Trump defends the prospect of Qatar gifting him a plane to use as Air Force One
Trump intends to convert the Qatari aircraft into a plane he can fly on as...
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Trump team mulls suspending the constitutional right of habeas corpus to speed deportations. Can it?
By WILL WEISSERT WASHINGTON (AP) — White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says...
As reading scores fall, states turn to phonics — but not without a fight
A bipartisan wave of state-level changes to the ‘science of reading’ is gaining momentum.
At Social Security, these are the days of the living dead
Social Security has been plagued by problems, even the marking of living people as dead.
Judge pauses much of Trump administration’s massive downsizing of federal agencies
The Republican administration must halt much of its dramatic downsizing of the federal workforce, a...
Treasury secretary calls on Congress to raise or suspend the debt ceiling by mid-July
The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as...
How the military is dealing with Hegseth’s order to remove transgender troops
As many as 1,000 service members have identified themselves as transgender.
US to accept white South African refugees while other programs remain paused
More than two dozen white South Africans from roughly four families applied for resettlement.
15 states sue over Trump’s move to fast-track oil and gas projects via his ‘energy emergency’ order
The order urges oil and gas expansion through eminent domain and the Defense Production Act.
Mayor Baraka of Newark, New Jersey, arrested at immigration detention center he has been protesting
The mayor has been protesting its opening throughout this week, saying the operators did not...