Scoop: Rep. Darrell Issa expected to retire from Congress
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Even before the potential for fresh economic turbulence from the Iran war, the labor market has been on weak footing from other factors — AI adoption, trade chaos, immigration crackdowns.
January's brief glimmer of hope now looks to have been a head fake.
NEW: Trump told Axios today that his demand for Iran's "unconditional surrender" could mean the complete destruction of the regime's military capabilities — not necessarily a formal surrender.
OpenAI delays ChatGPT "adult mode" and erotica as it focuses on personalization and other priorities.
NEW: Trump administration says it can't comply with order to start tariff refunds despite court order to do so
Trump seethed when the Supreme Court stripped away his unilateral tariff authority.
Then he set out to impose his will on every remaining vector of American power — smashing norms and shrugging off Congress in a historic, 14-day show of executive force.
NEW: Rep. Tony Gonzales will not seek re-election, he announced hours after GOP leadership called for him to quit the race after the Texas Republican admitted to having an affair with a former staffer.
President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem today after he consulted allies and advisers — all of whom told him it was time for her to go, sources tell Axios.
The Pentagon today formally designated Anthropic a supply chain risk, as CEO Dario Amodei apologized for a leaked memo criticizing the Trump administration.
The U.S. and Venezuela "have agreed to re-establish diplomatic and consular relations," per a State Department statement this evening.
Attorney General Pam Bondi may suffer the most collateral damage from DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's firing, with congressional Democrats now saying it gives them space to focus their criticism and scrutiny squarely on her.
Congressional Republicans — along with Trump — are eager to turn the page on the DHS, which has been dragging down the party's image on immigration, the very issue it rode to victory in 2024.
Noem's DHS departure shows that rather than firing top appointees outright, Trump has opted to shuffle them into new roles — a contrast with the record number of firings in his first administration.
NEW: Mike Johnson calls on Tony Gonzales to drop out after affair with staffer
🚨 Exclusive: Trump demands immediate pardon for Netanyahu to focus on Iran
"Every day I talk to Bibi about the war," Trump says. "I want him to focus on the war and not on the f*cking court case."
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Trump says he must be involved in picking Iran's next leader.
He told Axios that Mojtaba Khamenei, son of assassinated supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is the most likely successor — and finds that unacceptable.
Texas banker Robert Marling played a "massive" role in taking down Rep. Dan Crenshaw in this week's primary.
"Short of Robert's involvement, Dan would be reelected," a person involved in the primary told Axios.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said Iranian drones hit a local airport and civilian areas in the country on Thursday.
In counties across Texas, Democratic voters made up a dramatically larger percentage of the electorate than in 2024 — with big increases in hot battlegrounds such as mostly Hispanic South Texas and the well-off suburbs of North Texas.
A top trade court ordered the Trump administration on today to start refunding tariffs to U.S. businesses.
Militants from several Kurdish Iranian factions are preparing for a possible ground offensive against Iran's regime in the northwestern part of the country, according to U.S. and Israeli officials and a senior official in one of the Iranian-Kurdish factions.
