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Trump floats an unusual Republican National Convention before the midterms

By Patrick Svitek
Aug 28, 2025 7:35 pm - President Donald Trump suggested Thursday that the Republican Party host a national convention before next year’s midterm elections to highlight its talent, an unusual move that Democrats are also considering.
Federal judge blocks Trump administration from removing Voice of America director

Aug 28, 2025 7:34 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from removing Michael Abramowitz as director of Voice of America, the government-run news outlet...
CDC leaders who resigned said RFK Jr. undermined vaccine science, risking lives

By Lena H. Sun, Lauren Weber and David Ovalle
Aug 28, 2025 7:24 pm - As the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reeled from the ousting of its director, three senior leaders who resigned in protest told The Washington Post they were...
CDC gets new acting director as leadership turmoil leaves agency reeling

By MIKE STOBBE, AMANDA SEITZ and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Aug 28, 2025 6:32 pm - NEW YORK — The nation’s top public health agency was left reeling Thursday as the White House worked to expel the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director and ...
US economy grows 3.3% in second quarter, government says, in second estimate of April-June growth

By PAUL WISEMAN
Aug 28, 2025 2:18 pm - The U.S. economy rebounded this spring from a first-quarter downturn due to fallout from President Donald Trump’s trade wars.
Trump administration asks military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations

Aug 28, 2025 9:12 am - President Donald Trump's administration has asked a military base outside Chicago for support on immigration operations, the base said Thursday, signaling a push to expand its law enforcement crackdown to other cities.
Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook sues Trump administration to block her attempted firing

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER
Aug 28, 2025 8:52 am - Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook has sued the Trump administration in an effort to overturn the president’s attempt to fire her, launching an unprecedented legal battle that could significantly reshape the Fed’s longstanding political independence.
‘We’ve been fighting crime,’ Pritzker tells AP during tour of city to counter Trump’s crime claims

By SOPHIA TAREEN
Aug 28, 2025 8:00 am - Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime, showing off parts of the city where violent crime has decreased and saying sending in the National Guard could only escalate problems.
Mystery surrounds $1.2 billion Army contract to build huge detention tent camp in Texas desert

By MICHAEL BIESECKER and JOSHUA GOODMAN
Aug 28, 2025 7:12 am - When President Donald Trump's administration last month awarded a contract worth up to $1.2 billion to build and operate what it says will become the nation’s largest immigration detention complex, it didn’t turn to a large government contractor or even a firm that specializes in private prisons.
Trump, Gabbard purged top CIA Russia expert days after Alaska summit

By Warren P. Strobel, Ellen Nakashima, Greg Miller and Karen DeYoung
Aug 27, 2025 10:38 pm - In the days leading up to President Donald Trump’s Aug. 15 Alaska summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, one of the CIA’s senior-most Russia experts worked gruelin...

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