The White House has removed a Wall Street Journal reporter from the press pool for President Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, over the Journal’s story on what it called a “bawdy” birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that the paper alleged was signed by Mr. Trump in the early 2000s. A Wall Street Journal reporter was
This 1966 file photo is the last official portrait taken of the King family, made in the study of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. They are Dexter King (L), Yolanda King (2nd L), Martin Luther King Jr. (3rd L), Bernice King (3rd R), Coretta Scott King (2nd R) and Martin Luther King III (R). Atlanta
Sen. Maria Cantwell is urging President Trump to prioritize modernizing the nation’s weather forecasting system, saying the investment will save lives as well as money down the road. She released a letter to the president Monday, following through on her pledge to provide guidance that the administration can use to upgrade weather forecasting infrastructure. “The
The headquarters of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) in Washington on Aug. 22, 2018. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images The Democratic National Committee raised $8.6 million in June and has collected more than $50 million so far this year, marking its strongest grassroots fundraising performance for the month of June in any off-year cycle, the party said
The federal government on Monday released thousands of records on the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. — a move that was ordered by President Trump earlier this year. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said the documents, which number over 230,000 pages, “had never been digitized and sat collecting dust in
President Donald Trump presents the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, after he signed it, at the White House on July 4, 2025. Leah Millis/Reuters The One Big Beautiful Bill Act will increase the U.S. deficit by $3.4 trillion over the next 10 years, the Congressional Budget Office said today, revising its previous calculations based on
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who was deported to El Salvador, in a handout image obtained by Reuters on April 9, 2025. Abrego Garcia Family/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo The Trump administration and Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s attorneys agreed on July 20 that the illegal immigrant will remain in custody for a 30-day period even if