The Democrats' push to prohibit facemasks for federal immigration officers is a new fight with very old roots.
While Democrats have demanded the ban only in the wake of a pair of fatal shootings by masked agents in Minnesota just this year, many lawmakers are pointing to the country's long history of racial violence as a factor that's driving their campaign. |
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An international jet fuel shortage is driving up airfares and triggering thousands of flight cancellations as airlines grapple with rising costs.
Analysts warn the crisis could deepen in the coming weeks, with the war in Iran showing little sign of easing and jet fuel prices continuing to climb. |
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Wisconsin Republicans are bracing for a lopsided state Supreme Court race next week, as liberals are all but expected to expand their majority. It underscores how the state GOP has struggled to compete in critical elections over nearly the last decade.
Democratic-backed judicial candidate Chris Taylor leads the conservative favorite, Maria Lazar, in recent polling, and Taylor's campaign has outraised her opponent by a roughly 5-to-1 margin in the race that will determine whether the Wisconsin Supreme Court remains a 4-3 liberal majority or expands to 5-2 edge. |
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Gen. Randy George, the U.S. Army's chief of staff ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, on Friday sent a farewell letter saying the Army deserves "leaders of character." George thanked Army officials for their support in an email posted on Reddit's Army page. An Army official confirmed the email's legitimacy to The Hill. |
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Countries heavily reliant on the energy exports from the Strait of Hormuz are troubleshooting plans to reopen the critical maritime trade route amid the chaos and uncertainty around the U.S.-Israel war against Iran.
The United Kingdom convened 41 countries on Thursday to discuss plans to reopen the Strait, pinning the blame on Iran for holding the global economy "hostage" by hijacking the international shipping route. |
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Former national security adviser John Bolton on Friday said the recent attacks by Iran on two U.S. fighter jets has likely placed President Trump in "panic mode."
The Iranian military downed an F-15E Strike Eagle over the Islamic Republic's airspace on Friday — marking the first known instance of Tehran shooting down a U.S. jet since the beginning of the conflict. Iran later declared that its air defenses also hit an A-10 Warthog attack plane. |
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BY REBECCA BEITSCH AND JULIA MUELLER |
The FBI's contemplation about releasing files on a Chinese spy who interacted with Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) is raising questions about the lengths the Trump administration might go to as foes of the president seek election.
Swalwell, who is running for governor in California, sent a cease and desist letter to the FBI on Monday, arguing the move would not just be an abuse of his privacy and FBI power but also would violate Justice Department guidelines about taking action in proximity to an election. |
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BY JULIA MANCHESTER AND MALLORY WILSON |
President Trump's move to oust Attorney General Pam Bondi from her post just weeks after replacing former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is raising questions about whether more staff shakeups are on the horizon.
Unlike his first administration, Trump's second stint in the White House has not been defined by a revolving door of high-level officials and staffers, with many officials describing it as being run like a tight ship. |
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President Trump on Saturday warned Iran that "time is running out" before the U.S. rains "all hell" down on the Middle East country.
"Remember when I gave Iran ten days to MAKE A DEAL or OPEN UP THE HORMUZ STRAIT," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "Time is running out – 48 hours before all Hell will reign down on them. Glory be to GOD!" |
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OPINION | Iran isn't trying to defeat the U.S. in a conventional war. It is trying to exhaust it.
For decades and in this war, Tehran has pursued a disciplined strategy of imposing steady costs. It kills Americans through proxies, disrupts energy markets, raises gasoline prices, and rattles financial systems until U.S. political will collapses. Iran is betting that the legacy of "forever wars," combined with domestic polarization, will once again force Washington to walk away. |
OPINION | Last month, the Trump administration quietly pushed the country further into authoritarianism. There were no masked federal agents, no mass protests and no confrontational press conferences.
But by invoking the Defense Production Act to restart a troubled oil pipeline in California, the administration ignored both state law and court orders and went against the will of elected officials and their constituents. These actions trampled on the idea of state sovereignty in a way that should horrify every American, right, left or center. |
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BY ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS, HAMED ALEAZIZ, CHRISTOPHER FLAVELLE, EMILY COCHRANE & GLENN THRUSH |
It was May 2025, a few months into the second Trump administration, and Stephen Miller, the right-wing populist powering the White House crackdown on immigration, was clearly frustrated.
President Trump had talked about arresting "the worst of the worst" of undocumented immigrants — the rapists, killers and other criminals he had emphasized during the previous year's campaign. Mr. Miller, however, had long pushed for removing anyone who had entered the country illegally. |
Randy Shilling went to public high school in Corpus Christi, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a petroleum engineering degree.
For the first decade of his career, he lived in an apartment and worried about paying for vacations. Then, in his early 30s, he landed a job at a chemical plant that paid about 15% more plus bonuses, and life felt smoother. Around the same time, he bought a house on a golf course in the Houston suburb of Humble, Texas. Promotions and pay raises followed, and he saved more than $3 million for retirement. Almost without realizing it, Shilling ascended into the upper middle class. |
The United States said Sunday it rescued a service member missing behind enemy lines since Iran downed a fighter jet, as President Donald Trump escalated pressure on Tehran with a new looming deadline to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran showed no signs of backing down, striking new economic and infrastructure targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries. |
BY SCOTT NOVER & LIAM SCOTT |
Amid a public bidding war for Warner Bros. Discovery, President Donald Trump in December addressed a key asset of its media empire: CNN.
"I think the people that have run CNN for the last long period of time are a disgrace," he said. "I think it's imperative that CNN be sold." |
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