The Trump administration filed an urgent appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking permission to immediately implement new U.S. Postal Service rules for mail ballots.
Twenty-five years after September 11, victims and their families are hopeful that newly uncovered records will aid in their decade-long lawsuit against Saudi Arabia.
The Trump administration is ramping up attacks against the Smithsonian and is now threatening to cut off federal cooperation in the curation and funding of exhibits.
Vice President JD Vance held a White House press briefing today where he spoke about a reported deal with Venezuela over oil. MS NOW Senior National Reporter David Rohde and MS NOW Senior White House Reporter Vaughn Hillyard join Alicia Menendez to fact check Vance's comments.
A new whistleblower reviewed by The New York Times alleges that there is an "unprecedented lowering of standards" in the Trump administration's push to recruit ICE agents. Former ICE attorney Ryan Schwank joins Katy Tur to explain more.
While speaking at a White House press briefing, Vice President JD Vance said he “wouldn’t call” the Iran war “a war.” MS NOW Senior National Security Reporter David Rohde, “Prof G Markets” podcast co-host Ed Elson, MS NOW “The Weeknight” co-host Michael Steele, and Bloomberg Washington Correspondent Jeff Mason join Katy Tur to share their reactions.
MS NOW's Ari Melber delivers a special report on the man widely considered to be President Trump's "fixer" when he was a budding real estate developer. Melber is joined by Kai Bird, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "American Scoundrel: Roy Cohn's Dark Journey from Joe McCarthy to Donald Trump." (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
The jury in the Lindsay Clancy trial was excused for the day after failing to reach a verdict on the sixth day of deliberations. The judge asked them to return on Friday to continue deliberating. Clancy’s attorney also requested to remove a juror on Thursday, but the judge denied that motion. Defense attorney Kevin Reddington told the court that the jury foreperson had reported "there's one juror who refuses to listen to the law" on reasonable doubt. Reddington argued the judge's earlier instruction did not go far enough and asked him to remove the juror. “I don’t feel that it is proper for me to side with one side or the other of the deliberations,” judge William Sullivan said in court. “I don’t feel it’s appropriate for me…