3 min ago - Trump’s White House ballroom is expected to get approved days after judge’s ruling halting work The Associated Press April 2, 2026, 7:44 AM ... (The Associated Press, via WTOP)

20 min ago - April 1, 2026, 8:13 PM EDT / Updated April 1, 2026, 10:27 PM EDT President Donald Trump said in his address to the nation on Wednesday night that regime change has occurred in Iran because all of the country's original leaders are dead. But there is ... (NBC News)

57 min ago - ActBlue May Have Misled Congress on Vetting Foreign Donations, Its Lawyers Warned The Democratic fund-raising group is facing investigations from the Justice Department and congressional Republicans ahead of the midterm elections. Listen · 16: ... (New York Times)

1 hr ago - Yahoo! Finance Layoff plans ticked up last month, with employers citing AI US employers announced 60,620 job cuts last month, Emma Ockerman Thu, April 2, 2026 at 7:52 AM EDT 1 min read Layoff plans rose in March from a month earlier as employers lean ... (Yahoo! Finance)

1 hr ago - Footage of US President Donald Trump making fun of his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte during a private lunch has sparked anger in France, prompting even some of Macron's fiercest critics at home to rally in his defence. The ... (France24)

1 hr ago - Thu 2 Apr 2026 06.00 EDT Last modified on Thu 2 Apr 2026 06.01 EDT Donald Trump has privately asked cabinet officials in recent weeks whether he should replace his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, venting frustration that she shielde ... (The Guardian)

1 hr ago - April 1, 2026 8:42 PM ET A federal appeals court late Wednesday rejected the Trump administration's push to impose new conditions on homelessness funding, saying implementing them "would be immediately destabilizing and disastrous." The ruling upheld ... (NPR)

1 hr ago - Washington planning commission to vote Thursday on Trump's ballroom project By Daphne Psaledakis April 2, 2026 6:01 AM EDT Updated 43 mins ago Summary * National Capital Planning Commission to vote on ballroom * Trump's former personal lawyer chairs ... (Reuters)

2 hrs ago - WP Exclusive Ballroom commission changed documents at White House's request Records show a staffer asked the commission to soften language about its own authority over the president's project -- and it complied. April 2, 2026 at 5:00 a.m. EDT Today a ... (Washington Post)

2 hrs ago - Updated 6:29 PM EDT, April 1, 2026 MIAMI (AP) — A top Washington lobbyist who is closely allied with President Donald Trump testified in federal court that he immediately cut ties with former Congressman David Rivera when he learned in 2020 that ... (AP)

2 hrs ago - Wednesday 01 April 2026 18:32 EDT A new sculpture mocking President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense system has appeared on the National Mall in Washington D.C., created by one of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s i ... (The Independent)

3 hrs ago - Posted 4:31 PM, Apr 01, 2026 and last updated 6:02 PM, Apr 01, 2026 BOISE, Idaho — The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Wednesday that it recently filed a federal lawsuit against the State of Idaho for "failing to produce ... (KIVI-TV Boise, ID)

3 hrs ago - Updated Mar. 30 2026 5:53PM EDT Published Mar. 30 2026 5:30PM EDT A growing wave of Republican retirements is fueling alarm within the GOP, as lawmakers head for the exits ahead of what is predicted to be a brutal midterm cycle. On Friday, Rep. Sam ... (Daily Beast)

4 hrs ago - Updated on: April 1, 2026 / 4:35 PM EDT Washington — American commandos in recent days joined Ecuadorian troops in a joint mission aimed at dismantling a suspected criminal hub operated by an alleged narco-terrorist organization along the countr ... (CBS News)

4 hrs ago - April 1, 2026, at 4:34 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. on Wednesday lifted sanctions on Venezuela’s acting President Delcy Rodríguez, according to an Office of Foreign Assets Control entry on the Treasury Department website. The ne ... (US News & World Report/AP)

5 hrs ago - Updated April 1, 2026, 4:28 p.m. ET WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday told reporters the government will have to "force ourselves" on Los Angeles when the World Cup happens, saying he did not want any crime or pr ... (USA Today/Reuters)

5 hrs ago - April 1, 2026 4:04PM ET TMZ caught 30 members of Congress touring Scotland courtesy of taxpayer funding amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. The large group was captured on camera at Edinburgh Castle, a major tourist location, all while gove ... (Raw Story)

7 hrs ago - NEW YORK, April 1 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump this week told countries struggling to get jet ​fuel due to Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to buy from the U.S., but analysts say there is ‌a major problem with his advice: the ... (Reuters)

8 hrs ago - This tendency—which had not previously been documented and which researchers call “peer preservation”—was discovered in research from computer scientists at the University of California, Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz and published on ... (Fortune)

8 hrs ago - Story by Will Neal • 9h • Defense Department officials have reportedly been butting heads with aviation authorities as the Pentagon considers moving a high-powered laser system within Washington airspace to protect Defense Secretary Pete He ... (msn)