive drones against the West Coast, according to an alert reviewed by ABC News.
The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC News.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was quietly moved to a Washington D.C. military base after receiving threats from drug cartels and people pissed about her handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case, according to the New York Times. Bondi was spirited out…
The Trump Administration on Friday asked Missouri to pause or dismiss its lawsuit against the FDA over mifepristone. Sounds like someone's getting more and more concerned about the midterms.
Senator Ron Wyden says that when a secret interpretation of Section 702 is eventually declassified, the American public “will be stunned” to learn what the NSA has been doing. If you’ve followed Wyden’s career, you know this is not a man prone to hyperbole — …
Donald Trump nominated a senior State Department official to lead the agency that oversees the Voice of America and other U.S. government broadcasters, after a federal judge invalidated layoffs and other actions taken by the president’s appointee, Kari Lake. …
Just weeks after joining the U.S Men’s Olympic hockey team in the locker room to celebrate their Gold Medal victory in Italy, FBI director Kash Patel is celebrating what he sees as another athletic milestone. “I’m thrilled to announce this historic seminar be…
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice spent weeks emailing its request for Oklahoma’s voter rolls to the wrong email address. Then it sued Oklahoma for not complying. It began in December, when Department of Justice officials wrote a letter demanding that Okla…
A federal judge has put the brakes on a criminal probe of the Federal Reserve, saying it was part of an improper campaign by the Trump administration to pressure the central bank into cutting interest rates.
It's been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.
Trump’s nominee has one big thing going for him: He’s not Kristi Noem.
The EPA's sole function is to protect Americans from environmental health threats, and yet again and again it backs carcinogens instead.
Last election season, you might recall how the Trump campaign lied to everyone repeatedly about how his second administration would “rein in big tech,” and be a natural extension of the Lina Khan antitrust movement. As we noted at the time, that was always an…
We’re a couple weeks late to this one, but it deserves more attention than it received. As the Washington Post first reported, a federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law 42,695 times when it handed over confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE …
My little horror movie review was introduced to prove a conception of antifa that — like many of the monsters we scream at in horror flicks — isn’t quite real. The post I Wrote a Movie Review. Cops Took It From A Protester’s Home to Make the Case That He’s a …
Advocates warn that the program could erode homeless veterans' trust in the VA
David Harvilicz, who co-founded a firm with a 2020 election denier, oversees voting machine security for the Department of Homeland Security while the Trump administration is relitigating the president’s baseless claims that the 2020 vote was stolen.
A federal judge threw out a pair of subpoenas the Justice Department issued to the Federal Reserve, handing a victory to the Fed and dealing a heavy blow to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s criminal investigation into Chair Jerome Powell. Judge Box O'Wine isn't …
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to use AI to scrutinize benefits, the latest turn in its mission to clamp down on benefits.
Here's the latest in the FCC's quest to keep American media on a tight leash.
DHS’s next leader will inherit a fast-moving $38 billion plan for industrial-scale immigrant detention.
It’s not that arrest and ticket quotas don’t exist. They do. They always have. They always will. It’s that they’re illegal. Courts have repeatedly criticized quotas because they create incentives so perverse they’d make /b/ board denizens uncomfortable. Since…
Cameron Staley, the Pentagon's chief digital and AI officer, praised Palantir's tool for modernizing warfighting.
US biomedical funding behemoth says the approach will boost innovation, but some researchers worry that understudied areas of science will suffer.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. The Trump administration is loosening restrictions on the sharing of law enforcement information with the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials said, over…
The DOJ is filled with grossly incompetent prosecutors these days. It’s a bunch of subservients acting in obeisance to the zenith of gross incompetence: the current President of the United States. When not being sidelined by judges for not being legally appoi…
Bondi will face questions about the Trump administration's compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act in April.
Federal immigration enforcement agents usually won't talk to the media—but they will talk to independent journalist Karl Loftus.
Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin faces questions from his fellow senators at his confirmation hearing to lead the Department of Homeland Security,
In a Tuesday filing, the Department of Defense argued that Anthropic's refusal to accept the government's contractual terms is not protected speech.
Top US spy was accused of altering testimony on Iran, omitting details that contradict Trump’s threat claims.
Gabbard said she oversaw "parts" of the raid on an election center, but avoided offering details.
