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Monday, October 12, 2026 · Evening Edition

Federal immigration agents searched the Washington home of Rep. Ilhan Omar on Monday , in a probe sources say centers on immigration paperwork her late father completed when she was a child.

Monday, October 12, 2026 · Morning Edition

With November's midterms bearing down, Donald Trump has turned to Russian diesel to ease a supply crunch — a move analysts say is unlikely to make a dent on prices .

Sunday, October 11, 2026 · Evening Edition

Homeland Security chief Mullin brushed aside alarm over the plan to live-stream a military execution , telling critics "No one has to watch it," as lawmakers warned of martyrdom and morality — a killing Defense…

Sunday, October 11, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration is remaking the Justice Department's civil rights division into an instrument of the president's agenda.

Saturday, October 10, 2026 · Evening Edition

The war Washington keeps expanding is also a war it keeps hiding.

Saturday, October 10, 2026 · Morning Edition

One year after Hamas released the remaining Israeli hostages and President Trump promised an end to the war, Palestinians say the past twelve months have been a ceasefire in name only .

Friday, October 9, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Trump administration is planning a public killing , a state execution; Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke from a stage in Sparrows Point, Maryland, on October 6.

Friday, October 9, 2026 · Morning Edition

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has demanded that Trump end ICE operations in the city after a shooting , a confrontation that tests the friendship between the mayor and the President.

Thursday, October 8, 2026 · Evening Edition

Federal agents shot a person in New York City on Thursday , and no official would say which agency pulled the trigger.

Thursday, October 8, 2026 · Morning Edition

Family separation is back — not as an announced policy but as just another devastating consequence of the president's mass deportation agenda , the same cruelty rebuilt to dodge the backlash the first version drew.

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · Evening Edition

The clearest statement of intent came not from the White House but from one of its boosters: on his own show, MAGA host Benny Johnson celebrated Donald Trump's proposed census changes — excluding undocumented…

Wednesday, October 7, 2026 · Morning Edition

For three years, as MS NOW argues , Palestinians and their supporters have been told they are free to protest — just not here, not like this, not with those words; Gaza has become a stress test for Western democracy…

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · Evening Edition

The sharpest story today is the state's violence against the people it governs.

Tuesday, October 6, 2026 · Morning Edition

More than 500 U.S. citizens have been detained in Trump's immigration crackdown, some handcuffed or held at gunpoint .

Monday, October 5, 2026 · Evening Edition

Donald Trump's approval has collapsed to a record-low 32% in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll , his own 2024 voters peeling away, even as he insists 'I'm doing great' .

Monday, October 5, 2026 · Morning Edition

The Brazilian right came within reach of toppling the left: Flávio Bolsonaro surged to a surprise first-round lead over Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, taking about 47% of the vote to Lula's roughly 45% with counting nearly…

Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Pentagon pulled all 12 B-1 bombers this weekend from Britain's RAF Fairford air base back to their home stations in the US , weeks after an alleged terror threat against a US-operated post in England.

Sunday, October 4, 2026 · Morning Edition

Donald Trump spent Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, predicting a "big surprise" for Republicans in a choppy midterm climate, stumping for Jon Husted in a tight Senate race against Sherrod Brown and the state's other…

Saturday, October 3, 2026 · Evening Edition

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signaled Saturday that some US troops could be pulled from Europe and redeployed to the Western Hemisphere as the administration ramps up its deadly campaign against drug cartels in South…

Saturday, October 3, 2026 · Morning Edition

Tennessee carried out a botched execution , a reminder that capital punishment, on the wane nationally, survives wherever a shrinking number of places still keep the machinery running.

Friday, October 2, 2026 · Evening Edition

Donald Trump is preparing to flood the airwaves with "many more" taxpayer-funded ads , CNN's Arlette Saenz reported Friday, as the administration scrambles to steady Republican nerves a month out from the midterms.

Friday, October 2, 2026 · Morning Edition

Working people across Europe took another hit as annual euro zone inflation reached 3.8% last month, its highest level since September 2023 .

Thursday, October 1, 2026 · Evening Edition

Tennessee tried to kill Christa Pike on Wednesday and failed.

