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SpaceX for a second day scrubbed the test launch of its huge Super Heavy-Starship rocket on Monday due to weather conditions.It was expected to be the program’s 10th test flight, a milestone mission to put corrective upgrades through their paces after three catastrophic failures earlier this year.A successful flight would help restore confidence in the gargantuan rocket amid growing concern a moon lander variant being built for NASA may not be perfected in time for a planned 2027 landing and possibly not before the Chinese mount their own piloted moon mission at the end of the decade.But in the near term, SpaceX’s goal…

Under Chairman Brendan Carr, the FCC has launched investigations into NBC and ABC News. John McDonnell/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption John McDonnell/Getty Images/Getty Images North America The nation’s chief broadcast regulator is, once more, at the center of President Trump’s culture war after the president launched a social media barrage Sunday night against ABC and NBC. While the Federal Communications Commission has historically operated with a degree of independence from U.S. presidents, its new chair, Brendan Carr, has muscularly followed Trump’s lead. Carr has launched formal reviews of nearly all the major broadcast networks — ABC,…

Ex-Mexican cartel leader Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada Garcia on Monday pleaded guilty to federal charges related to his role as a co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, including drug trafficking, gun offenses and money laundering.Zambada pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and one count of running a continuing criminal enterprise, the Justice Department said. He had originally pleaded not guilty, but last week federal prosecutors wrote in a court filing that he intended to change his plea. The Associated Press reported that in brief remarks in a court hearing Monday, Zambada apologized for his actions.”I recognize the great harm illegal…

Politics / August 25, 2025 Trump’s former national security adviser is a very hateable figure. But he still needs defending from the president’s lawlessness. Ad Policy John Bolton, former national security adviser to President Trump, arrives home, as the FBI searches his house August 22, 2025, in Bethesda, Maryland.(Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) As a matter of principle, we must fight injustice even when its victims are personally unsympathetic. And never has anyone fit that description more than John Bolton. Bolton has been for decades one of the most repulsive figures in the American foreign policy elite. He is almost…

Washington —  President Trump signed an executive order Monday that seeks to punish people who burn the American flag, accusing those who do so of displaying hostility and contempt toward the United States.Mr. Trump has for years threatened to crack down on flag burning. In 2016, he wrote on social media that anyone who burns the American flag should lose their citizenship or face jail time. During a 2024 speech before the National Guard Association of the United States, then-candidate Trump said he would work to pass a law imposing criminal penalties on those who burn the American flag.In remarks…

Missed the second half of the show? The latest on…Democratic Rep. Pat Ryan, who represents a swing district in upstate New York, told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that “without question” it will be easier to win reelection with Kamala Harris at the top of the ticket instead of President Biden, Republican Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that the “American people are really tired” of presidential campaigns being “about winning an argument”, and Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former FDA commissioner, tells “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that despite the summer surge of…

Washington — President Trump on Monday signed an executive order to push Washington, D.C., and other localities to end cashless bail for arrested suspects, threatening to withhold federal funding from cities that fail to end the program. It’s the latest move in the president’s federal crackdown on crime. Mr. Trump also signed an order directing the Justice Department to investigate instances of flag burning, although the Supreme Court in 1989 ruled that the First Amendment protected symbolic speech, including flag burning. The executive order on cashless bail charges Attorney General Pam Bondi with identifying jurisdictions in the U.S. that have cashless bail policies, and…

Washington — Kilmar Abrego Garcia was taken into custody Monday by immigration authorities following his release from criminal custody last week and Homeland Security said ICE is processing him for deportation.Abrego Garcia’s lawyer, Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, filed a lawsuit Monday morning to challenge his deportation to Uganda. In a legal filing over the weekend, Abrego Garcia’s lawyers said he was offered a plea deal that included deportation to Costa Rica.  His attorneys said they then received a notice of his possible deportation to Uganda. Sandoval-Moshenberg clarified Monday that Abrego Garcia had stated that he was willing to accept refugee status in…

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials stand outside immigration courtrooms while cases are being heard at 290 Broadway in New York. Keren Carrión/NPR hide caption toggle caption Keren Carrión/NPR The halls of the immigration courts in lower Manhattan are quiet on a recent August day — except for the sounds of five men wearing masks and sunglasses, looking at their phones and talking among themselves. They are immigration and federal law enforcement officers, continuing the show of force that has thrown immigration courts into chaos. Eight months ago, the courts were a little-known part of the Justice Department’s Executive Office for…

When Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Friday opened the door to cutting interest rates for the first time in nearly a year, he noted the tremors beginning to shake a main pillar of the U.S. economy: the labor market. Concerns about the pace of job growth were heightened earlier this month after government data showed a sharp slowdown in hiring in July, along with much weaker payroll gains in May and June than previously thought. The disappointing numbers were alarming enough for President Trump to question their accuracy and to fire the head of the agency tasked with compiling the data.Yet labor…