A Senate majority could be within Democrats' reach  —  That's the real lesson of the Tennessee special — just don't blow it  —  I wasn't paying much attention to last week's special election in Tennessee until the votes came in and a little factional squabbling started about whether that race …

DHS inks contract to create its own fleet of Boeing 737s for deportations  —  The agency will spend nearly $140 million to buy the planes, funding that comes from a massive budget increase for immigration enforcement approved by Congress. … The Department of Homeland Security recently signed …

Trump Says That You Are the Problem  —  Last night Donald Trump gave an important speech on the economy in Pennsylvania — supposedly in a working-class area, although the actual venue was a luxury casino resort.  The event was initially touted as the start of an “affordability tour,” …

Rubio Stages Font Coup: Times New Roman Ousts Calibri  —  The secretary of state called it a “wasteful” diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.  —  U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font …

Judge Says Trump Must End Guard Deployment in Los Angeles  —  A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration had illegally kept troops in Los Angeles after emergency conditions had ended.  The administration is expected to appeal.  —  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration …

Inside the Pentagon's Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors … The Pentagon was in a bind.  The military had plucked two survivors from the Caribbean Sea in mid-October after striking a boat that U.S. officials said was carrying drugs, and it needed to figure out what to do with them.

Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives' autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures  —  RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats - and Gaza stance did not help  —  Kamala Harris lost last year's US presidential election because she chased …

New poll paints a grim picture of a nation under financial strain … Americans are struggling with affordability pressures that are squeezing everything from their everyday necessities to their biggest-ticket expenses.  —  Nearly half of Americans said they find groceries, utility bills …

House Democrat Seeks to Impeach Kennedy for Undercutting Public Health  —  The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party's leaders and is all but certain to fail.  —  Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan …

Democrat Eileen Higgins wins Miami mayor's race, beats Trump's pick  —  Democrat Eileen Higgins has defeated Trump-backed opponent Emilio González in Tuesday night's runoff for Miami mayor, with the former Miami-Dade commissioner edging out the former city manager with nearly 60% of the vote …

U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists' Social Media History  —  Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would have to share five years' worth of social media.  —  Travelers visiting the United States from countries like Britain, France …

Judge grants Justice Department request to unseal records from Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case  —  Secret grand jury transcripts from Jeffrey Epstein's 2019 sex trafficking case can be made public, a judge ruled Wednesday, joining two other judges in granting the Justice Department's requests …

Trump brings legal immigration to a screeching halt  —  President Trump promised the most deportations in decades to reverse illegal immigration.  But the system for legal immigration is also buckling under his pressure.  — In just the last few weeks, the Trump administration has threatened …

Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision; Arrival and Departure Record (Form I-94) and Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA)  —  Published Document: 2025-22461 (90 FR 57208)  —  This document has been published in the Federal Register.

Exclusive: US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump  —  President Donald Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials …

Exclusive: Tax prosecutions plunge as Trump shifts crime-fighting efforts  —  Federal tax prosecutions fell to their lowest level in decades this year, declining more than 27% from the year before as the Trump administration cut the ranks of attorneys and agents who pursue those cases, a Reuters examination has found.

Trump aides and allies float potential Noem successors as speculation grows over her tenure … This story is based on conversations with 17 people, including administration officials, people close to the White House, and lawmakers.  Many were granted anonymity to discuss sensitive personnel issues.

Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds  —  Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%  —  Fewer than 60,000 people - .001% of the world's population - control three times as much wealth …

House GOP erupts over health care as leaders hunt for a plan  —  House Republican leaders presented no firm plan Tuesday for advancing health care legislation as anxiety rises in the GOP ranks over the impending expiration of key Obamacare subsidies at the end of the year.

National Republicans Propped Up Jasmine Crockett to Push Her Into a Senate Run  —  Republicans' Senate campaign arm has actively worked behind the scenes to encourage Rep. Jasmine Crockett to jump into the Senate Democratic primary in Texas, believing she will be the easiest opponent to beat.

Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE  —  A 55-year-old woman who is an American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three of her neighbors in the Willard Hay neighborhood of north Minneapolis.  She appears to be the first observer arrested …

The Maga push overturning US policy in the Balkans  —  South-eastern Europe jolted by Trump's support for pro-Russia Serb leader  —  For more than a year European officials have warned that the Balkan state of Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the brink of a crisis threatening the stability of south-eastern Europe.

Habba booted by Senate and judges who did their damn jobs  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🧠 Subscribe to PN 🧠  —  On Monday, Alina Habba finally tapped out.  —  In a screed posted to X, she took swipes at both Congress and the judiciary.

December 9, 2025  —  When G. Elliott Morris of Strength in Numbers asked ChatGPT to fact-check an article for him yesterday, the chatbot couldn't get its head around modern America.  It told him there were “multiple factual impossibilities” in his article, including his statements that “[t] …