Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, criticized the Trump administration for using a Signal chat to discuss plans for carrying out bombing in Yemen, calling on officials to resign while saying others would have been fired for the same actions. Warner said national security adviser Mike Waltz and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth did not “conduct hygiene 101” in failing to realize there was a journalist on the group chat...

gypt made a new proposal last week aimed at restoring the Gaza ceasefire deal, security sources told Reuters on Monday. The proposal follows an escalation in violence after Israel resumed air and ground operations against Hamas last Tuesday, effectively ending a two-month period of relative calm.

On February 1st, President Trump imposed 25% tariffs on nearly all goods imported from Canada. Since then, his administration has engaged in an on again off again trade war with our longtime ally. The tariffs were imposed based on the exaggerated claim that millions of criminals and tons of deadly fentanyl have been pouring over the border into the United States— and that Canada has allowed it to happen. Last month we went to the northern border, to the Chazy River, where even in the middle...

On the menu today: The highest levels of the administration display a jaw-dropping casual disregard for laws regarding the handling of classified information; officials refuse to hold themselves to the standard they held their predecessors, and their response indicates a deep-rooted culture of irresponsibility, excuse-making, and blame-shifting. The frightening thing is, I could have written that sentence about the past three or four administrations.

Frank Bisignano, the Wall Street veteran being considered to lead the Social Security Administration, will go before the Senate on Tuesday morning, where lawmakers will demand answers about his plans for an agency recently thrown into tumult. The plans being laid by the Trump administration for the typically staid agency — long viewed as a third rail of government — have prompted widespread outcry given its crucial work: It delivers billions of dollars in retirement, survivor and...

President Trump moving student loans from the Education Department to the Small Business Administration (SBA) is rattling those affected, who say it is prime evidence that the White House has no real plan for its efforts to dismantle the Department of Education.   Trump signed an executive order Thursday seeking to wind down the Education Department, and he said student loans would move to the SBA the next day — the same day that agency announced it was cutting 40 percent of...

President Trump is invoking a "state secret privilege" and refusing to provide any additional information to the D.C. District Court judge involved in the high-profile Venezuelan migrant deportation case. Citing the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, the Trump administration recently deported hundreds of reported Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. As planes were in the middle of the trip, a federal judge ruled against the move, yet the administration continued the...

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