US politics

US politics

After FBI contacted her in 2021 about a tip indicating she may have been at the Capitol on Jan. 6, she posted a video on social media citing her Second Amendment right to carry a gun and she threatened to shoot agents if they came to her house. In court papers, prosecutors said her words "were part of the ubiquity of violent political rhetoric that causes serious harm to our communities."

There is no company in the U.S. that has become more closely associated with Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids than Home Depot Inc. In and around the retailer's parking lots, masked and armed ICE agents chase and tackle and detain the day laborers who gather there to look for work. Store employees who are upset by witnessing the grim scenes are allowed to go home for the day with pay a tacit acknowledgment by Home Depot that the raids are violent and traumatic to watch.

Trump mused this week to Fox News Host Laura Ingraham about his plan to repaint the Eisenhower Executive Office Building completely white. So, you know it was always considered an ugly building, Trump said. But it's actually one of the most beautiful buildings ever built. Trump produced a mock-up of the building saying, Look at that. How beautiful that is with a coat of paint.

The dismissal of Greene - once the epitome of "Make America Great Again," sporting the signature red cap for President Joe Biden's 2024 State of the Union address and acting as a go-between for Trump and other Capitol Hill Republicans - appeared to be the final break in a dispute simmering for months, as Greene has seemingly moderated her political profile.

The Department of Education notified the state and 16 others in March that the Trump administration had rescinded access to millions in federal money earmarked to combat the pandemic's impact on students across the nation. The recovery funds had been previously approved and awarded to the states from the department and were supposed to be available until March 2026, but the Department of Education abruptly changed course, a lawsuit from the 17 impacted states alleged.

The question here is not whether the Register of Copyrights or the Librarian of Congress has any functions that can be characterized as 'executive' for constitutional purposes; it is whether Congress decided to organize the Library as an 'Executive agency'.

When Judge Cameron Currie surprised Pam Bondi's Counselor, Henry Whitaker, on Thursday with a question about whether DOJ believes Aileen Cannon wrongly dismissed Trump's stolen documents case, Whitaker claimed what distinguished Jack Smith from Lindsey Halligan is that Halligan is closely supervised. I do think that mostly what was driving Judge Cannon's decision in that case was sort of the unique and broad authority that the special counsel possessed sort of free of supervision, which, of course, is an element that we do not have here.

All I see Wacky' Marjorie do is COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN, COMPLAIN!

The replacements came after online commenters seized on striking similarities in the president's signature across a series of pardons dated Nov. 7, including those granted to former New York Mets player Darryl Strawberry, former Tennessee House speaker Glen Casada and former New York police sergeant Michael McMahon. In fact, the signatures on several pardons initially uploaded to the Justice Department's website were identical, two forensic document experts confirmed to The Associated Press.

The woman's cries echo down the hallway, shattering the usual silence of a courtroom. Her four-year-old daughter joins in, beginning to cry in her father's arms as the family is surrounded by half a dozen masked agents. The only other sounds are the whispers of volunteers, who are quickly trying to identify the family about to be detained, and the cameras of journalists witnessing the scene. It's impossible to hear what the immigration officials are saying to the Venezuelan couple, as they are cornered.

A small street that runs parallel to the Vietnam War Memorial in Westminster will soon bear a new name - Charlie Kirk Way. During a heated meeting rife with accusations of partisan politics and debate over the role of local government, leaders in the Orange County city voted 4 to 1 Wednesday to partially rename All American Way for the slain conservative activist. Kirk's name will appear in 3-inch font below the official street name.

On Nov. 1, over 40 million Americans who rely on SNAP food assistance to feed their families found themselves without, as President Donald Trump promised on Truth Social that SNAP will not be fully funded until the government reopens (and even this appears to have caveats). Obviously, the program does not discriminate based on party lines, so plenty of Trump supporters were among those impacted.