Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
Education Department employees placed on leave for attending diversity training
Several employees began receiving leave notices late Friday.
07:38 PM on 02/02/2025 Politico Top Stories When Trump's Immigration Crackdown Came to Chicago
Ever since Trump’s new “border czar” announced mass deportations would kick off in Chicago, a bubble of anxiety has been growing in the city of big shoulders.
02:00 PM on 02/02/2025 Politico Top Stories Florida goes full steam ahead on immigration enforcement in schools
The measures proposed in Florida would ensure that campus doors are open to immigration authorities under a Trump administration that wants the option on the table.
02:00 PM on 02/02/2025 Politico Top Stories The GOPs Unreliable Cutter-in-Chief
Donald Trump shows yet again he’s not really interested in reining in government spending.
10:30 AM on 02/02/2025 Politico Top Stories There will be many casualties: Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talks
On the ground in Panama City ahead of Marco Rubio's first trip as secretary of State.
07:00 AM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Threats, pleas and videotape: How North America is trying to head off Trumps tariffs
The president's Feb. 1 deadline sets off scramble for a reprieve.
07:09 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump says he opened Californias water. Local officials say he nearly flooded them.
The Army Corps of Engineers moved to release massive quantities of water in Central California, panicking local officials.
07:12 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Dems set to pick new DNC chair after low-key campaign
The race lacked big names — and any substantive clash of ideas.
07:00 AM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories 5 key issues to watch as investigators probe DC air catastrophe
Airspace congestion, controller fatigue and more. Here’s what to know as federal officials descend on the Potomac River.
06:28 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories How Trump Could Snatch a Third Term Despite the 22nd Amendment
Four ways Trump could stay in power beyond 2028.
05:00 AM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories The Airport Said Dont Do It. And They Did It.
A former House Transportation Committee chair says Congress could bear some blame for congestion that may have contributed to the midair collision over the Potomac.
12:39 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump is wreaking havoc at USAID. Is the goal to shut it down?
The president’s failure to name a USAID administrator and other steps seem to suggest that, at the very least, he’ll fold USAID into the State Department.
02:11 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump's Tariff Threats Are About to Hit a Limit
Trump’s tariffs need to do more than intimidate. He needs them to fund his agenda.
11:59 AM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories DOJ fires dozens of prosecutors who handled Jan. 6 cases
It’s the latest extraordinary purge of officials Donald Trump has deemed adversarial to his interests.
06:50 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Curtis Yarvins Ideas Were Fringe. Now Theyre Coursing Through Trumps Washington.
“In almost every way, JD is perfect,” he says in a conversation about JD Vance, Trump’s second term and the end of democracy.
12:04 PM on 02/01/2025 Politico Top Stories Goddamn, do something years of warnings came before DCs air tragedy
Air traffic controller shortages, soaring travel demand, a surge of airport near-collisions and complaints of congressional dysfunction escalated before the U.S. saw its first fatal domestic airline crash since 2009.
07:32 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories 'Scream night': Democrats get shouted down by their own activists over climate change
Democrats just want to pick someone to lead their campaign apparatus. Climate activists demanded more.
10:28 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Gabbard was hoping for the Pete Hegseth hearing treatment. She didnt get it.
Gabbard’s attack strategy at her confirmation hearing Thursday didn’t garner the high praise from Republicans some other Trump nominees have gotten.
06:37 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Tragedy hits home for Reagan Nationals powerful frequent flyers
Lawmakers have an intimate, and paternalistic, relationship with the airport where 67 died Wednesday.
05:39 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump reiterates plan to raise tariffs Saturday on Mexico, Canada
The remarks come amid ongoing discussions between the Trump administration and Mexican and Canadian officials.
05:28 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Who started the stupid rumor? Embattled Eric Adams is back
The New York City mayor responded to rumors of his resignation in a rousing speech after returning from reported illness.
02:59 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories With Adams in crowd, NYC police commissioner unveils quality-of-life initiatives
Jessica Tisch proposed cracking down on subway infractions and pursuing changes to state discovery laws.
01:48 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump weighs rescinding controversial Manhattan toll
The president could act soon to end congestion pricing, which went into effect this month.
02:08 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories This is not a joke: Rubio says Trump is serious about buying Greenland
The secretary of State said purchasing the Danish territory is important to the country’s national interests in the Arctic.
03:23 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Panamas president ahead of Rubios visit: I cannot negotiate on the canal
The visit to Panama will be Rubio’s first international trip as President Donald Trump’s secretary of State.
03:28 PM on 01/31/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump's FBI, DNI picks appear on the Hill for confirmation hearings
Kash Patel, Trump's pick to lead the FBI, and Tulsi Gabbard, his pick for director of national intelligence, are appearing for their confirmation hearings.
09:54 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories A combative nomination hearing raises more questions about Gabbards qualifications
Tulsi Gabbard is widely viewed as Trump’s most vulnerable Cabinet nominee remaining and her confirmation for director of national intelligence could hinge on her performance at the hearing.
10:28 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories The senators who could stop Tulsi Gabbard
Meet the four GOP difference-makers, and four more to watch.
04:45 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Donald Trump names new acting FAA administrator in wake of tragedy of terrible proportions
Trump said he was tapping Chris Rocheleau, a top executive for an aviation business association, for the post.
11:41 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Congress' airport is now home to America's worst aviation disaster in decades
Twenty-seven bodies had been recovered from the downed plane, a Bombardier CRJ700 operated by PSA Airlines, and one had been recovered from the helicopter, a Sikorsky H-60, said the D.C. Fire and EMS chief.
08:03 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Federal workers reeling over Trump's buyout offer: This is the last lifeboat in town
“There’s also a deep suspicion, especially among people who think they may be on the chopping block, that this is the last lifeboat in town,” said an employee.
05:00 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Dems find some hope in elections in Iowa and Minnesota
Some Democrats are cautious about reading too much into the results. But it’s the first good news they’ve had in a long time.
05:00 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories The Iffy Transparency of Trumps Order on the JFK Assassination Files
He’s promised the same before and fell short. This time could be more of the same.
10:00 AM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Watching RFK Jr. in the Senate Was Personally Painful
I worked for his father. He never would have been so slippery.
05:41 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump went for shock and awe. Now hes mopping up.
There was widespread concern even before the White House walked its plans back.
05:23 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | All Presidents Test the Limits of Their Authority. Trump Is Doing Something Far More Radical.
The funding freeze went beyond previous presidents’ efforts at executive authority.
01:00 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories The Gulf of America Is Only the Beginning
The early skirmishes over global landmarks are nothing compared to the fights over renaming public projects after President Donald Trump himself.
07:52 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps pledge to lower prices is already facing a reality test
“If it was so simple, they would just do it,” Norbert Michel, a vice president at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, said of lowering prices.
05:00 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps federal spending freeze is straight out of Project 2025
The OMB memo is the boldest, and clearest example of how the administration is employing Project 2025’s strategies.
10:11 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories GOP steps aside as Trump assaults Congress power
The president goes after the "power of the purse" with nary a peep from Republican leaders.
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