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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 […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy and lead negotiator tasked with ending the war in Ukraine, has attracted criticism in Europe and Ukraine after an interview where he appeared to back a number of well-known Kremlin talking points on the conflict. The comments, in which Witkoff seemed to accept […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Multiple Trump administration officials who allegedly held classified discussions on an open messaging platform have in the past condemned the mishandling of classified records by others, including former President Joe Biden and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. National security adviser Mike Waltz and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have […]

Spencer Platt/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 21-year-old junior at Columbia University said she was the person whom federal agents were after when they showed up at a residence on West 113 Street earlier this month — and she is now suing President Donald Trump. Federal immigration agents showed up at Yunseo Chung’s apartment near […]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The White House said Monday a Signal group chat discussing a U.S. attack on Houthis in Yemen that inadvertently included Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, “appears to be authentic.” Members of the Trump administration coordinated highly sensitive war plans on an unsecure group chat, Goldberg wrote in a report […]

Grant Faint/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Supreme Court on Monday grappled with whether or not to send Louisiana legislators back to the drawing board in a high-stakes dispute over the Voting Rights Act and an election map with two majority-black U.S. congressional districts — which the state’s Republican leaders want to keep. The state’s current […]