Jan. 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EST The federal government’s aggressive immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis is looking more and more like a siege on a city than an effort to enforce the law there. Masked Immigration and

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Jan. 17, 2026, 6:00 AM EST By  Helaine Olen The latest example of Trumpian economic cluelessness came this week courtesy of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. While promoting the new federal nutrition guidelines on Thursday, Rollins — estimated

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Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. Supreme Court justices were back on the bench holding hearings this week, most prominently in the appeal over bans on transgender women and girls in sports. They also issued three rulings, including one that

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Jan. 16, 2026, 4:26 PM EST President Donald Trump’s authoritarian fantasies and economic destruction successfully chased Canada into China’s waiting embrace on Friday. Trump has made lofty promises to restore global respect for the United States, which

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Jan. 15, 2026, 5:22 PM EST Kari Lake — the figurehead tapped by Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, or USAGM, where her leadership may not even be legally sanctioned — admitted this

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Jan. 15, 2026, 4:52 PM EST On Thursday morning, President Donald Trump suggested — not for the first time — that unrest in Minneapolis might prompt him to invoke the Insurrection Act, allowing him to deploy active-duty

Jan. 14, 2026, 6:46 PM EST The Trump administration is considering sending federal immigration enforcement to Maine to target Somali immigrants in the coming weeks, according to two people familiar with the planning. The operation is being

Jan. 14, 2026, 6:36 PM EST When five Senate Republicans voted with Democrats last week to advance a resolution to restrict President Donald Trump’s military authority in Venezuela, it looked like a significant rebuke of the administration.

Jan. 13, 2026, 10:17 PM EST WASHINGTON & NUUK — The Danish and Greenlandic foreign ministers plan to tell Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a White House meeting on Wednesday that

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The Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over state bans on transgender athletes in women’s and girls’ sports. The court’s forthcoming rulings in the two argued cases from Idaho and West Virginia could affect similar laws in 25 other states