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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

‘Just drinking the Kool-Aid’: Inside the White House divide on Iran  —  Senior aides describe a widening internal divide over a conflict the president has grown bored with — and a communications strategy some call embarrassing.  —  Nearly one month after the U.S. began strikes on Iran …

Trump faces new oil shock threat as Iran eyes second strait … The strait, hundreds of miles from the Strait of Hormuz, at Yemen's southwestern tip, is a pathway for ships carrying about 10 percent of the world's oil and natural gas supplies.  —  Bab el Mandeb has been targeted previously by the Houthis …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Powerful House Republican Joins Retirement Wave  —  Transportation chair Sam Graves says he is ready for ‘next chapter,’ pulls re-election paperwork  —  WASHINGTON—Republican Rep. Sam Graves, the chairman of the House Committee on Transportation, is pulling his plans to seek re-election …

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 …

“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 …

A Build America, Buy America law is causing construction delays amid the US housing crisis  —  It has a catchy name — Build America, Buy America — and the lauded goal of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the United States.  —  But the law has spurred a bottleneck for affordable housing.

For Trump, a Deadline Isn't Always a Deadline  —  Plus, the Senate approves funding for most of DHS, moving to end long airport-security lines  —  Good morning.  I'm Aruna Viswanatha, filling in for Damian Paletta.  —  Today was supposed to be the last day of President Trump's pause …

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 …

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.

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.

In an interview with Reuters on Monday, Singapore's minister for foreign affairs, Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, put in bald language the change in the world order instigated by President Donald J. Trump.  —  “For 80 years,” Balakrishnan explained, “the US was the underwriter for a system …

‘Appalling’ Video Shows Protesters Cheer American Troops Returning Home From Iran War ‘In Caskets’  —  Shocking video from a radical anti-Iran war protest in Philadelphia showed participants explicitly supporting Islamic terror groups and calling for “cheers” every time an American servicemember comes home “in a casket.”