Politics

After a lengthy investigation into remaining questions about the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department and FBI today released a memo declaring that, contrary to various popular conspiracy theories, he was not murdered but in fact killed himself. Investigators also concluded that he never had a “client list” …

In the aftermath of President Donald Trump’s unlawful transfer of hundreds of migrants to a torture prison in El Salvador, the administration claimed that it had no legal authority to bring them back to the United States. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele claimed, in turn, that he did not “have the …

Experts are concerned about the dangerous conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigrant detention center that opened Tuesday in the Florida Everglades. Hurricanes, flooding, and mosquitoes pose a more likely threat to people incarcerated there than the alligators and snakes that President Donald Trump has “joked” about. Built in eight days, …

As lawmakers drafted what is poised to become the landmark legislative achievement of his second term, President Donald Trump told Republicans in Congress in May, “Don’t fuck around with Medicaid.” On Wednesday, as he met with holdouts on the “Big Beautiful Bill” to try to get it over the finish …

Throughout President Donald Trump’s second term, he’s used every means possible to promote himself and prop up his agenda in unprecedented ways — even as he pulls apart the government brick by brick. Now, it’s happening at the embattled Social Security Administration, which manages America’s core safety-net program. On Thursday, …

President Donald Trump’s administration deported eight immigrants to South Sudan, a dangerous country where most of the men have no ties, the Department of Homeland Security said Saturday. The Friday night deportations come after two federal judges refused to block the move, citing recent rulings by the Supreme Court. The …

After publicly feuding with President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, announced Saturday that he has started a new political party. Musk made the announcement a day after Trump signed his “Big Beautiful Bill” into law on Friday, which Musk called a “disgusting abomination.” Musk said he could …

Donald Trump used the antisemitic term “Shylocks” while speaking at an event in Iowa Thursday night. The president employed the slur to describe predatory loan lenders while discussing the newly passed domestic tax and spending bill, which he has dubbed the “Big Beautiful Bill.” “Think of that: no death tax, …

The so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” —Donald Trump and the GOP’s sprawling legislative packagethat will cut taxes on the rich, supercharge the administration’s immigration raids and arrests, and gut green-energy initiatives while kicking millions of Americans off their health care and other social services — is now law. The president signed …

I t was nearly midnight in February 2021 when Nasir Andar’s team of soldiers pinpointed the location of the suicide bomber’s house behind a police station in Jalalabad, a city in eastern Afghanistan. They crept up to the gate and called up the rest of the assault force, who would …