The department of homeland security shutdown shows Republicans still answer to Stephen Miller
A 19-year-old Mexican immigrant died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody this week, according to a notice sent to lawmakers.
DHS on Wednesday released data on how many pregnant people ICE has unlawfully detained since 2025.
Hundreds of TSA workers have resigned over unpaid wages, as Congress weighs funding the Department of Homeland Security.
President Trump has slashed the number of people on the Board of Immigration Appeals and stacked it with his appointees, tightening the due process available for immigrants, an NPR analysis shows.
Environment advocacy groups are suing the US government over climate change policy rollback.
The Defense Department is recruiting on behalf of DHS while the latter faces public backlash and a continued lack of government funding. The post Pentagon Implores Civilian Workers to Join ICE “Volunteer Force” appeared first on The Intercept.
Protesters demonstrated Saturday against a planned ICE detention center in Roxbury, NJ The lawsuit ratchets up the bitter fight over a 1,500-person site in a deep-red part of the Garden State. [ more › ]
President Trump threatened to deploy ICE agents to U.S. airports starting Monday if Democrats don’t agree to a funding package to end the DHS shutdown.
The US Justice Department has asked a federal judge to toss the remaining criminal charges against two Louisville cops accused of falsifying a search warrant that led to police fatally shooting Breonna Taylor in 2020.
Border czar Tom Homan says ICE agents will help the Transportation Security Administration 'move those lines' while also enforcing immigration law.
Transportation Secretary Duffy says ICE agents are trained and can assist with airport security, following Trump's announcement that he will send them to airports Monday.
Trump Administration officials also don't seem to agree on the details of the deployment that's mere hours away.
The answer to the agency’s abuses is not reform; it is wholesale disassembly and restructuring.
The Trump administration is sending ICE officers to assist the TSA at airports Monday, amid the ongoing partial government shutdown.
Deportation fight over Abrego Garcia to Liberia The Trump administration asked a judge to dissolve an injunction blocking the government from detaining Kilmar Abrego Garcia again so it can move toward a quicker deportation to Liberia. What the government argu…
TSA staffing shortages deepen during DHS shutdown A partial government shutdown has left Transportation Security Administration (TSA) workers working without pay, triggering further staffing strain and long security lines at major U.S. airports. Reporting acr…
Even without a direct role in screening, a visible ICE presence at airports risks adding new friction to an already fragile inbound travel environment.
After a protest went awry outside Prairieland Detention Center in North Texas, a group of activists was accused of having ties to antifa and supporting terrorism. Meagan Knuth, a legal expert, breaks down the case and its implications.
US President Trump has threatened to deploy ICE agents to airports to stand in for Transportation Security Administration personnel as Democrats continue to block DHS funding
The partial shutdown — the rest of the federal government is being funded — hit a record 44th day on Sunday.
This announcement from the FBI came after President Donald Trump highlighted the recent deaths of several scientists and government workers who may have had access to sensitive information
Internal memo shows Trump appointee targeting EPA program that assesses toxic chemicals.
Admin set up an EPA address where companies could get compliance pause simply by sending an email.
Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, a Democrat, joins Republicans to advance Warsh's confirmation.
By throwing a wrench in the state’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan, advocates say Hawaiian Electric Co. can sidestep rules years in the making.
Trump's USDA says employees of the bed bug-infested Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service are expected to show up to their noxious, itchy office or spend vacation days to work from home.
Kevin Warsh takes questions from reporters for the first time since taking over as Chairman of the Federal Reserve. Warsh and his colleagues are expected to hold interest rates steady today.
The scholarly class must cease their pretense about the impossibility of “Fed independence.” They want no such thing.
According to a new report, nearly 90 percent of the Department of Transportation's owned or leased buildings are more than half-empty.
The Trump administration has terminated or suspended more than 100 federal advisory committees. Former members say agencies like NASA now have less accountability to stakeholders and the public.The Trump administration has terminated or suspended more than 10…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Federal Communications Commission voted 2-1 today to eliminate the National Television Ownership Rule, claiming authority to repeal a limit that was set by Congress over 20 years ago. The rule prohibi…
Naturally, both Markwayne Mullin and Kristi Noem say that the DHS buying $464 million in unused jets is something that the other one did.
