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In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has used music from Taylor Swift's latest album, The Life of a Showgirl, in three posts on social media. The first, shared by the official White House account on TikTok, was a patriotic slide show of images set to lead single The Fate of Ophelia. As Swift sings pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes, the video cuts to pictures of the US flag, President Trump, the vice-president, JD Vance.

Anthropic is scrambling to assert its political neutrality as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against so-called "woke AI," placing itself at the center of an increasingly ideological fight over how large language models should talk about politics. In a detailed post Thursday, Anthropic unveiled a sweeping effort to train its Claude chatbot to behave with what it calls "political even-handedness," a framework meant to ensure the model treats competing viewpoints "with equal depth, engagement, and quality of analysis."

Last month, Politico released a bombshell report featuring multiple leaked texts from Paul Ingrassia, then President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel. In those texts, Ingrassia told colleagues that he had a Nazi streak and made a number of other racist remarks. While criticizing former presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy in 2024, for example, Ingrassia said, Never trust a chinaman or Indian. A day later, Ingrassia announced he was withdrawing from an upcoming Senate hearing.

Yes, after weeks of headline-grabbing episodes that have skewered President Donald Trump and his administration in delightfully juvenile ways and led to a surge in ratings, this latest installment somehow found new levels of depravity to sink to. As the song "I Want to Know What Love Is" blasts about halfway through the episode, we see Trump and J.D. Vance in bed making out.

The Air Force's own regulations state that once retirement orders are issued, they can only be rescinded in certain limited circumstances, such as fraud or a mathematical error. None of those circumstances are present for these service members, and the Air Force has not provided any legal basis for rescinding the retirements.

Although the National Guard is not the country's primary fighting force, it is the oldest. Dating back to 1636, the National Guard is older than the United States itself, and was first established as an organized group of militias. Today, the National Guard is made up of nearly 420,000 part-time volunteers who typically serve in their home state under either the Army or Air National Guard.

One-third of US museums have lost government grants or contracts since Donald Trump took office, according to a new survey. The findings, released by the American Alliance of Museums on Tuesday and based on responses from more than 500 museum directors across the US, shed new light on the challenges cultural institutions are facing under the Trump administration.

What's going to force the Supreme Court to do something is fundamentally political pressure. It's going to be when Congress starts impeaching judges and saying ... 'You are now encroaching into our territory,'" Mizelle said during a panel discussion at the Federalist Society's annual lawyers' meeting in Washington.

News broke Thursday that Federal District Court Judge John McConnell of Rhode Island ordered the Trump administration to pay SNAP benefits in full by Friday, which the administration is appealing. Hours later, at a photo op with the leaders of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, Heinrich confronted Trump about the ruling and the appeal, and their impact on Americans.

This is not the first time that the Trump administration has made such overtures to local law enforcement. In October, the Associated Press reported that ICE had spent millions of dollars on targeted television advertising across the country, using partisan messaging to recruit police officers employed in sanctuary cities. It was also an effort to meet the White House's goal of hiring 10,000 new ICE officers by year's end.

No question, antisemitism is real, resurgent and too often conflated with criticism of the Israeli government as it has destroyed Gaza to root out Hamas. But it beggars belief that the Trump administration is sincere when it demands UCLA pay the government more than $1 billion because, as it alleges, the school failed to protect Jewish students during pro-Palestinian protests in 2024, and engages in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. This is extortion, pure and simple.

Since Donald Trump retook the White House earlier this year, the relationship between NASA staffers and government leadership has become unbelievably fraught. From the point-of-view of the rank and file, it's been a deluge of unforced errors as layoffs, budget cuts, and asset liquidations take a devastating toll on morale. According to the group Goddard Engineers, Scientists and Technicians Association (GESTA), which represents a broad swath of NASA staff,

President Donald Trump is getting rid of members of the federal agency that would have reviewed his planned building projects as he works to physically remake Washington, D.C. Trump fired all members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) on October 28. The commission, a federal agency established by Congress, has shaped the look of the nation's capital for more than a century, from its museums and monuments to office buildings and parks, and now Trump is set to stack it with loyalists.

His chronic ignorance looks less like a habit than a strategy a way to stay in the good graces of President Donald Trump, who rewards loyalty above all. In Trump's Washington, knowledge is dangerous. Knowing too much can force you to act, make you responsible, even put you at odds with the leader who prefers fealty to fact. So Johnson has mastered a subtler art: performative ignorance. I'm not aware does more than dodge a question it signals allegiance.

MOYNIHAN: The outrage from the left, though, it feels extremely ironic that these are the same people celebrating statues being torn down of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and now there's concern about erasing history, it kind of feels like the outrage is all over. SELLERS: Well, I mean, let me just say that I wasn't a big statue taker downer. That wasn't my ministry.

I think it's really, really important to note that nothing is changing immediately. These would be proposals that would go out for public comment, it would take months for the Trump administration to issue a final rule, and then, if past is prologue, we would see litigation over whatever the final rules are.

Something just wasn't adding up when Dr. Mehmet Oz - the current administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid service - tried to explain president Trump's new drug pricing scheme. That something was his brain trying to make sense of pretty simple math. During an interview on the NBC News "Meet the Press" segment on Wednesday, Oz was asked about Trump's absurd claim that he slashed prescription drug prices by up to "1,500 percent" - and completely lost it.