Washington, the White House, Congress and the courts.
President Trump hosted Kid Rock, HBO host Bill Maher and ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith for dinner at the White House Thursday night. Kid Rock called it "epic," though so far his account is the only one on record.
President Trump told reporters he did not order the slowdown of SpaceX's military satellite service in Ukraine, does not think Elon Musk did, and does not know who did. Reuters, Musk and the White House have each described the matter differently, and the question remains unresolved.
A unanimous 11th Circuit panel says Florida's law barring social media accounts for children under 14 is likely constitutional and has vacated the injunction that blocked it. Enforcement timing is unconfirmed, and the tech industry is weighing its next move.
MS NOW reported that FBI Director Kash Patel had landed in Russia, citing two unnamed sources. The FBI posted video of him at a Liberty University event in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the network corrected the report on air about two hours later.
Kamala Harris told podcast host Keke Palmer that the country needs more justices on the Supreme Court and that the popular vote has to matter, according to Fox News. She also backed statehood for D.C. and Puerto Rico if the people there want it.
Anti-war protesters interrupted Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth several times at the Army's annual meeting in Washington. He responded with quips, the crowd chanted back, and he went on to make the case for a $1.5 trillion defense budget.
Gov. Ron DeSantis says Hurricane Isaias has killed six people in Florida, four of them newly counted, and described the new deaths as more post-storm. About 41,000 Panhandle customers were still without power Tuesday evening.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani stood beside NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch as 42 names were unveiled at the department's memorial wall, the same day he told reporters he has "no plans" to replace her despite demands from his own political base.
Twelve senators, half of them Republicans, are asking President Trump to rescind the October 9 diesel arrangement with Vladimir Putin and revoke the Treasury license behind it. Three weeks before the midterms, it is a rare GOP break on foreign policy.
Federal agents searched Rep. Ilhan Omar's Washington home on a judicially authorized warrant Monday morning. By that evening, a Trump rally crowd in Youngstown was chanting "deport."
After a run of Wall Street Journal reports and a day of public grumbling from President Trump, the White House asked Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle to step down. She announced her exit Tuesday and said she will fight the allegations.
Four days after an ICE officer shot a man in the Bronx, the Democratic Socialists of America demanded that Mayor Zohran Mamdani fire NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch. The mayor says no — for now.
