Politics

Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed admitted on a podcast to destroying a bottle of vodka in a Detroit liquor store after being confronted about his beard.

The U.S. Coast Guard will end race-based preferences in its officer pre-commissioning program under the Trump administration's anti-DEI initiative.

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin confirms Treasury Department OFAC inquiry into the organization's Cuba trip, calling it an intimidation tactic.

A Massachusetts woman has been fired from her job at a credit union after posting a TikTok video that appeared to pray for former Attorney General Pam Bondi to suffer a severe case of throat cancer, setting off a wave of condemnation online. The TikToker said: "Dear MAGA Lord Jesus, please let her end up with a hole in her throat that she has to push every time she speaks..."

Disney-owned ABC submitted license renewal applications for its eight broadcast television stations to the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday, but declared it was doing so "under protest," calling the agency's order "unlawful, arbitrary and unconstitutional."

Billionaire Democratic donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman vowed he won't "bend the knee" to President Trump after the Justice Department launched an investigation into his nonprofit's funding of a sexual assault and defamation lawsuit against the president.

A group of lawmakers and a former Pentagon whistleblower are spearheading a new drive for the government's full disclosure about extraterrestrials.

A federal judge hit pause on President Trump's plans to close the Kennedy Center for two years of renovations, and ordered the center to remove Mr. Trump's name, too.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Pakistani counterpart, Ishaq Dar, in Washington on Friday, as President Trump considered a peace deal to end his war with Iran.

The Justice Department has issued a new legal ruling concluding that the Lifeline program to provide phones for the indigent -- which gained fame as "Obama phones" -- is subject to normal welfare rules limiting the ability of immigrants to sign up.

Former Attorney General Pam Bondi told a panel of House lawmakers that "justice and transparency ... have been delivered" on the Epstein files and that the Justice Department released all of the documents required under the law.