The BLS does have a jobs data problem, but it's not what Trump says
Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a disappointing jobs report he said was "RIGGED."While BLS faces data collection problems, monthly revision...
House GOP subpoenas DOJ, Clintons in Epstein probe
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair James Comer (R-Ky.) issued subpoenas to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and a number of high-profile former govern...
Maddow Blog | Rachel Maddow: As Big Law cowers, small firms are stepping up to take on Trump
This is an adapted excerpt from the Aug. 4 episode of “The Rachel Maddow Show."As Donald Trump continues to push around the nation’s universities — suspending their fed...
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for George Santos' 7-year sentence to be commuted
It might be hard to find someone to have your back in politics if you get caught lying about your life story, become one of a handful of people ever expelled from Congr...
Republicans’ next redistricting target: Missouri
Missouri Republicans are considering redrawing their state’s congressional lines to add another red House seat, the latest volley in a national battle over control of t...
Brazil Supreme Court orders house arrest for Trump ally Bolsonaro
Brazil’s Supreme Court on Monday ordered former President Jair Bolsonaro to be placed on house arrest for the remainder of his ongoing trial.Bolsonaro is facing legal r...
Illinois lieutenant governor responds to Texas redistricting: ‘Nothing will be off the table’
Illinois Lt. Gov. Juliana Stratton (D) said Tuesday that “nothing will be off the table” in response to the plan by Texas Republicans to redraw their congressional boun...
Maddow Blog | As Democrats look ahead to the midterms, they’re recruiting plenty of veterans
Around this time 20 years ago, Democrats were in a tough spot: Republicans controlled the U.S. House and Senate; a Republican president had just won a second term; and...
The Trump administration dismisses most on a federal board overseeing Puerto Rico's finances
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Trump administration has dismissed five out of seven members on Puerto Rico’s federal control board that oversees the U.S. territory’s...
3 African nations have agreed to take deportees from the US. What we know about the secretive deals
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rwanda has become the third African nation to enter into a deal with the Trump administration to accept migrants deported by the United S...