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Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, said on Friday that she would not run for Senate in 2026.The revelation — a huge relief to Republicans who feared she would challenge Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff and jeopardize their chance at defeating him — came 1,200 words deep into a screed against her party that Ms. Greene posted on social media on Friday night.In her tirade against the forces she blamed for standing in her way, Ms. Greene ripped the National Republican Senatorial Committee, G.O.P. consultants, pollsters, wealthy donors, the institution of the Senate and the Republican lawmakers who serve in…

Culloden, West Virginia — It’s generally not socially acceptable to air a person’s dirty laundry. But in the case of foster mother Kari Cox of Culloden, West Virginia, the sheer volume of her daily load of laundry speaks volumes about her capacity for love. “She’s like Mother Theresa, almost,” one of her 14 children, most of whom were adopted, told CBS News. “My mom does 99.9% of the work, my dad does 0.1,” jokes another.It’s a gross exaggeration for sure. But even Bill Cox, a special education teacher, admits that without his wife Kari, their children, many with special needs, would fall to…

David Souter (1939–2025) liked facts, and facts are anathema to movement conservatives. Ad Policy Supreme Court Justice David Souter.(Diana Walker / Getty Images) Former Supreme Court justice David Souter died on Friday morning at the age of 85. The Supreme Court did not issue a cause of death, reporting only that he died “peacefully” at his home in Concord, New Hampshire. The one thing everybody knows about Souter is that he was a “Republican,” appointed by George H.W. Bush, who ended up voting with the “liberals.” That’s true, for what that’s worth, but the real story is deeper and more…

President Trump on Friday publicly waffled over whether Republicans in Congress should embrace a tax increase on the rich, underscoring his differences with members of his own party on what should be in a megabill to carry out his agenda.Mr. Trump on Wednesday had privately urged Speaker Mike Johnson to create a higher tax bracket for those making more than $2.5 million a year. He also told the top Republican that he supported closing what is known as the carried interest loophole, which allows hedge fund, private equity and venture capital executives to pay taxes of only about 20 percent…

At least half a dozen USAID employees who spoke to reporters after they thought they had been fired by the Trump administration have now received notices from the foreign aid agency’s internal human resources office that they are facing investigation for participating in interviews.The workers, whose formal dismissal date was delayed after leaders encountered bureaucratic snags, received an email in recent days carrying the subject line, “Administrative inquiry.” The email accused them of having “engaged with the press/media without authorization” and threatened “disciplinary action” including “removal from the U.S. Agency for International Development.” The emails were sent by Employment Labor Relations,…

President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico on Friday morning said her government had sued Google over the company’s decision to label the Gulf of Mexico as “Gulf of America” — a spat going back to February, when the Trump administration issued an executive order to rename the gulf.The order prompted some local governments and lawmakers in the United States to embrace the use of the name on official documents. It also caused Google to implement the change on its maps. Users in the United States would see the body of water with the new name while people in Mexico would continue…

President Trump fired the librarian of Congress because she promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, the White House said Friday, making Dr. Carla Hayden one of the most high-profile leaders of color to be targeted in the administration’s campaign to suppress discussions about race and gender at America’s cultural institutions.Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, said the administration believed Dr. Hayden “did not fit the needs of the American people,” and that her firing resulted from “quite concerning things that she had done at the Library of Congress in the pursuit of D.E.I.”Ms. Leavitt did not offer any evidence of…

The mayor of Newark, N.J. was arrested at an ICE facility during a visit with members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation. Mayor Ras Baraka was taken into custody Friday at the Delaney Hall facility in Newark, which quietly started housing detained migrants this month. “The Mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, committed trespass and ignored multiple warnings from Homeland Security Investigations to remove himself from the ICE detention center in Newark, New Jersey this afternoon,” U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba wrote on social media. “He has willingly chosen to disregard the law. That will not stand in this state. He has been taken…

President Trump and his adviser Elon Musk speak to the press on March 11 in Washington, D.C. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images A federal judge in San Francisco appeared ready to temporarily block the Trump administration’s sweeping overhaul of the federal government. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, a Clinton appointee, held a hearing Friday in a lawsuit filed by a coalition of labor unions, nonprofits and local governments, who argue in their complaint that President Trump’s efforts to “radically restructure and dismantle the federal government” without any authorization from Congress violate…

After resolving the latest round of legal hurdles, a Los Angeles judge has scheduled a hearing for next week to decide whether Lyle and Erik Menendez should be eligible for release after more than three of decades behind bars.The long-awaited resentencing hearing, which had first been scheduled for December and then was repeatedly postponed will now take place over two days, on May 13 and 14, the judge, Michael V. Jesic of Los Angeles Superior Court, said on Friday.Once again, family members of the brothers were arranging to travel to Los Angeles for the proceedings. Others, including people who were…