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Latest White House Plan: Underground Screening Center

Construction could begin in August on 33,000-square-foot site to check visitors

(Newser) - The Trump administration wants to build an underground center at the White House to provide security screening for visitors, the latest step in its plan to overhaul the Executive Mansion's grounds. Plans, including renderings of the 33,000-square-foot center, were included on the preliminary agenda released on Friday for...

Top General Warned of Strait Closure Before War

Trump acknowledged the risk, opted to go forward, reports Wall Street Journal

(Newser) - The Wall Street Journal suggests that President Trump underestimated Iran's ability to throttle the Strait of Hormuz. Its story reports that Trump's top general—Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—warned the president in multiple briefings that Tehran would close the vital shipping lane...

Trump: US Bombed Iran's Key Kharg Island Oil Hub

Strike raises stakes in Hormuz standoff, global oil markets

(Newser) - President Trump says the United States has hit what may be the most valuable piece of real estate in Iran's energy network. In a Truth Social post on Friday night, the president claimed that American forces bombed Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, calling it Iran's "crown...

EPA Wants to Cut Biden Limits on Carcinogen Emissions

Administration says current standards could cause medical device shortages

(Newser) - The EPA on Friday moved to dial back its policing of a cancer-linked gas used to sterilize medical equipment, a new front in the Trump administration's deregulation efforts. The proposed rule would ease emission limits on ethylene oxide at about 90 commercial sterilization plants and scrap 24/7 monitoring requirements,...

Europeans Rip US Move Easing Russian Oil Sanctions

Merz, Macron, Zelensky say Trump administration's decision was a surprise to them

(Newser) - European leaders have delivered a sharp rebuke to the Trump administration over its move to loosen the grip on Russian oil in an attempt to slow the rapid rise in energy prices. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday that the US decision to temporarily relax sanctions and let stranded Russian...

Cuba Confirms Talks With US as Fuel Crisis Deepens

Discussions with Trump administration come amid crippling fuel shortages, US pressure

(Newser) - Cuba just confirmed what had previously only been whispered about: It's been talking to the Trump administration. President Miguel Diaz-Canel acknowledged on state media that his government is in early-stage discussions with Washington, framing them as an attempt to address "bilateral differences" and explore whether both sides are...

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Costco Just Got Sued Over Tariffs

Customer wants the company to pass along any refunds

(Newser) - Costco is getting sued by a customer who wants his money back over tariffs. Matthew Stockov of Illinois is seeking class-action status for the suit filed Wednesday in federal court, reports the Wall Street Journal . The lawsuit demands that Costco pass along to customers any refunds it might get from...

Analysis: Prepare for 'Prolonged' Hormuz Shutdown

US reluctance to escort tankers results in standstill, with no solution in sight

(Newser) - Oil isn't just flowing more slowly out of the Persian Gulf—it's barely moving at all, and nobody's sure when that might change. Intensifying Iranian strikes in and around the Strait of Hormuz, combined with a US reluctance to send in warship escorts, have effectively frozen traffic...

US to Tap Oil Reserves Following Trump's '180'

Release of 172M barrels aims to ease war-driven price spike and reassure markets

(Newser) - President Trump is cracking open the nation's oil piggy bank, despite opposition to a similar move by President Biden. The Trump administration will release 172 million barrels from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve in a push to cool surging prices tied to the US war with Iran and attacks on tankers...

Judge Blasts White House, Escalates Prosecutor Fight

Ruling says 3 federal prosecutors are serving illegally in New Jersey

(Newser) - A federal judge lit into the White House in ruling that three federal prosecutors running the US attorney's office in New Jersey were serving illegally. The trio will remain in place pending appeal, reports the New York Times . Judge Matthew Brann wrote that the administration "has made clear...

SCOTUS Justices Spar Publicly Over 'Shadow Docket'

Jackson criticizes conservative-backed 'shadow docket' as Kavanaugh defends emergency rulings

(Newser) - Supreme Court tensions over the court's fast-track handling of Trump-era disputes broke into the open Monday as high court Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson and Brett Kavanaugh publicly sparred over the so-called "shadow docket," NBC News reports. Speaking at a Washington event for lawyers and judges, Jackson sharply...

White House Accuses NTSB Member of Drinking on the Job

Todd Inman says firing was 'political hit job'

(Newser) - The White House accused the National Transportation Safety Board member it fired of serious misconduct, including drinking on the job and harassing staff, on Monday, but Todd Inman flatly denies the allegations and plans to fight back. Inman revealed on Sunday that he had been fired on Friday without explanation,...

Anthropic Sues Over Hegseth's Security Blacklist

AI firm challenges Pentagon's designation of it as a 'supply chain risk'

(Newser) - Anthropic just took its fight with the Trump administration to federal court. The AI firm sued on Monday after the Pentagon branded the company a security risk and moved to cancel its government contracts, reports the Wall Street Journal . In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California, Anthropic...

For Decades, Israel Tracked Khameini. Finally, They Struck

Long-game operation involved hacked traffic cameras in Tehran, 'pattern of life' dossiers

(Newser) - Israel didn't just get lucky when it managed to kill Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei: It had been digitally circling his compound for decades. In a detailed reconstruction by the Financial Times , sources describe a long game built on hacked Tehran traffic cameras, deeply penetrated mobile networks, and...

Obama Goes After Trump at Jesse Jackson Funeral

Ex-president decried 'offense to common decency,' though he never said current president's name

(Newser) - Barack Obama used the pulpit at Jesse Jackson's funeral in Chicago on Friday to deliver one of his sharpest public rebukes of Donald Trump's presidency, all without ever saying Trump's name or directly referencing his administration. The former president warned that "every day we wake up...

Report: Trump Privately Mulling Sending Ground Troops to Iran

White House pushes back on NBC report about possible small, strategic deployment

(Newser) - President Trump has been talking privately about putting a limited number of US troops on the ground in Iran , multiple current and former US officials tell NBC News . According to those sources, Trump has floated deploying a small, targeted contingent rather than launching a large-scale ground invasion. The discussions, said...

Senator Seeks Perjury Probe Into Fired DHS Chief Noem

Democrat Richard Blumenthal seeks inquiry into Noem's testimony on adviser Corey Lewandowski

(Newser) - Sen. Richard Blumenthal isn't letting Kristi Noem's firing be the end of the story. The Connecticut Democrat says he'll push for a perjury probe into the now-ousted secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, alleging she lied under oath this week about the power wielded by top adviser...

24 States Sue to Block Trump's New Tariffs

Democratic-led coalition argues Trade Act misuse after Supreme Court rebuke

(Newser) - Two dozen states are moving to put an end to President Trump's latest round of import taxes. On Thursday, 24 Democratic-led states sued his administration over the new 10% tariff on nearly all imports, arguing Trump is trying to dodge a recent Supreme Court ruling that wiped out much...

Trump Pressures Kurds to Back Iran Uprising

Sources say he is offering 'extensive US aircover'

(Newser) - President Trump is leaning on the Kurds as he weighs whether to send US troops into Iran. Trump has phoned key Kurdish leaders in Iran and Iraq in recent days, offering "extensive US aircover" and other assistance if Iranian Kurdish opposition groups move to seize territory in western Iran,...

WH Advisers 'Getting Screamed at' Over Gas Prices

Politico: Chief of staff Susie Wiles seeking strategies to ease fuel costs after strikes on Iran

(Newser) - President Trump's chief of staff has put gas prices near the top of the West Wing's to-do list. Two energy executives tell Politico that Susie Wiles has directed advisers to show up in the Oval Office with concrete ideas for bringing down prices at the pump, which have...

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