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Who Is Todd Blanche, Trump’s Acting Attorney General?

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Alan Feuer
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.

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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.

Who Is Todd Blanche, Trump’s Interim Attorney General?

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Alan Feuer
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.

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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 Dave Cometh. But Why Is It Called That?

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Jonathan Wolfe
The conventions for naming storms are complicated by a mishmash of rules, national quirks and language barriers.

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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.

Planning Commission Approves Trump’s Ballroom, but Legal Roadblocks Remain

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Luke Broadwater
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.

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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.

Part Enabler, Part Buffer: The Bind of the Justice Dept.’s No. 2

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Glenn Thrush and Alan Feuer
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.

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Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, has been willing to blur the line between public servant and personal lawyer for President Trump.

War With Iran Clarifies Trump’s Spending Priorities: The Military, Not Child Care

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Alan Rappeport
As the White House prepares to release its 2027 budget, President Trump said military protection, not social programs, took precedence.

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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.”

In Supreme Court Birthright Citizenship Case, Trump’s Likely Loss May Not End the Fight

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Adam Liptak
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.

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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.

Trump Fires Pam Bondi as Attorney General

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Tyler Pager
Todd Blanche, Ms. Bondi’s deputy, will be the acting attorney general, according to a person familiar with the decision.

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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.

Tina Peters, Colorado Election Denier, Will Have Prison Sentence Reconsidered

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Jack Healy and Nick Corasaniti
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.

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Tina Peters, the former clerk in Mesa County, Colo., had been convicted of tampering with voting machines that were under her control.
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