Disney asked a federal judge to hold an emergency hearing by Tuesday over the Federal Communications Commission’s move to review the licences of its eight ABC-owned stations. The Justice Department told the court on Thursday that there is no hurry. The govern…
As the Trump administration continues to chase away actual talent in order to staff federal agencies with loyalists and/or people who don’t know any better, it has had to lower hiring standards to keep the federal cupboards stocked. ICE went on a hiring surge…
For a brief moment last week, it appeared that an ICE officer, who allegedly shot a man during the early 2026 occupation of Minneapolis and then lied about it, might actually face legal consequences for his actions. Christian Castro, the now-suspended ICE off…
Vought and his allies have reshaped the CFPB into an industry-friendly, less aggressive regulator
The administration filed a statement of interest backing OpenAI in the newspaper’s lawsuit.
The FBI made a highly irregular request to monitor one of Trump’s most visible critics.
Yet again, DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says ICE body cameras are coming ... but they still haven't turned on the ones they already have.
This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off the ledge. ICE decided the neat new tool of cruelty it absolutely had to have were gloves tha…
Trump’s Justice Department filed a brief on behalf of OpenAI in a landmark copyright lawsuit by The Intercept and other media companies. The post Trump Admin Tells Court: Let OpenAI Rip Off The Intercept’s Articles appeared first on The Intercept.
In a leaked memo, an ICE official tells employees the new AI tech will protect them from doxing. Some worry it could be used to root out whistleblowers. The post ICE Is Paying a Controversial AI Firm to Hide the Identities of Agents appeared first on The Inte…
The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to intervene in an ongoing legal battle over U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots just weeks before the...
A plan by the Environmental Protection Agency could make it harder for the public to learn about and comment on proposed AI data centers that have sparked a backlash in communities across the country and become a key election issue
It comes as the White House is touting stopping fraud across the U.S.
But with that said, federal prosecutors are still letting ICE agent Christian Castro off easy, charging him only with making false statements.
A little more than a year ago, the Trump administration pushed a novel legal theory in order to juice its migrant arrest stats. It was a two-part process. First, the administration unilaterally declared expansive areas near US military bases to be “national d…
If you’re worried about the bad optics of working with ICE, the federal government is here to help subsidize your recovery from mass deportation conjunctivitis. If you’re worried about the personal negative side effects of buddying up to ICE’s masked kidnappi…
Authorities say agent fired into home with people inside, lied about circumstances.
The Trump administration has found a new way to target Black and brown students at American universities—by giving white kids all their money. The Department of Treasury proposed a new rule Thursday that would require the IRS to deny tax-exempt status to any …
An ICE agent has been charged by federal prosecutors with lying about the shooting of a Venezuelan man in Minnesota earlier this year.The Associated Press, citing an unnamed source, reports that officer Christian Castro, who allegedly shot Julio Cesar Sosa-Ce…
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIH’s institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defence.
Is it official Dept. of Labor business when you have subordinates "drop bills" on a "partially nude woman" in a strip club?
An exclusive email reveals a prosecutor planned to file civil rights charges against an ICE agent
People cross a bridge in front of the Mount Sinai logo at Mt. Sinai Hospital on March 31, 2020 in New York. Mount Sinai is the latest in a string of U.S. hospitals to reach similar agreements with the Trump administration, including Texas Children’s Hospit…
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits warned that the agency was shortcutting vetting procedures for new hires, according to a whistleblower complaint.
US Representative Seth Moulton appears with New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill at a roundtable discussion about veterans issues on August 19, 2026 The ruling comes after federal prosecutors filed a lawsuit in response to Gov. Mikie Sherill’s executive order ba…
In 2024, the Biden administration enacted wide-ranging regulations to protect communities near petrochemical plants from air toxics. The Trump administration has since granted exemptions to scores of polluting facilities and is working to rewrite the long-awa…
Twenty five years after al-Qaeda struck inside the U.S. homeland, authorities are warning that the threat from foreign terrorist organizations has hardly gone away.
My long weekend morning reads: • This data has helped fight workplace discrimination for 60 years. The Trump administration plans to delete it: The move marks a fundamental shift for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Without this data, it wi…
By Nate Raymond Sept 8 (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld an injunction blocking an Internal Revenue Service policy that allowed it to share...
