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Appointment Apparently Ends Fight Over Prosecutor

Federal judges name acting US attorney for New Jersey, a choice DOJ backs

(Newser) - Judges picked a new top federal prosecutor for New Jersey on Monday, apparently ending a monthslong standoff with the Trump administration. Robert Frazer, a career prosecutor who has worked in the office for more than two decades, was named acting US attorney in a one-sentence order. The Justice Department promptly...

SCOTUS Appears Likely to Limit Mail-in Voting

Conservative justices are skeptical of Mississippi law allowing counting of late-arriving ballots

(Newser) - The Supreme Court seems ready to toss out a Mississippi rule that lets mail ballots arrive after Election Day, a move that could ripple through elections nationwide. During arguments Monday, the court's six conservatives signaled strong doubts about the 2020 law, which permits counting ballots postmarked by Election Day...

French Energy Giant Scraps Two US Wind Farms

White House strikes deal with TotalEnergies to direct $1B into fossil fuels instead

(Newser) - A French energy giant just made a big U-turn on America's seas. TotalEnergies said Monday it will walk away from two offshore wind farms it was developing off North Carolina and New York, reports the Wall Street Journal . The company struck a deal with the Trump administration to relinquish...

Nursing Home Co-Owned by Trump Pick Is Suing Feds

Facility is fighting effort to reclaim Medicare overpayments

(Newser) - Benjamin Landa is awaiting a Senate hearing on his nomination as US ambassador to Hungary, while co-owning a Bronx nursing home that's taking the Trump administration to court. After federal inspectors said Pinnacle Multicare Nursing and Rehabilitation Center improperly collected at least $31.2 million from Medicare, the government...

Hegseth's Religious Rhetoric Alarms Extremist Experts

Defense chief's hard lean into Christianity risks alienating troops, gets new look amid Iran war

(Newser) - Since becoming defense secretary, Pete Hegseth has found no shortage of ways to bring his strand of conservative evangelicalism into the Pentagon. He hosts monthly Christian worship services for employees. His department's promotional videos have displayed Bible verses alongside military footage. In speeches and interviews, he often argues the...

In Cuba, a 'Solidarity Caravan' Has Arrived

Humanitarian aid flows into desperate island nation amid US blockage

(Newser) - Some 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations began arriving in Cuba on Friday as part of a solidarity caravan transporting some 20 tons of humanitarian aid as the island grapples with a severe energy crisis. Members of "Our America Convoy to Cuba" arrived by air from Italy,...

Iran Says Airstrike Hit Nuclear Enrichment Facility

State media: Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was attacked Saturday, with no radiation leakage

(Newser) - Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment facility was hit in an airstrike on Saturday, Iranian state media reports. Iran's official Mizan news agency said there was no radiation leakage after Saturday's strike on the Natanz nuclear facility, nearly 135 miles southeast of Tehran. The facility, Iran's main uranium...

Judge Finds Pentagon Rules for Reporters Unconstitutional

Decision rejects Trump administration policy on limiting journalists' access

(Newser) - A federal judge on Friday invalidated a Defense Department policy on journalists' access to the Pentagon, finding the Trump administration rule unconstitutional. The challenge was brought by the New York Times and reporter Julian E. Barnes, the Washington Post reports. US District Judge Paul L. Friedman in Washington, DC, ruled...

Justice Department Sues Harvard Over Antisemitism

Administration wants to claw back 'billions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies'

(Newser) - Harvard is once again in the Trump administration's crosshairs , this time over accusations it failed to protect Jewish and Israeli students and staff. The administration on Friday filed a civil-rights lawsuit in federal court in Boston, claiming the university ignored antisemitic harassment and discrimination in the wake of Hamas' Oct....

If SCOTUS Nixes This, Midterms Could Get Chaotic

Supreme Court will hear arguments next week on grace periods for mail-in ballots

(Newser) - There will be just one Election Day for this fall's midterm elections—Nov. 3. But voters in 14 states who cast their votes by mail will be given a grace period ranging from a day later to several weeks in which their ballots can be received and counted. Whether...

