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President Trump ordered the suspension of a green card lottery program that enabled the suspect in the Brown University mass shooting and killing of an MIT professor to live in the U.S, a top official announced late Thursday.The big picture: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's announcement mar…
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A new Gallup survey found that among a baker’s dozen of U.S. leaders, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the most popular. Over four in 10 respondents to the poll, released Monday, said they approve of Powell’s job performance. That includes 46 percent of Democrats, 34 percent of Republicans an…
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The Justice Department early Tuesday released its third installment of files tied to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including some documents that mention President Trump. Survivors of the late sex offender and bipartisan lawmakers have blasted the administration's handling of the r…
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President Trump supported his chief of staff Susie Wiles on Tuesday, even after her candid Vanity Fair interviews offered a startling portrait of his second White House term. The big picture: Despite Wiles' unusually blunt descriptions of Trump, he told The New York Post that she has done a "fantast…
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The lead Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight committees said they are "exploring all legal options" after a top Justice Department official signaled the agency won't produce all its documents on Jeffrey Epstein by the statutory Friday deadline.Why it matters: The so-called "Epstein files"…
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Susie Wiles, President Trump's chief of staff, chronicled the chaotic inner workings of the White House in a series of shockingly candid, unfiltered interviews with Vanity Fair throughout the year, published Tuesday.Why it matters: Wiles discussed Trump's "alcoholic's personality," Elon Musk's drug …
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CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" segment on the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan immigrants to an El Salvador prison, with staffers alleging that the move was a politically motivated appeal to the president. The big picture: The prison, CECOT in El Salvador, has become a symbol of President…
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Gov. Ned Lamont (D) told Balance of Power wind power is essential to bringing down energy costs in New England.

The US is suspending leases for all five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, the latest blow to an industry that’s been targeted repeatedly by the Trump administration as p…