Vote on Pete Hegseth’s impeachment is on the way — and it probably won’t be the last
When House Republicans made a surprise announcement in mid-September, sending members home early and abandoning plans for a busy September,...
Steve Benen
The Trump administration keeps clashing with faith communities
Last week, a judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to release the Rev. Edward Nalwamba, a Ugandan priest who...
Trump administration sues to block possible Democratic win in Alaska Senate race
After months of arguments, a state judge in Alaska ruled in late June that retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan could...
Kennedy’s HHS appears to have been caught misusing AI — for the fourth time
It seemed like a straightforward task. The Department of Health and Human Services set out to file an argument in...
Trump’s DOJ prosecutes key Virginia Democrat, generating difficult questions
Virginia Senate President Pro Tempore L. Louise Lucas is generally known to national audiences as the Democratic leader who spearheaded...
Thursday’s Mini-Report, 10.22.26
Today’s edition of quick hits. * An intensifying outbreak: “The Ebola epidemic that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo...
Judge orders Trump to sit for deposition in his own BBC defamation case
At a distance, it’s tempting to think Donald Trump would want his defamation case against the BBC to move forward...
Hillary Clinton joins growing chorus in support of Supreme Court expansion
By any fair measure, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has long been at roughly the center of the Democratic...
FEMA chief tells states they shouldn’t count on disaster aid under Trump
By any fair measure, Donald Trump’s second term has been brutal for the Federal Emergency Management Agency for a variety...
Trump’s fixation on transactional politics becomes an election season scandal
A group of veterans has made very serious claims about contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, a U.S. Marine Corps training...