Russian Oil Tanker May Test US Cuba Blockade

Sanctioned tanker is expected to arrive Monday

(Newser) - A Russian oil tanker is quietly cutting through the Atlantic, and its next move could trigger a fresh US–Russia clash over Cuba. The Anatoly Kolodkin , a Russian state-owned vessel under US sanctions and carrying roughly 730,000 barrels of crude, left Primorsk on March 9 and exited the English...

24 States Challenge EPA's Rollback of Climate Finding

Massachusetts AG calls move a 'blatant' violation of the law

(Newser) - Two dozen states are asking a federal court to put the brakes on the Trump administration's attempt to gut climate regulation at its source. In a lawsuit filed in the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit on Thursday, 24 Democrat-led states plus a dozen cities and counties...

Judge: RFK Jr. Overreached on Transgender Care

Federal bid to penalize youth gender-care providers is now blocked

(Newser) - A federal judge in Oregon has put the brakes on a key Trump administration move targeting gender transition care for minors. US District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai determined on Thursday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. exceeded his authority when he issued a December declaration asserting such treatments "do...

Trump Shifts Student Loan Debt From Education to Treasury

Change affects almost 6M borrowers, effective immediately

(Newser) - The Trump administration has moved a major piece of the federal student loan system out of the Education Department and into the Treasury Department, shifting oversight of collections on defaulted loans effective immediately. Under an interagency agreement announced Thursday, the Washington Post reports, Treasury will take over the Default Resolution...

US Knew Gas Field Strike Was Planned, Israeli Officials Say

Trump had said attack was a surprise

(Newser) - President Trump's shifting account of an Israeli strike on a major Iranian gas field has become more muddled. Three Israeli officials said the attack on Iran's South Pars gas field was coordinated with the Trump administration in advance, despite the president's initial claim online that the US...

'Imagine a Sports Bar ... but Just for Situation Monitoring'

Crypto prediction platform Polymarket wants to open 'The Situation Room' in DC for just that purpose

(Newser) - Polymarket is hoping to turn doomscrolling into a night out. The crypto-based prediction platform says it plans to open a pop-up bar in Washington, DC, this weekend called The Situation Room, pitched as a sports pub-style venue where betting on global events will be the main attraction—think live X...

Highlights of Joe Kent's Interview With Tucker Carlson

Ex-counterterrorism chief questions whether Iran was a threat, Israeli influence on decision to strike

(Newser) - Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Joe Kent has given his first in-depth public account of why he resigned from the Trump administration, using a lengthy interview with Tucker Carlson (watch here ) to challenge the rationale for the US war with Iran and to criticize how decisions were made inside...

Feds Fast-Track Deportation of Boy, 5, and Family

Lawyers appeal expedited removal as Trump officials bypass asylum hearing

(Newser) - The 5-year-old Minneapolis boy whose arrest in a bunny hat drew global attention is again at the center of a high-stakes immigration fight, with his family now facing fast-tracked deportation. Federal officials are moving to expel Liam Conejos Ramos and his relatives to Ecuador by using an "expedited removal"...

Pentagon Writes Up Request for Another $200B for War
Pentagon Wants $200B for War
Mar 18, 2026 7:30 PM CDT

Pentagon Wants $200B for War

Proposal calls for increasing production of precision weapons

(Newser) - The Pentagon has drafted a funding request exceeding $200 billion for operations against Iran, setting up a clash with Congress over the scale and direction of the war, according to administration officials. The proposal, sent to the White House, would go well beyond paying for the air campaign to date...

Trump Temporarily Freezes Jones Act to Ease Fuel Costs

Waiver greenlit by president allows foreign tankers to move US fuel, related cargo domestically

(Newser) - President Trump is temporarily setting aside a 100-year-old shipping rule as his administration scrambles to curb rising fuel costs tied to the war in Iran. The White House on Wednesday approved a 60-day waiver of the Jones Act, a 1920 law that normally requires goods moving between US ports to...

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