Education Department opens probe into Smith College for admitting trans women … Smith College, a private liberal arts school founded in 1871, has admitted trans women since 2015, along with many other elite women's colleges.  —  The school's admission policies drew attention and sparked …

Hegseth says battle for Hormuz is ‘separate and distinct’ from the Iran war … The mission in the strait, dubbed Project Freedom, is “defensive in nature, focused in scope and temporary in duration,” Hegseth said at a press conference with Caine.  “We're not allowing ourselves to get distracted.”

Trump ballroom project security funding included in $72B GOP enforcement bill … “The White House applauds Congress's latest proposal in its reconciliation package which includes additional funding for security infrastructure upgrades in relation to the long overdue East Wing Modernization Project …

Supreme Court Agrees to Fast-Track Louisiana Voting Map Decision  —  Louisiana voters who successfully challenged the state's voting map as an illegal racial gerrymander had asked the justices to quickly return the case to the lower courts, clearing the way for a new map.

Trump Is Losing a Second War  —  The Iran debacle is accelerating the shift away from fossil fuels  —  Last month, out of more than 11,000 new passenger vehicles registered in Norway, only around 150 had internal consumption engines.  The rest were fully electric.

Exclusive: US intelligence indicates limited new damage to Iran's nuclear program, sources say  —  U.S. intelligence assessments indicate that the time Iran would need to build a nuclear weapon has not changed since last summer, when analysts estimated that a U.S.-Israeli attack had pushed …

DOJ Offers Lawyers $25,000 Signing Bonuses as Recruitment Lags  —  The Justice Department is taking a new tack to overcome hurdles in attracting qualified legal talent: offering $25,000 signing bonuses to staff an office investigating youth transgender treatments and litigating the Trump administration's immigration agenda.

We're about to find out whether Trump is kingmaker or lame duck … The results will reveal how effective the president's political operation is at turning out Republicans when Trump is not on the ballot, and how motivated MAGA is to go along with his ongoing retribution campaign.

In major escalation, DOJ demands personal information of 2020 election workers in Georgia  —  Over three months after the FBI seized 2020 election materials from Fulton County, the Department of Justice (DOJ) is now seeking the identities and personal information of thousands of people who helped run the vote in the county.

Trump Accuses Pope Leo of Endangering Catholics by Opposing Iran War  —  The president's criticism adds to tensions ahead of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit to the Vatican  —  ROME—President Trump escalated his public feud with Pope Leo XIV, accusing the pontiff of endangering Catholics …

Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants  —  The health secretary has long complained that Americans overuse psychiatric medications.  New policies he is introducing aim to change that.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday announced several initiatives intended …

Exclusive: VA conducted internal investigations into employees who attended vigil for Alex Pretti  —  Federal agencies Veterans Labor unions  —  For days after the killing of Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis, fellow workers for the Department of Veterans Affairs held vigils …

Ukraine's fight against Russia is going better than you might think  —  The war in Iran looked like a gift for Russia.  It hasn't worked out that way. … “I suggested a little bit of a ceasefire, and I think he might do that,” President Donald Trump told reporters this week after a conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Prosecutors Had a Drugs-for-Votes Scheme “Locked Up.”  Under Trump, They Were Told Not to Pursue Charges.  —  To the narcotics agents investigating drug smuggling in Puerto Rico prisons, it seemed at first like a typical scheme: associates of an inmate gang sneaking drugs into the prison …

'When You Think of It, We Shouldn't Even Have an Election'  —  President Trump hates to lose.  —  Heading into the 2026 midterm elections, you can't say that the president hasn't warned us, over and over, that he will do all he can to prevent the congressional contests from turning into a humiliating Republican rout.

Watch live: Trump signs proclamation from White House  —  President Trump on Tuesday morning will sign a proclamation from the Oval Office related to the Presidential Fitness Test.  —  Trump signed an executive order last July to bring back the test, which was replaced in 2013 …

250+ Democrats urge Supreme Court to overturn abortion pill ruling  —  A majority of Democrats in the House and Senate submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to protect access to the abortion pill mifepristone.  —  Forty-seven Democratic senators and 212 House members urged …

Vladimir Putin hunkers down for fear of assassination  —  Security around Russia's president tightens after audacious drone attacks from Ukraine

The Safety Net Isn't Ready for Artificial Intelligence … Economists aren't sure if or when artificial intelligence will cause widespread job losses.  But they do agree on one thing: The federal safety net isn't ready for such a shock.  —  The nearly century-old unemployment system …

A Probe of Trump Foes Upends Justice Department Hub in Miami  —  Shortly after ascending to the top of the Justice Department last month, Todd Blanche gathered prosecutors in Miami to press for results from a highly sensitive probe into some of President Donald Trump's perceived political enemies.