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The four-day operation came as the Trump administration has sought to enlist local authorities in an immigration crackdown.

Wonky but chic: A crowd made up mostly of political journalists showed up for the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday.

Florida Senate Minority Leader Jason Pizzo further elaborated during a recent interview on why he formally left the Democratic Party this week, arguing the party lacks “direction” and has no “purpose” on how to deliver results for constituents.  Pizzo said Friday on NewsNation’s show “The Hill” that his criticism is directed both at the Democratic […]

The White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) dinner and its related parties are well underway in Washington — albeit with a bit less glitz and glamour than previous years. President Trump opted against attending the annual bash amid a terse relationship with the press corps, who condemned the administration’s decision to bar the Associated Press from […]

President Trump said Saturday that American commercial and military ships should not have to pay to travel through the Panama Canal and Suez Canal.  “American Ships, both Military and Commercial, should be allowed to travel, free of charge, through the Panama and Suez Canals! Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,” […]

Students and their immigration lawyers say they were relieved for the temporary reprieve, but emphasized that it was just that — temporary.

“I understand very well why it is wrong to compare Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich to any other movement,” former Democratic presidential nominee Al Gore conceded Monday as he rallied a crowd during San Francisco’s Climate Week. “It was uniquely evil, full stop. I get it,” he added.   Then came the “but.”   “But there are important […]

The Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations appear to be heading toward a crescendo as the U.S. continues to facilitate the discussions between the two countries. Although top U.S. officials, including President Trump, warned that if substantial progress is not achieved soon, Washington will pull back from its mediating role.  Trump contended that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin might […]

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We have lived on opposite sides of prison bars. One of us spent 22 years incarcerated for a nonviolent drug offense. The other dedicated over 20 years of career service in maximum and medium security prisons. We both landed in prison, in a sense, trying to escape broken homes and poverty. Although our situations are […]

A new poll shows that about 4 in 10 Americans say President Trump has been a “terrible” leader in his second term. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research also found that about 2 in 10 think he has done an average job in his presidency and 3 in 10 says he’s been a […]

The U.S. and Iran will hold more nuclear talks after another round of meetings in Oman, which for the first time included technical discussions between the two sides regarding Tehran’s advancing nuclear program.  The third round of talks between the officials in Muscat, Oman’s capital, on Saturday were “positive and productive” and lasted more than […]

Drinks in hand, anxious media people braved a series of events in the nights before the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday said his brief meeting with President Trump in Vatican City was “good” and “symbolic,” as the U.S. continues to facilitate peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv. “Good meeting. We discussed a lot one on one,” Zelensky wrote on social platform X, just hours after the two met ahead of […]

Drinks in hand, anxious media people braved a series of events in the nights before the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon launched a probe into New York State’s Education Department (NYSED) and the state Board of Regents for threatening to pull funding from the Massapequa School District over its refusal to end its use of a Native American mascot. Earlier this week, President Trump weighed in to support the school district. “Forcing […]

I come from the Motor City, where our communities have been denied access to reliable public mass transit for decades. Residents have told me stories about our rail tracks being paved over as auto companies bought up and then dismantled our public streetcar system. Detroit’s suburbs resisted the expansion of public transit as a way […]

Conservatives are right to want to rein — or even eliminate — a Department of Education they describe as bloated, ideological and ineffective. However, that battle plays out, eliminating Head Start along with it would be a costly mistake. Head Start sits in the Department of Health and Human Services. The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 […]

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) took to social media on Saturday to laud the Trump administration’s efforts to broker a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, more than three years after the war began. “I very much appreciate [Trump] and his team working diligently to end the war in Ukraine — that was created by [Russian President […]

President Trump on Friday denounced critics who have raised concern over Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of Signal, a discrete messaging app, to disseminate sensitive military information. Asked whether his confidence has changed in Hegseth after a second chat controversy thrust him back into the spotlight earlier this week, Trump brushed off the sentiment. Instead, […]