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FBI fires senior officials, including former acting head

By Jeremy Roebuck, Ellen Nakashima and Perry Stein
Aug 07, 2025 3:32 pm - The FBI has forced out at least two senior officials, including the bureau’s former acting director, in its latest purge of leaders who drew the ire of right-wing supporters of President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the dismissals.
Krishnamoorthi leading investigation into license plate readers

By Steve Zalusky
Aug 07, 2025 2:08 pm - U.S. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi is demanding answers from the leading provider of automatic license plate readers about the use of their cameras to gain information about immigrants and those seeking abortion services.
Underwood: ICE ‘completely unresponsive’ after enforcement in Joliet

By Felix Sarver
Aug 07, 2025 11:57 am - U.S. Rep. Lauren Underwood told a crowd during a Joliet town hall that she has received no response from top federal officials regarding a report of a “reckless” immigration enforcement incident in the city.
GOP Sen. Cornyn says FBI will help locate Texas Democratic lawmakers

By Dylan Wells & Molly Hennessy-Fiske
Aug 07, 2025 11:06 am - Sen. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, said Thursday that the FBI had granted his request for the agency to assist Texas law enforcement in locating Democratic state lawmakers who have left the state to stall a Trump-backed effort to redraw the state’s congressional map.
Trump’s push for drilling, mining sharpens debate for Alaska Natives about land they view as sacred

By PETER SMITH
Aug 07, 2025 6:45 am - When Alaska Natives debate proposals to drill and mine the landscape of the nation’s largest state, it involves more than an environmental or economic question. It’s also a spiritual and cultural one.
Trump to meet Putin soon, the Kremlin says as a White House deadline looms on Ukraine

By DASHA LITVINOVA and BARRY HATTON
Aug 07, 2025 6:41 am - A meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump has been agreed, a Kremlin official said Thursday, the eve of a White House deadline for Moscow to show progress toward ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.
Trump’s broad tariffs go into effect, just as economic pain is surfacing

By JOSH BOAK
Aug 07, 2025 6:37 am - President Donald Trump began levying higher import taxes on dozens of countries Thursday, just as the economic fallout of his monthslong tariff threats has begun to create visible damage for the U.S. economy.
UCLA says Trump administration has suspended $584 million in grants, threatening research

By JULIE WATSON
Aug 06, 2025 7:01 pm - The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants for the University of California, Los Angeles, nearly double the amount that was previously thought,...
Gabbard overrode CIA officials’ concerns in push to release classified Russia report

By Warren P. Strobel
Aug 06, 2025 3:58 pm - The Trump administration pushed to unveil a highly classified document on Russia’s interference in the 2016 election after an intense behind-the-scenes struggle over secr...
Trump to put additional 25% import taxes on India, bringing combined tariffs to 50%

By JOSH BOAK, RAJESH ROY and FATIMA HUSSEIN
Aug 06, 2025 12:14 pm - President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to place an additional 25% tariff on India for its purchases of Russian oil, bringing the combined tariffs imposed by the United States on its ally to 50%.

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