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Mamdani in the hot seat after first veto derails bipartisan effort to combat antisemitism: ‘Disappointed’

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is vetoing a bill targeting antisemitism that would expand security restrictions on protests at education sites.

Transgender lawmaker ‘doesn’t know what a woman is,’ White House says after dig at Trump firings

Rep. Sarah McBride says Trump "only fires women," guessing that DNI Tulsi Gabbard is next to go after Noem, Bondi and Chavez-DeRemer departures.

With the world distracted, Hamas is rebuilding — and prepping for its next horror show

The Hamas death cult has taken advantage of the October 2025 cease-fire with Israel...

Terrorist lecture at UC Berkeley — symptom of a much bigger problem

A recent event hosted by students at UC Berkeley’s law school drew national criticism after featuring Israa Jaabis,...

Spirit Airlines deal threatens yet another bailout boondoggle

Rewarding failure and punishing success isn’t a very smart economic game plan — but...

Virginia’s map war lays bare state’s sharp partisan turn as legal fight looms

Virginia's redistricting fight heads to the state Supreme Court after a county judge blocked certification of a narrowly approved ballot measure.

Defense Department scientist’s accidental death raises questions as probe into missing scientists grows

A government chemist who researched Novichok nerve agents died in a 2022 incident ruled accidental, but colleagues and family say it doesn't add up.

The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics

Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other...

Tammy Haddad on Barbra Streisand, Trump and DC’s A-List weekend

Tammy Haddad on Barbra Streisand, Trump and DC’s A-List weekend lead image

Trump Cabinet member scraps Obama-era gender identity housing rule, cites ‘biological reality’

HUD halted enforcement of an Obama-era rule on gender identity in federally funded housing and shelters, shifting policy to recognize only biological sex.

Federal judge orders release of family of man charged in Colorado firebomb attack

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the release from immigration custody of the family of a man charged in a fatal 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado, against demonstrators supporting Israeli hostages in Gaza.

Key takeaways from a report into the deadly plane crash at LaGuardia Airport

Federal investigators on Thursday detailed a series of issues and failures that led up to last month's deadly collision between a regional jet and a fire truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended for three weeks, Trump says after diplomats’ WH meeting

Israel and Lebanon have agreed to extend their ceasefire by three weeks following a meeting in the White House, President Trump announced Thursday from the Oval Office.

Trump’s ‘gold card’ visa starting at $1 million granted to just 1 person so far, Lutnick says

President Donald Trump's "gold card" visa, where a foreigner can shell out at least $1 million to legally live and work in the U.S., has been approved for one person, said Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick Thursday - appearing to fall a bit short of an earlier claim.

Feds agree not to return rapid-fire trigger switches to Democratic-led states

The federal government struck a deal Thursday, agreeing not to return trigger switches, which can make semiautomatic firearms mimic machine guns, to people in Democrat-led states where the devices are banned by law.

Trump rules out using nuclear weapons against Iran

President Trump on Thursday emphatically insisted that he will not use a nuclear weapon against Iran as the conflict nears its third month.

House GOP makes new bid to overhaul FISA spy laws

House Republicans offered up a new plan Thursday to tweak laws for spying on foreigners.

Trump defends length of military operation in Iran: ‘Don’t rush me’

President Trump on Thursday defended the duration of his military operation in Iran, saying there is no need to put a timetable on reaching a deal.

Feds bust ‘slave labor scam factory’ that stole from Americans

Federal authorities said they've disrupted a vicious "scam factory" network in Asia that recruited local workers, enslaved them in fraud centers as large as cities, then turned them loose to steal from Americans through phone scams.

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