U.S. and Iran agree to halt strikes and meet this week, U.S. official says  —  The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar's capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz.

Sen. Thom Tillis rails against Trump's fixation on voting legislation … Rather than promoting the bill — which would require voters to present a photo ID at the ballot box and effectively end widespread mail-in voting — Tillis said Republicans should tell voters about …

Trump sets Sept. 1 start for D.C. golf course overhaul  —  President Trump said the federal government will begin renovating East Potomac Golf Links on Sept. 1, with plans to reopen the redesigned course to the public after construction. … - Trump, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum …

GOP Sen. Cassidy seeks to explain RFK Jr. confirmation vote for Health and Human Services  —  Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) in a Sunday interview sought to explain his controversial vote to confirm Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as he said Kennedy is dug …

Party Time at the ODNI?  —  Christina Norton's social media photos, now made private, show the new far-right ODNI chief of staff partying around DC and boasting about her GOP “election integrity” work  —  Christina A. Norton, the new chief of staff of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence …

Supreme Court Leaves Trump's Fed, Citizenship Gambits for Last  —  President Donald Trump is on the brink of learning whether the US Supreme Court will bless two of his most audacious gambits, his bids to oust a Federal Reserve governor and roll back automatic birthright citizenship.

'It's dangerous and it's going to erode trust': redesign of US government websites stokes surveillance fears  —  The National Design Studio, staffed by Doge veterans, installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites  —  An opaque White House office staffed largely by veterans of Elon Musk's …

Three federal firefighters killed in Mesa County as Snyder wildfire exploded in high winds  —  The firefighters used survival shelters but did not survive when heavy winds caused the fire to blow up on Saturday.  Two others were injured.  —  GRAND JUNCTION — Three federal firefighters …

Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal.  His Sons Stand to Profit.  —  An agreement between the U.S. and Kazakhstan has given a group of American investors with ties to the president and the commerce secretary access to one of the world's largest untapped reserves of tungsten.

White House Secretly Swayed Board Meant to Stop Civil Service Politicization  —  Behind the scenes, the Trump White House went to extensive lengths to advance its theory of executive power, potentially giving the president remarkable leeway to install loyalists at nearly every echelon of government.

Fox News' Not-So-Wonderful Apology … On Friday and Saturday, Fox News hosts awkwardly did something that the network had long resisted—even after paying $787 million to settle Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit over the 2020 election: They apologized.

Amid stark opposition, data center developers think twice about Florida … “Everybody's concerned about their quality of life, and nobody wants to lose it for a data center next door,” said Margaret Kirkland, the chair of Conserve Nassau, a local conservation group in the Northeastern corner of Florida.

Again, Trump said nobody left his speech.  Again, that wasn't true  —  President Donald Trump posted on social media on Thursday about the speech he gave the day prior to kick off the Great American State Fair in Washington, DC: “Everybody stayed right until the end of my Speech …

MAHA feels betrayed after Supreme Court ruling on Monsanto, glyphosate  —  Prominent activists with the “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) movement are raging and saying they feel betrayed after the Supreme Court sided with pesticide maker Monsanto on Thursday and said it did not need to put …