Opinion

The Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Wednesday told Maine that it has frozen federal funding for the state over its failure to comply with an executive order that bans transgender people from competing in women's sports. Read More.

President Donald Trump has informed close advisers and his Cabinet that Elon Musk will soon be stepping back from his prominent role as a key adviser, according to a Wednesday morning report by Politico. Read More.

Capitol Police arrested one of Senator Cory Booker’s staffers on Monday evening for carrying a pistol without a license on Capitol grounds. Read More.

Pope Francis says, 'a preference for the poor is not optional,' but Wisconsin Supreme Court says that's not Catholic Read More.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom torched his own political party and said Democrats have to speak to Republicans — and reject cancel culture — if they want to win. Read More.

Elon Musk gave out $1 million checks on Sunday to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group, ahead of a Wisconsin Supreme Court election that the tech billionaire cast as critical to President Donald Trump’s agenda and “the future of civilization.” Read More.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s visit to El Salvador’s notorious Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) was meant to send a strong message on immigration and crime—but it’s her luxury watch that has taken attention on its own. Read More.

Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday that HHS will reduce its total number of employees from 82,000 to 62,000 — a cut of 20,000 positions. About half of those reductions come from buyouts and early retirements, while the other 10,000 will be layoffs, according to Washington Post.  Read More.

A federal appeals court Tuesday temporarily reinstated President Trump’s suspension of new refugee admissions nationwide. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel agreed to partially lift a judge’s block until it fully resolves the Trump administration’s appeal, but the panel ruled that Department of Homeland Security officials still must permit people into the country that were conditionally accepted into the refugee program before Trump’s suspension. Read More.

A United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to return last weekend after it was found that one of the pilots had taken off without their passport. Read More.

DONALD Trump's secret Houthi attack plans have been leaked after a journalist was mistakenly added to a private government group chat. Read More.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won’t resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown. Read More.

Donald Trump's plans have drawn to other failed defence concepts, such as Reagan's much maligned 'Star Wars' system, and would potentially cost billion if actually built Read More.

President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order on Thursday directing the shutdown of the U.S. Education Department, fulfilling a campaign pledge to eliminate the agency, which has long been a conservative target. Read More.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday began releasing what it said were all of the government's classified files on the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, making potentially tens of thousands of pages of unredacted records available to the public for the first time. Read More.