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 …

2 U.S. Navy destroyers transit Strait of Hormuz after dodging Iranian onslaught  —  Add CBS News on Google  —  Washington — Two U.S. Navy destroyers transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Persian Gulf after navigating an Iranian barrage, according to defense officials who spoke …

How Democrats can avenge the demise of the VRA  —  PN is supported by paid subscribers.  Become one ⬇️  —  🌷🌷 Subscribe to PN 🌷🌷  —  Last week, the Supreme Court gutted what remained of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.

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: 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 …

Infighting erupts as Democrats intervene in contested primaries  —  The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee sparked a rare and heated bout of public infighting between House Democrats on Monday by endorsing multiple candidates who are still locked in contested primaries.

Senate Republicans Seek $1 Billion for White House Ballroom Security  —  The request was included in the text of a reconciliation package released by Sen. Chuck Grassley, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.  — Copy  —  Senate Republicans want to provide U.S. Secret Service $1 billion for …

U.S. Military Strikes Boat in Caribbean, Killing 2  —  The aerial strike raised the death toll to at least 187 in the U.S. campaign against boats the Trump administration accuses of smuggling drugs.  —  The U.S. military said on Monday that it had struck another boat in the Caribbean Sea …

Trump Tries to Downplay Economic Effects of the Iran War  —  At a White House event for Small Business Week, he described the economy as “roaring” and predicted that gas prices would go down soon.  —  Facing pressure to address the economic fallout of his war in Iran, President Trump …

Scoop: Rep. Chuck Edwards singled out young female aides for special attention  —  Rep. Chuck Edwards told a young female staffer that she had “written a complex chapter in my heart” shortly before she was set to leave his office, according to a handwritten letter he sent her that was reviewed by Axios.

It'll be years before Americans get used to higher prices — and politicians can't just wait it out  —  Consumers will eventually adjust, but in the meantime, they'll keep punishing leaders who don't act  —  Strength In Numbers is a reader-supported publication.

Trump Administration Demands Names of 2020 Election Workers in Georgia  —  The Justice Department again appears to be using the investigative power of the federal government to rehash debunked claims that Democrats stole the 2020 election.  —  The Justice Department has demanded the identities …

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 …

Ken Paxton Narrowly Leads John Cornyn in Bruising Texas GOP Race  —  Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton held a slim edge over incumbent John Cornyn in a new poll as the state's bitter Republican Senate primary nears its finale.  —  Paxton led Cornyn 48% to 45% among likely GOP voters …

'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.

'They're spinning': Republicans, grappling with midterm anxiety, go negative … And while Trump has never shied away from blaming the opposition, especially his predecessors, his tendency to deviate from his message — to talk about the new White House ballroom, the reflecting pool or the construction of his …

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

Magistrate judge says alleged WHCD attacker being mistreated by DC jail … “The Jan. 6 defendants all were moved to the CTF,” Faruqui said.  “Pardons may erase convictions but they do not erase history ... He's being treated differently than anyone I've ever observed.”

Trump's New European Car Tariffs Demonstrate Why His ‘Deals’ Are Worthless  —  When President Donald Trump struck a trade deal with the European Union in July, officials on both sides stressed how it would ensure long-term stability to trans-Atlantic trade.  —  The Trump administration called …

Soil at D.C. Golf Course Where East Wing Debris Was Dumped Contains Toxic Metals  —  The National Park Service said the dump of debris, between the fourth and ninth holes, does not exceed environmental limits.  Opponents disagree.  —  Soil at a public golf course in Washington …

Trump Promised Transparency in Venezuela, but Oil Secrets Linger  —  Trump officials and their Venezuelan allies have promised a new era of accountability to unlock Venezuela's immense oil wealth.  But the country's oil industry remains a black hole.  —  U.S. and Venezuelan officials …

The age of the American Pharaoh  —  It would be strange if dynastic succession were not on Trump's mind  —  Were America's 25th amendment to be used on Donald Trump, his ejectors would surely cite the monuments he is building to himself.  “Me,” was Trump's answer about the object of his proposed 250ft triumphal arch in Washington.

Judge mulls contempt over DHS' ‘patently false’ allegation in deportation case … But DuBose noted that the Trump administration itself had publicly disclosed the existence of the warrant in a press release earlier last month.  She also noted that the April 30 release slamming her …

Secret Service officer arrested for indecent exposure in Miami after Trump golf event … A U.S. Secret Service officer was arrested in Miami on a charge of indecent exposure while off-duty, authorities said Monday.  —  The officer, John Spillman, had earlier worked on exterior security screening …

Media Matters secures complete and total victory against Federal Trade Commission  —  FTC agrees to forgo future investigations of MMFA to secure withdrawal ahead of judgment  —  Media Matters has secured a complete and total victory in its case against the Federal Trade Commission (Media Matters v. FTC).

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.

Inside the heated clash over the DHS ‘master plan’ for deportations  —  A new book, “Undue Process: The Inside Story of Trump's Mass Deportation Program,” details a tense fight over how to carry out Trump's immigration agenda  —  WASHINGTON — Homeland Security immigration leaders disagreed …