While it remains unclear how long Todd Blanche will stay in the job, whoever ends up taking over permanently will lead a department that he has shaped in his own image.
Todd Blanche with Pam Bondi. Mr. Blanche has enabled the wholesale politicization of the Justice Department, but also held off some of the president’s most impulsive efforts to open criminal cases unsupported by the evidence.
President Trump at the Oval Office on Tuesday. Mr. Trump celebrated the destruction of a bridge connecting Tehran and Karaj, Iran, in a social media post on Thursday.
While it remains unclear how long Todd Blanche will stay in the job, whoever ends up taking over permanently will lead a department that he has shaped in his own image.
Todd Blanche with Pam Bondi. Mr. Blanche has enabled the wholesale politicization of the Justice Department, but also held off some of the president’s most impulsive efforts to open criminal cases unsupported by the evidence.
Storm Bram brought heavy rain and high winds in Carnlough, Northern Ireland, in December 2025. Storm Dave is headed to the United Kingdom this weekend.
Brady Ebert, a founding member of the Baltimore hardcore punk band, hit the father of Brendan Yates, the group’s lead vocalist, with his car, the police said.
The board had been expected to vote to approve the project last month, but it was delayed after about 32,000 mostly negative comments rolled in from across the country.
Will Scharf, who was appointed by President Trump as the chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission, at a meeting to approve the White House ballroom plans on Thursday.
The move could unlock more federal research into how drinking water can be treated to remove pollutants, but it may also lead to costly new standards for water utilities.
Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has helped usher in President Trump’s retribution campaign. But he faces anger on the right for resisting some of the most extreme measures.
A coalition of legal groups claims the Homeland Security Department adopted an unconstitutional policy allowing its agents to enter homes without a judicial warrant.
President Trump faces the possibility that at the end of his own two-to-three week window for wrapping up the war in Iran, nothing much will have changed.
A building in Tehran damaged by airstrikes. This week, President Trump said: “It’s not possible for us to take care of day care, Medicaid, Medicare, all of these individual things, they can do it on a state basis.”
The justices seems poised to rule against the president’s birthright citizenship plan. He is already furious over their decision rejecting his tariffs program.
The justices gave respectful consideration to what was once a fringe theory and could rule against it on grounds that would allow Congress to return to the question.
After Supreme Court arguments on Wednesday, there were reasons to think the justices would deal President Trump’s efforts to limit birthright citizenship just a setback rather than a death blow.
Mr. Trump has been souring on Ms. Bondi for months, especially because of her handling of the Epstein files, which has become a political liability for Mr. Trump among his supporters.
In the Supreme Court’s oral arguments, lawyers and justices cited a litany of cases reflecting how long it took for Asians to win the right to be American.
Ms. Peters, a former county clerk, received a nine-year sentence after being convicted of tampering with voting machines. An appeals court overturned the sentence but did not immediately free her from prison.
It was not clear whether the talks, expected to involve dozens of countries, would satisfy President Trump’s demand that other nations take a more active part in the Iran war.
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