No grand jurors found the Trump DOJ met low probable cause threshold in failed indictment of Democratic lawmakers  —  None of the D.C. grand jurors who heard the Trump administration's pitch on why they should indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the military …

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights  —  The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.  A notice posted on the FAA's website …

Poll: Trump's ratings on immigration tumble as Americans lose confidence in his top issue  —  Immigration has been one of President Donald Trump's strong suits, but the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll shows his numbers falling to the same level as his overall approval.  —  Listen to this article with a free account

STAT+: Prasad overruled FDA staff to reject Moderna's flu vaccine application  —  WASHINGTON — Top Food and Drug Administration official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency's reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna's application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned.

National Guard troops were quietly withdrawn from some U.S. cities  —  The deployments encountered repeated legal setbacks that stymied President Donald Trump's show of force in Los Angeles, Chicago and Portland, Oregon.  —  The Trump administration has withdrawn all federalized National Guard troops …

What Is Kari Lake Trying to Achieve?  —  The Arizona politician has wasted millions of dollars while blocking U.S. efforts to bring reliable news to repressive countries.  —  she wanted to be governor of Arizona.  She wanted to be a senator from Arizona.  She wanted to run Voice of America, to be MAGA's broadcaster to the world.

FIRE sues Bondi, Noem for censoring Facebook group and app reporting ICE activity  — The First Amendment protects the right to discuss, record, and criticize what law enforcement does in public.  — The federal government strong-armed Apple and Facebook to remove ICE activity monitoring from company platforms.

Canada's Muscular New Anti-Trump Strategy Debuts in Greenland … On Friday, Canada's consulate opened in the unassuming building, a permanent diplomatic outpost sharing modest digs with Iceland — previously one of the only countries with a formal presence in the territory.

Trump tries and fails to extort Canada  —  Public Notice is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🇨🇦 Subscribe to PN 🇺🇸  —  On Monday, the president took a break from ranting about Bad Bunny's “affront to the Greatness of America” …

The Banality of MAGA Evil  —  Instead of criminal masterminds we got amoral, stupid grifters like Howard Lutnick … There's a longstanding tradition in American politics of what Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style - a way of thinking that sees conspiracies lurking everywhere.

U.S. payrolls rose by 130,000 in January, more than expected; unemployment rate at 4.3%  —  Job growth was stronger than expected to start 2026, providing some relief to concerns about the state of the U.S. labor market.  —  Nonfarm payrolls increased by 130,000 for January …

Trump to direct Pentagon to buy coal to revive industry, Bloomberg News says  —  U.S. President Donald Trump is set to direct the Pentagon to use government funding and Pentagon contracts to sustain U.S. coal-fired power plants, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday, citing a White House official.

JD Vance vies for the gold medal in coarseness and flippancy  —  The vice president has a knack for late — very late — adolescent naughtiness.  —  Spurning the rich subtleties of the English language, JD Vance has a penchant for words that he perhaps thinks display manly vigor, and express a populist's rejection of refinement.

We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us  —  On Oct. 4, Marimar Martinez, a teacher's assistant in a Montessori school, was driving in Chicago when she observed federal immigration agents on patrol.  She had begun to honk her horn to warn her neighbors about their presence when she collided with a Border Patrol vehicle.

IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax data to DHS  —  The tax agency only recently discovered the mistake and is working with other federal agencies on a response.  —  The Internal Revenue Service improperly shared confidential tax information of thousands of individuals …

10 dead, including suspect, in mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.  —  6 victims found dead inside local high school, police say  —  10 dead, including suspect, after mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.  —  Ten people are dead, including a suspect, after an active shooter incident in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., according to RCMP.

CBP Signs Clearview AI Deal to Use Face Recognition for ‘Tactical Targeting’  —  US Border Patrol intelligence units will gain access to a face recognition tool built on billions of images scraped from the internet.  —  United States Customs and Border Protection plans to spend $225,000 …

Building the camps  —  The warehouseification of detention and initial thoughts on stopping it.  —  More and more news reports are popping up, describing warehouses the administration is acquiring, with plans to convert them to detention facilities.  ICE has spent nearly three-quarter …

House Democrats try to shut down SOTU disruptions  —  House Democrats are clamping down on disruptions at President Trump's upcoming State of the Union in the hopes of putting on a more stolid display of opposition, sources told Axios. … - Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was ejected from the speech …

Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms … The Department of Homeland Security has hired a social media manager from the Department of Labor for a key communications job, despite posts he made on Labor Department media accounts that raised internal alarms over possible white-nationalist messaging.

DOJ Can Give the Survivors Answers  —  In September 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel testified to Congress that there was “no credible information” that the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein trafficked underage girls to anyone besides himself.  “There is no credible information.  None.

Violent crime plummets across major U.S. cities  —  Violent crime dropped sharply across America's biggest cities in 2025, according to new data reviewed by Axios.  —  Why it matters: The stats were yet another sign that violent crime in the U.S. was starkly different from what President Trump cited …

EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach  —  If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law.  —  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday is expected to announce what he describes as the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.

Trump Privately Weighs Quitting USMCA Trade Pact He Signed  —  Supply Lines is a daily newsletter that tracks global trade.  Sign up here.  —  President Donald Trump is privately musing about exiting the North American trade pact, people familiar with the matter said …

As of yesterday, members of Congress who sit on the House or Senate Judiciary Committees can see unredacted versions of the Epstein files the Department of Justice (DOJ) has already released.  As Herb Scribner of Axios explained, the documents are available from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on computers …

Carrie Prejean Boller ousted from White House Religious Liberty Commission following antisemitism row … Catholic right-wing activist Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission over what the chair called her “political agenda” during a public hearing on antisemitism this week.

Trump Posts Spectacular Self-Own in Bid to Claim He's Not Racist  —  OWN GOAL?  —  The president took to social media in an apparent effort to bolster his credentials with the Black community.  —  President Donald Trump has embarked on a bizarre posting spree touting his friendship …

Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden's Economy  —  Here's what they're worried about.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Unemployment  —  Yesterday Peter Navarro went on Fox Business and warned Panicans not to freak out over the jobs numbers that would come out this morning.  Why?