Federal judges in upstate New York appointed a new U.S. attorney on Wednesday only to see him abruptly fired by the White House, in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary. Donald T. Kinsella, 79, was appointed as U.S. attorney in the Northern District of New York...
Trump Agrees to End Deportation Surge in Minnesota, White House Border Czar Says
President Donald Trump's border czar Tom Homan said on Thursday that a significant drawdown of immigration enforcement agents in Minnesota was underway and that he had proposed and Trump had agreed that the surge there should end. Under Operation Metro Surge, Trump had deployed about 3,000 armed immigration agents by...
Bondi Faces Anger From Lawmakers Over Handling of Epstein Files
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi refused to apologize to survivors of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein who were seated in the House Judiciary Committee room Wednesday — and instead demanded that Democrats apologize to President Donald Trump. Bondi, imitating Trump’s tactic of going on the attack when facing tough...
Israel to Join Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’, Netanyahu Says
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 - Israel will join U.S. President Donald Trump's "Board of Peace" initiative, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday during his visit to Washington where he met Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. After meeting Rubio on Wednesday, Netanyahu posted on X that he "signed Israel's...
Trump Excludes Two Democrats from US Governors’ Meeting Invite
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 - President Donald Trump plans to host Republican and Democratic governors for a breakfast meeting next week, the National Governors Association chairman said on Wednesday, though Trump later insisted he was still excluding two Democratic governors. Republican Trump is inviting all the governors to the meeting, according...
Mental Health Advocate for California Tribes Dies in Murder-Suicide
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. A member of the Yurok tribe who advocated for better mental health treatment and suicide intervention in rural Northern California has died in an apparent murder-suicide. Celinda Gonzales was 59. In 2020, CalMatters wrote about her work in...
Instagram’s Top Exec Grilled over Safety Decisions at Trial
LOS ANGELES, Feb 11 - The top executive at Meta Platforms' Instagram defended the social media platform's choices around features that some company insiders called harmful to young users, at a trial on claims the app helped fuel a youth mental-health crisis. Adam Mosseri, the head of Instagram, is...
AbbVie Sues US Health Agency over Botox Price Controls
Feb 11 - AbbVie sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, challenging a decision by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to impose price controls for Botox. In a complaint filed in the Washington, D.C., federal court, AbbVie said Botox is among the medications covered...
US House Passes Bill to Require Proof of US Citizenship for Midterm Voters
The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to require proof of U.S. citizenship in the November midterm elections, which Democrats said would impose unnecessary burdens on American voters and concentrate electoral power in the hands of President Donald Trump. Lawmakers voted 218-213 to approve the SAVE America Act, with...
US House Backs Bid to End Canada Tariffs in Rare Rebuke to Trump
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 - The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly backed a measure disapproving of President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, a rare rebuke of the president and leaders of his party in the Republican-majority House. Lawmakers voted 219 to 211 in favor of a resolution to terminate...