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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced it had discovered “significant national security and public safety risks” in U.S. vetting processes, calling the system “wholly inadequate,” just days before two relatives of slain terrorist leader Qasem Soleimani were taken into custody in Los Angeles. The arrests of Soleimani’s niece, Hamideh Soleimani Afshar, and grandniece, Sarinasadat … Read more

The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Justice Department to dismiss the criminal conviction against President Donald Trump’s former advisor, Steve Bannon — a symbolic, but significant move in one of the highest-profile prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot and resulting congressional probe.  In a brief, unsigned order, … Read more

Rep. John Larson, D-Conn., is mounting a long-shot bid to impeach President Donald Trump as he stares down a primary threat from younger challengers, who seek to thwart his bid for a 15th House term.  Larson, 77, introduced 13 articles of impeachment against Trump on Monday, citing the president’s military intervention in Venezuela, the deployment … Read more

The Trump ‘library’ and an attack on the Presidential Records Act have more in common than it might seem Last week, the Trump administration proudly published two pieces of news which, at first sight, could not be more different: one a dry 52-page legal opinion from the justice department declaring the 1978 Presidential Records Act … Read more

A United States Army staff sergeant is trying to stop his wife from being deported after she was detained inside a Louisiana military base. Matthew Blank says his wife Annie Ramos was born in Honduras and they married last month. The Department of Homeland Security says she has no legal status to be in the … Read more

The US president has threatened to bomb power plants and bridges unless Iran reopens the strait of Hormuz. Plus, the US origins of Mexico’s toxic waste problem Don’t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Israel has told Iranians their lives will be at risk if they use the country’s … Read more

Licensed school teacher and one-time police officer among those participating in riot-style gatherings as experts warn of threat to public safety A network of militant neo-Nazi active clubs from around the US has been participating in riot-style combat events with other white nationalist groups in Virginia as part of what their founder called a “tip-off … Read more

The Trump administration’s pushing of the war in Iran reflects a sporting culture driven by clipped-up content, shameless tribalism and a lust for escalation Among the more surprising continuities of 2026 has been the visual kinship between the Winter Olympics and the US’s illegal and unprovoked war in Iran. High-speed camera drones were a highlight … Read more

Rachel Waters gave morphine to her dying mother to ease her in her final hours. Then came the murder charge Rachel Waters was in her apartment in Queens, watching food reviews on YouTube, when a nurse called: her mother was dying. She needed to get to the memory care facility in Evans, Georgia, immediately. A … Read more

Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US Alicia Contreras was in Tunisia, working as the deputy country representative for Libya for USAID, when she received the news: she was fired. The Trump administration had ceased the cooperation agency’s operations and terminated most overseas staff. What she didn’t expect back then was that … Read more