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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch III announced Tuesday he will be stepping down from his role amid Trump administration disputes with the museum complex over how it presents American history. Bunch, 73, is the Smithsonian Institution’s first Black leader and founder of its National Museum of African American History and Culture. He's served as the world's...

Attorney General Todd Blanche will give remarks during a Sept. 11, 2001, memorial event at the Department of Justice's (DOJ) headquarters Tuesday, ahead of the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks. The ceremony comes as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-proclaimed and accused “mastermind” of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, was ordered to stand...

Why is Vice President JD Vance claiming the Iran War isn't a war?

(NewsNation) — Five people were killed after an Amazon Air cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, authorities confirmed during a news conference. Officials said multiple other individuals were involved in the incident and suffered injuries, though the total number of injured and the severity of those injuries were not immediately...

President Trump posthumously awarded to Welles Crowther, an equities trader and volunteer firefighter who died working to save lives on 9/11, the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday ahead of the 25th anniversary of the attacks.  Trump presented the honor to Crowther’s mother and sister during the Steel Across America event commemorating the anniversary of...

The U.S. Coast Guard joined the search for a missing plane carrying four family members that vanished near the Bahamas on their way back to Florida. A spokesperson for the Coast Guard told The Hill, “The Royal Bahamian Defense Force requested Coast Guard assistance following a report of a downed airplane with 4 people aboard...

🔬 Plus: Weird trailer features Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes {beacon}   It’s Tuesday, and it's time to get back into the swing of things after a nice long Labor Day weekend (which is proving to be tough).   In today's issue: Canada's tariffs in place "Trump-a-palooza" heads to Dallas New Hampshire elections Patriots pay Christian...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling blocking information sharing between the IRS and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after the immigration agency requested the last known address of millions of people. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found ICE’s sweeping request for addresses...

Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the U.S. went into effect at midnight Tuesday, affecting hundreds of goods, including steel and aluminum, appliances and electronics and wood, pulp and paper products. There are no reports of negotiations between the two countries. The Trump administration levied 50 percent tariffs on $27.6 billion worth of Canadian goods two weeks...

Reading scores in the United States were near their lowest point in 25 years, according to global exam results released Tuesday.  American students were outperformed by students in Canada, Singapore and parts of China on the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) in reading — falling below the average score by more than 30 points....

Author Jonathan Zimmerman criticizes a new Penn State University exhibit honoring football coach Joe Paterno for omitting the details of the Jerry Sandusky child sexual abuse scandal.

More Americans see domestic terrorist attacks as a larger threat than foreign ones, according to a new poll. In the Reuters/Ipsos poll, 33 percent of respondents said domestic terrorism is the most significant threat to the average American's safety, while 20 percent said the same of foreign terrorism. Forty-two percent identified random violent acts, like...

The Trump administration urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to restore the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) overhauled immigration verification system in time for the midterm elections.  “The district court has issued an indefensible order that threatens the integrity of upcoming elections,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.  DHS’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) is used...

Republican strategist Doug Heye slammed President Trump on Monday for not directing more funding from his super PAC to a variety of GOP campaigns as the Republican Party fights to maintain its control of Congress this fall.  Heye, a former communications director for the Republican National Committee (RNC), told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins that the GOP’s...

Author Merrill Matthews argues that the Trump administration's claim that economic growth can offset the $40 trillion federal debt is dishonest, citing a GAO report that projects debt will grow more than twice as fast as the economy over the next decade.

Vice President Vance is leading the White House's first press briefing in 42 days Thursday afternoon, speaking in place of a press secretary — a role that remains vacant after Karoline Leavitt's end-of-August departure. Vance started by explaining the administration's reasoning behind the Venezuela oil deal struck last week. The vice president was one of...

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official warned the agency about cutting corners in vetting officer candidates as the agency surged its hiring under the Trump administration. The whistleblower report filed last August cited significant issues in how the department was reviewing its new hires, including making offers to candidates who had not yet...

Right-wing media personality Tucker Carlson described Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed’s campaign as "literally Trumpian” in his podcast episode released Wednesday. During an interview with conservative commentator Saagar Enjeti's, the pair discussed the Michigan senate race between El-Sayed and his GOP opponent, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). “I watch his campaign now, America First,”...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) proposed a new rule Wednesday that would place permanent restrictions on what flights are permitted within a one-mile radius of Mar-a-Lago.  The proposed rule would “establish a flight restriction from the surface to 2,000 feet” above mean sea level “within a one NM radius of Mar-a-Lago Club.” These were temporary...

Former Vice President Kamala Harris said Thursday she was not surprised by some red-state Democrats not wanting her endorsement, arguing those candidates are doing what it takes to win. “We need to win, OK? Bottom line, we need to win,” Harris told host Peter Alexander on MS NOW’s “State of Play.” The former vice president...