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National Trust not dropping Trump ballroom lawsuit despite DOJ request
A preservation group is not backing down from its lawsuit over President Trump’s White House ballroom project, a lawyer for the group said in a letter to the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Sunday. “I write to acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting that the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States (‘National…
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Man gets month in jail for Pennsylvania voter registration quotas in 2024 presidential race
A man who managed problem-plagued voter registration drives in Pennsylvania ahead of the 2024 presidential election pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor counts and was sentenced to a month in county jail. Phoenix resident Guillermo Sainz Gurrola was also fined $1,000 and will serve probation for three counts of solicitation of registration, which prosecutors described as offering financial incentives to canvassers who met quotas. The attorney general's office said charges of forgery, unsworn falsification, public records tampering and violations of state elections and voter registration laws remain pending against six canvassers.
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Violence escalates in Colombia with dozens of attacks before presidential vote
A spate of attacks against civilians and military bases in Colombia's southwestern region has raised security concerns as the country heads to a May presidential election in which crime is expected to be one of the top voter concerns. Rebel groups have staged 26 attacks with explosives and drones since Friday, including a deadly blast Saturday on a highway between the cities of Cali and Popayan, according to Colombia’s defense ministry. Illegal groups have sought to control the area for decades, deeming it strategic for illicit activities, such as illegal mining and drug trafficking, including the cultivation of coca leaf, the raw material for cocaine.
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Mississippi GOP waiting for Supreme Court to let it suppress Black votes
Republican Gov. Tate Reeves put a federally mandated redistricting on hold until the Supreme Court potentially enables racist gerrymandering this summer.
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Watch live: Jeffries news conference
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will address reporters on Monday afternoon. Jeffries said on Sunday that House Democrats would not focus on impeaching President Trump if they win a majority in the lower chamber during the midterm elections. Watch the news conference, scheduled for 3 p.m. EDT, in the player above.
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Virginia Supreme Court mulls legality of Democratic redistricting referendum
The Virginia Supreme Court on Monday mulled the legality of Democrats’ redistricting referendum that gave the party a more favorable edge ahead of the midterms. The state’s highest court heard oral arguments Monday morning in a case brought forth by Republicans, arguing state Democratic legislators improperly expanded a legislative special session to take up redistricting…
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Washington Hilton says Secret Service protocols were followed before attempted attack on Trump
The Washington Hilton hotel said Monday it was following “stringent” Secret Service protocols during Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, where an armed man charged at a security checkpoint and exchanged gunfire with law enforcement officers. “The hotel was operating under stringent security protocols for the property as directed by the U.S. Secret Service, which…
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‘National emergency’: After assassination attempt, White House urges Congress to fund DHS
The president pressed Republicans to unify and forge ahead with a party-line budget maneuver called reconciliation to fund certain immigration agencies.
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Supporters of billionaire tax submit signatures to place measure on California's ballot
The proposal, which has divided Democrats in the state, would implement a one-time tax on wealthy Californians if it qualifies for the ballot and is approved by voters in the fall.
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Ex-Sen. Ben Sasse: ‘Congress is not wrestling with big or important questions’
Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse (R) in a new interview published Monday said Congress was not “wrestling” with big or important questions, hammering both the Republican and Democratic parties for not grappling with more forward-looking issues. “Neither of these parties really have very big or good ideas about 2030 or 2050, at a national security…
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Cole Allen, WHCA accused gunman, charged with attempt to assassinate Trump
The alleged gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump, Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors said Monday at an initial court appearance. Cole Allen, 31, faces three federal charges over his alleged efforts to violently disrupt the annual black-tie dinner for journalists and public officials. He did not enter a plea. He’s accused of storming a security checkpoint at…
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Judge questions whether Trump can sue his own administration for $10 billion
If the president was waiting for a payout from his IRS lawsuit, a federal judge suggested he might need to start lowering his expectations.
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Trump administration fires independent board overseeing the National Science Foundation
The Trump administration has fired members of an independent board that oversees the National Science Foundation. Members of the National Science Board received an email on Friday sent from the Presidential Personnel Office “on behalf of President Donald J. Trump" stating that their position was “terminated, effective immediately.” “I wasn’t entirely surprised, to be honest,” said dismissed board member Keivan Stassun in an email.
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Group says it won't drop its White House ballroom lawsuit, despite DOJ pressure
The National Trust for Historic Preservation said it will not drop its lawsuit to halt construction of Trump's White House ballroom, despite the Justice Department's request.
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Trump’s strange focus on his ballroom after the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting
President Donald Trump and his allies quickly argued that the shooting at the Washington Hilton demonstrates the need to build Trump’s ballroom, but that’s not a particularly suitable — or popular — alternative.
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Opinion - Congress must modernize asylum policy before the justices upend it
The Supreme Court is hearing a case that could impact asylum policy, and ultimately it is up to Congress to decide how to manage asylum at the border in a way that balances security and human dignity.
