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A timeline of the Jeffrey Epstein investigation and the fight to make the government's files public

By Associated Press

The release is the culmination of a yearslong fight over the records underpinning one of the Justice Department's most high-profile and highly debated cases.

Census Bureau plans to use survey with a citizenship question in its test for 2030, alarming experts

By Mike Schneider, Associated Press

This decision follows the Trump administration's failed attempt to add such a question to the 2020 census.

Trump's racist post about Obamas is deleted after backlash despite White House earlier defending it

By Bill Barrow, Josh Boak, Associated Press

The Republican president’s Thursday night post was deleted Friday and blamed on a staffer after widespread backlash, from civil rights leaders to veteran Republican senators, for its treatment of the nation’s first Black president and first lady.

Minneapolis man charged with threatening, cyberstalking ICE officers

By Steve Karnowski, Associated Press

Attorney General Pamela Bondi alleged in a statement that Wagner doxed and threatened law enforcement officers, claimed an affiliation with antifa and “encouraged bloodshed in the streets.”…

News Wrap: Trump rejects extension of expired U.S.-Russia nuclear arms treaty

In our news wrap Thursday, Trump rejected an offer from Russia to temporarily extend caps on strategic nuclear weapons, Ukraine and Russia wrapped a second day of talks in Abu Dhabi, the Trump administration is stripping job protections from thousands…

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WATCH: Trump says he will revoke church tax exempt status if leaders 'say something bad about' him

By Steff Staples

President Donald Trump on Thursday falsely claimed he had eliminated a provision of the U.S. tax code that bans 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations, including churches, from endorsing or opposing political candidates.

WATCH: Trump says Gabbard joined FBI search at Fulton County election center at Bondi's 'insistence'

By Associated Press

President Donald Trump offered a shifting explanation for the presence of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, at an FBI search last week of the main elections hub in Fulton County, Georgia.

WATCH: Trump launches TrumpRx prescription drug site

By Ali Swenson, Associated Press

The Trump administration on Thursday launched TrumpRx, a website it says will help patients buy prescription drugs directly at a discounted rate at a time when health care and the cost of living are growing concerns for Americans.

WATCH: Bessent tells Senate panel it would be president's choice of whether to sue fed chair over interest rates

By Fatima Hussein, Christopher Rugaber, Associated Press

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday it would be “up to the president” to decide whether or not to sue Kevin Warsh, Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Federal Reserve, if he fails to lower interest rates.

Democratic governors blast Trump's call to 'nationalize' elections

By Associated Press

Democratic governors released a joint statement on Thursday saying that Americans should have the right to vote "without interference from the federal government."…