BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND BRETT SAMUELS |
The search of former Trump administration national security adviser John Bolton's home and office is raising questions about whether the White House is flexing its law enforcement muscle to go after a frequent critic.
It also parallels an event that the president and his circle have highly criticized: the search for classified records at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. |
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For the Trump White House, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
As White House officials watched California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) mirror President Trump's rhetoric and social media persona this past week, they say it didn't land the way it was intended.
"If he wanted to get under President Trump's skin, it didn't work," said one Trump ally. "I think everyone around here viewed it as comical."
"Let's face it, there's only one Trump," the ally said. |
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The Texas state Senate early Saturday signed off on a new congressional map, sending the legislation to Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to sign into law ahead of the 2026 midterms.
The vote passed the upper chamber in a 18-11 party-line vote as expected, with Democrats denouncing the effort as a power grab. It came after the state House approved the map also in a party-line vote after Democratic members of the body returned to the state and ended a two-week standoff over the map proposal.
The Senate had already passed the new map proposal last week, but the body needed to approve it again because the first special legislative session that Abbott called ended. The Republican governor called a second session that began this week. |
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The Texas redistricting battle is entering a new front as the fight turns to the courts, where Democrats and civil rights groups are expected to challenge the newly passed maps.
Texas House Democrats who had fled the state to stall the maps said that they were returning "to the House floor and to the courthouse" this week — and several groups signaled they are ready to sue as soon as Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signs the legislation.
But experts forecast Democrats will face an uphill climb to stop or even stall the maps, which could net five GOP House seats, from taking effect ahead of next year's high-stakes midterms. |
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BY ALEX GANGITANO, BRETT SAMUELS AND EMILY BROOKS |
The Justice Department (DOJ) on Friday released transcripts and audio files from its interview with Ghislaine Maxwell and turned over to House lawmakers thousands of pages of documents related to convicted offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The disclosures came as Justice Department officials sought to satisfy lawmakers in both parties who had pushed for more transparency around the Epstein files. |
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President Trump is keeping his foreign policy focus on Russia and Ukraine as global outrage grows over Israel's plans to launch a major new offensive in the Gaza Strip and a declaration of famine on Friday that underscored the catastrophic suffering of Palestinians.
Trump has backed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to launch a major offensive to take over the strip's capital, Gaza City, even as he had earlier expressed concern over "starving" Palestinians and discussed the U.S. taking control of the main food distribution effort. |
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Vice President Vance said the Friday raid on former national security adviser John Bolton's residence was not retribution for his political commentary critiquing the Trump administration.
"We're in the very early stages of an ongoing investigation into John Bolton. I will say we're going to let that investigation proceed," Vance said during a clip of his interview with MSNBC's "Meet the Press." |
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem condemned the Friday release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported but returned to the U.S., calling it a "new low."
Abrego Garcia has been petitioning for his release from federal custody since his March deportation to El Salvador. U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Holmes on Friday ordered the release of Abrego Garcia from a Tennessee jail. |
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The Trump administration on Friday issued an order stopping all activities of a wind energy project in Rhode Island that could have supplied electricity to 350,000 homes.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a letter sent to Ørsted, the Danish company operating the project, said the stop work order seeks "to address concerns related to the protection of national security interests of the United States and prevention of interference with reasonable uses of the exclusive economic zone, the high seas, and the territorial seas." |
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OPINION | In the vast machinery that keeps the U.S. healthy, one of the most essential yet overlooked systems is the pharmaceutical supply chain. From everyday painkillers like ibuprofen and acetaminophen to critical antibiotics and chemotherapy agents, the medications Americans depend on are increasingly sourced abroad — especially from China.
Although the efficiencies of globalized production have driven down costs, they have also introduced serious risks: dependency, diminished oversight and questionable product quality. |
OPINION | Nine days after reentering the White House last January, President Trump issued an executive order to end "indoctrination" in American schools. The first sentence of the order called on schools to "instill a patriotic admiration for our incredible nation," which sounds a whole lot like indoctrination to me.
I've been thinking about Trump's order during the recent controversy in Oklahoma, where state superintendent Ryan Walters has engaged Prager University to create an assessment test for new teachers. Oklahoma had already given schools the green light to use Prager's history videos, which Walters described as "factually based, with no left-wing indoctrination." |
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During President Trump's first turn in the White House, right-wing extremists like the Proud Boys were on the streets, weekend after weekend, raising their voices — and oftentimes their fists — about issues such as immigration, the squelching of conservative speech and the removal of Confederate-era statues.
But in the first seven months of Mr. Trump's second term, there has been a conspicuous absence of far-right demonstrations. And that, some leaders of the movement say, is because the president has effectively adopted their agenda. |
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell cautiously laced up an interest-rate cut next month but delivered a subtle message to anyone expecting aggressive easing: Don't expect a downhill sprint.
The debate among central bankers gathered in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park over the past two days suggests the focus is now shifting beyond the September meeting to whether the Fed will entertain cutting again at either of its final two meetings of the year, in October and December. |
Erik and Lyle Menendez were denied parole by a California board this week after decades in prison for killing their parents in 1989 at their Beverly Hills mansion.
During two days of hearings, the brothers were each questioned by panels of two commissioners and asked to speak with complete candor on the abuse they suffered in childhood, their mindsets leading up to and after the murders and various prison transgressions.
The brothers were sentenced to life in prison in 1996 for fatally shooting Jose and Kitty Menendez. The case has long captivated true crime enthusiasts, with the brothers amassing public support in the past year after shows on Netflix renewed interest. |
BY MICHAEL BRICE-SADDLER AND DANIEL WU |
Commuters and tourists leaving D.C.'s Union Station this week stepped out to an unusual scene: two armored trucks and a dozen or so National Guard troops clad in camouflage, milling about in the summer heat.
"Welcome to D.C.," said one Guard member, smiling as people walked past. He was met with a range of responses.
"Welcome, gentlemen, welcome." |
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