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Trump says he's looking at reclassifying marijuana at federal level

Updated Aug. 11, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET President Donald Trump said his administration is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. "We're looking at reclassification and we'll make a determination over the next few weeks," Trump said at news conference August 11. Though 45 states have legalized the use of marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, the federal government still classifies it as a Schedule I drug. Schedule I drugs are defined as highly dangerous, add ...

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Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women

In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests. Alanna Vagianos Aug 11, 2025, 02:00 PM EDT House Democrats are urging the Department of Homeland Security to mandate that immigration officials clearly identify themselves when conducting arrests. The demand comes in the wake of multiple reports of men impersonating Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to kidnap and as ...

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'I'm going to Russia on Friday': Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC crime

Monday 11 August 2025 20:02 BST President Donald Trump appeared to mix up Russia with Alaska ahead of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a White House press conference about crime in Washington, DC and his plans to deploy the National Guard and put the city’s police under his control. Trump delivered the news from the podium in the press briefing room — joined by Attorney General Pam Bondi, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and newly confirmed DC U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro ...

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Trump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner

Trump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner PUBLISHED MON, AUG 11 2025 6:48 PM EDT UPDATED MOMENTS AGO Dan Mangan @_DANMANGAN KEY POINTS * President Donald Trump said he will nominate the economist E. J. Antoni as commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. * Antoni would replace Erika McEntarfer, who Trump fired as BLS commissioner on Aug. 1 after accusing her of manipulating jobs report data. * Antoni is the chief economist at the conservative Herita ...

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Trump Says Gold Imports Won't Be Tariffed in Reprieve for Market

August 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM EDT Updated on August 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM EDT President Donald Trump said Monday imports of gold will not face US tariffs, weighing in after a federal ruling caused chaos and confusion in global bullion markets. “Gold will not be Tariffed!” Trump posted on social media. Gold futures traded on New York’s Comex and the global benchmark for spot prices in London were little-changed after Trump’s post. Spot gold pared some losses, though it was still down more than 1.2 ...

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Trump readies federal moves on D.C. crime, takes over D.C. police

(Washington Post) President Donald Trump announced Monday that he would place the D.C. D.C. police under direct federal control and deploy the National Guard to the streets of Washington to fight crime and clear the city of its homeless population, an extraordinary flex of federal power that could expose residents of the nation’s capital to unpredictable encounters with a domestically-deployed military force. The decision to deploy troops comes as the president has been slamming America’s cities as places where crime is out of control, despite two years of declines that have brought homicide levels in many major cities to their lowest levels in decades.

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Texas Legislature to take another swing at redistricting vote as Democrats extend their walkout

(AP) Texas Republicans will again try to convene the state Legislature Monday for a vote on redrawing congressional maps in their party’s favor, an effort that already sparked a national political brawl and prompted Democratic lawmakers to leave the state to deny Republicans the quorum they need. The Republican majority is seeking to redraw five U.S. House districts at President Donald Trump’s urging as he tries to avoid a replay of the 2018 midterms. Those elections installed a new Democratic majority in the U.S. House that stymied the president’s agenda and twice impeached him.

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Pritzker on GOP's FBI arrest threats: 'Texas law does not apply' in Illinois

(The Hill) Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said Sunday it would be illegal for President Trump to order the FBI to arrest Texas state Democratic officials for fleeing their state to halt Republican redistricting efforts. “Well, first of all, Texas law does not apply in the state of Illinois, and there’s no federal law that would allow the FBI to arrest anybody that’s here visiting our state. So, it’s a lot of grandstanding,” Pritzker said to host Kristen Welker on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

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Supreme Court formally asked to overturn landmark same-sex marriage ruling

(ABC News) Ten years after the Supreme Court extended marriage rights to same-sex couples nationwide, the justices this fall will consider for the first time whether to take up a case that explicitly asks them to overturn that decision. The petition appears to mark the first time since 2015 that the court has been formally asked to overturn the landmark marriage decision.

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Vance says US is 'done with funding Ukraine war' ahead of Trump-Putin talks

(The Independent) US vice-president JD Vance says Europe must spend more on Ukraine as he warned that America is “done with the funding of the war”. He also vowed that Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will be forced to meet by Donald Trump. Mr Vance, in a wide-ranging interview on Fox News, went on to dismiss European leaders’ calls to allow the Ukrainian president to attend the upcoming summit between the US and Russian leaders, insisting that it would not be “productive” at this point.

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Trump selects Heritage Foundation's Antoni to head Bureau of Labor Statistics

13 min ago - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was nominating economist E.J. Antoni as the new Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, ten days after firing the statistics agency's previous leader after a weak scorecard of the U.S. job market, accusi ... (Reuters)

'Don't Fall For the Distraction': Left Accuses Trump of Epstein Cover Up With DC Troop Deployment

55 min ago - Aug 11th, 2025, 5:44 pm President Donald Trump sparked a wave of comments from Democrats and others on the left on Monday, who accused the president of deploying the National Guard to Washington, DC as a distraction from the ongoing fallout from the ... (MEDIAite)

Trump says he's looking at reclassifying marijuana at federal level

1 hr ago - Updated Aug. 11, 2025, 6:35 p.m. ET President Donald Trump said his administration is considering reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. "We're looking at reclassification and we'll make a determination over the next few weeks," Trump said ... (USA Today)

Texas Gov. Abbott decries 'runaway Democrats' as redistricting standoff enters its second week

