U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed asked the Justice and Treasury departments to investigate World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm tied to President Donald Trump’s family, citing national security risks. In a letter obtained by CNBC, they point to watchdog findings that WLF sold $WLFI governance tokens to entities...
President Donald Trump blasted several critics yet declined to rebuke Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson, praising the former Fox host after he interviewed the white nationalist without pushback. The stance widened intraparty tensions over antisemitism: Heritage Foundation’s president apologized but lost a trustee, activists urged stronger condemnation, and GOP leaders...
Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s lawyer rejected mortgage fraud claims from FHFA director Bill Pulte, saying they hinge on an innocuous 2021 notation and that Cook accurately disclosed her Ann Arbor, Atlanta and Cambridge homes. Cook, who sued to block an attempted firing amid Trump’s attacks on the Fed, remains in...
The Justice Department sued California to block two new laws that ban officials from concealing their faces and require nonuniformed federal agents to display identification. The suit argues the measures violate the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause, discriminate against federal officers, and jeopardize their safety; federal agencies say they will not comply....
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Tampa Christian school’s challenge to the denial of a pregame prayer over a stadium loudspeaker, leaving intact a 2000 precedent against student-led prayer at football games. With no noted dissents, the decision preserves an 11th Circuit ruling that loudspeaker remarks at...
Federal agents launched Operation Charlotte's Web in Charlotte, arresting 81 people in five hours as part of a broader crackdown that has produced thousands of arrests and nearly 200,000 deportations by late August. Martha White, granddaughter and literary executor of E.B. White, rebuked the use of her grandfather’s book, saying...
On Face the Nation, Sen. Bill Cassidy said he is working with the White House on a plan to redirect roughly $26 billion in enhanced premium tax credits from insurers to patients, placing funds in personal accounts to lower premiums and help cover $6000 deductibles. He urged a bipartisan deal...
The Pentagon is pulling hundreds of federalized National Guard troops from Chicago and Portland weeks after President Trump sent them over objections from state and local leaders, officials said. About 200 California Guard in Portland and 200 Texas Guard in Chicago will return home as early as Sunday after legal...
President Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Dan Wilson, a Kentucky man who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and to unrelated federal firearms charges, multiple reports say. Signed Nov. 14, the pardon had not been announced on the Justice Department website...
Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran is no longer enriching uranium, blaming June strikes by Israel and the United States that hit enrichment sites. Answering an Associated Press reporter’s question, Abbas Araghchi said all facilities are under IAEA safeguards and denied undeclared work, while insisting Iran’s inalienable right to peaceful enrichment...
