Centralization of presidential power, politicization of agencies, suppression of oversight and control of independent institutions.
The Washington Post reported on Sept. 2, 2026 that the Pentagon removed decades of Secretary of Defense Orders Book documents from an internal portal on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network, the "secret"-level...
The Justice Department filed a 20-page statement of interest late on Sept. 1, 2026 with U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein in the Southern District of New York, telling the court that training large language models on...
Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wrote to Sen. Elissa Slotkin that "the Joint Force has no plans to send Federal military personnel or Federalized members of the National Guard to polling places...
A National Park Service report released Friday endorses Trump's proposed 250-foot memorial arch at Memorial Circle even as it finds the structure is likely to disrupt the historical significance of dozens of nearby sites...
Trump signed an executive order on Aug. 28 at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston beginning the creation of a U.S. Space Academy for the Space Force, NASA and the commercial space industry. NASA's release says the...
The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division announced on Aug. 27, 2026 that the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences intentionally discriminated by race in admitting its 2024 and 2025...
Trump signed Executive Order 14420 on Aug. 26 declaring a national emergency over the foreign supply of bulk-power system electric equipment, invoking the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and the National...
In an Aug. 25 court filing, Brantley Mayers, a senior official in the Justice Department's Civil Division, argued that the Kennedy Center faces a "death spiral" without Trump's renovation push and would "deteriorate...
The Louisiana National Guard is ending the deployment that has put troops on New Orleans streets since late December, with the last 120 troops finishing their final patrol on Aug. 24 and the mission concluding Aug. 31...
Three former officials told The Washington Post that the White House already contains a subterranean secure facility of the kind the administration says the East Wing project is needed to provide. Two said it can...