Trump administration officials are rapidly moving forward with President Trump's directive to turn Guantánamo Bay into a facility that could hold up to 30,000 migrants who are being deported from the United States.
Since announcing the move Jan. 29, the Pentagon flew 10 migrants described as "high-threat individuals" to the facility in Cuba less than a week later, while Defense Department and Homeland Security officials work to put the infrastructure in place to meet the demands of Trump's order. Officials have been less clear about the long-term prospects of using Guantánamo Bay as a migrant facility. |
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"Rupert Murdoch is in a class by himself, he's an amazing guy," President Trump said of the conservative media magnate, who sat smiling in the Oval Office this week as the newly elected president sang his praises.
Moments later, when a reporter in the room asked about a recent editorial in Murdoch's The Wall Street Journal that argued the president's trade proposals would lead to "the dumbest trade war in history," Trump sang a different tune. |
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Primary battles are already underway in key Senate and gubernatorial races ahead of the 2026 midterms, an election that will determine not only control of Congress but also the governorships in several states.
Retirements and term limits have triggered wide-open contests that are poised to become packed with candidates, while a few potentially vulnerable incumbents seem like they could face a serious primary challenge for another term. |
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) is at the center of intense speculation as Republicans wait to see whether the popular two-term governor will run against Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) next year. Republicans believe Kemp would clear the field and be the party's most formidable candidate against Ossoff, a first-term senator who beat a Trump-backed Republican in one of the biggest upsets of the 2020 election cycle. |
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Republican gains in voter registration are raising red flags for Democrats in key states, underscoring the inroads the GOP made across the country in 2024. Active registered Republicans now outnumber Democrats in battleground Nevada for the first time in nearly two decades, according to January data from the state. The GOP has also gained recent ground in New Jersey, a traditionally blue state, and Trump this week celebrated that the voter registration majority in Florida's Hillsborough county switched from blue to red. |
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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Friday made a significant reduction in grants reserved for research institutions, a decision that may significantly impact American higher education. The NIH said it provided over $35 billion in grants to more than 2,500 institutions in 2023, announcing that it will now limit the amount granted for "indirect funding" to 15 percent. This funding helps cover universities' overhead and administrative expenses and previously averaged nearly 30 percent, with some universities charging over 60 percent. |
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President Trump said on Friday that he is "not interested" in deporting Harry, who currently resides in Montecito, Calif., with his wife, Meghan Markle. "I don't want to do that," Trump told the New York Post. "I'll leave him alone. He's got enough problems with his wife. She's terrible." |
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The majority of nurses, doctors, and other personnel providing care to military veterans through the Department of Veterans Affairs do not qualify for the deferred resignation offer from the Trump administration, according to an email from the Veteran Affairs (VA) leadership sent on Friday. Nurses were part of the group that initially received the offer, but their unions advised against accepting it. They were warned that a mass departure would significantly impact the care provided to the 9.1 million veterans enrolled. |
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BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENECH |
Scientists, researchers and private health organizations scrambled to preserve as much federal public health data and guidelines as possible last week after news reached them that the Trump administration planned to pull down federal agency websites. Many have taken that data and moved it to personal websites or Substack accounts, while others are still figuring out what to do with what they have gathered. |
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OPINION | One detail about Elon Musk's radical assault on the federal government that has struck a chord with many is the age of Musk's associates. Some are in the early 20s. One is 19, and goes by the name "Big Balls" on Twitter. Others have been reposting content from white nationalists. A 25-year old named Marko Elez apparently went too far by bragging on social media about being a racist who would never marry outside his ethnicity, and was forced to resign. (Vice President JD Vance wants the young man back on the job.) |
BY BRUCE GREEN AND REBECCA ROIPHE |
OPINION | A newly-appointed U.S. attorney is putting an unfortunate twist on the the satirist Juvenal's ancient question: "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" — "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Edward R. Martin, Jr., became the interim U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C. after previously defending many Jan. 6 protestors. Within hours of his appointment, Martin opened an investigation into whether his office, under Biden-era leadership, engaged in misconduct in prosecuting the Jan. 6 cases, many involving crimes of violence against police officers. |
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On Monday morning, as Vivek Ramaswamy was soft-launching his campaign for governor of Ohio, Dan Merenoff sat at a coffee-shop counter in Delaware, a suburb of Columbus, weighing the prospect of Mr. Ramaswamy, a political celebrity but a governing novice, running the state. "I like his views," said Mr. Merenoff, 44, an operations manager for a pallet company. But he also liked Mr. Trump, and was not sure what to make of Mr. Ramaswamy's exit from Mr. Trump's Department of Government Efficiency task force two weeks earlier. |
WASHINGTON—The White House's Department of Government Efficiency has drawn scrutiny for the rapid work of its technology team burrowing into multiple agencies, but it also says it has identified and cut more than $1 billion in spending in the first three weeks. That is a mere fraction of the $2 trillion in spending cuts that Elon Musk, DOGE's public face, has set as a goal, but it shows how the entity has begun going program-by-program across multiple federal agencies and paring back what it considers low-hanging fruit. The initial actions it has taken, identifying relatively small-dollar programs, could soon change markedly as DOGE team members are now embedding in some of the government's largest programs, particularly those focused on healthcare. |
Ever since Winston Churchill coined the phrase in the wake of World War II, politicians have extolled the "special relationship" between the United States and Britain. Under President Donald Trump's second administration, Britain will settle for a merely functional relationship with its former colony turned most important ally. As Trump threatens to slap tariffs on America's neighbors, mulls buying Greenland and suggests the U.S. could "take over" and reconstruct Gaza, Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government is racing to bolster its diplomatic and economic defenses for a turbulent new transatlantic era. |
Their names have not been released. Their exact crimes are unknown. The more than three dozen immigrants being held at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba have entered what lawyers are calling a "legal black hole." Four days ago the Trump administration flew the first migrants from Fort Bliss, Texas to Guantanamo Bay.
The officials said the detainees were "dangerous criminals," "the worst of the worst" and alleged members of a violent Venezuelan gang, holding them in a prison on the U.S. naval base created for suspected terrorists after Sept. 11, 2001. But administration officials have released almost no other information. |
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