It would be nice to go a day or two (or three-day weekend!) without being apprised of some new awfulness from this administration. Since that’s not going to happen, let’s check in with the latest shitshow! And here it is: the Pentagon has “enlisted” some X.co…
A whistleblower report delivered to the DHS Office of the Inspector General makes it clear ICE is willing to hire pretty much anyone who applies for the job. Keeping up appearances (and by “appearances,” I mean constantly pushing for 1,500-3,000 arrests per d…
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. A…
I am never asking the monkey’s paw for a federal government that defends fair use again. For decades on Techdirt, I’ve talked about the absolute necessity of strong fair use, and have been disappointed over and over again at how little the federal government …
The U.S. military’s desire for an AI tool with “minimal refusal rates” was revealed through a FOIA lawsuit filed by The Intercept. The post The Pentagon Asked OpenAI for Artificial Intelligence Designed to Rarely Say No appeared first on The Intercept.
The catastrophic 9/11 attacks forced the intelligence community to radically revamp its ways of doing business. Now, critics say, President Trump is dismantling much of what was built since then.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurre…
Let’s start out with the obvious (and obviously heartbreaking): this is not related to the multiple times ICE officers have murdered people. Those officers still remain at large and the DOJ and DHS have shown absolutely zero interest in following up on those …
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is reversing policies put in place after 9/11.
The information taxpayers give the IRS is supposed to be for the IRS’s eyes only.
There are multiple things this administration is incapable of doing: winning wars, curbing inflation, not acting like Nazis, wearing shoes that fit them, etc. But if there’s one thing it’s most known for, it’s the unwillingness to take a loss and move on. Tha…
Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But this current administration has been far more opportunistic than most, doing constitutional recon in areas of unsettled law right up until a court rules that it can’t. (In some cases, it…
Less than two weeks after an Executive Order was signed to create the first United States Space Academy, NASA-led work is in full swing to make the academy a reality and shape the future of America’s aerospace workforce and leadership. NASA Administrator Jare…
In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal court on Friday ruled that the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it forced a Michigan coal-fi...
After an ICE watcher in Springfield won a temporary injunction against ICE in a First Amendment lawsuit, the agency moved the officers accused of harassing h...
The major funder of basic science has not said how its new initiatives will be funded — but staff worry streamlined approach will further squeeze cash for core sciences.
US President Donald Trump has said he would like to abolish the agency.
The ruling says the Energy Department exceeded its authority by extending the plant’s operation.
If there was a defining moment that showed the corruption and immoral actions Todd Blanche and the DOJ took to enact Trump's vengeance against his rivals, it was Joe diGenova's resignation. DiGenova served as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia from 19…
Federal investigators seek six years of records involving Newsom’s international travel, outside funding, and expenditures related to his residence and personal expenses.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival …
Federal agents may have broken state laws after the Department of Homeland Security began surging personnel for what it called the Unlawful Voter Initiative, a federal whistleblower alleges.
The Justice Department’s push to pursue a sweeping conspiracy probe into former officials behind investigations targeting President Donald Trump has descende...
The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to repeal rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natur...
The reversal of a Biden-era cap on emissions from the plants could have devastating effects in efforts to stop climate change
The Trump administration says it could save power plants more than $300bn and 'unleash' American energy.
FBI director Kash Patel claimed to US senators that the removal of a bar on hiring people who had engaged in bestiality was aimed at protecting sexual assault survivors.
Donald Trump's EPA not only abandoned greenhouse gas limits on the power sector, but is practically begging for a court ruling that it never can again.
John Brennan has been subpoenaed to testify before a Florida grand jury in a Justice Department probe into whether former law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against President Trump.
The EPA's rollback of emissions rules for power plants hastens climate change but helps the data center buildout.
Joseph Moore had dreamed of a life in law enforcement since he was a teenager. “Policing is in my blood,” he wrote a Pennsylvania town’s supervisors in 2020....
A whistleblower claims DHS has directed agents to "misrepresent" themselves and "violate state laws" in a voter probe, Democratic lawmakers say.
It is Patel's first appearance before Congress since May.
Bestiality took center-stage at a Senate hearing on Tuesday, with Patel facing bipartisan grilling that only got weirder as it went on.
FBI Director Kash Patel defended relaxing the FBI's hiring standards to allow applicants who have engaged in bestiality during a bizarre hearing.
Newly declassified FBI documents are providing a clearer picture of the gunman who nearly assassinated President Donald Trump at a 2024 campaign rally in But...
