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The jobs report abhors a vacuum. A government shutdown prevented the Bureau of Labor Statistics on Friday from issuing its monthly report on job...
The Supreme Court announced on Friday that it would review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without...
Congress is barely functional these days. One reason is that Republicans control both chambers and are consciously ceding their power to President...
In April 1942, Edward B. Rowan, the assistant chief for fine arts at President Franklin Roosevelt’s Public Buildings Administration, wrote the...
Apple has taken down apps that alert people to the presence of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in their area after pressure from...
As federal agencies trumpet blatantly political messages blaming the “radical left” for the current government shutdown, FBI Director Kash Patel...
Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut has taken a lead role in forcefully sounding the alarm about Donald Trump. He’s urged Democrats to use their...
Republican Senator Roger Marshall humiliated himself Friday as his baseless claims that Americans blamed Democrats for the government shutdown...
Republicans are scrambling to downplay just how much enjoyment President Donald Trump is evidently extracting from preparations to fire federal...
With the government shut down and no clear resolution in sight, a critical federal nutrition program that assists low-income mothers may soon run...
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 3 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is the...
A lot of people on the left love to criticize Ezra Klein. I’m not one of those people. To be clear, I do criticize him, but I genuinely don’t...
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s tenth film, seizes our attention in the first of its 162 minutes and doesn’t let go until the...
This is a lightly edited transcript of a conversation between Perry Bacon and Senator Chris Van Hollen on September 30 at Persuasion 2025 DC, a...
A progressive member of the Chicago City Council was detained Friday after pressing federal agents about the due process rights of a detainee being...
President Trump on Friday issued a self-congratulatory social media post, announcing the restoration of counterterrorism funds to New York—which...
Donald Trump might be getting his face put on a coin while he’s still president. On Friday, U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach, who heads the mint,...
The Trump administration’s projected strength during the government shutdown is belied by a nagging insecurity, reports The Wall Street Journal :...
Donald Trump’s latest attempts to broker peace between Israel and Palestine include the threat of even more violence against Gaza. In a lengthy...
A third of the White House complex has been furloughed so far due to the government shutdown—but exactly whom the Trump administration has deemed...
President Donald Trump’s obsession with posting AI slop to mock House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries has reached a new low. Amid an ongoing...
President Donald Trump has offered a baffling legal justification for his extrajudicial military strikes on vessels the government claims are...
President Donald Trump has finally told the truth about something. He’s embraced Project 2025 . Anyone who believed his disavowals last year during...
Russ Vought and the Trump administration’s shutdown revenge tour rolls on as they continue to make blue city residents suffer in an attempt to...
ICE may be watching your TikToks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team in an effort to...
MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec—who helped spread election fraud rumors in Pennsylvania in 2024—has been voting in...
Just before 8 a.m. on Friday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem was spotted with a film crew on the roof of an Immigration and Customs...
During Friday media appearances, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer tried to dance around questions about the weak labor market under President...
In November, New Mexico will become the first state with no-cost childcare for all children, state officials announced recently. The program will...
Even a government bailout won’t undo the damage that Donald Trump’s tariffs have wreaked on America’s soybean farmers. The president reiterated...
You may recall the Nazi porn scandal that plagued the Republican lieutenant governor of North Carolina last September. For the second year in a...
On Wednesday, President Donald Trump unleashed a strange Truth Social rant declaring straight out that farmers are getting hurt because China is...
The heat sweltered outside on a late August afternoon as Adelita Grijalva stood in the crowded dining room of Paloma Mexican Street Food restaurant...
The copy-and-paste shutdown message broadcast by several executive branch agency chiefs earlier this week affected more parts of the government...
Donald Trump’s political associates don’t want immigrants to feel safe at the Super Bowl. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be in...
There was a time on the campaign trail when Donald Trump was trying to distance himself from Project 2025, but that has long since passed. The...
President Donald Trump’s new scheme to transform the federal government into a pharmacy is already raising red flags for legal and health experts....
House Speaker Mike Johnson admitted that President Donald Trump has become “unhinged” and “unwell” when confronted by a House Democrat on...
Five civil servants working at the Department of Education told NBC News that their out-of-office messages had been altered with political language...
The Department of Homeland Security has been accused of posting an antisemitic dog-whistle to online trolls—and even if that wasn’t the post’s...
Russell Vought plainly got a sadistic thrill while announcing Wednesday that as part of the government shutdown battle, he will inflict punitive...
T he following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 2 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. Greg Sargent: This is The...
The Trump administration is doubling down on its shutdown ultimatum to Democrats: Surrender to our backward austerity bill, or we’ll rip more...
The Trump administration is making colleges and universities promise to stop being “woke” if they want to gain priority access to special federal...
The president who promised an “end to endless wars” just rekindled one—the war on drugs. The New York Times obtained a confidential memo sent to...
The GOP has gone fully mask-off as it brings the hammer of austerity down on Democratic voters as punishment for their senators not capitulating to...
World leaders laughed at President Donald Trump on Thursday, as Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama mocked Trump for repeatedly mistaking his country...
A massive immigration raid at an apartment in the South Shore neighborhood of Chicago tormented residents in the early hours of Tuesday morning....
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an eyebrow-raising claim about the soybean crisis on CNBC’s Squawk Box Thursday. In recent years, China has...
Anti-abortion lawmakers and activists did not stop when Roe v. Wade fell. They pressed ahead to ever more violent frontiers. In South Carolina this...