In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here. Democrats have shut down the government for nearly three weeks, and […]
Washington, D.C., police on Sunday arrested a person outside of a local cathedral before a high-profile Red Mass. “Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) members assigned to a detail for the Red Mass at Saint Matthew’s Cathedral engaged an individual who set up a tent on the steps of the Cathedral,” MPD said in a Sunday statement....
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Sunday the lower chamber “did its job” in the government funding battle. On Sept. 19, the House passed what Johnson called a “clean” and “nonpartisan” stopgap spending bill, which would fund the government through Nov. 21. “The House did its job,” Johnson said on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “The...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) said Sunday that the Trump administration is deploying 300 of his state’s National Guard troops to Portland, Ore., and he vowed he would sue over the move. On Saturday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the administration’s deployment of 200 Oregon National Guard troops to the state’s largest city. U.S. District...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that an independent Palestinian state is “not even a realistic thing right now.” “It’s not even possible. That’s not even a realistic thing right now,” Rubio said on CBS’s "Face the Nation." “Because who would govern that Palestinian state, Hamas?” The Trump administration’s 20-point plan to end the...
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the Trump administration’s plan to lay off thousands of federal workers is “regrettable,” but the fault is with Democrats who won’t agree to the Republicans’ proposal to reopen the government. In an interview on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” host Kristen Welker pressed Johnson on the administration’s unprecedented plan to...
President Trump called on Democratic Virginia attorney general nominee Jay Jones to drop out of his race over leaked text messages about former state House Speaker Todd Gilbert (R). “It has just come out that the Radical Left Lunatic, Jay Jones, who is running against Jason Miyares, the GREAT Attorney General in Virginia, made SICK...
Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the former Army vice chief of staff, said he is “concerned” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s “attack on women” in the military on Sunday. “I'm concerned about what I considered an attack on women, and the fact that there are people who say that women have been let into different combat fields...
Baby boomers who lost their white-collar jobs during the 2008 Great Recession experienced vastly different financial outcomes, with some experiencing "hard falls" while others experienced "soft landings", and Gen Xers today face the same quandary with potentially even more precarious financial outcomes.
President Trump’s push to expand and consolidate power is ramping up on multiple fronts, even as the government shutdown holds center stage on Capitol Hill. Trump’s actions are sharpening critics’ fears about creeping authoritarianism. The shutdown and Trump’s expansive use of power are interlinked in some respects. Trump has sought new ways to ratchet up...
Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’s (R) gubernatorial campaign rolled out an ad tying her Democratic opponent, Abigail Spanberger, to the fallout over leaked text messages from Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones. The ad opens with a series of clips from news anchors about Jones’s unearthed 2022 text messages from Jones calling for the then-statehouse...
Kevin Hassett, director of the White House National Economic Council, said on Sunday that federal layoffs will take place if President Trump decides that negotiations are going nowhere. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the NEC director signaled Republicans were far from willing to negotiate their position to end the government shutdown...
With easy access to photos, videos and personal information, a cybercriminal can create fraudulent accounts and donation campaigns — especially now, in an era of on-demand generative AI, deepfake apps, and voice cloning software.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Trump administration officials “want to create the warzone” in Chicago to send in more National Guard troops. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Pritzker condemned the nighttime raid in Chicago, saying it’s “emblematic” of what the Trump administration is trying to do. “This raid at this...
