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More than a dozen legislative leaders have headed for the exits over the past 14 months.
It’s become impossible to predict the trajectory of the Congressional appropriations process.
By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end. The post Far-Right Religious Leaders Advising Trump See Iran as an End Times Hol...
The Trump White House counts RFK Jr. as a top surrogate – but he comes with downsides, too.
An office space deal threatens to leave the city on the hook for the U.N.’s financial travails.
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News in partnership with Puente News Collaborative and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On a Saturday morning in Marc...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) speaks during a protest at the US Customs and Border Protection Office on January 13, 2026, in Washington, D.C. | Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn Civic Action Preside...
The president’s son-in-law is acting as an envoy even as he looks to secure billions for his company from foreign governmentsAfter Donald Trump returned to the White House, his son-in-law and former s...
ICE seems to be changing from aggressive immigration enforcement on city streets to an apparent return to operations that rely heavily on local law enforcement. But even in Florida, where sheriffs are...
The proposal would double down on last summer’s “big beautiful bill” and its legacy of cutting programs that struggling Americans rely on. The post Trump’s new budget proposal is historic — in one of ...
State department said niece and grandniece of Qassem Soleimani, killed in 2020 US drone strike, celebrated attacks against US soldiersUS federal agents have arrested the niece and grandniece of the la...
US National Park Service lawyers cite materials that will be installed to make ‘heavily fortified’ facilityDonald Trump’s administration is arguing that a judge’s order to halt construction of a $400m...
Trump doesn’t actually want the consequences that would follow from such an operation. The post Trump’s fantasy of seizing the Strait of Hormuz for a ‘gusher’ of oil is a dangerous one appeared first ...
Both parties are spending a fraction of the total that broke records for a spring election last year. But Democrats are in the driver’s seat in Madison.
As Trump’s administration aims to bring ‘warrior culture’ back to the military, young service members express anxiety and snark online over potential deploymentIf posts coming from the White House wer...
Support and rights advocacy are seen as a duty of care for many nurses who are organizing to protect their patients.
Editor’s note, April 4, 2026, 6 am ET: This story was last updated on March 30, 2018, and we’re revisiting it for this Easter. Easter season is upon us, and if you’re like a majority of Americans who...
The US Department of Health and Human Services gave at least $34 million directly to 16 crisis pregnancy centers between 2018 and 2024, according to a US Government Accountability Office report public...
On Friday, President Donald Trump released his budget proposal for the fiscal year 2027. Surprisingly, given the cuts that would be necessary to fund the $1.5 trillion the Trump administration is aski...
The proposal boosts Pentagon funding while gutting billions from health care, education, and environmental programs.
We may never know what motivated the Magnani-Rocca robbers. But part of the answer may lie in an unexpected corner. The post Art heists seem to be becoming more and more common. Here’s why. appeared f...
Immigration lawyers and former federal officials say the case of Salah Sarsour echoes those against other pro-Palestinian activists.
Trump ordered data collection after raising concern about race being used as factor in college admissionsA federal judge on Friday halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that prove...
In the fifth week of the war, Trump continues contradicting himself on its objectives and how Americans are affectedWhen Donald Trump launched Operation Epic Fury alongside Israel on 28 February, his ...
The niece and grand-niece of Qasem Soleimani are in the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials said.
The order reflects how the president's efforts to dismantle the Education Department are getting in the way of his policy goals.
The law Republicans passed last year has so far been largely imperceptible to most Americans. That’s changing as tens of millions file their taxes this spring.
Budget proposal released on Friday outlines president’s desire to revive former federal prison in San Francisco BayDonald Trump is asking for $152m to restore Alcatraz, a former federal prison off the...
The brutalisation of global norms by figures like Pete Hegseth must be seen as an ethical issue. It’s a fight against chaos, and all major religions must play a roleThat combative old hymn, Onward Ch...
Russian advances slowing, thinktank’s data shows; 14 killed in Ukraine in massive drone and missile salvo. What we know on day 1,501Russia’s army recorded almost no territorial gains on the frontline ...
A federal judge on Saturday said the Trump Administration the demand to collect data from universities was rolled out in a "rushed and chaotic" manner.
U.S. work combatting HIV/AIDS has saved millions of lives globally. Under the Trump administration, funding has been slow in coming and unpredictable, wreaking havoc on people trying to do the work.
House Democrats will hold informal hearings in California on midterm election security, following multiple threats of intervention in state-run voting by the Trump administration.
“You move mountains to try and find that individual, get them back to safety,” retired Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling told MS NOW. The post Critics scold Trump for staying mum on search for missing U.S. airma...
President Trump bet that American firepower could cow Iran into compliance. So far, Iran’s leaders have been unwilling to quit.
The US-Israeli war will have a lifelong impact on millions of children across the Middle EastMillions of children have been plunged into crisis by the war in the Middle East, with reports of child sol...
Beyond rising costs of gas and air travel, experts say this is likely just beginning of higher prices amid global volatilitySign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbo...
Royal visitors have long been popular in the US, and Charles has decades of diplomacy under his belt. But can soft power save the special relationship?What’s the worst that could happen when King Char...
