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A sign reading "Justice for Renee Nicole Good" lays next to LED candles during a protest.

Trump’s DOJ can’t be trusted to investigate killings by ICE agents. Here’s a better idea.

Mark Greenblatt

‘Clown show’: Obama addresses Trump’s racist video depicting him and his wife

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Remnants of signage for the US Agency for International Development (USAID) on the facade of the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center building on Dec. 29, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

Trump slashed hundreds of thousands of government jobs — here’s where hiring actually grew

Philip Bump

ICE is finally leaving Minnesota. But Tom Homan’s announcement added insult to serious injury.

Zeeshan Aleem

GOP voters support ICE — until a new detention center comes to town

Hayes Brown

DOJ investigating whether ICE officers lied about migrant’s shooting

Julianne McShane

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South Carolina’s measles outbreak has everything to do with why I’m challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham

Annie Andrews

A cable-stayed bridge.

Trump is trying to block a new border crossing. A billionaire donor may have something to do with it.

Debbie Stabenow

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwel

Lawmakers slam Justice Department’s defense of Epstein files redactions

Erum Salam

Casey Wasserman, the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics chief

LA28 Olympics chair Wasserman is latest casualty in Epstein fallout

Clarissa-Jan Lim

From left: White House “AI and Crypto Czar” David Scahs, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, President Donald Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, and Microsoft founder Bill Gates sit together at a dining table.

Democrats aim to make corporate America rethink Trump deals

Jacqueline Alemany

James Van Der Beek poses for a photo.

James Van Der Beek died with crushing medical debt. His family’s response is too familiar.

Dr. Omer Awan

Jim Jordan has his hands in his pockets while speaking to the reporters.

On Epstein files surveillance, Jim Jordan struggles with the basics of hypocrisy

Steve Benen

In a close-up shot, Joe Klecko's face is seen through his helmet.

Trump pardons 5 ex-NFL players, ‘pardon czar’ announces

Julianne McShane

A female protestor shouts as she carries a flag in the foreground where others follow her during a daytime demonstration.

The Trump administration bet Americans shared its bigotry. It bet wrong.

Chris Hayes

People raise a rainbow flag on a pole in a park. A crowd is gathered behind, watching and filming.

The Trump administration is now trying to erase gay history, too

Eugene Daniels

A customer places United States Postal Service (USPS) priority mail packages into a drop-off bin.

Trump falsely claims that the U.S. is ‘the only country that has mail-in ballots’

Steve Benen

Supporters of immigrants' rights march in downtown Washington, D.C. holding sign that reads "Immigrants Makes America Great."

Six charts that prove immigrants are an asset, not a liability, to American prosperity

Allison Detzel

Andrew Ferguson, chair of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), during a television interview.

Trump’s FTC presses Apple News to push pro-MAGA articles as his unpopularity grows

Ja'han Jones

Donald Trump, from below.

He was a U.S. attorney for four hours. Trump fired him.

Fallon Gallagher

Marco Rubio speaks at the Munich Security Conference

Rubio and AOC present dueling world visions at Munich security forum

David Rohde

The Capitol building with dark, ominous clouds in the background.

The Department of Homeland Security enters a shutdown — sort of

Mychael Schnell & Jack Fitzpatrick

FBI and local police search for Nancy Guthrie

SWAT teams assist search for Nancy Guthrie as investigators try to identify DNA

Clarissa-Jan Lim

Corey Lewandowski stands in a doorway. Blurred in the foreground, people work at their desks.

Longtime Trump adviser Lewandowski sought to carry a firearm at DHS, alarming officials

Laura Barrón-López & Didi Martinez

A close-up of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaking into a microphone.

RFK Jr. concedes ‘targeted cuts’ at HHS ‘would have been better’

Will McDuffie

FBI headquarters sign is seen between two American flags.

Concern rises within FBI that conspiracy theories spurred search of election office

Ken Dilanian

Mark Kelly smiling; Pete Hegseth looking down.

Pete Hegseth’s campaign against Mark Kelly is extraordinary. And this federal judge noticed.

Lt. Col. Rachel E. VanLandingham (ret.)

Don Lemon speaks after pleading not guilty: ‘I will not be silenced’

‘This did not go well for them’: Mayor Frey reacts as Minneapolis ICE surge ends

Trump donors ‘deeply unimpressed’ by Pam Bondi’s Epstein hearing: Investigative journalist

Trump’s approval drops to 36 percent in new polling

‘We will win’: Pelosi lauds Dems chances in midterms amid Trump’s dismal approval ratings

No arrests made after late night SWAT search near Nancy Guthrie’s home, sheriff says

Jared Kushner emerges as focus of intel whistleblower complaint about Gabbard

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  1. Students are seen on the campus of Columbia University.

    Columbia University admits ‘irregular process’ for Epstein girlfriend as files rock academia

    Ja'han Jones

  2. Russell Vought walks in daytime, followed by other people.

    Russ Vought helped gut USAID — then reportedly used its money for his security

    Ja'han Jones

  3. Federal agents hold a person by their arms and legs in the street.

    Trump’s self-inflicted poll catastrophe

    Michael A. Cohen

  4. People in focus in the background raise their hands; Pam Bondi out of focus in the foreground looks down.

    What Pam Bondi’s performance in the Epstein hearing obscured

    Duncan Levin

  5. An illustration of a black military style book breaking a judge's gavel

    Trump appears to be conducting an experiment to test the limits of lawlessness

    Zeeshan Aleem

  6. Pam Bondi behind a microphone, partially obscured by the desk in front of her.

    The moment from Pam Bondi’s hearing that could come back to haunt her

    Michael Steele

  7. Juan Pablo Guanipa, center, stands in the street, holding a Venezuelan flag up with one hand. He is surrounded by people on motorcycles.

    Venezuela’s rearrest of opposition figures should set off alarm bells in Washington

    Retired Amb. James Story

  8. President Donald Trump and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson during a press conference on April 12, 2024, in Palm Beach, FL.

    The House’s Canada tariff vote sent a message to Trump. But it won’t stop him.

    Marc Wheat

  9. Noam Chomsky (left) with wife Valeria Wasserman and Jeffrey Epstein (right) in an undated photo.

    The uncomfortable truth about Noam Chomsky’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein

    Zeeshan Aleem

  10. People are silhouetted before a screen that reads "AIPAC" and shows a visual of the American flag and the Israeli flag.

    The warning for AIPAC in Tom Malinowski’s primary loss

    Paul Waldman

  11. A person grabs a stack of mail-in ballots from a United States Postal Service tray of ballots.

    What’s really behind Pam Bondi’s bad-faith attempts to obtain state voter rolls?

    Hayes Brown

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