THE WEEK

12/12/2025

For nearly a year, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has been President Donald Trump’s point person to carry out mass deportation efforts across the country. Although Trump "himself is happy with Noem," CNN said, her time in office may be soon coming to an end. Here's why.

The Homeland Security secretary has been one of the most visible and vocal architects of Trump’s anti-immigration efforts, even as her own star risks fading

12/12/2025

The Senate Thursday failed to pass competing plans to prevent a sharp rise in costs for people who get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act when subsidies expire at the end of the year.

The Senate rejected the extension of Affordable Care Act tax credits, guaranteeing a steep rise in health care costs for millions of Americans

12/12/2025

New York City is “becoming unsettlingly uniform in one uncomfortable way: nearly all are renters, hardly ever owners,” says Jason Mendez.

Read more of the day's top columns here.

Opinion, comment and editorials of the day

12/12/2025

A federal judge in Maryland Thursday ordered the immediate release of Kilmar Abrego García from an ICE detention facility in Pennsylvania, ruling that the government was holding the Salvadoran immigrant “without lawful authority.”

The wrongfully deported man has been released from an ICE detention center

12/12/2025

Indiana’s state Senate Thursday rejected a new congressional map 31-19, with 21 Republicans joining all 10 Democrats, in a rebuke of President Donald Trump’s pressure campaign.

The proposed gerrymander would have likely flipped the state’s two Democratic-held US House seats

12/12/2025

The week’s best photos 📸

1. PETA supporters dressed as chained elephants stage a protest against elephant rides and abuse of animals in New Delhi, India (Run Sankar / AFP / Getty Images)

2. A man loads a horse cart with sand as a rainbow emerges over Deir al-Balah, in Gaza, Palestine (Bashar Taleb / AFP / Getty Images)

3. Lightning strikes light up the sky during a thunderstorm in Kuwait City, Kuwait (Yasser Al-Zayyat / AFP / Getty Images)

12/12/2025

European leaders should “assume that the traditional trans-Atlantic relationship is dead,” Katja Bego from the Chatham House think tank told The Wall Street ...

12/12/2025

The fight over the future of Warner Bros. Discovery is really a battle to decide who will control much of the news and entertainment Americans consume. So perhaps it is no surprise that President Donald Trump has inserted himself in the middle of the fray between Netflix and Paramount Skydance.

12/12/2025

“Poll finds inflation is taking heavy toll” as “president downplays affordability concerns,” USA Today says on Friday’s front page.

Read more of today's newspapers here.

A roundup of the headlines from the US front pages

12/12/2025

In today's Morning Report: Indiana balks, Abrego García walks and the Senate fails

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📸: Michael Conroy / AP Photo

12/11/2025

A group of fired FBI agents is going after their own former agency, alleging that their constitutional rights were violated when they were illegally fired after kneeling during a racial justice protest in 2020.

Although the government is allowed to “restrict employees’ speech while performing official duties during work hours without violating the First Amendment,” said USA Today, here's why some are calling the case "unusual."

📸: Illustration by Julia Wytrazek / Getty Images

12/11/2025

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-Mich.) Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., accusing him of “abuse of authority and undermining of the public health.”