President Donald Trump said Friday that he is nominating the government economist Brett Matsumoto to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, after having previously accused the federal agency of releasing low monthly jobs numbers in order to make him look bad. There is no evidence that the Bureau of Labor Statistics sought to undermine Trump with its data releases, but a string of revisions to prior reports this summer showed that the job market weakened after Trump returned to White House and he fired its director in August. The president has maintained that the BLS is a troubled agency that had been led by “WEAK and STUPID people,” according to a Friday night social media post.

A federal judge on Friday blocked certain federal agencies from requesting citizenship status when distributing voter registration forms, the latest blow to a wide-ranging executive order on elections President Donald Trump signed last year. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington ruled that the Constitution's separation of powers, giving states and to an extent Congress authority over setting election rules, are at the heart of the case. Specifically, Kollar-Kotelly permanently blocked two provisions of the executive order that sought to impose proof-of-citizenship rules.

A huge new tranche of files on millionaire financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein released Friday revealed details of his communications with the wealthy and powerful, some not long before he died by suicide in 2019. The Justice Department said it was disclosing more than 3 million pages of documents, as well as thousands of videos and photos, as required by a law passed by Congress. The documents show Epstein exchanged hundreds of friendly texts with Steve Bannon, a top adviser to President Donald Trump, some months before Epstein's death.

The Senate voted Friday to fund most of the government through the end of September after President Donald Trump made a deal with Democrats to carve out Homeland Security funding and allow Congress ...

Deputy Attorney General—and, of course, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense attorney—Todd Blanche begrudgingly made a television appearance Friday to say that, fine, the Justice ...

Rock legend Bruce Springsteen dropped a lyric video following the release of his protest song , "Streets of Minneapolis," a blunt condemnation of federal immigration agents’ abuses in Minnesota.�

Kari Lake hasn’t really been top of mind as of late, as her current task of destroying the once-venerable Voice of America doesn’t dovetail neatly with the Trump administration’s current ...

oil majors Exxon Mobil and Chevron offered investors a few pieces of new insight into their thinking about Venezuela on Friday, even though neither company announced long-term investment commitments despite President Donald Trump's continued push to convince American oil firms to rebuild the South American country's energy sector. Exxon CEO Darren Woods plugged his company's technological capability to potentially extract Venezuela's traditionally expensive heavy crude for a lower cost, while

Seven people, including former CNN anchor Don Lemon and another journalist — have been charged with violating two different federal laws in connection with the protest that interrupted a worship service at a Minnesota church earlier this month. The group that barged into a worship service that Sunday was upset that the head of a local field office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serves as a pastor. The protest was quickly denounced by President Donald Trump, Attorney General Pam Bondi and other officials, as well as many religious leaders.

President Donald Trump held a press conference Friday to offer up yet another�fact-free retelling of recent history. “Elections have consequences. The people want law and order, and we have a ...

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As Americans watch in horror as immigration goons are jailing innocent kids and killing U.S. citizens who dare to exercise their ...

Demonstrators in Minneapolis and other U.S. cities participated in protests as part of a "national shutdown" to end immigration enforcement operations.

Federal prosecutors can’t seek the death penalty against Luigi Mangione in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a federal judge ruled Friday, foiling the Trump administration’...

The film Donald Trump believes everyone has been waiting for finally hit theaters on Friday after an awkward black carpet premiere at the Kennedy Center Thursday night. Famously absent first lady ...

With the House not voting until Monday, the Pentagon and most domestic agencies are set to shutter briefly.

President Donald Trump continued to flood the zone with horrific news Friday, this time by nominating a hack who got literally everything wrong during the 2008 financial crisis to serve as Federal ...

Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins appeared on Fox News Friday, where she boasted about the GOP budget cuts that have successfully removed about 1.75 million Americans from ...

Agricultural Secretary Brooke Rollins appeared on Fox News Friday, where she boasted about the GOP budget cuts that have successfully removed about 1.75 million Americans from ...

They are increasingly castigating what they say are systematic legal and constitutional abuses by the administration.