Exclusive: The White House has fired all six members of the Commission of Fine Arts, an independent federal agency that was expected to review some of President Trump’s construction projects, including his planned triumphal arch in Washington.

The Trump administration is opening Alaska’s entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas leasing, reversing a Biden administration decision that put the pristine wilderness area off limits.

London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia on.ft.com/43z8hBv

The National Trust for Historic Preservation warned that President Trump’s planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom would “overwhelm the White House itself,” which spans just 55,000 square feet. https://wapo.st/4hmL8rC

The franchise that has known only choppy seas for nearly 50 years capsized again.

After Jeffrey Epstein's death, Virginia Giuffre got in touch with his former employees, looking for someone to corroborate her story of abuse. Most refused. Then one of those former employees opened his door.

This week prosecutors said they'd need 90 days to decide whether to retry a man accused of killing Etan Patz in 1979 then a year to get to trial. A judge said they'd have to start a trial by June 1 or free the suspect, who's in custody. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/n... www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/n...

Salesforce told ICE that its A.I. software could help the agency nearly triple its staff, according to internal documents, as President Trump expands immigration raids and deportations around the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/u...

Russia’s main intelligence agency on Tuesday announced a sweeping terrorism investigation into nearly two dozen antiwar Russians, escalating the Kremlin’s onslaught against exiled critics of the invasion of Ukraine.

The group, Alliance Defending Freedom, has taken its playbook to Britain and has rapidly established itself as a power broker between the country’s rising populist movement and President Trump’s Washington.

A federal program called biometric exit, in which federal officers take departing international passengers’ photos, is set to grow, raising privacy concerns.

NEW @nytimes.com investigation: Trump’s Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff was the target of a Qatari influence campaign in which Qatar would invest in Witkoff real estate projects in order to gain entree to Trump’s inner circle. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

“I want some form of action to the employee that represents this business that wrote ‘Loser’ on my mother’s cup,” a man is said to have told a Starbucks employee, adding: "I want immediate accountability; and if not, I will have this whole intersection lined with patriots today."

Three Russian fighter jets violated Estonia’s airspace on Friday for an unusually long period, some 12 minutes, in what Estonia’s foreign minister called an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion over the NATO country.

Here’s what we are reading today: Russia and Vietnam have developed a method of concealing payments for arms deals to avoid US sanctions. The countries have been using profits from joint oil and gas ventures as payment, avoiding transfers through the global banking system.

I’m grateful to editors @sternbergh.bsky.social, Vanessa Mobley, @dansaltzstein.bsky.social, and the design team at the Times, for publishing so beautifully my essay about catastrophe, luck, resilience, and hope. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

NEW: Trump officials have moved forward with destroying $10 million of contraceptives bought by USAID. The contraceptives would've gone to nations in need. State Dept. and USAID documents obtained by @nytimes.com show groups offered to buy them. Our story: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

Republicans moved to speed up Senate confirmation of President Trump’s nominees by changing the chamber’s rules. Senators voted 53-45 to allow themselves to change the rules with a simple majority — a move known as the “nuclear option.”

Yesterday's congressional hearing on vaccine safety relied on a study that was never published—or even submitted to a journal—to trot out the old myths about vaccines causing chronic illnesses. My latest. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Over three hours, federal agents demanded identification from the members of two private contractor crews among 400 people including firefighters deployed to fight the wildfire, the largest active blaze in Washington state. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Russia or its proxies are flying surveillance drones over routes that the U.S. and its allies use to ferry military supplies through eastern Germany, collecting intelligence that could be used to bolster the Kremlin’s sabotage campaign and assist its troops in Ukraine, officials said.

NEW: Heather Honey, a high-profile denier of Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, has been appointed to a senior position in the Department of Homeland Security in which she’ll help oversee election security. By @dougbockclark.bsky.social‬

A prosecutor's firing "confirmed for him his view that the Justice Department he had been honored to work for was now helping to whitewash a traumatic event in American history, supporting President Trump’s reframing of its violence as patriotic" and of some DOJ lawyers as villains or traitors.

Just last month, DOJ told a federal judge that Abrego Garcia’s immigration proceedings would be handled like any “garden variety” case. No decisions would be made, they said, until he reports to ICE and is assigned a case officer. That officer, they insisted, would call the shots.

ICE is seeking to spend millions of dollars on SUVs and custom, gold-detailed vehicle wraps emblazoned with the words “DEFEND THE HOMELAND,” according to records that describe the decked-out fleet as urgently needed.

"I work so hard for the President and party," Pirro wrote while employed by Fox two months before the 2020 presidential election, according to documents. “Think about how incredible our ratings would be if Fox went ALL in on STOP THE STEAL,” Jesse Watters is said to have written after the election.

Newsmax settles a defamation case stemming from false claims that the 2020 presidential election was rigged. A judge found that the station aired false and defamatory statements; Newsmax says its coverage was fair and balanced. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

News Analysis: President Vladimir Putin of Russia sees direct talks with President Trump as essential to achieving his ultimate aims in Ukraine. He believes that a meeting with Trump, rather than just progress on the battlefield, is his best chance for securing a victory in the war.

The Trump administration intends to dramatically scale back U.S. government criticism of El Salvador, Israel and Russia, all with extensive records of abuse, leaked drafts of the State Department’s human rights reports indicate.

Dozens of framed prosthetic eyeballs lined the entryway. A sculpture of a woman wearing a bridal gown and clutching a rope was suspended in a central atrium.

NEW: Voice of America Director Michael Abramowitz, who is suing the government, was told he's being fired on Friday after refusing reassignment to a broadcast station in North Carolina, a move he called "illegal" under federal law. @washingtonpost.com: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“The draft order also criticizes the role that some banks played in an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.”

For months, people have been asking me whether I still trusted gov’t data. My answer was always the same: The stats agencies faced longstanding challenges, some of which Trump was making worse. But there was no sign of political meddling. I can’t say that anymore. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/b...

Exclusive: The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History removed references to President Trump’s two impeachments from an exhibit — an apparent change to its plans to update its collection of artifacts about the historic U.S. proceedings.

President Lai Ching-te of Taiwan canceled U.S. transit visits after the Trump administration urged him to change his plans, two officials said. Washington has been in delicate talks with China over trade and a possible summit.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by President Trump that attempted to sue Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward for publishing interviews during his first administration in an October 2022 audiobook called “The Trump Tapes.”

More than two dozen state and federal lawmakers took a 2½ hour tour of Alligator Alcatraz on Saturday, arranged by the office of Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). It came weeks after several Democratic state lawmakers were turned away at the gate.

Measles cases in the U.S. have reached a 33-year high. There have been 1,277 confirmed cases across 38 states and the District of Columbia, per data published Friday by Johns Hopkins University. 155 people have been hospitalized and three have died. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

ICIJ and its #ChinaTargets partners spoke to 15 activists and lawyers focused on human rights in China who described being surveilled or harassed by people suspected to be proxies for the Chinese government, including those from Chinese NGOs. Read more: www.icij.org/investigatio...

Senate Republicans have quietly inserted provisions in President Trump’s domestic policy bill that would not only end federal support for wind and solar energy but would impose an entirely new tax on future projects, a move that industry groups say could devastate the renewable power industry.