Judges reject Trump administration’s 11th-hour attempt to rename iconic venue after himself while legal battle continues

Public officials stated the IRS had its ‘most successful filing season’ - though an internal memo indicates the agency knew it needed more staff after DOGE cuts

The self-proclaimed master of negotiation insists he can forge a better deal for the US and the world with a rogue nation he claims to have defeated, but, writes Andrew Feinberg, it’s not clear any such thing is possible

President Trump has a history of indulging the conspiracy movement, which believes the Republican is taking on a shady cabal of global elites

Only one Republican who helped pass the law ordering release of the Epstein files escaped Trump’s political retribution. But, Eric Garcia writes, the issue has not left the public consciousness

The feud was ignited after Tucker Carlson claimed on a podcast that Dan Bongino told him the president shut down the investigation into the assassination attempt in 2024

US president dismisses Iranian media reports agreement is close, despite earlier suggesting a deal could be signed this weekend

Prospects for an immediate end to the war between Iran and the US remained uncertain on Friday amid a chaotic series of conflicting claims and counter-claims by US and Iranian officials about ongoing negotiations.

Donald Trump seemed to distance himself from his earlier comments that suggested a preliminary agreement could be signed as soon as this weekend, with a series of angry social media posts describing the Iranians as “very dishonorable people to deal with”.

South Carolina Republican said she plans to return to the private sector on leaving Capitol Hill in January

Trump’s deportation flights to the Central African Republic are a ‘death sentence,’ advocates warn

Trump administration created fund to resolve his lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his tax returns

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A federal judge in Virginia has extended an order blocking the Trump administration’s nearly $1.8bn slush fund, saying the administration’s public statements that the fund was dead were not assuring enough.

The US district judge Leonie Brinkema, an appointee of Bill Clinton, said she would lift her order if the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, and the treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, filed a declaration under penalty of perjury that the fund was not moving forward in the next week.

Traveling exhibition presents the Epstein Files in hard copy across more than 3,400 volumes for visitors to read and reaquaint themselves with the shocking case

President is first in US history to be impeached twice, over abuse of power and inciting an insurrection

Donald Trump is pressing Congress to erase one of the darkest chapters of his political career, urging Republicans to pass a resolution that would symbolically nullify the two impeachments he suffered during his first term in office.

The effort, first reported by the Wall Street Journal and confirmed by a White House official, would allow Trump to claim a symbolic victory on a key grievance from his first term. But experts say it would have little legal significance, since the constitution provides no procedure for undoing an impeachment.

Stage is set for Trump’s birthday bash as the president’s DC-wide makeover includes massive MMA event on the south lawn

When employees first came across William Earl Head’s body after the incident, they initially believed he was a mannequin, his attorney said

Judge wants proof that top DOJ officials are ‘not moving forward’ with plans for an Anti-Weaponization Fund

The president said Congress should pass the resolution to scrub his first-term impeachments, claiming he did ‘nothing wrong’

The inflatable was stamped with a message claiming that ‘SpaceX’s Grok makes AI child porn’

Kristen Welker says President Donald Trump blamed ‘disruptive’ rain for his mood and pledged to sit down with her again in Washington at a later date

Nearly all the reports from the federal agents also included a detail about a vehicle-like object moving down the highway

Nearly 40 women detained at Delaney Hall join striking men and outline demands ‘rooted in basic human rights’

Dozens of women detained inside the Delaney Hall immigration detention facility in New Jersey announced their participation in a hunger and labor strike, advocates announced on Thursday.

The women, detained in unit 1 of the contentious privately run facility, also released a new list of demands. They are calling on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to release women under 21, women with medical conditions and mothers. They are also demanding improved conditions inside the facility and for their immigration cases to proceed more quickly.