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President Donald Trump says Pam Bondi is out as his attorney general. Bondi's departure ends the contentious tenure of a Trump loyalist who upended the Justice Department’s culture of independence from the White House, oversaw firings of career employees and moved to investigate the Republican president’s perceived enemies. The news follows months of scrutiny over the Justice Department’s handling of files related to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation that made Bondi the target of angry conservatives even with her close relationship with Trump. Bondi also struggled to satisfy Trump’s demands to prosecute his political rivals, with multiple investigations rejected by judges or grand ju

President Donald Trump says U.S. forces will "finish the job" in Iran soon as "core strategic objectives are nearing completion." He offered a full-throated defense of the war Wednesday night in his first national address since the conflict began more than a month ago. Trump got a wide audience and a chance to articulate clear objectives for the war after weeks of changing goals and often contradictory messages — even as Iran kept up its attacks on Israel and Persian Gulf neighbors and airstrikes pounded Tehran. But he spent much of his time repeating some of the same things he said in recent weeks. He promised U.S. forces would continue to hit Iran very hard.

The Supreme Court is casting doubt on President Donald Trump’s restrictions on birthright citizenship in a consequential case that was magnified by Trump’s norm-breaking presence in the courtroom. Conservative and liberal justices on Wednesday questioned whether Trump’s order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens comports with either the Constitution or federal law. Trump heard Solicitor General D. John Sauer face one skeptical question after another. Justices asked about the legal basis for the order and voiced more practical concerns. The Republican president spent just over an hour inside the courtroom, staying only for arguments by the government’s lawyer.

No Kings III events in Southwest Florida make up some of the more than 3,100 rallies and related gatherings across the United States and other parts of the world planned to be held on Saturday.

Oil prices have eclipsed $100 per barrel for the first time in more than three and a half years as the Iran war hinders production and shipping in the Middle East.

A handful of protestors lined South Cleveland Avenue near Daniels Parkway Saturday in opposition to U.S. war activity in Iran.

There are mixed emotions after the United States forcefully removed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro due to his alleged connections with South American drug cartels.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is criticizing Attorney General Pam Bondi's handling of the Jeffrey Epstein case and broadly defending Donald Trump's second presidency in a series of interviews published Tuesday. Wiles told Vanity Fair that Bondi mismanaged the Epstein case with talk about a "client list" sitting on her desk. On Venezuela, Wiles says Trump will continue to be aggressive, and she also is defending Trump's retribution against people he perceives as political enemies. After the story was published, Wiles disparaged it as a "disingenuously framed hit piece on me and the finest President, White House staff, and Cabinet in history." She did not deny the quotes that were attributed to her.

For eight years, Emmy award winning singer and songwriter Ben Folds served as the inaugural Artistic Advisor with the National Symphony Orchestra.

As the current Government Shutdown becomes the longest in US history, some federal programs have been caught in the crosshairs. SNAP was left without funding.