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The Trump administration was forced to scale back its attempt to federalize the District of Columbia’s police force on Friday after a federal judge expressed skepticism about the legality of placing a federal official in direct control of local law enforcement. U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes, appointed by former President […]

Attorney General Pam Bondi issued an unprecedented order Thursday evening appointing Drug Enforcement Administration chief Terrence Cole as the District’s “emergency police commissioner,” stripping local control over the Metropolitan Police Department and rescinding sanctuary city protections. The legality of Bondi’s action now poses a separate constitutional question. In Order No. […]

The Trump administration has released the annual State Department human rights report. The document has been scaled back to just one-tenth the length of its 2023 predecessor. The report eliminates entire sections on abuses against women and LGBTQ people while softening criticism of nations aligned with the Trump administration. According […]

The U.S. Producer Price Index (PPI) experienced its largest monthly increase in three years during July, rising 0.9% compared to the previous month. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Thursday that this jump far exceeded economists’ expectations of just 0.2% growth, while the annual inflation rate at the wholesale level […]

A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that the government can continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid funding that Congress had appropriated for fiscal year 2024. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit voted 2-1 to overturn a district court injunction that had required the State Department and U.S. Agency […]

The U.S. government’s gross national debt has crossed the $37 trillion threshold for the first time in American history. The Treasury Department’s latest daily financial report confirmed this historic high on August 12, revealing that the debt reached $37,004,817,625,842.56. This moment arrives years ahead of pre-pandemic projections, as the Congressional […]

In direct response to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial health policies, a coalition of scientists and public health experts released an evidence-based alternative report titled “Improving the Health of Americans Together” (IHAT), challenging what they characterize as Kennedy’s “fake MAHA agenda” built on pseudoscience and […]

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals has vacated a preliminary injunction that had blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing sensitive personal data held by three major federal agencies. In the 2-1 decision issued August 12, the appeals court ruled that labor unions and federal employee groups were […]