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Trump reacts to alleged gunman's "manifesto," and more interview highlights
The day after a gunman attempted to storm the White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Trump sat down with CBS News' Norah O'Donnell for a "60 Minutes" interview to talk about his experience.
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Opinion - Cole Tomas Allen manifesto revealed: WHCD suspect motivated by Epstein files?
Another would-be assassin has failed, thank God. Cole Tomas Allen, a 31-year-old engineer and teacher from California, attempted to target President Trump and administration officials at the White House correspondents’ dinner on Saturday night. He brought guns and knives to the dinner’s venue, the Washington Hilton Hotel, where he had checked in as a guest. Thankfully the Secret Service apprehended…
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Florida’s Republican governor unveils plan for redrawn congressional maps
Proposal from Ron DeSantis would net Republicans up to four additional US House seats ahead of midterm elections
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Ron DeSantis releases new congressional map creating four more GOP-leaning seats in Florida
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Monday released a proposed redraw of the state’s congressional lines that, on paper, would create four new GOP-leaning seats — an aggressive proposal that the governor is using to try to challenge anti-gerrymandering language in the state Constitution
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Watch live: Trump welcomes King Charles III to White House
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will welcome Britain’s King Charles III and Queen Camilla to the White House on Monday. Buckingham Palace said over the weekend that the trip would proceed after Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner. “Following discussions on both sides of the Atlantic through the day, and…
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Agent shot during Reagan assassination attempt: Secret Service did ‘hell of a good job’ protecting Trump
A Secret Service agent shot during former President Reagan’s 1981 assassination attempt said Monday that law enforcement did a “hell of a good job” protecting the president during the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting on Saturday. Reagan was targeted after leaving a speaking event at the Washington Hilton in 1981. The former president was…
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Trump endorses an ICE rebrand to ‘NICE’
Conservative influencer Alyssa Marie made the suggestion last month, which has now caught the attention of the president.
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Republicans Fumble Away Fiscal Conservatism in Stadium Subsidy Projects
Small-government conservatives are tripping over themselves to give millions of taxpayer dollars to billionaires.
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National Trust says it won't drop suit against Trump's $400M White House ballroom after DOJ request
Preservationists are pressing ahead with their lawsuit against President Donald Trump's planned $400 million White House ballroom, declining a request by the Department of Justice to withdraw the complaint following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday. Trump and other conservatives have made a renewed push for the ballroom in the wake of Saturday's media dinner shooting, arguing it exposed the difficulties in ensuring presidential security at large events outside the White House grounds, and urging the National Trust for Historic Preservation to drop its lawsuit. Trust attorney Gregory Craig declined that request, writing to the Justice Department that the legal issues at the heart of the lawsuit are unchanged.
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Study: Foreign-Born Students Missed More School After Trump’s Inauguration
With no end in sight to the Trump administration’s campaign to curb illegal immigration, emerging evidence shows that the policy is causing school attendance to fall significantly for the students most exposed to its effects. A study circulated by researchers at Brown University revealed that, following a spate of immigration raids and arrests that began […]
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California's fight over pipeline tests state's right to push back against Washington during war
Crude oil pumped from the depths of the Pacific Ocean is flowing for the first time in more than a decade through a pipeline that crosses California state park land after the Trump administration defied state officials to restart drilling off Santa Barbara, calling it essential to national security. State officials call it trespassing and are asking a federal judge at a hearing Monday in Los Angeles to order Sable Offshore Corp. to stop using the pipeline — which snakes for 4 miles (6 kilometers) through a portion of Gaviota State Park — and to remove it. The pipeline system owned by the Texas firm had been idle since one of its pipelines ruptured in 2015 and caused one of California’s worst oil spills, blackening beaches for 150 miles (240 kilometers) from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles.
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Hegseth to push for Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget in front of Senate committee
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will testify in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday to push for the Pentagon’s $1.5 trillion budget request, a source familiar with the matter told The Hill on Monday. The testimony in the Senate chamber will take place a day after he is scheduled to testify before the House…
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Republicans throw support behind Trump’s ballroom following WHCA dinner shooting
Several GOP lawmakers have vowed to introduce legislation allowing the project to move forward.
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DeSantis reveals new Florida map that could help GOP add 4 seats
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) revealed a new set of congressional lines Monday, with a map provided by his office to Fox News Digital appearing to show Republicans could gain as many as four seats depending on how voters vote. Florida now has 20 Republicans and eight Democrats in the House, but this map could make it easier for the…
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Watch live: White House briefs reporters after shooting at WHCA dinner
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will brief reporters Monday following the shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner that President Trump attended along with much of his Cabinet. The suspect is accused of storming a security checkpoint at the annual black-tie dinner for journalists and public officials Saturday evening and shooting a U.S. Secret…
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Virginia Supreme Court weighs legality of Democratic redistricting plan after voters approved it
The Virginia Supreme Court heard oral arguments Monday on the legality of a constitutional amendment voters approved last week that allows Democrats to implement a more favorable congressional map ahead of the midterm elections
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Justice Department advocates firing squads as a method of federal execution
Team Trump is apparently comfortable rolling back the clock, not because firing squads have become more sanitary, but because it just doesn’t seem to care.
