Pressure is intensifying to end the nation’s second-longest shutdown as it enters a fourth week, with airport delays mounting, 1.3 million service members at risk of missing Friday’s pay, and SNAP benefits for 42 million poised to lapse after the administration refused to tap contingency funds. The AFGE union urged...
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California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the state will send its own observers to watch federal election monitors deployed by the Trump administration ahead of a Nov. 4 vote tied to Democrats’ redistricting plans. Responding to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s move to monitor six jurisdictions, including five California counties,...
On a packed day in Tokyo, President Donald Trump met Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, congratulating Japan’s first female leader and hailing a “new golden age” in ties. The pair signed accords to bolster U.S.-Japan cooperation on critical and rare earth minerals, creating a Rapid Response Group and complementary stockpiles, in...
Democrats remain unmoved by the largest federal employees union’s renewed demand to reopen the government, extending a shutdown now the second longest in U.S. history and leaving over a million workers unpaid, some turning to food pantries. Senate Democrat Dick Durbin said AFGE’s plea has a lot of impact but...
President Donald Trump opened a packed Tokyo day by greeting new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, Japan’s first female leader, as the pair praised the U.S.-Japan alliance and signed an implementation for a "golden age" of ties, plus a framework on critical minerals and rare earths. Trump is seeking $550 billion...
Seeking to speed deportations, the Trump administration plans to reassign at least a dozen ICE field office directors—potentially replacing about half with Border Patrol officials—amid frustration over arrest totals, officials say. ICE averages 1,178 arrests daily, far short of the 3,000 pushed by Stephen Miller. Border Patrol has deployed more...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent named five contenders to replace Jerome Powell as Federal Reserve chair next year—Christopher Waller, Michelle Bowman, Kevin Warsh, Kevin Hassett, and BlackRock's Rick Rieder. Speaking aboard Air Force One, Bessent said he’ll deliver a slate to President Donald Trump after Thanksgiving; Trump aims to decide by...
Aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump said a cognitive screening he took at Walter Reed was “very hard,” even as he mocked Democratic congresswomen Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as “low IQ.” His physician said in April that Trump scored a perfect 30 on the Montreal Cognitive Assessment, which...
King Charles III dedicated Britain’s first national memorial to LGBTQ troops at the National Memorial Arboretum, 25 years after the U.K. ended its ban on homosexuality in the armed forces. The crumpled bronze letter bears words from personnel affected by the ban, which saw dismissals between 1967 and 2000. The...
