Top Gabbard aide under scrutiny for emails showing push to edit intel assessment

President Trump’s nominee to head the National Counterterrorism Center is under fresh scrutiny as emails show he pressed senior intelligence analysts to amend an assessment of links between the Venezuelan government and the criminal gang, Tren de Aragua, known as TDA, to align the assessment more closely with Trump administration policies and to include references

Supreme Court allows Trump to fire labor board members while case proceeds

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed President Trump to remove two members of federal independent labor boards while legal proceedings over their firings move forward. The high court granted a request for emergency relief from the Trump administration to pause a pair of lower court rulings that voided Mr. Trump’s removals of Gwynne

DOJ seeks to end court settlement protecting migrant children in U.S. custody

The Trump administration on Thursday moved to terminate a longstanding court settlement that has obligated the U.S. government for nearly three decades to provide basic rights and services to migrant children in its custody. Since 1997, the settlement, known as the Flores Agreement, has required federal U.S. immigration officials to hold migrant children in facilities

RFK Jr. releases report on childhood chronic disease. Here’s what to know.

The White House’s “Make America Healthy Again” or “MAHA” commission, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has published its first report on what it says are four leading drivers of childhood chronic disease.  “The report is the product of a consensual process, and it represents a collaborative effort of all

Judge stops DHS from terminating international students’ legal status

Washington — A federal judge on Thursday blocked federal immigration officials with the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of thousands of international students while a legal battle moves forward. U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, who sits on the U.S. district court in Oakland, California, found that a group of foreign nationals who are

N.Y. Rep. Andrew Garbarino slept through “big, beautiful bill” vote, speaker says

The House passed President Trump’s domestic policy bill, dubbed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, by just one vote in the early morning hours Thursday after an all-night session.  The vote was that close in part because Rep. Andrew Garbarino, a New York Republican who would’ve voted to support it, was asleep at the time, House

What’s in Trump’s House-passed “one big, beautiful bill”

Washington — House Republicans made a number of last-minute changes to the legislation containing President Trump’s second-term agenda in order to win over opposing factions in the GOP. And, after an all-night session, the measure, entitled the “one big, beautiful bill,” squeaked through by a single vote.   It’ll now go to the Senate, which