Critics from both parties said Schroyer wasn't qualified for the job.
A heavily redacted email from last year, reported first by NPR, reveals that DHS personnel shared a list of jurisdictions that offer election materials in non-English languages. It's unclear why.
A judge says she remains skeptical that the DOJ won't move forward with improperly compensating Trump allies who were prosecuted under the Biden administration.
ICE officers on dating apps should be wary of tradwives, an FBI memo suggested, as well as any woman whose profile would "appeal" to them.
The ex-Oklahoma state trooper’s nomination had stalled in the Senate as ICE faced growing scrutiny over its operations.
At Leavenworth, former workers say CoreCivic made conditions dangerous, which led to a near-death attack. The post ICE Revives Former “Hellhole” Prison — And Hires the Same Company To Run It appeared first on The Intercept.
NYU Langone, hospital, medical, building, healthcare. The hospital system will pay $8.5 million, similar to the “monetary penalty” paid by Mount Sinai earlier this month. [ more › ]
The person shot is in serious but stable condition, Austin Mayor Kirk Watson said in a press conference.
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man on Sunday afternoon in the Texas capital of Austin, local officials said.
The Justice Department is pressing on with its “grand conspiracy” case against federal officials who investigated President Trump, even after the head of that effort—counselor to the attorney general Joe diGenova—controversially resigned.DiGenova, a former Re…
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is now hiding the locations of thousands of immigrants who received a final deportation order. The Associated Press reports that the agency’s online detainee locator database no longer contains any record of these individua…
Sept 22 (Reuters) - The US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday it canceled 315,000 Obamacare health plans covering about 760,000 people last month, citing unverified citizenship or immigration documentation and suspected improper enrollm…
The DOJ's criminal division and U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan are reportedly involved.
The officer who shot a Venezuelan man was hired last year from another federal law-enforcement agency.
The Department of Justice defended President Trump's recent media ban, arguing that reporting by CNN, MS Now and Politico on a wide range of issues jeopardized national security and spread falsehoods.
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
The United States Justice Department has requested that a federal judge dismiss the emergency application submitted by CNN, Politico, and MS NOW to get their reporters readmitted to the White House. In a court document filed on Tuesday evening, the government…
The removal of individuals illegally in the U.S. to a third country that isn't their country of origin is an "essential public safety tool," the DHS general counsel says.
The US Justice Department's response to a lawsuit filed by CNN, Politico and MS NOW also cites national security.
This story was originally published by ProPublica and the Texas Tribune. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. In the final weeks of 2019, a top fundraiser for Sen. Susan Collins walked into a perilous meeting at a Corner Bakery in Washington, D.C. For…
In what was a severely belated response to acts of violence by immigration enforcement officers, “Border Czar” (who seems far more interested in raiding inland cities than patrolling the border) Tom Homan assured the nation that all ICE officers would soon be…
Dr. Heidi Overton is appearing before a Senate committee on Thursday for her confirmation hearing as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Trump’s Bureau of Land Management is pushing to aggressively expand solar farms into the Mojave Desert, which advocates say would decimate its vast biodiversity. The post Green Energy Is Coming for the Desert appeared first on The Intercept.
The price tag is significantly higher than previously known.
How many millions more pounds of uninspected meat will the USDA ultimately allow to hit the market in 2026?
Federal agents patrol the halls of immigration court at the Jacob K. Javits Federal Building, 26 Federal Plaza, on August 14, 2025, in New York City. A federal judge ordered rules put in place to end 'inhumane' conditions at 26 Federal Plaza be made perman…
President Trump’s Department of Justice doesn’t think desegregation is worth the effort. The DOJ on Thursday announced it has dropped more than 50 school desegregation cases. As The New York Times reports, that brings the total to 57 dropped cases since Trump…
Federal Trade Commission Chairman Andrew Ferguson says humans who set in motion AI agents are the ones who will be held accountable for their actions.
Stephen Miller, White House deputy chief of staff, and his wife, Katie Miller, attend the White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday, April 21, 2025. - Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Sipa USA Two veteran FBI agents overseeing counterterrorism operations in the nation…
The conservative firebrand whom the Trump administration installed as a No. 2 at the FBI announced Monday that he is resigning from the bureau. Andrew Bailey, the former Missouri attorney general who has supported debunked claims that the 2020 election was …
Federal Bureau of Investigation co-Deputy Director Andrew Bailey is resigning from the bureau to spend time with his family, he announced in a post on social media.
