Homeland Security Missions Falter Amid Focus on Deportations  —  Under President Trump, an agency intended to keep Americans safe has diverted resources from combating child abuse, trafficking and terrorism.  —  The Department of Homeland Security has diverted thousands of federal agents …

GOP plans to replace Obamacare have failed.  Here's what lawmakers propose now.  —  Lawmakers are racing toward a mid-December deadline, with Republicans hoping to present side-by-side legislation with Democrats' plan to extend ACA subsidies.  —  Just now

GOP-led Epstein probe in House creates political friendly fire for Trump  —  The Republican side of the committee investigating Epstein has kept pushing out troves of emails and documents, and Trump's name keeps coming up.  —  Just now  —  The news release couldn't have been more spartan …

Trump Buys Another $82 Million of Corporate and Municipal Bonds  —  President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration's policies.  —  New disclosures posted Saturday by the US Office …

White House Hunts for Ways to Lower the Cost of Living  —  Aside from reducing tariffs, Trump has a limited ability to bring down prices  —  WASHINGTON—A proposal to give Americans direct payments of $2,000 or more.  An antitrust probe into allegations that meatpacking companies are colluding to drive up beef prices.

Admit It.  Gavin Newsom Is the 2028 Front-runner. … It's easy to find Newsom naysayers.  In fact, there may not be a modern political figure who was simultaneously so well-positioned to be his party's nominee and so doubted by the smart set since, well, Joe Biden in 2020.

Church members flee as federal agents arrive at east Charlotte place of worship  —  Congregants of an east Charlotte church scattered into the woods Saturday when masked federal agents arrived and detained one of their members, according to witnesses.  —  About 15 to 20 church members …

U.S. official says the ‘table is being set’ for possible military action against Venezuela  —  The world's largest aircraft carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, will arrive in the northern Caribbean on Sunday as tensions with Venezuela grow, according to a U.S. military official.

Trump blocked from gutting Voice of America collective bargaining rights  —  A federal judge rejected the president's assertion the U.S. Agency for Global Media had a “primary national security function” necessary to exempt employees from union representation.

Canada loses its measles elimination status, and the US is close behind  —  Canada has lost its measles elimination status nearly three decades after it achieved the distinction, under circumstances that closely resemble what's happened in the U.S. this year.

Republicans clash over surprise phone records provision that could enrich senators  —  Republicans are at odds over an effort to unwind a controversial provision tucked into the bill to reopen the government that would allow senators to sue for substantial sums if they aren't notified …

At least seven faith leaders arrested at Broadview ICE facility protest  —  (RNS) — 'I've got bruises all over my body,' the Rev. Michael Woolf, who was thrown to the ground and arrested by police, told RNS.  —  The Rev. Michael Woolf, center, is pulled from a group of demonstrators …

A slowing wartime economy pushes the Kremlin to tap consumers for revenue  —  After two years of robust growth fueled by military spending on the war in Ukraine, Russia's economy is slowing.  Oil revenues are down, the budget deficit is up and defense spending has leveled off.

Trump's Racially Discriminatory Refugee Policy  —  There is no non-racist justification for prioritizing white Afrikaner South Africans while closing the door to virtually all other groups.  —  The Trump Administration recently announced a policy cutting US refugee admissions to a record-low …

Here's Why Trump's “50-Year Mortgage” is a Terrible Idea  —  It's a “solution” no one asked for, and it would only make the housing crisis worse.  —  Donald Trump's latest idea to tackle sky-high housing costs is to stretch mortgages to 50 years, a huge change to US housing policy.

Finland's president urges Europe to hold its nerve as he warns no ceasefire likely soon in Ukraine  —  A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely before the spring and European allies need to keep up support despite a corruption scandal that has engulfed Kyiv, President Alexander Stubb of Finland told The Associated Press.