Among President Trump's long list of perceived political enemies, one lawmaker has drawn outsize scrutiny from the administration: Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.).
Trump has routinely fixated on the California senator, who investigated Russia's 2016 election interference and served as the lead manager on Trump's first impeachment.
Schiff was also a member of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, laying blame for the riot with Trump. |
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Speculation has reached a fever pitch over the past week that President Trump's allies are seeking to clear the field in the New York City mayoral race for Andrew Cuomo, raising questions about why the president's orbit might side with a longtime foe.
The New York Times reported Friday that Trump adviser Steve Witkoff met with Adams in Florida to discuss his future this week during a trip that Adams's spokesperson indicated was just to celebrate his birthday. Adams announced later that day that he would stay in the race.
Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, who has been the subject of speculation that he might receive a job so he'll drop out, has been even more consistent that he's not interested in working for the White House and is staying in the race. |
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Google has avoided the worst-case scenario of being forced to sell off its Chrome browser, but legal experts say the court's remedies to the Justice Department's (DOJ) antitrust win could still loosen the company's grip over online search.
The tech giant, which a judge ruled last year to have illegally monopolized the search market, can no longer enter into exclusive agreements that prioritize its products and must share some of its data with competitors.
While antitrust advocates have dismissed this approach as inadequate, it may still give search rivals an opening, experts said. |
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President Trump announced Friday that he will soon be sending the National Guard to New Orleans after previously teasing that he would be targeting the city in his next federal crime crackdown.
"We're going to come into New Orleans, and we're going to make that place so safe," Trump said during a Friday night event held in the White House's newly renovated Rose Garden. "It's got a little problem right now, a couple of headaches, like murders, a lot of little murders going on, and we're not going to stand for it. And we're going to come in, we're going to clean it up." |
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President Trump's executive order to formally change the Department of Defense to the Department of War was met on Friday with enthusiasm from some on the right, but largely elicited skepticism on the left and concerns about the steep cost from former officials.
Trump framed the rebrand as a signal of American strength that will send a message of "victory" to America's allies and adversaries alike.
Now Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that the name change represented a new focus on "maximum lethality, not tepid legality" at the Pentagon. |
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The U.S. economy added a paltry 22,000 jobs in August, adding to concerns about the health of the economy while increasing the chances of interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.
The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.3 percent, rising for the second month in a row, while the labor force participation rate increased after falling since April. The data from the Labor Department followed a similarly dismal jobs report for July that showed an average of just 35,000 jobs added to the economy each month between May and July. The August report brings the latest three-month average down to 29,000 jobs. |
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President Trump ordered the removal of the White House Peace Vigil on Friday, marking an end to a 44-year protest against the nation's nuclear weaponry and warfare.
A reporter informed the president of the ongoing protest — now manned by Philipos Melaku-Bello and a group of rotating volunteers — Friday in the Oval Office, describing the long-standing tent as an "eye sore" for visitors supported by the "radical left." |
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Republicans on Friday unveiled 14 bills intended to reduce local government autonomy and harshen punishments for youth and violent offenders in Washington, D.C amid President Trump's crime crackdown in the nation's capital.
"President Trump and House Republicans are committed to restoring law and order in our nation's capital city. Under President Trump's decisive leadership, crime in D.C. is now falling at an unprecedented rate," House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement announcing the bills. |
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President Trump on Friday endorsed GOP Rep. Ashley Hinson (Iowa) for retiring Sen. Joni Ernst's (Iowa) seat.
"I know Ashley well, and she is a WINNER! A Loving Wife and Proud Mother of two sons, Ashley is a wonderful person, has ALWAYS delivered for Iowa, and will continue doing so in the United States Senate," Trump wrote in an evening Truth Social post. |
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OPINION | Earlier this month, Fed Chair Jerome Powell signaled a shift in the Fed's stance towards policy easing at the September Federal Open Market Committee meeting. The U.S. stock market and bond market rallied in response to this development.
Soon after, however, President Trump upped his attacks on the Federal Reserve by announcing he would fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook for allegedly committing fraud in mortgage applications. This represented the first firing of a governor in the Fed's history. |
BY KATHLEEN CLYDE AND KENDALL SCUDDER |
OPINION | As Chairs of the Democratic Party in Ohio and Texas, we have a warning for the rest of the country: Republicans will do anything they can to stay in power, including subverting basic principles of democracy. Why? Because they don't respect the voters.
In Texas, because of their radical partisan redistricting, Republicans already hold 25 of the state's 38 congressional seats (66 percent) even though President Trump only won 52 percent of the popular vote in 2024. But even this extreme gerrymander has not been enough to satisfy the Texas Republican power grabbers. Instead, ignored that redistricting is to be done every ten years and redrew the congressional maps mid-decade, in an effort to take more seats. They even tried to use federal agents to intimidate lawmakers in the course of pushing through their anti-democratic gerrymander. |
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BY SHAILA DEWAN AND NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS |
In the summer of 2020, President Trump sent federal agents to Kansas City, Mo., as he blamed liberal mayors for a "shocking explosion" of "bloodshed."
Mayor Quinton Lucas, a Democrat, bristled at the suggestion that local officials were to blame for his city's spike in crime. And with distrust of law enforcement at a high after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis that year, he worried about how federal law enforcement officers would conduct themselves on the ground.
Yet over the next few months, Mayor Lucas came to endorse parts of the federal mission, named Operation Legend after a 4-year-old Kansas City boy who had been killed by a wayward bullet as he slept. |
BY OLIVIA BEAVERS AND MERIDITH MCGRAW |
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is walking a political tightrope: splitting with the White House while trying not to cross President Trump or his legions of supporters.
Greene, who built her reputation as an unwavering Trump loyalist, is now one of the most prominent Republicans defying the president and party leadership, teaming up with Democrats to force a House vote on releasing files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender. The Georgia firebrand found herself hugging a California progressive, Rep. Ro Khanna, at a press conference this past week, flanked by Epstein victims who called on Trump and Congress for more public disclosure.
"The truth needs to come out. And the government holds the truth," she said. |
President Trump's administration said Friday that it is exploring whether the federal government can take control of the 9/11 memorial and museum in New York City.
The site in lower Manhattan, where the World Trade Center's twin towers were destroyed by hijacked jetliners on Sept. 11, 2001, features two memorial pools ringed by waterfalls and parapets with the names of the dead, and an underground museum. Since opening to the public in 2014, the memorial plaza and museum have been run by a public charity, now chaired by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a frequent Trump critic. |
Some golden age.
Job growth is weak. Inflation is strong. The outlook is deteriorating. And the headwinds are blowing from Washington, D.C.
Whether you blame President Trump's unorthodox tariff and immigration policies or a slow-footed Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, the federal government is not doing the economy any favors these days. |
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