Former Missouri AG Andrew Bailey transitioned to a new role as FBI co-deputy director on Monday, marking the first time the bureau has split leadership.
President Donald Trump is expected to push federal prosecutors in Washington to seek the death penalty in murder cases, bringing capital punishment back to D.C.
The Movement is a weekly newsletter tracking the influence and debates steering politics on the right. Sign up here or in the box below. Dramatic shifts in public opinion on Israel that have emerged as the war in Gaza drags on are not just affecting the left side of the political spectrum. Cracks are propagating in a...
President Trump was captured on a hot mic Monday telling French President Emmanuel Macron that Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to “make a deal for me.” “I think he wants to make a deal,” Trump said in the East Room of the White House ahead of the multilateral meeting between several of Europe's most powerful...
Several Democratic-aligned and civil rights groups are readying to sue over a proposed set of new congressional lines in Texas as lawmakers in the Lone Star State look to advance a GOP-friendly map ahead of 2026. Several groups including the National Redistricting Foundation, the National Democratic Redistricting Committee’s nonprofit arm; Mexican American Legal Defense and...
Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin realizes the United States can “shut him down with our energy capabilities” amid a push from the Trump administration for an end to the war in Ukraine. “I think Putin realizes too we could shut him down with our energy capabilities,” Burchett told NewsNation’s...
President Trump met with European leaders on Monday to discuss the war in Ukraine alongside the country’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, amid a push from the White House for an end to the conflict. Among those who participated in the meeting included German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Italian...
CHICAGO — Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Monday lauded “collegiality” in the legal profession, hailing it as what lets the judicial system work well despite its inherently combative nature. She said she’s been “thinking a lot lately” about getting along and bridging disagreements. “It occurs to me that law is a profession that,...
President Trump and European leaders met for a one-of-a-kind summit at the White House on Monday to push toward a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. But by the end of a marathon day of meetings, details on what such an agreement might entail remained elusive. One major bit of news did emerge: Trump announced...
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is joining the Justice Department as the co-deputy director of the FBI, he announced Monday. Bailey is set to share duties as deputy FBI director with Dan Bongino, a staunch Trump ally whose future in the role came into question amid clashes over the case of the disgraced financier Jeffrey...
The Trump administration restored a public database that showed how funding is apportioned to federal agencies following a recent order by a federal appeals court. Public access to the data was restored over the weekend, not long after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the website be restored in...
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pressed for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine before President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet. “I can’t imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire. So let’s work on that, and let’s try to put pressure on Russia because...