Government lawyers who think that the Trump Administration is subverting justice face an enormous moral quandary, Eyal Press reports.
“The grim state of affairs at the Trump CDC should terrify everyone,” Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care, told Jezebel in a statement.
FBI co-deputy director and former Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey—who helped lead the draconian raid on a Georgia election center in January—has resigned from his post.“I want to thank President Trump, @AGToddBlanche, and @FBIDirectorKash for the oppo…
The Trump administration’s final fuel economy rule promises $1,300 off the average new vehicle, but will that matter if fuel prices continue to climb?
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security has tapped $20 million to pay for the campaign-style ads glorifying President Donald Trump that have drawn widespread criticism from Republicans and Democrats as a blatant misuse of taxpayer dollars that l…
Federal prosecutors have charged the Austin man an ICE agent shot earlier this month with a single count of resisting and assaulting a federal officer, according to court documents. Wilber Rafael Garces Perez, a Venezuelan national, was shot by an ICE offi…
Another Trump loyalist tasked to help lead a controversial conspiracy probe targeting President Trump's political foes has resigned from the DOJ, sources say.
The Trump administration used funds from Homeland Security to air TV ads featuring President Donald Trump in recent days, according to sources familiar with the matter.
Because fuel inefficiency and smog are Americans' most popular issues right now.
The report is the agency's latest effort to chip away at trust in established health care models for transgender people. Critics say it frames transgender identity as illegitimate or even dangerous.
The US Federal Trade Commission is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI labs over the risks their technology poses to consumers. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the probe on Wednesday to CNBC and CBS News. The New York Post first reported the probe earl…
The Federal Trade Commission is looking into the actions of leading AI labs Anthropic (ANTH.PVT), OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), and other AI firms to determine if they've harmed or misled consumers.According to the New York Times, the investigation centers on whether th…
Seven Minnesota judges face ethics complaint after speaking publicly about US president's immigration crackdown.
FTC investigates AI firms amid concerns over rogue agents and potential threats to humanity within the next decade.
Three-quarters of ICE’s own 2025 death reviews, briefly posted online, raised substandard and “inappropriate” care of ill detainees. The post ICE Deleted Reviews for Deaths in Custody That Cited Shoddy Medical Care appeared first on The Intercept.
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cannot confirm that IT equipment it left in four closed offices is secure, a watchdog has found. J.J. McCorvey reported the audit for Bloomberg. The bureau ended the leases on its New York, Chicago, San Francisco an…
A federal judge has ordered a U.S. attorney from Western Washington who was fired by President Donald Trump in July to immediately be reinstated to the position.
The new guidance comes after several vehicle stops ended in shootings.
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
By ending the independence of federal agencies, the Supreme Court has taken another step toward the creation of an elected presidential dictatorship.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has released a classified report to its workforce examining what it says are chapters from the bureau's history “where this institution fell short,” according to an internal message obtained Friday by The Associated Press. It was un…
Video first obtained by ABC News shows Coast Guard agents equipped in tactical gear boarding the ship.
“The president wants indictments. He wants people in handcuffs.”
Among the many promises that RFK Jr. offered in his confirmation hearings, promises that he has gone about breaking in spectacular fashion, one was a promise of “radical transparency”. His approach, in his own words, was laid out directly to Congress. My appr…
A new lawsuit alleges DHS agents drove by observers' and protestors' homes to intimidate them and added their names to Homeland Security's investigations system, according to Wired.
US authorities have arrested a California man accused of smuggling more than $300mn of computer servers packed with AI chips to China, the Justice Department said on Thursday. Greg Lui, 38, of San Gabriel, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, was arrested on Wednesday…
The Justice Department argued that Donald Trump can legally ban CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House because he determined that they didn’t meet the “minimum requirements of professionalism.” Last month, a federal judge granted the three outlets a te…
Atthapon Niyom/Getty Images The Justice Department sued demonstrators who protested at a synagogue, under a law aimed at shielding abortion clinics. [ more › ]
In late 2024, FBI investigators had enough evidence to launch a sweeping bribery probe of politicians including Sen. Susan Collins — until Trump gutted the unit in charge. ProPublica has revealed the existence of the case for the first time.
