2 h. ago Former NIH scientist sues Trump administration, claims illegal firing over research cuts

A former leading scientist at the National Institutes of Health has sued the Trump administration, saying she was illegally fired for warning that research cuts were endangering patients and public health

Science

4 h. ago Trump expands travel ban, adding 5 more countries and imposing new limits on others

The Trump administration is expanding its travel ban to include five more countries and impose new limits on others

Politics

11 h. ago Vote to shut down military strikes on drug boats comes as senators demand to see video of distressing September attack

Top Trump administration officials are expected to brief Senators on Capitol Hill on Tuesday about September's strikes on Venezuelan drug boats.

Events

11 h. ago Trump administration says White House ballroom construction is matter of national security

Court filing was response to lawsuit asking judge to halt project until it goes through independent reviews and wins approval from CongressUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump’s administration argued Monday in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.The filing came in response to a lawsuit filed three days earlier by the National Trust for Historic Preservation asking a federal judge to halt the ballroom project until it goes through multiple independent reviews and wins approval from Congress. Continue reading...

Events

12 h. ago She has stage four cancer. Her husband is a federal worker. Will she survive the Trump administration?

Michaela’s husband is away 14 hours a day amid Trump’s ban on remote work, the threat of layoffs is ever-present and their health premiums are set to multiplyMichaela felt a sharp pain shoot from her hip while she bent over to water some plants in early May 2025. Then she fell over and couldn’t get back up.Her husband called an ambulance and she spent the night in a hospital, where, at 57, she found out she had a mass on her spine. It was metastatic breast cancer. Continue reading...

Politics

19 h. ago Trump administration escalates military probe into Democratic Senator Mark Kelly following ‘illegal orders’ video

The Arizona senator and former naval aviator said the Pentagon’s ‘corrupt’ investigation against him ‘should send a shiver down the spine of every patriotic American’

Events

24 h. ago Abrego Garcia is still hoping to find justice after his wrongful deportation, his lawyer says

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's mistaken deportation to El Salvador has become a significant issue in the Trump administration's immigration policies

Society

25 h. ago White House says ballroom construction is matter of national security

The Trump administration has said in a court filing that the White House ballroom construction project must proceed, citing national security imperatives.

Events

26 h. ago ‘Patel needs to wake up’: FBI director shredded for dismantling agency’s spy hunting abilities

The Trump administration has reassigned thousands of agents to immigration cases over their usual work, alarming observers given the ongoing espionage threat from China and other U.S. adversaries

Events

30 h. ago Trump administration says it needs to fight SNAP fraud, but the extent of the problem is unclear

Accusations of widespread fraud are at the heart of the Trump administration's policies on SNAP

Politics

48 h. ago Venezuela’s allies condemn Trump administration’s oil tanker seizure: ‘They are thieves’

This show of solidarity comes amidst an escalating U.S. military buildup in the southern Caribbean.

Politics

54 h. ago Manchin urges lawmakers to stop acting in ‘attack mode’ amid political violence

Former senator’s comments echo recent call from Erika Kirk that ‘everyone has responsibility’ to tone down hatredPoliticians should “calm down” and stop approaching one another in “attack mode” amid the US’s climate of political violence, former US senator Joe Manchin said on Sunday.The West Virginia independent who generally caucused with Senate Democrats echoed similar comments made at a town hall Saturday by Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot to death in September. Continue reading...

Events

66 h. ago Trump news at a glance: US seizure of Venezuela oil tanker an act of ‘maritime terrorism’, says Cuba

Cuban officials denounce the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast. Key US politics stories from 13 December 2025Cuban officials have denounced the US seizure of the Skipper oil tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday, calling it an “act of piracy and maritime terrorism”, as well as a “serious violation of international law” that hurts the Caribbean island nation and its people.The tanker, which was reported now to be heading for Galveston, Texas, was believed to loaded with nearly 2m barrels of Venezuela’s heavy crude, according to internal data from the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, as reported by the New York Times. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Belarus releases 123 prisoners including opposition leaders after US lifts sanctions

Nobel prize winner Ales Bialiatski and opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava among those freed after US talks with Alexander LukashenkoThe Belarusian president, Alexander Lukashenko, freed 123 prisoners on Saturday, including Nobel peace prize winner Ales Bialiatski and leading opposition figure Maria Kalesnikava, after the US lifted sanctions on Belarusian potash, a key export.The announcement came after two days of talks with an envoy of the US president, Donald Trump, the latest diplomatic push since the Trump administration started talks with the autocratic leader. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago The Trump administration keeps picking fights with pop stars. It’s a no

By using music from SZA, Sabrina Carpenter and Olivia Rodrigo in ICE videos, the government is playing a game of rage-baitLast week, as the Trump administration was engulfed in controversy over its illegal military strikes near Venezuela (among numerous other crises), a Department of Homeland Security employee – I picture the worst sniveling, self-satisfied, hateful loser – got to work on the official X account. The state-employed memelord posted a video depicting Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) officials arresting people in what appeared to be Chicago, celebrating the humiliation and incarceration of undocumented immigrants as some sort of patriotic achievement. The vile video borrowed, as they often do, from mainstream pop culture; in this case, a viral lyric from Sabrina Carpenter’s song Juno – “Have you ever tried this one?,” referring to sex positions – overlaid clips of agents chasing, tackling and handcuffing people, cheekily nodding to all the methods in ICE’s terr...

Politics

3 d. ago Deal or no deal? The inside story of the battle for Warner Bros

As Paramount, with close ties to the Trump administration, entered the bidding, experts predict any merger will ‘raise red flags’ among regulatorsOver the first 10 months of his second presidency, Donald Trump has not hidden his desire to control the US media industry – from encouraging TV networks to fire journalists, comedians and critics he dislikes to pushing regulators to revoke broadcast licences. Now he seems determined to set the terms for one of the biggest media deals in history.It’s a deal that could have repercussions not just in the US, but across the world, with not just the future of Hollywood at stake but also the landscape of news. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago Venezuela oil exports reportedly fall sharply after US seizure of tanker

The seizure of the Skipper on Wednesday marked the first US capture of Venezuelan oil cargo since sanctions were imposed in 2019Venezuelan oil exports have reportedly fallen sharply since the US seized a tanker this week and imposed fresh sanctions on shipping companies and vessels doing business with Caracas, according to shipping data, documents and maritime sources.The US seizure of the Skipper tanker off Venezuela’s coast on Wednesday was the first US capture of Venezuelan oil cargo since sanctions were imposed in 2019 and marked a sharp escalation in rising tensions between the Trump administration and the government of Nicolás Maduro. Continue reading...

Events

3 d. ago The TSA is providing airline passenger data to ICE to aid Trump’s deportation efforts, report says

The program comes as the Trump administration has sought to leverage data from across the government to speed up deportations

Politics

4 d. ago Justice Department asks appeals court to block judge's contempt inquiry in mass deportation case

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March

Events

4 d. ago Trump's combative FBI leader in the firing line after Epstein files fiasco

Amid whispers of which Trump officials are on the chopping block, reports are circulating that Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino could be the next to go.

Politics