They Seek to Curb Online Hate.  The U.S. Accuses Them of Censorship.  —  The Trump administration said five regulators and researchers who work to tackle disinformation and abuse on the internet had been barred from entering the United States.  —  Josephine Ballon and Anna-Lena von Hodenberg lead …

ICE documents reveal plan to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses  —  The Trump administration aims to build seven large-scale holding centers to speed up deportations, internal ICE documents show.  —  Douglas MacMillan can be reached securely on Signal at (415) 269-6352 and Jonathan O'Connell can be reached at jonathanoc.76

Congress set records in 2025, some more dubious than others  —  Republican lawmakers reflect on a year that continued legislative atrophy while ceding more power to the White House.  —  Just now  —  The Republican-led Congress managed to land quite a few achievements in 2025 …

Exclusive: Justice Department scrambling to find holiday volunteers to redact the Epstein files, internal DOJ email says  —  The Justice Department's leadership asked career prosecutors in Florida to volunteer over the “next several days” to help redact the Epstein files …

Exclusive: U.S. eyes additional Coast Guard assets to seize fleeing tanker, sources say  —  The U.S. Coast Guard is waiting for additional forces to arrive before potentially attempting to board and seize a Venezuela-linked oil tanker it has been pursuing since Sunday, a U.S. official and a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

Trump-appointed judge: DHS must restore disaster grants to Democratic states  —  A federal judge blocked Trump administration efforts to reallocate Department of Homeland Security counterterrorism and security grants away from states that won't cooperate on the president's immigration enforcement policies.

Zelensky Opens Way to Demilitarized Zone in Eastern Ukraine to Reach Peace  —  The offer was the closest Mr. Zelensky has come to addressing the thorny territorial disputes in Donetsk that have repeatedly derailed peace talks.  —  President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine told reporters …

Trump's Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here  —  Donald Trump's assault on the city of Chicago began in September, and it claimed its first casualty quickly.  As Reuters would later report, on September 12, Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez dropped his kids off at their school in the suburb …

Chasing an Economic Boom, White House Dismisses Risks of A.I.  —  The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.  —  It was early November, and the stock market …

Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon  —  Lobbyists close to Trump say their going rate to advocate for a pardon is $1 million  —  President Trump had just awarded a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Charlie Kirk in October when his son ushered friends toward the Oval Office.

The internal dispute that could derail the GOP's 2026 agenda … Some rank-and-file conservatives in the House and Senate are privately discussing a potential centerpiece for a second reconciliation bill: using tariff revenues to send taxpayers cash to address rising health care costs …

Trump's ‘Golden Age’ has arrived for the top 10% … But the robust numbers mask the extent to which the wealthy are driving growth.  And while business leaders from Manhattan to South Florida are bullish on the outlook — “It's the Roaring '20s here in Palm Beach County,” said Douglas Evans …

'He's a Maximalist': Inside Trump's Gilded Oval Office  —  After nearly a year of revamping the Oval Office, President Trump is nearly out of wall space.  —  His extravagant design choices are most apparent around the fireplace, where he has hosted more than two dozen visits from world leaders since taking office.

Judge blocks Trump effort to strip security clearance from attorney who represented whistleblowers  —  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid …

ICE Detains Woman Whose Lawyer Insists Is US Citizen.  DHS Says She Isn't  —  A family in Maryland is trying to find a woman arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), whose attorneys say is an American citizen but the government insists is Mexican.

Trump is talking about Greenland again  —  2025 is ending much as it began: with President Donald Trump talking about annexing Greenland.  —  On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry as a special envoy to Greenland with the goal, as Landry put it, “to make Greenland a part of the US.”

Get Ready to Start Hearing About Aileen Cannon Again  —  Not so long ago, when the FBI raided Donald Trump's 126-room Palm Beach mansion and found scores of classified documents, the notion that the disgraced former president would return to the Oval Office seemed far-fetched to just about anyone paying attention.

'We'd be cooked': Trump, Lindell test Minnesota GOP's optimism … Republicans have insisted they can be competitive statewide in the blue-leaning Minnesota ever since Trump lost Minnesota by less than 2 points in 2016.  But since then, winning the state has beguiled both the president …