Vice President JD Vance and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned of a potential Thanksgiving travel disaster as the government shutdown drags on, after Vance hosted a White House roundtable with airline, union and travel leaders. With FAA controllers working unpaid and missing their first full paycheck, participants described mounting strain...
The Justice Department suspended two prosecutors and replaced a sentencing memo that had referenced Donald Trump and January 6 in the case of Taylor Taranto, alarming current and former career attorneys who called the revisions “Orwellian” and a whitewashing. Taranto, a pardoned January 6 rioter, was convicted of gun crimes...
The ongoing government shutdown is wearing down military families as paychecks arrive only at the last minute. Since Oct. 1, President Donald Trump has twice ordered stopgap funding shifts, including $5.3 billion overall with $2.5 billion from his summer tax and spending cuts law. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned troops...
Ahead of Tuesday’s vote, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is running a low-drama, centrist campaign for Virginia governor, fixating on rising costs and soybean farmers while sidestepping Donald Trump and playing down the prospect of being the state’s first woman governor. She warns Democrats against overpromising, criticizing student debt pledges, as a...
A federal judge in Boston signaled skepticism toward the Trump administration’s claim that SNAP benefits must halt during the nearly monthlong government shutdown, as a ruling could come Thursday to avert a total cutoff for 42 million Americans set to begin Saturday. Judge Indira Talwani said Congress created a USDA...
On day 30 of the federal shutdown, an ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll finds rising public worry and growing disapproval of President Donald Trump’s management. Three in four Americans are concerned, with 43% now very concerned, up from 25% on Oct. 1. Forty-five percent blame Trump and congressional Republicans, 33% blame...
Eleven Democratic senators pressed immigration officials to explain deportation flights and halt ICE’s use of the WRAP, a full-body restraint, citing near-total secrecy and serious human rights concerns. In a letter led by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, the group referenced an AP investigation documenting hours-long restraint of detainees on flights...
President Donald Trump unveiled a tabletop model of the 90,000-square-foot ballroom planned to replace the demolished East Wing, and architects spotted glaring mistakes. The model shows dead-end stairs, blurred windows, and mismatches with official renderings, including 11 rather than nine west-side arches, extra south-side columns, and a single staircase where...
Portland, Maine — Maine Family Planning will close its primary care services Friday, blaming Trump administration moves to block Medicaid funding to abortion providers. The network, which runs 18 clinics and serves about 8,000 patients, said primary care reached more than 600 people last year and that telling them to...
Official tallies in the Netherlands showed Democrats 66 and Geert Wilders’s Party for Freedom locked on the same number of seats, ANP reported, turning a tense overnight lead for the centrists into a tie by morning. With about 15,000 more votes out of over nine million, Mr. Jetten’s party edged...
