Congress wasn’t in session in August. But the Epstein files certainly were. The Epstein files dominated Congress before the summer recess. But when lawmakers returned to Capitol Hill in recent days, the first thing lawmakers wrestled with were the Epstein files again. Note: If you want something to go away, do not make it among the first orders of business. The Epstein issue gurgled through the summer. And...

The Department of Homeland Security blasted a federal judge’s order preventing the Trump administration from scrapping temporary protected status for more than a million Venezuelan and Haitian nationals in the United States. The temporary protected status, or TPS, applies to over 1 million people from the two countries, allowing them to remain in the U.S. for the time being, according to The Associated Press.  The outlet reported that...

President Donald Trump wrapped up the week Friday signing an executive order to change the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War.  The executive order gives the green light to use the name “Department of War” as a secondary title for the Department of Defense, along with terms like “secretary of war” for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, according to a White House fact...