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Supreme Court rules the Postal Service can't be sued, even when mail is intentionally not delivered

Updated 12:56 PM EST, February 24, 2026 WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail. By a 5-4 vote, the justices ruled against a Texas landlord, Lebene Konan, who alleges her mail was intentionally withheld for two years. Konan, who is Black, claims racial prejudice played a role in postal employees’ actions. Justice Clarence Thomas, writing for a majority of five conserva ...

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Kennedy Center Honors to be renamed as Trump-era changes continue

Kennedy Center Honors to be renamed as Trump-era changes continue Jimmy Alexander jimmy.alexander@wtop.com February 24, 2026, 10:28 AM One of D.C.'s most well-known arts traditions is moving forward with a new name. ... Kennedy Center Interim President Richard Grenell told WTOP that the annual Kennedy Center Honors ceremony will be called "The Trump Kennedy Center Honors." Dancer and actor Fred Astaire, opera singer Marian Anderson, pianist Richard Rodgers, composer Arthur Rubinste ...

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GOP lawmaker quietly questioned 'disturbing' East Wing demolition

GOP lawmaker quietly questioned 'disturbing' East Wing demolition Rep. Michael Turner, co-chair of the congressional Historic Preservation Caucus, wrote to a top White House aide about his "substantial concerns" as party leaders publicly backed Trump's decision. February 24, 2026 at 11:50 a.m. EST Today at 11:50 a.m. EST 5 min Construction workers watch as demolition continues on the East Wing of the White House in October. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP) By Jonathan Edwards and Dan Diamond ...

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Trump administration considers requiring banks to collect citizenship information

50m The Trump administration is weighing a possible executive order or other action that would require banks to collect citizenship information from customers, a new front in the administration’s crackdown on immigrants living in the U.S. illegally, according to people familiar with the matter. The action could ultimately task banks with requesting an unprecedented new category of documents, such as a passport, from both new and existing customers who want to maintain a bank account in the U. ...

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Exclusive: Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei until Friday evening to give the military unfettered access to its AI model or face harsh penalties, Axios has learned. The big picture: Hegseth told Amodei in a tense meeting on Tuesday that the Pentagon will either cut ties and declare Anthropic a "supply chain risk," or invoke the Defense Production Act to force the company to tailor its model to the military's needs. -snip- Anthropic has said it is willing to adapt i ...

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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump

(NPR) The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. Some files have not been made public despite a law mandating their release. These include what appears to be more than 50 pages of FBI interviews, and notes from conversations with a woman who accused Trump of sexual abuse decades ago when she was a minor.

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Christian leaders denounce Trump actions, warn of 'crisis of faith'

(USA Today) Hundreds of Christian leaders and scholars nationwide are denouncing President Donald Trump’s administration and urging more active resistance among the faithful to “the injustices and anti-democratic danger sweeping across the nation.” “We are facing a cruel and oppressive government,” their collective statement begins. “In moments like this, silence is not neutrality — it is an active choice to permit harm.”

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Most Americans say Trump is growing erratic with age, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds

(Reuters) Six in ten Americans including a significant slice of Republicans think President Donald Trump has become erratic as he ages, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The six-day poll concluded on Monday, the day before the 79-year-old president gives his annual State of the Union address to Congress following a month of angry reprimands of lawmakers and judges. Overall, 61% of respondents in the poll said they would describe Trump as having "become erratic with age."

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Trump's State of the Union will seek to calm voters' economic concerns ahead of midterm elections

(AP) President Donald Trump will use Tuesday’s State of the Union to champion his immigration crackdowns, his slashing of the federal government, his push to preserve widespread tariffs that the Supreme Court just struck down and his ability to direct quick-hit military actions around the world, including in Iran and Venezuela. The Republican hopes he can convince increasingly wary Americans that his policies have improved their lives while ensuring that the U.S. economy is stronger than many believe — and that they should vote for more of the same in November.

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Court says IRS can continue to share immigrants' taxpayer data with ICE

11 min ago - February 24, 2026, 6:02 PM WASHINGTON -- A Washington, D.C., federal court on Tuesday rejected a request from an immigrant rights group to temporarily block the IRS from sharing certain taxpayer data that could make it easier to identify and deport p ... (ABC News/AP)

House Speaker Mike Johnson calls for "patience" on economy: "You don't flip a switch...and it all just is fixed magically"

42 min ago - February 24, 2026 / 5:41 PM EST Hours before President Trump's State of the Union address, House Speaker Mike Johnson told CBS News the U.S. economy is on the right track — but he added that inflation has not been "completely fixed yet." In an i ... (CBS News)

Catholic Clergy Warn Trump Ahead of State of the Union Speech

1 hr ago - Updated Feb. 24 2026 5:43PM EST Published Feb. 24 2026 4:33PM EST America’s top Roman Catholic leaders issued a sharply worded statement condemning the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement as “detrimental to human rights ... (Daily Beast)

Senate Democrats blast Trump for failing to use sanctions to pressure Russia

1 hr ago - February 24, 2026 4:37 PM EST Updated 6 hours ago WASHINGTON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday blasted President Donald Trump for failing to ramp up sanctions to pressure Russia to end its four-year war in Ukrai ... (Reuters)

