President Trump arrived in New Orleans on Sunday, the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl, with the wind in his sails. He started the day on the course with the golf legend Tiger Woods (they’ve both been working on a merger between the PGA Tour and the Saudi-backed LIV Golf circuit). He issued … Read more
A Georgia man who the authorities said kept more than 100 dogs in cruel conditions at his home has been sentenced to 475 years in prison after being found guilty last month of dogfighting and cruelty to animals, prosecutors said. The man, Vincent Lemark Burrell, 57, of Dallas, Ga., was found guilty by a jury … Read more
Lawyers for three detained Venezuelan men in New Mexico asked a federal judge on Sunday to bar the U.S. government from sending them to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, opening the first legal front against the Trump administration’s new policy of sending undocumented migrants there. Immigration and human rights advocates have been stymied … Read more
Employees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau received an email on Sunday saying the bureau’s headquarters would be closed for the coming week. “Employees and contractors are to work remotely unless instructed otherwise from our Acting Director or his designee,” said the notice, a copy of which was reviewed by The New York Times. Russell … Read more
Vice President JD Vance attacked federal judges on Sunday for blocking several of the Trump administration’s sweeping executive actions, characterizing their recent decisions as “illegal.” “Judges aren’t allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power,” Mr. Vance wrote on social media. Mr. Vance’s post raises questions about whether the Trump administration will abide by federal rulings … Read more
Two people have been charged in connection to the death of 23-year-old Army soldier Katia Dueñas Aguilar, police said Saturday. Aguilar — a private first class who had been stationed at Fort Campbell in Kentucky — was found dead at a residence in Clarksville, Tennessee, on May 18, 2024, according to the Clarksville Police Department. … Read more
Two Democratic Senators said on Sunday that their party would not rule out forcing the federal government to shut down to stop President Trump’s legally questionable actions in dismantling federal agencies. “We are in a crisis right now, and Democrats will use every tool possible to protect Americans,” Senator Cory Booker, Democrat of New Jersey, … Read more
LONDON and GAZA — As President Donald Trump proposes the United States “take over” Gaza, and repeatedly says its residents should be relocated, a visual analysis of satellite imagery and video of northern Gaza indicates thousands of people have returned and set up tents atop their destroyed homes in anticipation of rebuilding their lives there. … Read more
One was fired by email at 12:47 a.m. Another wept with colleagues as security escorted her from the office. A third frantically tried to fill a prescription after she got a 24-hour notice that her health care was ending. Then there is Jacqueline Devine, a contractor in the office of H.I.V.-AIDS at the United States … Read more
President Trump will revoke the security clearances of several current law enforcement and former national security officials, White House officials confirmed on Sunday. In an interview with The New York Post published Saturday, Mr. Trump said he would withdraw the clearances of former Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken and others who served in top … Read more