The Pentagon said Monday that internet pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were mistakenly taken down — but staunchly defended its overall campaign to strip out content singling out the contributions by women and minority groups, which the Trump administration considers “DEI.” A Defense Department webpage honoring Black Medal of Honor recipient Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers was taken down last week. The department actually temporarily changed the web address to insert “deimedal-of-honor”, which then led to a “404 - Page not found" message, according to a screenshot captured by the Internet Archive on March 15.
Donald Trump Jr. told Republicans at a Monday rally that a win in Wisconsin's high-stakes Supreme Court race is imperative to protect his father's agenda and maintain GOP momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms and the next presidential election. President Donald Trump's oldest son appeared with right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk at the event organized by Turning Point USA, a conservative youth group Kirk founded. Trump Jr. urged supporters of his father to vote in the lower-turnout Supreme Court election in two weeks.
Judge James Boasberg is demanding answers about the three planes that rushed Venezuelan nationals from the U.S. to El Salvador over the weekend.
Some former U.S. officials would like the president to cancel it altogether.
The Kremlin confirmed on Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin would talk to U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on Tuesday. Trump had said earlier that he planned to speak to Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine after what he said had been positive talks between Steve Witkoff, his special envoy, and Putin in Moscow. Trump said a lot of work had been done over the weekend and he thought Washington had a very good chance of bringing the Ukraine war to an end.
Former presidents, their spouses (except when the spouse re-marries) receive lifelong Secret Service protection.
The request comes on top of a $3.44 billion loan proposed last week, with costs for undocumented residents running higher than expected.
US President Donald Trump on Monday picked Michelle Bowman to be the Federal Reserve's next vice chair for supervision, tapping someone seen as favoring a lighter touch to banking regulation."We applaud President Trump's nomination of Governor Michelle Bowman to serve as the Federal Reserve's next vice chair for supervision, and we urge the Senate to quickly confirm her," ABA President Rob Nichols said in a statement.
Mexican authorities say they have arrested Francisco Javier Román-Bardales, an alleged leader of the MS-13 gang who is on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
A Brown University assistant professor and doctor was deported over the weekend from Boston to Lebanon after federal agents found photos of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iran’s supreme leader on her cell phone, a source familiar with the case told CNN.
US President Donald Trump said Tuesday he is withdrawing Hunter Biden's government bodyguards, extending his campaign of political retribution to Joe Biden's son.In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump asserted that Hunter Biden's security detail is composed of as many as 18 people, calling it "ridiculous."
The president’s order will remove security details totaling about 30 agents that protect the former president’s adult children.
Days after deadly fires swept across Oklahoma, Andrine Shufran and her husband spent Monday raking through the ashes of their home in a neighborhood that she said “looks like a checkerboard” as officials warned that high winds this week will again raise wildfire risk in the state. Over 400 homes were severely damaged or destroyed in the outbreak of wildfires that started Friday in Oklahoma. While calm weather over the weekend helped crews get a handle on most wildfires burning across Texas and Oklahoma, forecasters at the National Weather Service said extremely critical fire weather conditions were expected Tuesday over an area spanning from southeastern New Mexico through the Texas Panhandle and into western Oklahoma.
Harvard undergraduate tuition will be free for students from families making $200,000 or less, starting next fall, the university announced Monday in its latest effort to provide an Ivy League education to those who might otherwise be priced out.
The Trump administration said on Monday it plans to permanently allow U.S. poultry and pork processing plants to operate more quickly, raising concerns among advocacy groups about worker health and food safety. The U.S. Department of Agriculture decision is a victory for meat companies and industry associations such as the National Chicken Council, which have advocated for faster processing line speeds. However, it adds to health concerns about slaughterhouse workers, who often perform repetitive tasks with sharp knives and toil in extreme heat or cold.
The issue du jour is deportations, but the question has been a constant of Donald Trump’s presidencies: Is the president acting withing the Constitution?
The president's appointments include Michael Flynn, Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon's daughter.
The defense ministers of Syria and Lebanon agreed to a ceasefire on Monday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported, after cross-border attacks left 10 dead and more than 50 wounded.
US stock futures held steady as Wall Street digested a second day of gains and braced for the Federal Reserve's next policy meeting.
U.S. Commerce department bureaus informed staffers in recent weeks that Chinese artificial intelligence model DeepSeek is banned on their government devices, according to a message seen by Reuters and two people familiar with the matter. "To help keep Department of Commerce information systems safe, access to the new Chinese based AI DeepSeek is broadly prohibited on all GFE," said one mass email to staffers about their government-furnished equipment. The Commerce department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.