House rejects quick passage of bill that some say would have prevented deadly DC midair collision

2 hrs ago - Updated Feb 24, 2026, 4:20 PM ET PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2026, 4:45 AM ET Washington - The House of Representatives rejected a measure Tuesday afternoon that would have swiftly mandated collision avoidance systems on every plane in the US. Supporters have ... (CNN US)

Trump-appointed judge finds ICE in contempt for violating court order by shipping man out of state

2 hrs ago - Feb 24th, 2026, 3:27 pm A Minnesota federal judge on Monday found the Trump administration in contempt after a Mexican man was unlawfully detained, flown hundreds of miles away from home, and released in a Texas desert city without any way to return ... (Law & Crime)

Twin Rivers United labor union plans to go on strike, the first time in school district's history

6 hrs ago - Updated: 2:29 PM PST Feb 24, 2026 Jonathan Ayestas MCCLELLAN PARK, Calif. — For the first time in the district's history, the labor union representing Twin Rivers Unified School District teachers and staff plans to strike. Twin Rivers United Edu ... (KCRA)

Charles Kushner reaches out to French foreign minister after protocol breach

9 hrs ago - 02/24/26 2:49 PM ET U.S. Ambassador to France and Monaco Charles Kushner on Tuesday reached out to French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot seeking to resolve tension after missing a meeting with his counterpart, according to The Associated Pres ... (The Hill)

Plane carrying ICE detainees stranded on tarmac for 13 hours amid brutal storm in New Hampshire, report says

10 hrs ago - Tuesday 24 February 2026 12:17 EST. A group of deportees was left on an airport tarmac for 13 hours when their ICE flight was stranded in New Hampshire by a blizzard, according to a report. Officials for Portsmouth International Airport, which is oft ... (The Independent)

Texas Rep. Gonzales resists calls to resign over allegations of an affair with an ex-staffer

10 hrs ago - By JOHN HANNA and JUAN LOZANO Updated 2:35 PM CST, February 24, 2026 HOUSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales of Texas resisted growing calls Tuesday from fellow congressional Republicans to resign over a report of an alleged affair with a former ... (AP)

Judge says government may not search devices seized from Post reporter

10 hrs ago - 38m A federal judge in Virginia rejected the Justice Department’s request to search through a Washington Post reporter’s electronic devices as part of a national security leak investigation, ruling that the court would instead be responsibl ... (msn/Washington Post)

Senate fails to advance DHS funding as ICE reform deal remains out of reach

10 hrs ago - Updated on: February 24, 2026 / 6:19 PM EST Washington -- The Senate failed to advance a measure to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Tuesday, 11 days into a partial government shutdown with no apparent end in sight. In a 50 to 45 vote, th ... (CBS News)

Paramount escalates Warner Bros. Discovery fight with new $31-per-share bid

11 hrs ago - PUBLISHED Feb 24, 2026, 4:56 PM ET New York - Paramount has officially raised its offer for Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, to $31 per share, and now the WBD board says it is extending the window for talks with Paramount about a p ... (CNN Business)

Kash Patel's use of jet delayed FBI team's mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator

11 hrs ago - Agents with the FBI’s elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown University in December because there was no FBI plane available to take them to Rhode Island, according to three sources and a whis ... (MS Now)

Senate Democrats investigate CBS over blocked Colbert interview

12 hrs ago - Tue 24 Feb 2026 11.26 EST Last modified on Tue 24 Feb 2026 11.41 EST US Senate Democrats are launching an investigation into whether the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the CBS parent company, Paramount, prevented Stephen Colbert, the net ... (The Guardian)

Plan for ICE detention center in Merrimack has been scrapped, governor says

12 hrs ago - Updated: 2:32 PM EST Feb 24, 2026 MERRIMACK, N.H. - After two months of speculation, protests and public debate, the Department of Homeland Security is moving on from plans for an immigrant detention facility in Merrimack, WMUR was first to report o ... (WMUR-TV Manchester, NH)

Exclusive: Iran nears deal to buy supersonic anti-ship missiles from China

13 hrs ago - LONDON, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Iran is close to a deal with China to purchase anti‑ship cruise missiles, according to six people with knowledge of the negotiations, just as the United States deploys a vast naval force near the Iranian coast ahead o ... (Reuters)

Trump administration sues New Jersey over restrictions on immigration arrests

13 hrs ago - February 24, 2026, 12:28 PM TRENTON, N.J. -- The Trump administration is suing New Jersey over a state order that prohibits federal immigration agents from making arrests in nonpublic areas of state property, such as correctional facilities and court ... (ABC News/AP)

5 dead including suspect after stabbing outside Pierce County, WA home

13 hrs ago - What they're saying: Around 8:47 a.m., deputies were on their way to serve a no-contact order to the suspect. While deputies were en route, multiple witnesses reported that the suspect was stabbing people outside the home, officials said. A deputy ar ... (Fox 13 Local)

Louvre Museum director resigns in the wake of October's brazen French crown jewels heist

13 hrs ago - Louvre Museum director resigns in the wake of October’s brazen French crown jewels heist The Associated Press February 24, 2026, 3:26 PM PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum’s director resigned Tuesday after months of pressure following the ... (Associated Press, via WTOP)