Spy Chief Tulsi Gabbard Is Hunting for 2020 Election Fraud  —  The director of national intelligence is leading an administration-wide effort to hunt for proof of tampering in the election that Trump lost  —  Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has spent months investigating …

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senate Democrats and White House Reach Deal to Avoid Shutdown  —  What We're Covering Today  — Shutdown Talks: Senate Democrats have struck a deal with Republicans and the White House to pass five spending bills to fund a large portion of the government …

Trump sues the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion over leaked tax records  —  The president argued in the lawsuit that the agencies failed to prevent a former contractor from leaking his tax returns from nearly a decade ago to news outlets.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

Man allegedly tried to break Luigi Mangione out of jail by impersonating FBI agent: Sources  —  Mangione is being held at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.  —  Luigi Mangione appears for a suppression of evidence hearing in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson …

Carney says he expects U.S. to ‘respect Canadian sovereignty’ after Alberta separatists meet with Trump team  —  Meeting with premiers in Ottawa was to ‘come together and build,’ PM says  —  Smith, Carney say they expect U.S. would respect Canadian sovereignty on Alberta separatism

Confidence in Trump Dips, and Fewer Now Say They Support His Policies and Plans  —  Rising share of Democrats want their party's congressional leaders to stand up to Trump  —  This Pew Research Center report looks at how the U.S. public feels about Trump's job performance …

ICE's excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested  —  From the earliest months of Donald Trump's second term in office, federal immigration officers have conducted their raids and arrests while concealing their identities, a notable deviation from the way in which law enforcement has long been conducted in the United States.

Scoop: Trump expects Panama Canal court win for “Donroe Doctrine”  —  The White House expects Panama's Supreme Court on Thursday to cancel a crucial Panama Canal ports contract operated by a firm with ties to China's government, two sources tell Axios.

Trump threatens Canada with 50% tariff on aircraft sold in US, expanding trade war  —  President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened Canada with a 50% tariff on any aircraft sold in the U.S., the latest salvo in his trade war with America's northern neighbor as his feud with Prime Minister Mark Carney expands.

Appealing to Jeff Bezos  —  With widespread layoffs expected at The Washington Post in the coming weeks, teams of reporters are sending impassioned letters to Jeff Bezos, urging him not to shrink the newsroom.  —  This morning, I obtained a letter from the newspaper's White House reporters.

College approached and paid student to write op-ed in The Dartmouth  —  The Dartmouth ran the article on Nov. 17 without knowledge that the College had been involved.  —  The College approached a student to promote Evergreen.AI — the College's wellness artificial intelligence project …

Libs of TikTok is doxxing teachers and nurses who support Alex Pretti or oppose ICE, trying to get them fired  —  Chaya Raichik, who runs the social media account Libs of TikTok, has spent the days following Alex Pretti's killing doxxing ordinary working people — teachers, nurses …

ICE agents shatter window, leave 1-month-old baby, mother in car after Portland arrest  —  Video shows federal immigration agents leaving behind an infant and broken glass after detaining a Guinean immigrant with no known criminal history.  —  Community:  —  4 min readFont size +

The powerful tools in ICE's arsenal to track suspects — and protesters  —  Biometric trackers, cellphone location databases and drones are among the surveillance technologies that federal agents are tapping in their deportation campaign.  —  Federal immigration officers fanning …

ICE Pretends It's a Military Force.  Its Tactics Would Get Real Soldiers Killed  —  WIRED asked an active military officer to break down immigration enforcement actions in Minneapolis and elsewhere.  —  As a veteran of the war on terror, I have spent the past year watching Immigration …

Justice Department charges man who squirted vinegar on Rep. Ilhan Omar  —  The Justice Department has charged a man who squirted apple cider vinegar on Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at an event in Minneapolis.  The man arrested for Tuesday's attack, Anthony Kazmierczak …

House Ethics finds ‘substantial evidence’ of fraud charges against Florida Democrat  —  A panel of House lawmakers found “substantial evidence” that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, who's facing federal fraud charges, committed conduct outlined in the indictment against her.

IDF Accepts Gaza Health Ministry Death Toll of Over 71,000 Palestinians Killed During the War  —  Although many international experts have accepted the Health Ministry's data as reliable, and even conservative relative to the true death toll, Israel had refused to accept the Health Ministry's count until now

Trump Weighs New Military Options Against Iran  —  The plans being weighed by the president go beyond those he considered weeks ago amid widespread protests against Iran's government.  —  President Trump has been presented in recent days with an expanded list of potential military options …

Trump hears updates from his Cabinet...but skips right over embattled Noem  —  The Secretary of Homeland Security was snubbed at first Trump cabinet meeting of 2026  —  President Donald Trump has always loved hearing fulsome praise from his hand-picked cabinet at meetings that can run …

Mike Johnson braces for conservative revolt over ICE funding deal  —  As the Senate prepares to kick government funding back to the House, Speaker Mike Johnson is staring down another revolt from his right flank.  —  Why it matters: While removing Department of Homeland Security funding …

Fox News Poll: An early look at the 2026 midterms  —  Voters prefer Democrats on affordability, Republicans on border security  —  As the midterm election year gets underway, voters are already drawing clear lines between the Democratic and Republican parties on the issues.

Trump Is Making America Stupider  —  “I LOVE THE POORLY EDUCATED,” Donald Trump once declared.  That was back in 2016, during his first presidential campaign.  —  Now, a decade later, he and the rest of the MAGA movement have manifested that love into policy, with a series of changes …

Clinton contempt votes will hit the House floor next Wednesday  —  House GOP leaders are planning votes next Wednesday on a pair of contempt of Congress resolutions against former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according to three people granted anonymity to discuss private planning.