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Attorney general Pam Bondi signaled that she was unlikely to open a criminal investigation into a group chat by Donald Trump's officials on a third-party platform to plan a military operation.

The attorney general was asked at an unrelated news conference about defense secretary Pete Hegseth disclosing details about a pending attack on Houthi rebels in Yemen over the encrypted Signal app without knowing a reporter had been added to the group by national security adviser, but Bondi echoed comments made by White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has sparked fierce criticism for a video she filmed on Wednesday while touring the megaprison in El Salvador that is currently holding immigrants who were deported by the Trump administration earlier in March.

The administration defied a court order when deporting over 200 Venezuelans, who the White House alleges are gang members.

Thomas Bard, the owner of a small distillery in Kentucky, tells the Washington Post that his business has been thrown into turmoil ever since President Donald Trump launched a trade war with Canada.

According to Bard, liquor stores in the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Ontario had initially agreed to start selling his bourbon this year before Trump slapped blanket tariffs on Canada and the country responded by pulling American liquor from its shelves.

Rep. Elise Stefanik's (R-NY) nomination to be President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations is reportedly "in jeopardy" amid fears among Republicans that they could lose control of the House of Representatives.

CBS News reports that "multiple sources" have indicated that "there are ongoing discussions about whether she should withdraw from consideration" to be UN ambassador as the GOP clings to a narrow majority in the House that could be lowered further by upcoming special elections in Florida.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters awarded nearly $600,000 in end-of-year bonuses to Department of Education staff in 2024.

Most employees received an amount equal to 2.5% of their annual salary, an average of $1,700.

Republicans are zeroing in on a key element of the Democratic Party's financial infrastructure with scrutiny into alleged wrongdoing.

Three Republicans in Congress, including the chairmen of the House Oversight and Administration committees, are urging Donald Trump's Treasury Department to hand over reports of allegedly suspicious financial transactions related to the liberal fundraising platform ActBlue, which GOP lawmakers say has violated campaign finance laws or aided terrorist organizations, reported CNN.

"The View's" Alyssa Farah Griffin is incensed that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth isn't briefing President Donald Trump on recent U.S. defense and national security events.

Griffin, who previously worked as Trump's White House communications director, played a clip of Trump being asked about the four missing soldiers in Lithuania. Trump confessed he'd never heard about it.

There were repeated references to “my friend” from here or “the gentle lady” from there, but the niceties were overpowered by the shouting and the finger-pointing Wednesday during a second day of debate on Maryland's fiscal 2026 budget.

The House ultimately approved the $67 billion budget for next year, after three hours of debate — which was on top of seven hours of testy back-and-forth Tuesday when House Democrats beat back a series of Republican amendments.

Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) urged Republicans to pass a law defunding PBS and NPR because he feared Democrats would soon take back control of the U.S. House of Representatives after the 2026 midterm elections.

During a Wednesday interview on the Christian-centric Washington Watch program, Burchett told host Tony Perkins that his show "wouldn't want" to receive federal dollars like public broadcasting stations.

Although oil company executives have effusively praised President Donald Trump's deregulatory agenda in public, CNBC reports that a survey conducted by the Dallas Federal Reserve reveals they are far more pessimistic about his economic policies than they are letting on.

In particular, the executives took shots at Trump's erratic economic policies of enacting and then retracting tariffs on foreign goods seemingly on a whim.

In a post on Thursday, President Donald Trump's niece, Dr. Mary Trump, said that the new scandal, "Signalgate," is an opportunity for Democrats to hammer the White House on national security practices.

Dr. Trump went through the bombshell report in The Atlantic, which alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth shared secret war plans in a Signal chat while inadvertently revealing them to a reporter who had been errantly added to the group.

President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would place a 25% tariff (or tax) on “all cars that are not made in the United States,” as well as certain automobile parts. The markets began responding with mere mention of a press conference about auto tariffs late Wednesday.

By Thursday morning, stocks fell at the market's opening.

Americans are keenly interested in the newly revealed Signal chats involving Donald Trump's high-ranking officials, and CNN's Harry Enten explained why that could pose a political problem.

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg reported earlier this week that he had been added by national security adviser Mike Waltz to a group chat involving vice president J.D. Vance and defense secretary Pete Hegseth, who disclosed top-secret plans about a military operation in Yemen, and Enten said interest in the encrypted messaging app and the publication has exploded.