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In a new video, Capitol Hill Bureau Chief and Senior Washington Columnist Rachael Bade discusses the big question on everyone’s minds at the White House right now: Is President Donald Trump going to fire national security adviser Mike Waltz for sharing what looks like a war plan in a group chat? Waltz inadvertently added a reporter to a highly sensitive Signal conversation with himself and other top Trump officials, where they discussed U.S. plans to bomb the Houthis in Yemen. A person very close to the White House, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told POLITICO last night: “Everyone in the…

Sam Peterson is one of thousands of fired federal workers who was offered his job back under a judge’s order, but he didn’t jump at the chance to go back to his park ranger position at Washington state’s Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area.Instead, he quickly turned it down, opting to move with his wife to start a career outside the government at an Oregon museum.“We signed a lease Monday and who knows what the next few months would bring if I were to return to federal employment,” said Peterson, 26.Whether to return to the federal workforce is a decision confronting…

NEW YORK — The top Manhattan federal prosecutor who resigned over the Justice Department’s orders to drop the criminal case against New York City Mayor Eric Adams drafted a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi opposing the dismissal and asking to discuss the case with her directly.It’s not clear if Danielle Sassoon ever sent the undated letter, which was disclosed in court filings on Tuesday. But the draft shows that Sassoon, who was at the time the interim U.S. attorney for Manhattan, considered appealing directly to the Justice Department’s top official as she tried to safeguard the Adams case in…

Nearly 15 million people have voted for Ekrem Imamoglu as the Republican People’s Party’s candidate in Türkiye’s 2028 election Ekrem Imamoglu, the jailed former mayor of Istanbul and potential rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has secured the opposition party’s presidential nomination for the 2028 election, the Republican People’s Party (CHP) announced on Sunday.CHP chairman Ozgur Ozel said nearly 15 million people voted in the party’s primaries in support of Imamoglu’s candidacy, despite his arrest earlier this week.“The number of votes Mr. Ekrem Imamoglu received from our members and the solidarity ballot box is over 14.8 million,” Ozel said…

If this had not been attempted by Donald J. Trump, one could say the peace process in Ukraine would have been impossible to achieve. Yesterday saw the US and Russian delegations meet in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for technical-level talks on a Ukraine settlement. The American delegation included Michael Anton, the policy planning director under Secretary of State Marco Rubio, plus aides to the special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg and national security adviser Michael Waltz. The Russians sent Grigory Karasin, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs and Sergey Beseda, an advisor to the head of the Federal…

Andrew Burnap and Rachel Zegler in “Snow White.”Disney Enterprises, Inc. Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot’s Snow White opened with an estimated $43 million over the weekend, a disappointing take for Disney in comparison to many of the studio’s live-action adaptations from their classic animated originals. Zegler stars in the title role and Gadot as the Evil Queen in the live-action adaptation of the 1937 classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Snow White had an unusually bumpy road leading up to its release in theaters worldwide on Friday, largely stemming from controversies surrounding the production over the past three-plus years.…

U.S. President Donald Trump attends an event at the White House in Washington, D.C., the United … MoreXinhua News Agency via Getty Images The Trump administration has taken a series of executive actions during the last month that have upended the federal student loan system and plunged the future of repayment and student loan forgiveness programs into uncertainty. Millions of borrowers are already being impacted. But legal experts and student loan borrower advocacy groups have questioned the Trump administration’s recent orders. And several new legal challenges have now been filed against the administration in response to these actions. These lawsuits…

The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is forcing the Students Supporting Israel (SSI) group to pay a hefty $5,000 in security fees for “riot control” at its “Triggered” campus event featuring a panel of IDF soldiers, the student organization has announced. Students for Justice in Palestine and related groups have demanded the event be canceled. The event at UNC Charlotte, scheduled to place Tuesday evening, will feature speakers discussing “the importance of Israel defending itself from terror threats and misguided propaganda, and the way Israeli society stepped up to volunteer following October 7,” SSI said in a press release. But “despite SSI…

The “Tesla Takedown” movement, which organizes protests against against Elon Musk and his role in the Trump administration, is gearing up for its biggest demonstrations yet with protests planned around the world this weekend on its “global day of action.” USA Today reports that the Tesla Takedown movement, a growing backlash against Elon Musk and his involvement in the Trump administration and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is urging protesters to sell their Tesla vehicles, dump their stock, and join picket lines in front of Tesla locations worldwide. The movement’s website has declared Saturday March 29 as a “global…

Democrat Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) believes Democrats have to “punch” to win elections in Texas, stating that Republican politicians such as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) need to be “knocked over the head, like, hard.” Crockett made the remark during an interview with NBC 5’s Phil Prazan and Dallas Morning News’s Gromer Jeffers. She was asked, “How do you win elections in Texas as a Democrat? What do you do? Especially statewide.” “I think that you punch,” Crockett said, answering the question with colorful and violent imagery. “I think you punch. I think you’re ok with — you’re ok with punching.”…