Pipe bomb suspect told FBI he believed 2020 election conspiracy theories  —  The suspect has been cooperating with the FBI, according to sources, and is expected to make his first court appearance on Friday.  —  WASHINGTON — The man charged with planting two pipe bombs near the Democratic …

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is  —  The Cross Section is a reader-supported publication.  To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.  —  On Thursday, the Supreme Court offered the latest in its ongoing series …

The Supreme Court will decide whether Trump's birthright citizenship order violates the Constitution  —  The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to take up the constitutionality of President Donald Trump's order on birthright citizenship declaring that children born to parents …

Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi Agree to Part Ways  —  Nuzzi joined the magazine as an editor earlier this year  —  Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi said they have agreed to part ways following new revelations and allegations about an affair with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.

Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack  —  The new detail further complicates the military's explanations for its actions during the Sept. 2 strike in the Caribbean Sea.  —  The two survivors of the U.S. military's first boat strike on Sept. 2 climbed atop …

US vaccine advisers say not all babies need a hepatitis B shot at birth  —  A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they're born.  A loud chorus of medical and public health leaders decried …

Netflix to buy Warner Bros. film and streaming assets in $72 billion deal … Netflix announced Friday it's reached a deal to buy pieces of Warner Bros. Discovery, bringing a swift end to a dramatic bidding process that saw Paramount Skydance and Comcast also vying for the legacy assets.

Trump's Approval Rating Dips as Views of His Handling of the Economy Sour  —  The shift, while small, is notable after months of stability in President Trump's approval rating.  —  After months of holding steady, President Trump's approval rating has taken a dip over the past several weeks …

HHS changed the name of transgender health leader on her official portrait  —  As you walk down a particular hallway on the seventh floor of the Humphrey Building in Washington, D.C., you'll find a line of photographic portraits of all the people from years past who have led the Public Health Corps …

Judge will release Jeffrey Epstein grand jury documents … - The administration has pushed to get the records released multiple times this year, but judges have previously blocked those efforts because the “Government failed to show that disclosure was appropriate under any of the exceptions” …

Halligan Continues as U.S. Attorney, Prompting Criticism From Judges  —  The Justice Department has seized on a lack of explicit instruction from a federal judge to keep Lindsey Halligan in place for now.  —  The legal decision that ended the criminal cases against the former F.B …

Kash Patel ordered FBI detail to give girlfriend's pal a lift home: sources  —  The FBI director's use of resources is under intense scrutiny as he insists he's “a steward of the taxpayer dollars.”  —  FBI Director Kash Patel has — on more than one occasion — ordered that the security detail protecting …

Rep. Grijalva says she was pepper sprayed by ICE officers  —  Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-Ariz.) said Friday she was pepper sprayed and “pushed around” by Immigration and Custom Enforcement officers during a raid in her district. … - Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.) is still being prosecuted …

Frank O. Gehry, Titan of Architecture, Is Dead at 96  —  He burst onto the scene with an attention-getting renovation of his Southern California home before going on to design some of the world's most recognizable buildings.  —  Frank O. Gehry, one of the most formidable and original talents …

Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’  —  America's goal should be “to help Europe correct its current trajectory,” the administration said in its new National Security Strategy.  — 1.4k  —  The Trump administration said on Friday that Europe was facing the …

Trump administration moves to deny visas to factcheckers and content moderators  —  Action detailed in a state department memo directs officials to deny visas to any applicant engaging in ‘censorship’  —  The Trump administration has moved to formalize a crackdown on the issuance of visas …

Karoline Leavitt's Brother Had Grim Custody Fight With ICE-Arrested Ex … The mother of Karoline Leavitt's nephew was reportedly engaged in a nasty years-long custody battle with the White House press secretary's brother before she was detained by Immigration and Customs enforcement last month, WBUR reported Friday.

Cowardly Pete Hegseth Is This Week's Proof of the GOP's Moral Rot … Pete Hegseth is having one of the worst weeks a Cabinet secretary has had in recent American history.  It's very richly deserved.  He's a bombastic idiot.  He's a liar.  And he's a weasel: Under fire for a second military strike …

‘An attack on all American tech platforms’: Trump admin decries EU fine on Musk's X … “Rumors swirling that the EU commission will fine X hundreds of millions of dollars for not engaging in censorship,” Vice President JD Vance said Thursday night on X.  “The EU should be supporting free speech …

Ex-D.E.A. Agent Charged With Agreeing to Launder Millions for Cartel  —  The former agent, Paul Campo, laundered money for the Jalisco New Generation Cartel in Mexico, according to an indictment unsealed on Friday.  —  A former longtime Drug Enforcement Administration agent who rose …

DHS's Immigrant-Hunting App Removed from Google Play Store  —  A Customs and Border Protection (CBP) app that lets local cops use facial recognition to hunt immigrants on behalf of the federal government has been removed from the Google Play Store, 404 Media has learned.