JD Vance gave us a preview of this back in June. Now it appears Todd Blanche at Trump's corrupt DOJ is going to follow through on it. As MS Now's Ali Velshi explained: VELSHI: It seems as though President Trump's attempt to rewrite the history of the January…
Responding to critics of the DOJ sending a thousand "election monitors" to polling stations during the midterms," Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche claimed the DOJ has been doing it since the 60s and Senators should instead thank God they are doing it. Sen. Tammy Bald…
America’s FBI directors are expected to be fiercely independent. Kash Patel is not.Instead, Patel appears to be completely under the thumb of the White House, bending over backward to enact the president’s retribution campaign, according to a new report by Th…
The cuts come as a consequence of President Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel's focus on violent crime and immigration, leaving other priorities understaffed.
On Monday, the Justice Department identified more than 40 citizens it’s seeking to strip of their naturalized status.
Yet another one of Trump’s many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn’t know who’s going to be loyal enough to satisfy him and also able to pass the rudimentary screening we generously call the Senate Confirm…
Top officials have sought to expand the use of rarely invoked laws that can strip naturalised Americans of citizenship.
The White House pressured the FBI to investigate anti-ICE protesters in Los Angeles in violation of the Constitution, a whistleblower alleges.A former supervisory intelligence analyst in the bureau’s field office in Los Angeles, Jill Fields, made a formal com…
Donald Trump’s Department of Justice is taking action to strip 40 naturalized Americans of their citizenship.According to a DOJ press release published Monday, the department has filed “denaturalization actions” against these individuals after they were accus…
Kash Patel’s Federal Bureau of Investigation slammed Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed in a wildly partisan, and likely illegal, propaganda video Tuesday.In a two-minute video posted on social media, the supposedly non-partisan agency decried “democrat…
The badges of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are seen as they patrol the halls of an immigration court in New York in May. - Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/File The Department of Homeland Security’s sweeping election-fraud operation has drawn …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission is considering a request by a conservative group to loosen rules on political robocalls, including those with artificial intelligence-generated voices, before November’s midterm elections. Federal law c…
FCC commissioner warns against AI robocalls, citing risks of misinformation before crucial midterm elections.
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent on June 25, 2025, makes an arrest during an "enforcement removal operation" at 26 Federal Plaza in Lower Manhattan. The total in the first 18 months of Trump’s second term is more than twice that of the same spa…
The Department of Homeland Security radically reduced training requirements for local law enforcement officers whose departments had agreed to help Immigration and Customs Enforcement.In an email obtained by American Oversight, an ICE official whose name was …
By Julia Harte and Kristina Cooke NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents shot and wounded a man on Thursday in his car with a child present in the vehicle in the Bronx borough of New York City, according to the mayor, city…
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Hey, this guy is a judge now! Let that seep in for a bit. Emil Bove used to work for the DOJ. Then he went to work for Trump, acting as his personal lawyer starting in 2023. Upon Trump’s return to office, he was brought back to the DOJ to serve as an “associa…
The State Department has accused the man of paying bribes to Fijian citizens to advance Chinese interests.
The Trump administration wants to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson, a former White House aide who was one of the star witnesses for the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol.Punchbowl News reports that the Department of Ju…
ICE just shot another person on the streets of New York City, this time while a 5-year-old was reportedly in the car next to the victim.
A federal judge ruled against the Justice Department's use of voter data to cross-reference an immigration database.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani says agents fired at a car with a child inside; DHS says it was conducting enforcement activity.
The shooting prompted protests in New York City and Mayor Zohran Mamdani condemned the incident.
Admin relaxes rules around political events for Blanche, other appointees... (First column, 4th story, link) Related stories:TRUMP GETS HIS GIRL: Katie Zacharia Next Press Secretary... NYT: How President's Revenge Campaign Descended Int…
File photo of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at work. The Trump-appointed judge said ICE agents lied in court and falsified records to cover their tracks. [ more › ]
Still shot from a video released by NYPD shows an ICE agent pointing a gun at a vehicle driven by Oscar Belgal. A federal immigration agent shot a Dominican immigrant in the neck in Marble Hill Thursday night. [ more › ]
For decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their community.
Effective October 19, airlines are no longer required to provide things like lodging and meals during many types of mechanical delays under a new regulation adopted by the Department of Transportation.
