Trump administration
The Force is with him: D.C. settles with man who protested National Guard using Darth Vader’s theme song
The District of Columbia has settled a lawsuit by a protester who said he was detained and handcuffed for following National Guard troops around the city while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from “Star Wars.”
Ex-Trump adviser John Bolton expected to plead guilty to retaining national security information
Former national security adviser John Bolton is expected to plead guilty in federal court on Friday to one count of retaining national security information.
U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 2, leaves 6 survivors in the eastern Pacific Ocean
Boat strikes by the U.S. military have killed than 210 people since the Trump administration began targeting those it calls “narcoterrorists” in early September.
Blue paint seen chipping off in Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after algae turns it green
President Donald Trump’s makeover of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool ahead of America’s 250th anniversary celebrations is not going according to plan.
U.S. strike on an alleged drug boat kills 3 in the eastern Pacific Ocean
The attack brings the number of people killed in boat strikes by the U.S. military to at least 211 since September.
Sen. Slotkin to introduce bill to bar presidents from sending troops or armed feds to polling places
Sen. Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., plans to introduce a bill Thursday that would ban the president from sending armed military or federal agents to polling sites during American elections
Trump names James M. McDonald to lead powerful New York federal prosecutor’s office
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will appoint one of his personal lawyers to serve as the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, filling a pending vacancy after Trump tapped the man currently in the job to be director of national intelligence
Judge orders Trump officials to re-install signs and exhibits at national parks on topics like slavery and climate change
President Donald Trump last year directed the Interior Department to make changes to parks, monuments and memorials to address any “false revision of history.”
Trump says alleged leader of Tren de Aragua gang killed in U.S. strike
The president said the military strike that killed Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, who’s known as Niño Guerrero, was carried out in coordination with Venezuela.
A key U.S. spying program expires Friday night. What does that mean?
The intelligence-gathering program that allows U.S. government surveillance of foreigners abroad by collecting domestic communication information is set to expire at the end of the day Friday after the House and Senate left town without passing an extension