The House speaker first panned, then endorsed, then punted on, then pitched and now is delaying a bill to reopen the Homeland Security Department, showing his vulnerability in the face of party rifts.
Speaker Mike Johnson has defined his role as a tool to further President Trump’s power and cheerlead his agenda, and in turn relied on the president to help him corral Republicans on tough votes.
President Trump has been talking about the emergency facility beneath what was once the East Wing, details of which are usually kept secret, as he tries to justify his renovation.
Biruté Galdikas at her research camp in Borneo. She established it in 1971 in a remote rainforest without transportation and communication services but with plenty of leeches, malarial mosquitoes, wild pigs and king cobras.
The Hershey Company said it would return to using “classic milk and dark chocolate recipes” in all of its products by 2027, adding that it was responding to consumer preferences.
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.
Iran state media said eight people had been killed in the attack and dozens wounded. A local official said the bridge, in the mountains, was not yet in operation and that the people had been nearby when the attack happened.
President Trump at the Oval Office on Tuesday. Mr. Trump celebrated a strike on a bridge between 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.
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