Trump's Signature Is Set to Be Added to America's Currency  —  President Trump is poised to be the first sitting president to have his signature appear on the U.S. dollar.  —  President Trump's signature will appear on U.S. dollars later this year, the Treasury Department said on Thursday.

Senate agrees to end shutdown for most of DHS … Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the outcome “unfortunate” Friday.  —  “The Dems wanted reforms.  We tried to work with them on reforms.  They ended up getting no reforms but, you know, we're going to have to fight some of those battles another day,” he said.

Exclusive: Pentagon Weighs Sending Another 10,000 Ground Troops to the Middle East  —  The Pentagon is looking at sending up to 10,000 additional ground troops to the Middle East to give President Trump more military options even as he weighs peace talks with Tehran, Department of Defense officials with knowledge of the planning said.

As Trump feels pressure to end war, allies fear what Iran may do next  —  With polls against the conflict, the president faces a dilemma: Wrapping up the fighting risks leaving a more dangerous Iran behind.  —  As President Donald Trump edges toward a self-imposed deadline for Iran to strike …

Republicans Know This War Is Going Badly  —  It is not just Democrats in Congress who fear that Donald Trump's war in Iran is going sideways.  After a classified Pentagon briefing on Wednesday, Republican lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee appeared shaken.

Janet Mills and Graham Platner battle for female voters in Maine's key Senate race  —  The voting bloc will play an important role in the Democratic primary and in November after GOP Sen. Susan Collins won female voters in her last race.  —  Gov. Janet Mills and oyster farmer Graham Platner …

FBI probe of 2020 election count in Georgia faces crucial court hearing  —  A federal judge Friday will consider Fulton County's request for the return of thousands of ballots seized by President Donald Trump's Justice Department.  —  The FBI's investigation of the 2020 election results …

Judge pauses Anthropic's supply chain risk designation … Lin added that the court's record supports “an inference that Anthropic is being punished for criticizing the government's contracting position in the press.”  —  By granting Anthropic's request, Lin removed the stigma of the designation …

U.S. uses hundreds of Tomahawk missiles on Iran, alarming some at Pentagon  —  More than 850 have been fired in just four weeks, people familiar with the matter said, raising concerns about the weapon's limited supply.  —  The U.S. military has fired more than 850 Tomahawk cruise missiles …

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For  —  from the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept  —  First things first: Meta is a terrible company that has spent years making terrible decisions and being terrible at explaining …

NEW: “It's a bad f**ing idea”, Congress blasts Trump Admin. war briefings  —  “It's a bad fucking idea,” he said into the phone in a tone so calm and measured, the words landed unexpectedly, but powerfully.  —  Rep. Adam Smith, a Washington state Democrat who is the ranking member …

Hegseth Strikes Two Black and Two Female Officers From Promotion List  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's highly unusual decision to remove officers from a one-star promotion list has spurred allegations of racial and gender bias.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is blocking the promotion …

“Margin Call” in the age of “Epic Fury”  —  The allegations of insider trading tied to the Iran war had a familiar shape: people close enough to power to know what was coming using their knowledge of a pending catastrophe to profit before it became public.  —  For millennials …

Trump plays Texas hold 'em with Senate endorsement … Paxton, though, hasn't rested his case.  He traveled to Mar-a-Lago last Friday for a Palm Beach County GOP dinner, and was spotted speaking to Trump himself, according to three sources familiar.  —  Trump and Paxton were on the patio …

White House AI rollout exposes widening rift  —  A week after the White House unveiled its long-awaited national AI legislative framework, Washington has renewed momentum to pass federal laws but no roadmap on how to get there. … - White House Office of Science and Technology Policy …

Scoop: Cabinet to huddle to talk midterms, economy … - Trump's team believes the economy — above all other issues, including any anxiety over the president's actions on Iran or immigration — will drive voter sentiment heading into the November elections.

Resurgent Inflation Tests Faith in Fed's Willingness to Tame It  —  The war in the Middle East risks worsening an inflation problem that the Federal Reserve has struggled for years to subdue.  —  Throughout a series of economic shocks that pushed up consumer prices in the past five years …

Americans Spend Too Much Time Stuck in Traffic.  There's a Way to Get It Back.  —  Early last year, New York flipped a switch on an audacious system to charge drivers entering Midtown or Lower Manhattan, the first of its kind in the United States.  Passenger cars with an E-ZPass had to pay $9 …

What Happens When MAGA Goes Global … His strides are long, his chest puffed out, as if he is the president himself.  —  He is surrounded by a crowd peppered with red hats — and while red is the color of the People Power Party, South Korea's main conservative party, this is the distinct hue of Donald Trump's branding.

Kennedy's Vaccine Agenda Hits Roadblocks, Diminishing His Clout  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s vaccine skepticism is posing challenges for the Trump administration.  Top health jobs are unfilled, and a court has blocked his vaccine schedule changes.