Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE (WASHINGTON) — As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation — as part of the efforts toRead More →

Robert Alexander/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees fired last month from a half dozen federal agencies. U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to reinstate employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department ofRead More →

Shannon Finney/Getty Images (LANSING, Mich.) — Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg announced Thursday morning that he will not run for U.S. Senate or governor in the state of Michigan, potentially clearing the way to possibly mount a run for president in 2028. “I care deeply about who Michigan willRead More →

Illustration by Thomas Fuller/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House on Thursday pulled President Donald Trump’s nomination of Dr. David Weldon to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, multiple sources told ABC News. The withdrawal came just before Weldon was to appear for his confirmationRead More →

Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images (CHARLESTON, S.C.) — The sister of Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett was recently targeted with a bomb threat, the Charleston, South Carolina, Police Department said on Wednesday. Over the weekend, an executive assistant at the Charleston County Sheriff’s Department received an email just beforeRead More →

Caroline Purser/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A former Tennessee lawmaker who was once represented by White House Counsel David Warrington said he received a pardon from President Donald Trump after pleading guilty to an illegal campaign finance scheme in 2022. The White House has not said anything publicly about former Sen.Read More →

(Skyhobo/Getty Image) (WASHINGTON) — Calling it the “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” the Environmental Protection Agency rolled out sweeping moves Wednesday aimed at walking back environmental protections and eliminating a host of climate change regulations, some decades in the making. Taken together, the agency’s actions indicate a wholesale reorientationRead More →

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Joe Murphy, whose position as a management and data analyst was eliminated when the Department of Education laid off nearly 50% of its workforce Tuesday evening, said on Wednesday that he and his colleagues are filled with a sense of “sadness” and “disbelief.”Read More →

U.S. President Donald Trump and White House Senior Advisor, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk sit in a Tesla Model S on the South Lawn of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s controversialRead More →

A woman was charged for allegedly holding her “severely emaciated” stepson in captivity for over 20 years, since he was 11 years old, and forcing him to endure “prolonged abuse, starvation, severe neglect, and inhumane treatment,” police said. Facebook / Waterbury Police Department (WATERBURY, Conn.) — A woman was chargedRead More →