Thursday, October 1, 2026 · Morning Edition

The Supreme Court opened its new term by taking up a case that could shield oil companies from climate accountability , threatening a yearslong legal campaign and dozens of lawsuits seeking to hold the industry…

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Iran war is driving up inflation and fuel prices , and the party it is sinking is scrambling to shield itself at the ballot box rather than the working people paying at the pump.

Wednesday, September 30, 2026 · Morning Edition

For the third time in less than two years, the Trump administration returns to court on Wednesday to defend its power to wage a punishing global trade war .

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump's war on Iran is going badly.

Tuesday, September 29, 2026 · Morning Edition

The private prison company that ran an Arizona lockup where, a whistleblower says, the warden failed to make a federally required disclosure of a sexual abuse allegation against a staffer is now reopening the site as…

Monday, September 28, 2026 · Evening Edition

President Donald Trump's war in Iran has exposed a "growing vulnerability" with no easy solution, argues Max Boot, a Washington Post columnist and Council on Foreign Relations member, in a new op-ed.

Monday, September 28, 2026 · Morning Edition

Seven months into the war Donald Trump started with Iran , the president insists he has an off-ramp and refuses to take it.

Sunday, September 27, 2026 · Evening Edition

The federal Office of Civil Rights has been hollowed out by staff cuts, closed offices and restructuring, leaving parents of children with disabilities waiting longer at what is often their last stop against…

Sunday, September 27, 2026 · Morning Edition

British police arrested several men on suspicion of explosives offences on Sunday near an air base that the United States Air Force had been using to facilitate strikes on Iran, with vehicles searched.

Saturday, September 26, 2026 · Evening Edition

The administration is handing carmakers a windfall at the planet's expense.

Saturday, September 26, 2026 · Morning Edition

The White House on Friday evening moved to rescind over $800 million in congressionally appropriated funds across a range of government programs.

Friday, September 25, 2026 · Evening Edition

For the third time this month , the Supreme Court refused to let Republicans force a Trump-backed Missouri map onto November's ballot, ending a long-running dispute as absentee voting is already under way .

Friday, September 25, 2026 · Morning Edition

As juvenile crime falls and youth prisons close across the country, Tennessee is building more of them .

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · Evening Edition

President Trump hosted Xi Jinping at the White House on the Chinese leader's first trip to Washington in more than a decade, holding two meetings with AI, trade, Iran and Taiwan atop the agenda before a state dinner.

Thursday, September 24, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration's deportation machine has found a new method.

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · Evening Edition

The Navy has admitted that suicide attempts aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group climbed to eight during its combat deployment, far above what carriers usually see .

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · Morning Edition

The administration told a federal court late Tuesday that barring CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House is within Trump's rights, calling the outlets' access a “privilege” and citing national security .

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Evening Edition

New Jersey regulators fined a data center more than $1 million after a state inspection found 62 natural-gas generators operating without required environmental permits — the fossil-fueled underside of an AI buildout…

Tuesday, September 22, 2026 · Morning Edition

The FBI's anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way , ProPublica reports.

Monday, September 21, 2026 · Evening Edition

The administration has barred reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, a move the Committee to Protect Journalists' CEO Jodie Ginsberg says echoes rhetoric used by autocrats .

Monday, September 21, 2026 · Morning Edition

The message came on August 7, as Jeanne was finishing a shift at a restaurant in the suburbs of Charlotte, North Carolina: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services had terminated her legal status and her work permit,…

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Evening Edition

A federal immigration agent shot and wounded a man in Austin, Texas , hitting him at least once in the torso and leaving him in serious but stable condition.

Sunday, September 20, 2026 · Morning Edition

As markets wobble, the president is pouring his family's money into the AI economy while resisting calls to slow it down — and his own decisions on AI policy could affect the value of those holdings.

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Evening Edition

Trump has barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House grounds over coverage he calls "fake news", and threatens more bans; news outlets have closed ranks in solidarity .

Saturday, September 19, 2026 · Morning Edition

Newly surfaced contracts show the drug-pricing deals the administration sold as wins for patients were written for the companies.

Friday, September 18, 2026 · Evening Edition

Federal immigration authorities have driven arrests to fresh highs by shifting from high-profile raids to quieter collaboration with state and local police , trading spectacle for reach and drawing fewer of the…

Friday, September 18, 2026 · Morning Edition

The heaviest story is the slow collapse of Donald Trump's second administration.