18 min ago - Updated 8:37 PM EDT, August 2, 2025 WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has confirmed former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro as the top federal prosecutor for the nation's capital, filling the post after President Donald Trump withdrew his controversial first ... (AP)

58 min ago - Aug 2nd, 2025, 12:58 pm A leaked memo from the Department of Homeland Security shows the department anticipates the use of U.S. military personnel in its ongoing mass deportation campaign. The memo, written by DHS senior adviser Phil Hegseth, was o ... (MEDIAite)

1 hr ago - Recent graduates looking to enter anincreasingly shaky labor marketare painting a dire picture of their job search: "A black hole," one said. "I'm disheartened," said another. "I almost feel like it wasn't worth going to school," said a third. The na ... (NBC News)

1 hr ago - Aug 2nd, 2025, 2:58 pm President Donald Trump has issued a series of executive orders that are both vague and illegal, a lawsuit filed by the City of Seattle alleges. During the first two days of his second term, the 45th and 47th president issued a ... (Law & Crime)

1 hr ago - Aug 2, 2025, 01:14 PM EDT | Updated 5 hours ago The Trump administration moved Friday to end a Biden-era rule that allows Veterans Affairs facilities to provide abortion care services, claiming the policy “contradicted decades of Federal policy ... (Huff Post)

2 hrs ago - BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — An independent watchdog agency responsible for enforcing a law against partisan political activity by federal employees has opened an investigation into Jack Smith, the Justice Department special counsel who brought two ... (AP News)

2 hrs ago - August 2, 2025 1:19PM ET Victims of what is being called a $140 million Ponzi scheme aimed at Christians and “America First MAGA patriots," are eagerly hoping for a return of their money, reports ABC News. The report notes that a federal receive ... (Raw Story)

3 hrs ago - Aug. 2, 2025 Updated 9:44 a.m. ET Eight years ago, Eric Holder, the attorney general in the Obama administration, embarked on a quest with a single, daunting goal: to eliminate politics from the process of drawing legislative districts. Through the o ... (New York Times)

3 hrs ago - Smithsonian to restore Trump to impeachment exhibit 'in the coming weeks' A placard referring to Trump's two impeachments was removed from the National Museum of American History in July, after the Smithsonian agreed to perform a "content review" Aug ... (Washington apost)

3 hrs ago - Updated on: August 2, 2025 / 1:45 PM EDT A panel of federal judges on Friday limited President Trump's effort to close the U.S. asylum system at the southern border, saying his administration can't unilaterally suspend laws that bar the U.S. from dep ... (CBS News)

4 hrs ago - 11h Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s string of missteps has spurred infighting inside the Pentagon and raised concerns among some Republicans on Capitol Hill about his ability to run the department. The problems are rooted in Hegseth’s lack ... (msn/WSJ)

5 hrs ago - August 2, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. EDT "DESTROY" stickers were affixed this week to hundreds of cases of U.S.-branded food aid -- 15,000 pounds' worth -- that have languished for months in a Georgia warehouse and then expired before they could be sent overs ... (Washington Post)

5 hrs ago - President Donald Trump has already enmeshed the United States military in domestic law enforcement operations involving immigration to an unprecedented degree. He has authorized a major military buildup at the border. He has maximized the use of mili ... (The New Republic)

6 hrs ago - Aug. 1, 2025 Updated Aug. 2, 2025, 12:43 p.m ET The Senate confirmed President Donald Trump's pick to oversee higher education policy, a man with deep ties to the for-profit college industry, by a 50-to-45 vote on August 1. Senate Majority John Thune ... (USA Today)

6 hrs ago - 08/02/25 10:24 AM ET Statisticians railed against President Trump on Friday following his decision to fire Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner Erika McEntarfer for “inaccuracies” and “incompetence” after presenting a low ... (The Hill)

8 hrs ago - Saturday 02 August 2025 12:40 BST The Department of Homeland Security is accused of sharing thinly-veiled nativist propaganda on social media through art as it pursues a sweeping campaign of mass deportations. Throughout July, the X account of the de ... (The Independent)

8 hrs ago - By MATTHEW BROWN, COLLEEN SLEVIN and LISA BAUMANN Updated 10:01 AM CDT, August 2, 2025 Authorities were scouring a mountainous area of western Montana on Saturday for a military veteran who they say opened fire at a bar, killing four people. Michael ... (AP)

9 hrs ago - August 2, 2025, 8:57 AM MADISON, Wisc. -- -- A number of high-profile Democratic governors are ready to fight -- ardently throwing support behind their colleagues who have said they will draw new Congressional maps to favor Democrats before the 2026 ... (ABC News)

10 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Aug 1, 2025, 11:18 PM ET The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making nearly $1 billion in disaster preparedness and homeland security funding available to communities nationwide, just one week after CNN reported on the agency’s p ... (CNN Politics)

11 hrs ago - August 1, 2025 / 10:28 PM EDT The Supreme Court has teed up a major case for next term on whether racial redistricting is unconstitutional. In a Friday night scheduling order, the high court asked parties to file briefs on whether Louisiana's creat ... (CBS News)