Trump to Sign Order Renaming the Defense Department as the Department of War  —  The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.  —  President Trump will sign an executive order on Friday renaming the Department of Defense as the Department of War …

Senate Republicans Barrel Toward Nuclear Option On Trump Nominees  —  Senate Republicans are on the brink of invoking the so-called “nuclear option” to confirm the president's nominees — and they're hardly batting an eye about it.  They are considering changing Senate rules as soon as next week …

DOJ deputy chief: Government will “redact every Republican” from Epstein client list … - “They'll redact every Republican or conservative person in those files, leave all the liberal, Democratic people,” he told the reporter, who was undercover during the encounter, according to the video.

Trump's pick to lead BLS ran Twitter account with sexually degrading, bigoted attacks  —  President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics operated a since-deleted Twitter account that featured sexually degrading attacks on Kamala Harris, derogatory remarks about gay people …

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart … President Trump and the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, had an erratic relationship.  They met on Sentosa Island in Singapore in 2018.Doug Mills/The New York Times  —  A group of Navy SEALs emerged from the ink-black ocean …

Trump Is Accusing Foes With Multiple Mortgages of Fraud.  Records Show 3 of His Cabinet Members Have Them.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  The Trump administration has vowed …

Trump Claims the Power to Summarily Kill Suspected Drug Smugglers  —  The move to treat criminals as if they were wartime combatants escalated an administration pattern of using military force for law enforcement tasks at home and abroad.  —  By ordering the U.S. military to summarily kill …

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say  —  In the wake of the Minneapolis Catholic church shooting, senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people's right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

Trump's “strongly disapprove” numbers are record-setting (not in a good way)  —  Nearly a majority of Americans strongly disapprove of the job Trump is doing as president.  That is starting to have political costs  —  the New York Times reported that Donald Trump is trying to get the Republican Party …

US to cut some security funds for European countries bordering Russia  —  Move comes as Washington pushes Nato allies to pay more towards their own defence  —  The US is to phase out security assistance programmes for European armies along Russia's border, as it pushes the continent to pay for more of its own defence.

Kavanaugh Pushes New Label for Supreme Court Emergency Docket  —  Justice Brett Kavanaugh is doing his best to rebrand the Supreme Court's emergency docket — known colloquially as the “shadow docket” by another name.  —  “I think the term ‘interim docket’ best captures it,” …

Justice Amy Coney Barrett says country is not in a ‘constitutional crisis’  —  Speaking to Free Press founder Bari Weiss to promote her new book, the conservative justice said the American people should trust the Supreme Court.  —  Conservative Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday …

First hearing held on detainees' legal rights at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after judge orders wind down  —  A federal appeals court panel on Thursday put on hold a lower court judge's order to end operations indefinitely at the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Rubio Says U.S. Will Work With Other Nations to ‘Blow Up’ Crime Groups  —  The Trump administration aims to carry out more violent strikes against drug cartels, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he met with Ecuador's president.  —  Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday …

Joe Biden undergoes surgery to remove skin cancer on forehead  —  Joe Biden recently underwent surgery to remove skin cancer lesions, a spokesperson said Thursday, the latest health challenge for the former president.  His spokesperson Kelly Scully confirmed the surgery after Inside Edition published video …

Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida  —  Mayor Eric Adams of New York City has told confidants that he would consider abandoning his re-election bid, despite his public denials.  —  Facing a swirl of questions about a potential job in the Trump administration …

President of Northwestern, a School Attacked by the G.O.P., Will Resign  —  The university's president, Michael Schill, said he would step down following months of turbulence, including Trump administration cuts of $790 million from the university's research funds.

Hochul to Sign Order to Get Around U.S. Limits on Covid Vaccine  —  Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York plans to authorize pharmacists to provide the vaccine to almost anyone who wants it without a prescription.  —  In an effort to ensure more New Yorkers can get the latest Covid vaccines …

How Stephen Miller is running Trump's effort to take over D.C.  —  The deputy White House chief of staff has emerged as a key enforcer of the D.C. operation in the month since Trump federalized the local police department.  —  Just now  —  From the head of the conference table …

Will Bunch on Trump's DC takeover as a prelude to dictatorship  —  “It's critical for his whole authoritarian project.”  —  ∙ Paid  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one 👇  —  🔥 Subscribe to PN 🔥  —  Last month, Philadelphia Inquirer national columnist …

US State Dept employee sentenced to 4 years for selling defense information  —  A U.S. State Department employee was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday for conspiring to collect and transmit national defense information to individuals he believed to be working for China's government, the Justice Department said.

Inside the Planning for a UFC Cage Match on the White House Lawn  —  The fight, planned for June, is expected to be accompanied by several days of festivities on the National Mall  —  WASHINGTON—UFC Chief Executive Dana White arrived at the White House last week carrying a glossy brochure …

US imposes sanctions on Palestinians for requesting war crimes inquiry  —  Rights groups in Gaza and Ramallah had asked international criminal court to investigate Israel over genocide claims  —  William Christou in Beirut and agencies  —  The US has imposed sanctions …

ZIP Code Is Destiny?  Turns Out That's Bunk  —  The neighborhood where a child grows up matters much less to his success than what his parents do.  —  What drives social mobility?  The answer matters to policymakers and families alike.  A wave of highly publicized research has led public policy and public discussions astray.