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Opinion - Stars and Stripes under fire: Congress must save the GI’s newspaper
Hegseth and Trump have poisoned our relationship with allies. Will they now try to poison the views of the rank-and-file military?
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German Chancellor Merz says US ‘being humiliated’ by Iran
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reportedly said Monday that Iran’s leadership is humiliating the United States in talks to end the war by getting President Trump to dispatch and then abruptly cancel travel by his top envoys. “The Iranians are obviously very skilled at negotiating, or rather, very skillful at not negotiating, letting the Americans travel…
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Trump backs idea of changing ICE’s name to ‘NICE’
President Trump on Sunday endorsed the idea of changing the name of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to National Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which would give the agency the acronym NICE. The idea was promoted by conservative influencer Alyssa Marie last month. “I want Trump to change ICE to NICE (National Immigration and Customs…
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New details emerge on shooting at White House Correspondents' Dinner
President Trump was safely evacuated from the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner Saturday night after shots were fired outside the ballroom of the Washington Hilton Hotel.
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Senate Judiciary Committee plans briefing on WHCA dinner shooting
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Sunday said Secret Service leaders would soon brief the committee on the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner shooting. “I’m setting up a briefing w Secret Service leadership & Ranking Member Durbin regarding security protocols & related law enforcement matters involving the WH Correspondents Dinner,” Grassley wrote in a…
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Air Force vet wants to flip longtime Ohio Democratic seat
ATLANTA – Republican Air Force veteran Alea Nadeem says her childhood kidnapping is one of the defining experiences motivating her to challenge the longest-serving woman in congressional history, Ohio Democrat Marcy Kaptur. Rep. Kaptur has held Ohio’s 9th Congressional District since 1983. She won her 22nd term in 2024. The district, which includes the Toledo…
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WHCD shooting suspect faces assassination attempt, firearms charges
Cole Allen, the alleged shooter who sought to enter the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, is accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump.
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Opinion - Christians aren’t signing up for the Trump administration’s unholy war
It has been a strange month for American Christians whose religious identity is not bound up with the adoration of Donald Trump.
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Opinion: The Trump Administration Says Literacy Matters. Its Budget Plan Says Otherwise
Two months after Donald Trump swore in Linda McMahon as secretary of education, she named “evidence-based literacy” as one of the administration’s top three priorities. Yet the White House’s 2027 budget plan proposes cutting funding for some of America’s most vulnerable students by nearly 70% — from programs that create the conditions for children to […]
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Fetterman: Democrats should ‘drop the TDS,’ fund Trump ballroom after shooting
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) is calling on fellow Democrats to support the construction of a new ballroom at the White House after a lone gunman tried to assassinate the president and senior administration officials at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner Saturday. Fetterman said the Washington Hilton, where Secret Service officers exchanged gunfire with a…
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Latino leaders surge into local office as Trump-era attacks fuel new urgency
Rhetoric dehumanizing immigrant and Latino communities may appear more open and in-your-face in the current political climate. Voters are choosing an increasing number of nonwhite Hispanic leaders to local elective office — and many of the leaders are the first Latinos to hold their seats. “That's the difference now, is that there's this extra incentive of an unrelenting attack on Latinos across the country,” said Anna Sampaio, an ethnic studies professor at Santa Clara University who specializes in race and gender politics.
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Supreme Court takes up appeal from Trump administration over living conditions for migrant farmworkers
The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the US Department of Labor is empowered to enforce working conditions for foreign farm laborers, delving into an immigration program that the Trump administration is attempting to expand.
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Pressed on latest Putin interactions, Trump prefers secrecy to transparency
The president wouldn’t disclose his latest chat with the Russian leader. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it happens with some regularity.
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Political baggage is weighing heavily on the Supreme Court
Maine's Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner is calling for the impeachment of Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito due to allegations of corruption, while Justice Alito's recent hospitalization has added to speculation that he may soon step down, potentially giving President Trump the chance to appoint a fourth justice.
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Virginia court rules in favor of Democrats in redistricting case
A Virginia court ruled in favor of Democrats in a case concerning the Old Dominion’s congressional lines on Sunday, denying a last-minute Republican effort challenging Democrats’ redistricting referendum and the composition of the new House map passed by voters. Richmond Circuit Court Judge Tracy Thorne-Begland denied a request by the Republican National Committee (RNC), Virginia GOP and others to block the results of a…
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Opinion - The fate of America’s presidential records is now in the courts’ hands
Trump's Office of Legal Counsel is asserting that the Presidential Records Act is unconstitutional.
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DoJ pressures group to drop lawsuit against Trump’s ballroom after gala shooting
Trump officials use incident at correspondents’ dinner to pitch case for $400m project, arguing it will be ‘safe space’
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