1 hr ago - Updated Aug 11, 2025, 5:57 PM ET PUBLISHED Aug 11, 2025, 8:00 AM ET Democratic lawmakers in Texas once again thwarted the Republican redistricting effort in the state when the Texas House of Representatives failed to meet a quorum on Monday. Texas Ho ... (CNN Politics)

Foot traffic down 9% at American Eagle following Sydney Sweeney ad controversy

1 hr ago - Foot traffic fell 9% year over year at American Eagle stores for the week that began August 3, marking the second week of traffic declines since the retailer launched its controversial campaign featuring actor Sydney Sweeney, according to data from P ... (Retail Brew)

Trump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner

1 hr ago - Trump says he's nominating E.J. Antoni as Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner PUBLISHED MON, AUG 11 2025 6:48 PM EDT UPDATED MOMENTS AGO Dan Mangan @_DANMANGAN KEY POINTS * President Donald Trump said he will nominate the economist E. J. Antoni a ... (CNBC)

GOP Rep. LaMalfa gets an earful and profane language at town hall in his California district

2 hrs ago - August 11, 2025, 5:02 PM Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa got an earful at an in-person town hall in Chico, California, Monday morning -- hearing it from attendees upset about his vote for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Epstein files and President D ... (ABC News)

DC mayor: 'this action today is unsettling and unprecedented'

2 hrs ago - From 3h ago 5.18 EDT Bowser says that her office plans to follow the law, and cooperate with the federal government. The DC Home Rule Act requires the mayor to “provide the services” of the police department in the case of a declared emerg ... (guardian)

Exclusive: Medical journal rejects Kennedy's call for retraction of vaccine study

3 hrs ago - August 11, 2025 10:48 AM EDT Updated 7 hours ago Aug 11 (Reuters) - An influential U.S. medical journal is rejecting a call from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract a large Danish study that found that aluminum ingredients in vaccines d ... (Reuters)

'I'm going to Russia on Friday': Trump appears to forget Alaska is in US as he frets over facing Putin amid DC crime

3 hrs ago - Monday 11 August 2025 20:02 BST President Donald Trump appeared to mix up Russia with Alaska ahead of his meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, during a White House press conference about crime in Washington, DC and his plans to deploy the Nati ... (The Independent)

Milwaukee area drying out after weekend rain causes record flooding on multiple rivers

3 hrs ago - Updated 2:30 PM CDT, August 11, 2025 MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee area began drying out Monday after weekend rain hit unofficial state records of more than 14 inches (36 centimeters) in less than 24 hours, leading multiple rivers to flood at r ... (AP)

Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women

4 hrs ago - In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests. Alanna Vagianos Aug 11, 2025, 02:00 PM EDT House Democrats are urging the De ... (huff Post)

Factories from GE to Kraft Heinz lose immigrant workers, stressing those who remain

4 hrs ago - August 11, 2025 5:00 AM ET LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Jaelin Carpenter was stressed. Four people on her team of 26 at GE Appliances had learned that their immigration status had changed. Under former President Biden, they'd been allowed to stay and work ... (NPR)

Storm displaces 387 inmates as Nebraska prison loses roof from two housing units

4 hrs ago - By: Aaron Sanderford - August 11, 2025 11:50 am LINCOLN — Straight-line winds of 80-90 mph tore the roof off of parts of two housing units Saturday at the aging Nebraska State Penitentiary, displacing 387 inmates, the state announced. Damage est ... (Nebraska Examiner)

Trump Says Gold Imports Won't Be Tariffed in Reprieve for Market

5 hrs ago - August 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM EDT Updated on August 11, 2025 at 1:50 PM EDT President Donald Trump said Monday imports of gold will not face US tariffs, weighing in after a federal ruling caused chaos and confusion in global bullion markets. “Gold ... (Bloomberg)

'If these words reach you ... Israel has succeeded in killing me': the last words of a journalist killed in Gaza

5 hrs ago - Anas al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera reporter, was killed by an Israeli airstrike on Sunday night. This is the message he had prepared for his family, and his call for the world not to forget Gaza The following statement was posthumously published on Anas a ... (The Guardian)

Got 'range anxiety'? Trump halts massive EV charger project

5 hrs ago - Updated Aug. 11, 2025, 11:42 a.m. ET DENVER ‒ A $7.5 billion Biden-era plan to build a massive network of electric vehicle chargers to address concerns about "range anxiety" has crashed to a halt after installing fewer than 400 chargers nationw ... (USA Today)

Trump extends China tariff deadline by 90 days

6 hrs ago - Published Mon, Aug 11 2025 2:31 PM EDT Updated 3 Min Ago President Donald Trump on Monday delayed high U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods from snapping back into place for another 90 days, a White House official told CNBC. Those tariffs were set to resum ... (CNBC)

Ford hits the pedal on EV production with $2 billion overhaul of Kentucky plant

6 hrs ago - By BRUCE SCHREINER Updated 11:40 AM CDT, August 11, 2025 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build ... (AP)

Defense lawyers for needy clients feel squeeze after congressional funding dries up

7 hrs ago - Updated on: August 11, 2025 / 11:24 AM EDT Washington — Just over a year ago, federal judges, defenders and a group of lawyers who represent criminal indigent defendants gathered at the U.S. courthouse in Baltimore to hear federal Judge Myron Th ... (CBS News)