US politics

US politics

The dairy industry sought a deal with President Richard Nixon to write a huge campaign check to his reelection campaign-in exchange for price supports that would artificially raise the cost of milk. But federal law strictly limited the amount it could donate. So Nixon's henchmen devised a workaround: Dairy companies would funnel $2 million through various Republican Party committees, which could then transfer the cash to Nixon's campaign.

The arrest marks the first time investigators have identified a suspect in an act that had long vexed law enforcement, spawned a multitude of conspiracy theories and remained an enduring mystery in the shadow of the dark chapter of American history that is the violent Capitol siege. The suspect in custody has been identified as Brian Cole Jr, according to Attorney General Pam Bondi.

"Grandma came here as an illegal immigrant," Brittney reminded her mother, referring to Gloria's mother.

In the year since Donald Trump returned to office, there hasn't been a single face-to-face meeting between the U.S. president and the Mexican president, Claudia Sheinbaum. Neither the trade war, nor immigration policy, nor even the specter of the fentanyl crisis or the security agenda have led to a meeting between the two leaders. In the end, it is soccer the draw for next year's World Cup that will bring the neighboring leaders together for their first face-to-face meeting.

Ted Cruz (R-TX) attacked former Fox News host Tucker Carlson on Thursday for speaking at a conference in Qatar, which is also set to include Cruz's own former national security advisers. Reacting to the news that Carlson would be one of the speakers at the Doha Forum in Qatar's capital this weekend, Cruz accused Carlson of being #QatarFirst. #QatarFirst https://t.co/O88JPSaxcc Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) December 5, 2025

"going to get the message or they're going to get voted out."

The argument: The city used an environmental impact report done for the 2022 Housing Element of the General Plan to fulfill the requirements that the upzoning undergo review under the California Environmental Quality Act. The Yimby movement hates CEQA, but the law exists for a very good reason: Before any major project that could impact the environment gets approval, the public has the right to know what those impacts might be.

The New York Times newspaper, one of the largest in the United States, has filed a lawsuit against the Pentagon that seeks to overturn new rules limiting access to media outlets. In the filing on Thursday, the newspaper said the rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth violate the US Constitution's First Amendment freedom of speech guarantees, as well as its due process provisions.

In 2024 in Alameda County, we saw that same carnage, the destabilization of our justice system by a billionaire - a single billionaire - and his wannabe wealthy friends, who spent millions of dollars on a recall campaign to destabilize our justice system.

In the 2024 presidential election, Donald Trump carried Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District by 22 points. Last night, in a special election to represent the district, the Republican Matt Van Epps won by only nine points, defeating the Democratic State Representative Aftyn Behn. Trump celebrated the outcome on Truth Social as a "BIG Congressional WIN," but the margin of victory in a deep-red district is ominous for Republicans. Van Epps underperformed Trump by 13 percentage points, a sign that the party is vulnerable heading into the 2026 midterms.

ensuring that justice is applied equally, fairly, and without political influence.

The State Department is instructing its staff to reject visa applications from people who worked on fact-checking, content moderation or other activities the Trump administration considers "censorship" of Americans' speech. The directive, sent in an internal memo on Tuesday, is focused on applicants for H-1B visas for highly skilled workers, which are frequently used by tech companies, among other sectors. The memo was first reported by Reuters; NPR also obtained a copy.

Another federal judge heard arguments Thursday about the legitimacy of a top Trump administration prosecutor as New York Attorney General Letitia James challenged the authority of the acting U.S. attorney probing two of her high-profile cases. The court hearing focusing on the role of John Sarcone, who is acting as U.S. attorney for northern New York, comes as President Donald Trump's effort to install political loyalists as federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw.

A bipartisan group of United States senators, including prominent Republican China hawk Tom Cotton, has unveiled a bill that would block the administration of President Donald Trump from loosening rules restricting Beijing's access to artificial intelligence chips for 2.5 years. The bill, unveiled on Thursday, is known as the SAFE CHIPS Act and was filed by Republican Senator Pete Ricketts and Democrat Chris Coons.