US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ruled that the Justice Department's push to obtain state voter rolls to check citizenship status is unconstitutional.
The White House had blocked access for CNN, MS Now and Politico, leading them to restrict pool coverage.
The move escalates Trump's fight with the press amid court battle over barring CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House.
WASHINGTON, Oct 10 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department said on Saturday it is investigating whether television networks violated federal antitrust laws over their decision to boycott covering the White House following its decision to pull the credentials o…
Department of Justice says it's investigating whether the White House press pool's decision violated antitrust laws.
Oscar Belgal in the moments after he was shot in the neck by ICE agents. The mayor said his administration would review ICE and NYPD actions surrounding Thursday’s shooting. [ more › ]
The Justice Department has launched an investigation of the five major networks that make up the White House TV pool, a probe focused on whether they violated antitrust laws by suspending participation in protest of Donald Trump’s ban on CNN. Emily Covington,…
Secret Service Director Sean Curran and Deputy Director Matthew Quinn say they're dealing with an unprecedented number of threats and working on how best to handle attacks from drones.
The Secret Service warns of a sharp rise in threat levels in recent years both from within the U.S. and from outside the country. The agency is also developing its ability to defend against drones.
Omar was first elected to Congress in 2018, and is an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump.
By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Oct 12 (Reuters) - A US judge said on Monday that she was "furious" with Justice Department lawyers for their conduct in a lawsuit seeking to halt the Trump administration’s takeover of a historic golf course in Washington, saying it…
Homeland Security executed a search warrant at the Somali-American congresswoman's home, reportedly in connection to a probe into her immigration paperwork
US authorities searched the Democratic congresswoman’s home as part of a criminal investigation.
Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar’s home has been searched as part of an undisclosed ‘criminal investigation’.
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After 430 trees are cut down for a new golf course, a federal judge says the government has lost its credibility
DOJ confirms a criminal investigation into the Minnesota Democrat weeks before the midterms
Homeland Security Investigations executed a search warrant at the Washington-area home of Rep. Ilhan Omar early Monday, part of what the Justice Department called an ongoing federal investigation. …
Posts claimed the agency offered eight months' pay and benefits to employees who agreed to quit.
A Department of Homeland Security official says unaccompanied migrant children are being offered $3,000 to self-deport.
One researcher tells Scientific American that the change would reduce transparency and risk politicizing the grant review process
Federal agents searched Omar's home in what she described as an attempt to 'weaponise federal law enforcement'.
An ICE vehicle parked outside a warehouse in Roxbury, New Jersey that the Trump administration plans to convert into an immigration detention facility. The agency is under a court order not to use the site for detaining arrestees, but acknowledged it proce…
News that the Justice Department is investigating five major networks for suspending the White House TV pool last month was met with outcry that it was another example of Trump administration retaliation against the media. Alarming as it may be to First Amend…
Espionage in AI labs poses a national security threat, according to US intelligence and security officials.
By Jacob Bogage and Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The US Justice Department on Tuesday gave California officials 48 hours to review a list of alleged noncitizen voters or face legal action, according to a letter reviewed by Reuters - part of…
The proposed change to how the National Institutes of Health handles grant applications has been criticized by scientists as reducing transparency
More evidence is piling up that contradicts the almost-but-not-quite denials given by administration officials in response to allegations about the DHS compiling a database to keep tabs on protesters. Just a few months ago, “Immigration Czar” Todd Lyons was t…
Here’s something ICE pretends has happened: ICE alleged in a statement that “Parra-Hernandez ran in front of an ICE vehicle and was struck.” ABC13 reached out to an ICE spokesperson, who said agents were attempting to arrest Jose Mendoza-Cervantes, who was th…
The immigration agency rejects a report from a government watchdog recommending improvements to its body camera policy.
A wounded Oscar Belgal is detained by Immigration and Customs officers on Oct. 8, 2026, in the Marble Hill section of Manhattan. Belgal, driving a silver SUV with his 5-year-old son also in the vehicle, was shot in the neck while being taken into ICE custody.…
Kash Patel has been boosting the FBI’s crime stats for his own gain.Despite Patel’s claims, the bureau has not arrested 54,000 “violent criminals,” according to FBI insiders who spoke with MS NOW. Instead, the enormous federal head count—which Patel himself h…