Friday, October 16, 2026 · Deeply sourced news and analysis by M.A. Rothman
Judicial Watch pried 249 pages of FBI records on Thomas Crooks loose, including a redacted chat thread and drone logs. At this pace the full file takes 12-plus years.
The Council of Economic Advisers scored the DSA’s ‘Workers Deserve More’ agenda. Medicare for All alone accounts for $47.4 trillion of the bill.
At Peterbilt’s Denton, Texas, plant, an employee told the president her family now spans three generations at the company after tariff-driven hiring.
Told the weather meant canceling his Durant rally, Trump took the motorcade from Texas instead, with press vans hitting 98 mph, and arrived to thousands still waiting.
Louisville father Tracy Pike’s insurer refused a $40,000 MD Anderson cancer treatment the night before it began. He died in January 2024.
In a TIME interview, Trump defended his White House overhaul, said he blocked a plan to rebuild the Oval Office and wants it made a federal landmark.
At CNN’s California governor debate, Steve Hilton hit Xavier Becerra over unaccompanied children his HHS lost track of. Becerra blamed Trump.
New Treasury rules automatically create Trump Accounts for every eligible child under 18, a change aimed at reaching the families least likely to sign up.
Vance says he and Trump war-gamed firing the parliamentarian to pass the SAVE America Act, and that McConnell, Cornyn, Tillis and Murkowski would sink it.
Trump unveiled America.gov, a plain-language front door to federal services, and signed an order directing agencies to integrate their public services.