U.S. Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), Ranking Member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released a new report detailing how the Trump Administration has systematically dismantled key elements of the nation's post-9/11 counterterrorism infrastructure, diverting personnel and resources away from preventing terrorist attacks, and increasingly weaponizing other counterterrorism authorities for political purposes. The report finds that these actions have left the United States less prepared to prevent and respond to terrorism at a time when both domestic and foreign terrorist threats remain elevated. read more
Trump publicly broke with one of his closest political allies Saturday, criticizing U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro over her office's decision to drop a high-profile vandalism case involving the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. read more
NYT's Nicholas Kristof writes about the Americans who are struggling every day to feed and house themselves and their family. The impact of Trump's Big Beautiful Bill is being felt hard for those at the bottom of the economic ladder. read more
The ex-wife of Ohio Rep. Max Miller requested a restraining order against him ... read more
The US State Department informs: "In response to overwhelming demand, the Department of State is making an additional 250,000 of the special commemorative passports available to the public. Americans all across the country will now have the opportunity to apply for one of these additional special passports, known as the "Patriot Passport." The DOS' 27 passport agencies nationwide will start offering the Donald Trump branded special travel documents next month which were only been available at the Wash DC passport office for in-person applicants.
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Witnesses said the 16-year-old lifeguard never released the child despite relentless waves that repeatedly dragged both beneath the surf read more
Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters in film and TV, most notably Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero on HBO's The Sopranos, has died. He was 80. read more
Some public health experts and advocacy groups are hailing Dr. Anthony Fauci as a hero ... read more
Poll: Trump's MAGA voters would stick by a candidate through the most serious of scandals read more
Nahal Toosi: President Donald Trump and his aides rarely go easy on their perceived enemies. But their attacks on the International Criminal Court -- describing it as, among other things, filled with "lunatics" and pledging to destroy it -- are hyperbolic enough that you have to wonder: Are they afraid the court will prosecute them? read more
The FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency warned Thursday that cyberattacks targeting water utilities are escalating ... read more
62 percent of young people want to see significant changes' to government.
The Supreme Court deadline to request a reconsideration on President Trump's birthright citizenship order passed on Tuesday without a filing from the Department of Justice. read more
The Justice Department moved Friday to dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with deliberately damaging the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, saying evidence prosecutors had recently received refuted the idea that vandals were to blame. read more
The judge sentenced Colin Gray, the father of Apalachee school shooter Colt Gray, to 15 years in prison. read more
The Department of Commerce quietly announced this week it will designate more than $870 million in federal incentives for semiconductor manufacturing in exchange for a minority equity stake in seven companies. read more
