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After a Four-Hour Nationwide Ground Stop, the FAA, Duffy and CBS Give Three Different Causes

The FAA stopped every departing flight in the country for four hours and 21 minutes on Friday, and by Saturday morning nobody in government had given…

After a Four-Hour Nationwide Ground Stop, the FAA, Duffy and CBS Give Three Different Causes

House Republicans Elect Jim Jordan as Their Next Leader, and He Beat Steve Scalise 106-73

A Republican, Not a Democrat, Is Forcing the House Vote to Impeach Hegseth

Three Weeks After Saying ‘Zero Chance,’ Trump Replaces Chief of Staff Susie Wiles With Stephen Miller

Trump Declares the Oval Office a National Monument, and Reserves the Right to Redecorate It

Kennedy Told the FDA Not to Enforce Its Rules Against Six Unapproved Peptides. Its Own Scientists Said There Was Not Enough Evidence.

Trump Promises Fraud Tipsters 1% With ‘No Limit’, Not the $30,000 Cap His Own Justice Department Published the Same Day

A Federal Judge Found a Strong Showing of Bad Faith in Trump’s East Potomac Golf Course Tree Cutting

After 158 Years, the Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Making Whiskey at Home Is a Federal Crime

Trump’s Justice Department Tells an Appeals Court the Presidential Records Act Is Unconstitutional, a Law Its Own Lawyers Backed in 1978

The White House Asked ‘Wonderful Asset’ Kimberly Guilfoyle to Resign as Ambassador to Greece

The FDA Received Two Death Reports Tied to Bootleg ‘Reta’ After Warning 14 Sellers of the Weight-Loss Drug to Stop

Nearly 400 Taxpayer-Funded Trump Ads Aired After a Judge’s Ban, the Same Weekend 430 Trees Were Cut at a Golf Course He Wants Rebuilt

Who Investigates the Death of a Rider Who Fell From the Goliath Roller Coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia?

Hurricane Isaias Heads for the Gulf Coast as a Court Deadline on FEMA’s Staff Cuts Arrives

After Trump Posted His Cell Number, Tom Cotton Is Still Blocking Permanent Daylight Saving Time

75% of SNAP’s Administrative Costs Shift to the States Thursday, the Same Day Benefits Rise

After the House Passed It in July, the Senate Rejected the Iran War Resolution 49 to 50

ShinyHunters, the Hacking Group the FBI Warned About in May, Says It Stole Data on Nearly Every FBI Agent

Why Is Trump Meeting Xi on the Tarmac When Xi Sent a Deputy to Meet Him in Beijing?

Pennsylvania Counts Four Measles Deaths, the CDC’s National Tally Counts None

An $875 Million AI Starts Routing Traffic Over Washington’s Three Airports Today

After a Republican Read Eight Impeachment Articles Aloud, the House Must Vote on Hegseth by Thursday

Florida Ordered Flock Cameras Off State Roads Because That Is Where Its Authority Ends

Miami’s Runway 30 Ends at a Public Road, Not an Arrestor Bed

The Law That Closed Walton County’s Beaches Was Repealed Fourteen Months Ago

The IRS Lost a Third of Its Audit Revenue, and the Money to Rebuild the Staff Ran Out on New Year’s Eve

Congress Sent the Iran War Bill to the Lame Duck, the One Session Voters Cannot Reach

Congress Is Writing a Second Epstein Law Because the Attorney General Already Admitted He Is Breaking the First

The Executive Order Creating a Space Academy Does Not Create a Space Academy