Politics

Jason Almond / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Second lady Usha Vance will be part of a delegation traveling to Greenland this week, after President Donald Trump’s repeated statements that the United States should own and control the semiautonomous Danish territory. Vance’s office announced the trip on Sunday, describing it as one […]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the use of a Signal group chat among top officials to discuss a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen — brought to light when a journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, was “inadvertently” added to the chat. Peppered with questions on the reported mishap […]

ABC News (BETHLEHEM, PA) — At a “People’s Town Hall” on Thursday held by the Democratic National Committee, in a church located in a Pennsylvania district that Democrats lost to Republicans in 2024, party leaders fired up the crowd when slamming the White House and congressional Republicans over Medicaid, federal government cuts, and other issues. […]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Democrats grilled top intelligence officials, including Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, on the use of a Signal group chat to discuss Yemen war plans — brought to light when a journalist was “inadvertently” added to the chat. The intelligence officials, who spoke […]

Alex Wong/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Two weeks since the Trump administration eliminated nearly half of the Department of Education’s workforce through an overhaul that affected roughly 2,000 people and just days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to diminish the department, scores of former department employees say there is chaos and confusion among them. And […]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration on Tuesday distanced himself from some of the actions taken at the agency by officials linked to Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. Frank Bisignano, a veteran Wall Street executive and GOP donor tapped to lead the agency […]

Kyle Mazza/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Federal judges have been blunt in their rulings from the bench as the Trump administration has been hit with numerous lawsuits challenging its policies, layoffs and firings and other orders. While many of the cases are still working their way through the system, several federal judges have been […]

Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Officials with the White House’s National Security Council say they “are reviewing” how a journalist could have been “inadvertently” added to an 18-member group chat that included several of the nation’s top military officials. Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, wrote in a piece published Monday that he was […]

Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump said he is confident in his national security adviser, Mike Waltz — a day after a report detailed how he inadvertently added a journalist to a Signal group chat discussing Yemen war plans. Trump told NBC News on Tuesday that Waltz “has learned a lesson […]

Pool (WASHINGTON) — Top Congressional Democrats are expressing outrage after members of President Donald Trump’s administration inadvertently added Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, to an unsecured message thread discussing highly sensitive war plans on Monday. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who apparently added Goldberg to the Signal chat, was joined on the thread […]