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FBI Director Kash Patel says the bureau is cutting ties with two organizations that for decades have tracked domestic extremism and racial and religious bias, a move that follows complaints about the groups from some conservatives and prominent allies of President Donald Trump

Federal agents have detained several people near an immigration facility outside Chicago

During the 1 October 2025 shutdown, the White House comment line plays a recorded message from Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt blaming Democrats, raising Hatch Act questions and widening a partisan communications push across agencies.

The president has been rapidly intensifying military operations on United States soil during his second term. Generals need to say something

Kristi Noem reportedly promises ‘surge’ of Ice resources to city after rightwing commentator arrested over police fight

Project 2025 is a conservative blueprint pushing major executive orders. Here's how it ties to Trump, the shutdown, and the future of US governance.

President and his defence chief took aim at the ‘fat generals’, but some doubted there was much substance to the swagger on show

Democratic and Republican proposals fail to cross 60-vote threshold as impasse persists and Trump plots more cuts

The US government shutdown appeared likely to stretch into next week as senators prepared Friday to vote for a fourth time on a funding fix proposed by Donald Trump's Republicans that has little hope of success.