The International Atomic Energy Agency urges restraint to avoid a nuclear accident at Iran's Bushehr plant.
Panelists on Washington Week With The Atlantic joined to discuss the president’s first national address since the war with Iran began.
At least one person was killed in the strike near Iran’s Bushehr nuclear plant, raising safety concerns.
Whiteness is baked into the US’s DNA. Can it be structurally dismantled?
Last week, when asked if he had a message about the war in Iran for President Trump, Leo XIV said, “Hopefully, he’s looking for an off-ramp.”
The president’s fiscal 2027 budget proposal seeks a more than 40% increase in defense spending, paired with cuts to medical research, national parks and the TSA. As for the debt? The data’s nowhere to...
If you have the good fortune of not spending time on Elon Musk’s X, it is hard to grasp just how blatant the anti-Muslim hate coming from GOP lawmakers—and tolerated by their leaders—has become. Take ...
Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns. The post DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree ap...
The Trump administration is planning to train new foreign service employees with the help of overtly racist works. The post State Dept. ‘reforms’ foreign service training to include white supremacist ...
Scholars warn that DOJ’s declaration that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional could impact other administrations.
She helped corrode the Justice Department’s credibility and trained the public to see federal prosecution as just another front in the culture wars. The post The wreckage Pam Bondi leaves behind appea...
The government sought to revive the quashed grand jury subpoenas for records relating to a $2.5 billion renovation of the Federal Reserve headquarters, targeting the Fed chair. The post Judge rejects...
Today’s edition of quick hits. The post Friday’s Mini-Report, 4.3.26 appeared first on MS NOW.
New guidance, and the promise of a new rule, are expected to cut off funding to Planned Parenthood starting in 2027.
The fiscal 2027 budget shows a jump — from $39 million to $377 million — for renovations to the White House living space and possibly other areas.
The U.S. and Israeli war with Iran has caused a rare rift among conservatives, with several influential figures on the right condemning the war. A recent poll shows that while most Republicans support...
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the political debate over the war in Iran, reaction to President Trump's address...
“ICE dungeons are systematically ... built to break people mentally,” Kordia said.
A movement in the name of democracy must resist imperial ambition done in our name and with our money.
In our news wrap Friday, President Trump is asking for $1.5 trillion in defense spending for the upcoming financial year, March was a strong month for the jobs market even as soaring energy prices fro...
Under a new order, brand-name pharmaceuticals made in other countries could be hit with tariffs as high as 100 percent.
Salah Sarsour, a Palestinian-born legal permanent resident of the United States, was taken into custody by nearly a dozen U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents who surrounded his car on Mond...
“We are unstoppable as a military force," Trump boasted before Iran shot down one U.S. plane and another crashed near the Strait of Hormuz. The post Iran Shoots Down F-15 Fighter Jet After Trump Bragg...
A new facility celebrated by Gov. Gavin Newsom will disrupt prisoner-led programming and normalize our captivity.
Ripple effects of oil and fertiliser shortage felt by farmers in India and Sri Lanka despite governments saying there is enough stock to go roundGurvinder Singh never thought the war in Iran would tou...
PolitiFact has fact-checked Bondi since 2010, during her Florida attorney general run, a seat she held from 2011 to 2019. Here are some key moments and falsehoods from her year-plus in the nation's to...
The president's new budget requests funding from Congress to convert the historic site into a working "state-of-the-art" prison.
The proposal from Trump's Office of Management and Budget includes several key changes to climate and environment programs that would help further the administration's efforts to thwart the so-called ...
Supporters of Salah Sarsour, who was brutalized by Israeli police as a teen, say his arrest is politically motivated.
The president’s outbursts on allies and Nato were further confirmation that Europe cannot wait to bolster security – and Britain must play its part“She had no more surprises for him; the unexpected in...
US president makes baseless claims about fraud in blue states and says JD Vance will lead clampdown as ‘fraud czar’Donald Trump announced a fresh crackdown on “fraud” in Democratic states and tapped J...
Veteran justice, 76, was treated for dehydration in March; a retirement would give Trump new chance to shape courtUS supreme court justice Samuel Alito was reportedly taken to a hospital after becomin...
PM gets widespread backing after president’s mocking impersonation takes US-UK relationship to new lowKeir Starmer has been warned his relationship with Donald Trump may be beyond repair after the US ...
The threat of cutting funding to cash-starved schools that don't comply is real, even if the stricter rules that come out of the executive order he signed Friday could take a while to figure out.
Homelessness advocates say the bill would cause law enforcement to arrest people because they have nowhere to sleep and spur frivolous lawsuits paid for by taxpayers.
Human rights groups say a new Israeli law that expands the death penalty for killings classified as terrorism is expected to apply exclusively to Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank. As Is...
The sales drive by Florida-based Powerus – which announced a deal last month to bring aboard Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. – positions the company to potentially benefit from a war that their father...
The Georgia General Assembly ended its annual session early Friday without a plan for new equipment to overhaul the state's voting system by a July deadline, plunging into doubt the future of election...
There's a backstory to President Trump's Truth Social post and it stems from a controversial visit by administration officials to Los Angeles in February.
“Neither in the pastoral sphere nor in the social and political spheres can good come from abuse of power,” he said.