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Epstein survivors implore Congress to act as push for disclosure builds

By STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 03, 2025 3:25 pm - WASHINGTON — Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse made their voices heard Wednesday on Capitol Hill, pressuring lawmakers to force the release of the sex trafficki...
Trump administration use of National Guard in LA violated law, judge rules

By Mark Berman
Sep 02, 2025 7:14 pm - The Trump administration illegally used National Guard troops it deployed to Los Angeles this summer amid protests over immigration raids, willfully violating a law that ...
Trump says US strike on vessel in Caribbean targeted Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, killed 11

By AAMER MADHANI, KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and REGINA GARCIA CANO
Sep 02, 2025 6:55 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday the U.S. has carried out a strike in the southern Caribbean against a drug-carrying vessel that departed from Venezuela a...
Trump announces that Space Command is moving from Colorado to Alabama

By SEUNG MIN KIM and KIM CHANDLER
Sep 02, 2025 6:53 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that U.S. Space Command will be located in Alabama, reversing a Biden-era decision to keep it at its temporary he...
House Oversight Committee releases some Justice Department files in Epstein and Maxwell cases

By STEPHEN GROVES
Sep 02, 2025 6:43 pm - WASHINGTON — The House Oversight Committee on Tuesday publicly posted the files it has received from the Justice Department on the sex trafficking investigations into Jef...
Pentagon authorizes up to 600 military lawyers to serve as temporary immigration judges

By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN
Sep 02, 2025 6:37 pm - WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has approved sending up to 600 military lawyers to the Justice Department to serve as temporary immigration judges, according ...
ICE reactivates contract with previously banned spyware vendor

By Joseph Menn
Sep 02, 2025 6:25 pm - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has resumed doing business with a controversial hacking company that had been dropped for running afoul of a Biden-era executive order against dealings with unethical spyware vendors.A public notice on a government contracting site dated Aug. 29 said that a previous $2 million contract with Paragon Solutions had been modified “to lift the stop work order” that was issued last year.
Trump says he will order federal intervention in Chicago and Baltimore despite local opposition

By WILL WEISSERT and SOPHIA TAREEN
Sep 02, 2025 6:09 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he will direct federal law enforcement intervention to combat crime in Chicago and Baltimore, despite staunch opposi...
Over 450 economists back Cook, Fed independence in open letter

By Jonnelle Marte
Sep 02, 2025 4:00 pm - Prominent economists are rallying behind Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook after President Donald Trump moved to fire her based on allegations that she committed mortgage fraud.More than 450 economists signed an open letter backing Cook, saying there is a high bar for removing Fed governors and that elected officials should refrain from actions and rhetoric that erode the central bank’s independence.
Trump’s BLS nominee discussed controversial theory on gender IQ with interns

By Jacob Bogage
Sep 02, 2025 3:58 pm - President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics shared a controversial scientific theory of inherent differences in intellect between men and women during remarks to a conservative think tank’s interns last year, according to two people familiar with the remarks.

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