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A view of the newly paved Rose Garden is seen at the White House in Washington, DC, on August 6, 2025. US President Donald Trump converted the grass portion of the Rose Garden into a patio space, inspired by his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images Since returning to the White House in January, President Trump has been on a mission to renovate — including an overhaul of the iconic Rose Garden, where work is nearly complete. Trump has swapped out the grass in the Rose Garden with…

The Texas Senate has passed a controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weekslong standoff in the House, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk for approval.The Republican-backed proposal, which cleared the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday, aims to redraw the state’s congressional map and create five new GOP-leaning districts.The Senate approved the measure early Saturday after a heated debate, marking a major step in a mid-decade redistricting effort backed by President Trump, who urged Texas lawmakers to secure more Republican seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.Before the full Senate vote, the Texas Senate Committee on…

Politics / August 22, 2025 With every White House action, from mass deportation to domestic deployment of federal troops the “opposition party” has accepted the premise and failed to offer an alternative. Ad Policy Donald Trump visits the US Park Police Anacostia Operations Facility on August 21, 2025, in Washington, DC.(Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images) Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: As an aggressive MAGA policy initiative lurches into gear, Democrats fret over a just-so messaging response and generally dither over the prospect of alienating an increasingly mythic political center. As the initiative in question sows fear and…

Columbus, Ohio — After the death in July of their father, Dan Pelzer, at the age of 92, John and Marci Pelzer discovered something extraordinary in his things — a very long list of every book he had ever read. Dan, a social worker from Columbus, Ohio, was in the Peace Corps when he started the list in 1962. And over the next six decades, his whale-sized appetite for books took him on a journey through the likes of James Michener, Jack Kerouac and Homer. He learned about everything, from saints to sinners and prayer to prey. In total, from…

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from cutting off federal funding to dozens of “sanctuary” cities and counties — covering several of the largest cities in the U.S.The judge had previously ruled in April that it was unconstitutional for President Trump to freeze funding for local governments that limit their cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement — commonly known as sanctuary cities. That ruling applied to more than a dozen cities and counties that had sued the Trump administration for threatening to cut off funding, including San Francisco, Sacramento, Minneapolis and Seattle.On Friday, San Francisco-based U.S. District…

President Trump initiated a redistricting arms race when he urged Texas to redraw its congressional map to boost Republicans. It’s part of a broader trend of Trump pushing the limits of democracy when it comes to consolidating power. JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: This week, the country’s two most populous states each took another step toward reshaping the national political landscape. President Trump initiated a redistricting arms race when he urged Texas to redraw its congressional map to boost Republicans. And now, in response, California leaders are going to ask their state’s voters to approve a new map, one that helps Democrats.…

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Politics / Q&A / August 22, 2025 Collier speaks about her surreal ordeal, wherein she refused to sign a permission slip and accept a police escort to leave the Austin statehouse and had to sleep there for two nights. Ad Policy Representative Nicole Collier (D-Fort Worth) raises a fist as she greets supporters from inside the House Chamber at the Texas capitol in Austin, on August 19, 2025.(Mikala Compton / Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images) Texas Democratic State Representative Nicole Collier made national headlines this week when, after she returned to her state to vote against the GOP’s farcical mid-cycle…

The Trump administration may try to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, according to a senior Department of Homeland Security official and a notice sent by government officials obtained by CBS News.Hours after Abrego Garcia — who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year — was released from pre-trial detention in Tennessee on Friday, his attorneys were sent a court-required notice of his potential deportation to Uganda, the official said. The notice said he may be deported to the East African country “no earlier than 72 hours from now,” not including weekends.Earlier in the week, CBS News was first…

Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse has been ousted as Defense Intelligence Agency director, a senior defense official confirmed Friday.”Lt Gen Kruse will no longer serve as DIA Director,” the official said in a brief statement.The agency’s deputy director, Christine Bordine, will assumes the role of acting DIA director, a spokesperson said. File: Lt. General Jeffrey Kruse, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, during a House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations hearing in Washington, DC, May 15, 2025.  Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images Intelligence committee leaders in Congress were informed about the DIA chief’s firing, according to a source…