Politics
Alaska sends 3,000 letters asking voters to verify their citizenship ahead of this year’s elections
The state has sent more than 3,000 letters to Alaska voters asking them to verify their citizenship ahead of the Aug. 18 primary, a number a top state elections official said is unusually high.
Trump expected to deliver remarks at rescheduled correspondents’ dinner
President Trump is expected to reappear at the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Association Dinner on Friday, almost three months after a gunman breached the event in an alleged assassination attempt against him.
Liberal Justice Elena Kagan says the Supreme Court is not a rubber stamp for Trump
The U.S. Supreme Court may be deeply conservative, but it is not simply a rubber stamp for President Donald Trump, Justice Elena Kagan said Thursday.
Trump slaps new tariffs on 60 trading partners, backfilling blanket tariffs Congress let expire
The Trump administration said Thursday it is imposing tariffs of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries that failed to enforce bans on the importation of goods that use forced labor.
Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters for The New York Times after admitting legal errors
Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government on Thursday grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump's Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet.
FACT FOCUS: Posts falsely claim Obama urged noncitizens to vote in 2016
As President Donald Trump pushes for stricter proof of citizenship laws ahead of the midterms, social media users are falsely alleging that an old clip shows former President Barack Obama telling people in the U.S. illegally to vote in the 2016 election.
Wisconsin absentee voters seek court ruling allowing them to cast new ballots
Wisconsin voters who have already returned their absentee ballots could void those and request a new one under a lawsuit filed Thursday by three people supported by the state's Democratic Party, which is going through a chaotic primary for governor.
House defense bill seeks Pentagon report on malign Chinese influence in South Korea
The House version of the fiscal 2027 defense authorization bill calls on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to report on the Chinese Communist Party's influence in South Korea.
White House backs WNBA star Sophie Cunningham on women’s sports remarks
KAROLINE LEAVITT defends WNBA player Sophie Cunningham, who said biological men should not play in women's sports: "Men should not be playing in women's sports. It's completely ludicrous that anyone could support that ... The backlash she is receiving from Democrats and left-wing figures across the country is astonishing. They are clearly very out of touch with the American public on this issue..."
ICE nears 600,000 deportations since Trump took office
ICE is hitting its deportation stride under new Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, averaging about 1,250 formal deportations a day over the last three months.
More than 24 states sue Trump administration after it put conditions on receiving disaster funding
More than two dozen states on Thursday sued the Trump administration for requiring them to comply with election and immigration conditions in order to receive billions of dollars in federal funding for disasters.
FDA panel narrowly backs unapproved peptide drugs touted by Rogan, other wellness influencers
Health advisers met Thursday to review more than a half-dozen peptides, unproven substances that have become a growing wellness trend despite little evidence they are safe or effective.
Geraldo Rivera says masked ICE agents reflect a ‘horrible’ task
GERALDO RIVERA on ICE: "The FBI doesn't wear masks. The sheriffs don't. The cops don't. Why is it unique? Unique to this force that they have to hide their identities? It's because the ... sorrowful, horrible task that they have been given is so antithetical to most people's sense of decency."
