As President Donald Trump often promised during his 2024 presidential campaign, on March 15, 2025, he invoked an obscure 18th-century law called the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting 137 Venezuelans he says are associated with a Venezuelan gang.

A federal judge swiftly blocked the deportations and ordered the planes carrying ...Read more

With Republican President Donald Trump’s return to office this year, Big Tech leaders from Silicon Valley’s largest companies — all fighting federal anti-monopoly lawsuits launched under Trump’s previous term and the Democratic Biden administration that followed — have made unprecedented peace offerings.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump cast the Kennedy Center, one of the nation’s premier cultural institutions, as mismanaged and in disrepair, as he visited the iconic venue as its new chairman and vowed to work with Congress to restore it to a place of prominence.

Trump toured the center and spoke at a board meeting on Monday, ...Read more

DENVER — U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont will make an appearance on March 21 in Denver’s Civic Center Park, alongside liberal firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, for the latest stop on Sanders’ national “Fighting Oligarchy” tour.

The democratic socialist senator, who has been in Congress for nearly 35 years, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump claimed without evidence early Monday that pardons granted by then-President Joe Biden to lawmakers on the disbanded select House committee that investigated the 2021 Capitol riot were invalid because he used an automatic pen.

“The ‘Pardons’ that Sleepy Joe Biden gave to the Unselect Committee of ...Read more

Sen. Adam B. Schiff on Monday rebuffed as a baseless threat a weekend broadside from President Donald Trump in which Trump alleged that Schiff and others could still face investigation for actions covered by a slate of late pardons issued by President Joe Biden.

"Your threats will not intimidate us," the California Democrat wrote on X. "Or ...Read more

Vanessa Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr., isn’t living with Tiger Woods, but she’s become a regular evening visitor to his sprawling Florida estate since they began dating around Thanksgiving, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

“She comes to his place on Jupiter Island. They’re not living together. She comes over maybe a few...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday claimed that pardons dished out by former President Joe Biden to members of the congressional committee that investigated Jan. 6 are invalid because they were signed using an autopen.

Trump warned members of the panel that they could face a criminal probe because he claimed Biden used an autopen, which is defined ...Read more

Ex-UFC fighter Conor McGregor visited the White House on Monday for a meeting with President Donald Trump.

The St. Patrick’s Day gathering came less than a week after Trump met with Irish Prime Minister Micheál Martin. McGregor used his time in the White House press room to rail against Ireland’s welcoming immigration policies.

“It’s ...Read more

Jeff Bezos, the world’s third-richest person and owner of The Washington Post, announced in February 2025 significant changes to the editorial pages of his Pulitzer-Prize winning newspaper.

The editorial section, also called the opinion section, is where editors and contributors with a deep and broad understanding of the latest news...Read more

WASHINGTON — Nita M. Lowey, a veteran legislator from New York who served 16 terms until her retirement at the end of the 116th Congress, died on Saturday. The cause was breast cancer, her family announced. She was 87.

Lowey, a Democrat, represented well-heeled Rockland and Westchester counties during her tenure in the House starting after ...Read more

California Republicans were triumphant, still riding high from the results of the 2024 presidential election, at their spring organizing convention this weekend in Sacramento.

Although Democrat Kamala Harris won California with 58% of the vote, GOP delegates and officials saw statewide swings toward President Donald Trump as a sign of Democrats...Read more

The Trump administration said it arrested and expelled hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations.

“This weekend, at the President’s direction, the Department of Homeland Security successfully arrested nearly 300 Tren De Aragua...Read more

Five Minnesota Senate Republicans are seeking to dub “Trump derangement syndrome” (TDS), a term coined to describe a form of criticism of President Donald Trump, as an official mental illness recognized under state statute.

Eric Lucero, R-St. Michael; Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa; Nathan Wesenberg, R-Little Falls; Justin D. Eichorn, R-Grand ...Read more

Gov. Wes Moore has been leveraging his opportunities on national news to draw attention to what he called the “disastrous” impact to Maryland’s economy in the first two months of the Trump administration.

Moore was asked Sunday morning on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” about President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on goods from Canada ...Read more

One day after a judge blocked the federal government from using wartime powers to quickly expel accused Venezuelan gang members from the country, the Trump administration announced Sunday that it had flown hundreds of alleged members of Tren de Aragua to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador — raising the question of whether the president ...Read more

The Trump administration said it arrested and expelled hundreds of alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang to El Salvador for imprisonment, even as a federal judge ordered a halt to some deportations.

“This weekend, at the President’s direction, the Department of Homeland Security successfully arrested nearly 300 Tren De Aragua...Read more

If Susan B. Anthony had a deaf sister, everyone would know that deaf suffragists fought tirelessly for expanding women’s right to vote, right alongside Anthony herself. Everyone would know deaf suffragists contributed to women’s emancipation in the United States and Britain and that they lived bold lives.

As a researcher of deaf ...Read more

Harvard University is imposing a temporary freeze on hiring faculty. Columbia University is grappling with cuts to $400 million in federal funding. California Institute of Technology is leaving postdoctoral positions unfilled. A University of Washington researcher is wondering about a climate and health grant after a government site was taken ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has invoked a centuries-old immigration law to ramp up deportations of undocumented migrants amid signs of frustration within the administration over the pace of efforts to deliver on one of his top priorities.

A federal judge blocked Trump’s proclamation soon after, the Associated Press reported.

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