The Education Department will release $1.3 billion in previously withheld grant money for after-school programs, days after 10 Republican senators sent a letter imploring the Trump administration to allow frozen education money to be sent to states.

Fear is the tool of a tyrant,” wrote the daughter of former FBI Director James Comey, a frequent target of President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump on Friday morning launched a fresh defense of his conduct in the Jeffrey Epstein case after the scandal deepened on Thursday following a Wall Street Journal report that he had written the sex offender a bawdy note with a sketch of a naked woman.

National Democrats accused the GOP-controlled State Board of Elections of “colluding with President Trump’s Justice Department to take away the voting rights of 98,000 North Carolinians.”

Plus, the Justice Department has subpoenaed 20 doctors and clinics involved in “performing transgender medical procedures on children.”

President Trump hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House Monday for high-level meetings ahead of a private dinner between the two world leaders.

The White House sent a letter to trading partners to push for offers by the next day while the “reciprocal” tariffs are paused, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. Leavitt…