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DHS says it's suspending TSA PreCheck and Global Entry due to shutdown
Ayesha Ali, Luke Barr, Abcnews.com
The rare move will result in longer lines, likely frustrating many travelers.
Feb 22, 2026, 5:49 AM
Judge blocks Trump effort to strip security clearance from attorney who represented whistleblowers
JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Yahoo Entertainment
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington ...
Dec 24, 2025, 4:35 PM
Scores of government statisticians are gone, leaving data at risk, report says
MIKE SCHNEIDER, Yahoo Entertainment
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...
Dec 10, 2025, 10:12 PM
The Top Secrets Musk May Have Had Access To...
Robert Alexander, Newsweek
Musk’s security access becomes a test case for how far the government can blur lines between public and private power.
Oct 13, 2025, 2:40 PM
A new policy on access at the Pentagon has journalists and the Trump administration at odds
Associated Press, Yahoo Entertainment
Journalists who cover the Pentagon and the Trump administration are in a standoff about new rules that limit the access of the media to most areas within the...
Sep 30, 2025, 12:34 AM
WATCH: President Trump revokes Kamala Harris' Secret Service detail
ABC News
President Donald Trump has revoked Secret Service protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris, according to a copy of a letter reviewed by ABC News.
Aug 29, 2025, 4:32 PM
FBI: Making America Great Means Lowering The Bar For New Hires
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Trump’s desire to punish, oust, and eject anyone who isn’t white and/or MAGA enough from this country means the preferred outlets for his aggression are running out of manpower. Tons of federal officers have already been rerouted to immigration enforcement, l…
Aug 29, 2025, 4:25 PM
WATCH: Laufey plays 'This or That' with 'GMA'
ABC News
The singer shared her summer hot takes as part of the 'GMA' Summer Concert Series.
Aug 20, 2025, 4:27 PM
WATCH: Michael Urie and Kumail Nanjiani talk 'Oh, Mary!'
ABC News
The actors share a story about a famous face in the audience of their Broadway show.
Aug 20, 2025, 4:22 PM
Security clearance revoked for dozens of current and former US officials
Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English
Some had been critical of Trump, while others were involved in investigating Russian meddling in 2020 US elections.
Aug 19, 2025, 9:58 PM
Weaponizing the Watchdog
Walter M. Shaub Jr., The New York Review of Books
Donald Trump’s fascist takeover of government is a comprehensive affair, and sometimes it’s the little things that reveal just how thoroughly his administration has been dismantling our democratic infrastructure. On June 16 Trump nominated the thirty-year-old…
Aug 7, 2025, 11:30 AM
Fear and denial in DC: Federal workers are reeling as Trump gets go-ahead to continue firings
Allie Kelly,Ayelet Sheffey,Juliana Kaplan,Alice Tecotzky, Business Insider
Business Insider spoke with 16 federal workers after the Supreme Court decision that will allow federal staff cuts to continue.
Jul 10, 2025, 9:21 AM
WATCH: Homeland Security ends mandatory shoe removal at airport screening
ABC News
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced that the TSA and its nearly two-decade mandate for passengers to remove their shoes at airport screening is officially over.
Jul 9, 2025, 1:26 PM
10 Sunday Reads
Barry Ritholtz, Ritholtz.com
Avert your eyes! My Sunday morning look at incompetency, corruption and policy failures: • The first rule in Trump’s Washington: Don’t write anything down: A new culture of secrecy in government is taking root — among career staffers and new political appoint…
Jul 6, 2025, 10:30 AM
State Dept. Tells Student Visa Applicants To Set Their Social Media Profiles To ‘Public’ If They Want To Come To The US
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
Way back in the day of EARLIER THIS YEAR, people could expect to be subjected to warrantless, invasive device searches only at US borders and international airports. Visa applicants, however, just needed to fill out some paperwork and wait for permission to h…
Jul 3, 2025, 5:36 PM
Trump administration targets ATF, with plans to cut jobs and ease gun restrictions
Meg Anderson, NPR
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.
Jul 2, 2025, 9:00 AM
US university bars trans athletes, erases records under pressure from Trump
John Power, Al Jazeera English
University of Pennsylvania removes times set by trans swimmer as part of resolution to civil rights investigation.
Jul 2, 2025, 3:03 AM
Feds wise up and ban WhatsApp, might shift to Apple Messages
news@appleinsider.com (William Gallagher), AppleInsider
In a move to bolt the stable door, US House of Representatives staff must stop using WhatsApp, and switch to a more secure service like Apple's Messages.WhatsApp on an iPhoneIt may seem as if the government prefers to make its messages insecure, but really it…
Jun 24, 2025, 2:43 PM
ICE Is Now Trying To Convince Congress Members It Needs 72-Hours Notice Before Facility Inspections
Tim Cushing, Techdirt
This was never an issue before, but it’s suddenly an issue now that ICE has gone full Gestapo to keep up with Trump’s mass deportation demands. ICE’s tactics — unmarked vehicles, masked officers, and untargeted raids of any place that might contain foreigners…
Jun 23, 2025, 5:49 PM
Judge Shreds DOJ’s Manufactured Case Against Abrego Garcia: Evidence ‘Defies Common Sense’
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia (who we now find out, via his lawyer, prefers to be called Kilmar Abrego) keeps getting more and more bizarre. After being “accidentally” shipped to El Salvador — despite a judge’s order directly barring such a move — the Trum…
Jun 23, 2025, 4:27 PM
ICE Gets Brutal Fact-Check on Absurd Reason Agents Wear Masks
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
ICE and DHS have claimed multiple times since May that there’s been a 413 percent increase in assaults against their agents to justify their officers wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves. The data states otherwise. The Washington Post’s Phillip…
Jun 19, 2025, 4:43 PM
Trump Deliberately Leaves Two Key People Out of Iran Plan Convos
Malcolm Ferguson, The New Republic
Two of the highest ranking military Cabinet members have essentially been cut off as Trump teeters on the edge of joining Israel’s war on Iran, according to a report from The Washington Post. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Director of National Intellige…
Jun 19, 2025, 2:51 PM
The US says foreign students can start getting visas again, but they'll have to make their social media accounts public
Matthew Loh, Business Insider
The State Department said both full-time and exchange students could be vetted, calling every visa application a "national security decision."
Jun 19, 2025, 6:32 AM
Democratic senators hammer Hegseth as he trades barbs with them during testy hearing
Ivan Pereira, ABC News
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped back at female Democratic senators, at one point telling one that her "time was up," as he was grilled at a congressional hearing.
Jun 18, 2025, 7:54 PM