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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s USDA reorganization, ruling that it likely ran afoul of congressional spending restrictions, even as both sides agreed part of the underlying law was unconstitutional.

Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home Monday as part of an immigration fraud investigation that administration officials have internally nicknamed “World War Eleven,” a reference to her own verbal slip in a 2025 press conference; Omar says the raid is political intimidation.

The Justice Department is probing ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News under antitrust law over an alleged coordinated boycott of White House events after President Trump banned CNN from the briefing room.

Michigan’s heavy reliance on cross-border auto trade with Canada makes it especially vulnerable to Trump’s escalating tariff fight, raising the risk of higher vehicle prices just as voters weigh a pivotal Senate race.

Trump’s new AI-driven government portal, America.gov, is meant to replace 29,000 separate federal websites — but users quickly found hidden features, including a hot-dog-shaped search bar and a bureaucracy-themed nod to a video game’s ending credits.

Vice President JD Vance says the administration is pursuing executive action to stop companies from using the H-1B visa program to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labor.

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to pause a Massachusetts judge’s order blocking the Trump administration’s deportations of illegal aliens to third countries, and agreed to hear the case in December.

President Trump has cancelled Biden-era fuel economy standards that would have pushed automakers toward roughly 50 mpg by 2031, promising lower car prices and manufacturing investment in the Midwest and South.

CNN was excluded from the White House’s official press pool for President Trump’s Saturday trip to a Tennessee-Texas football game in Knoxville, just hours after a federal judge had restored the network’s access to White House grounds.

A Missouri senator introduced legislation Tuesday night that would permanently establish the National Fraud Enforcement Division, a Trump administration unit created inside the Department of Justice to root out fraud in federal programs, betting that Senate Democrats will follow House colleagues who already backed the idea. Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo.