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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
With government funding set to lapse Sept. 30 and Speaker Mike Johnson sending the House home without a defense bill, Republicans fear another Democratic opening just weeks before the November elections.
The 50-45 party-line vote installs the Sullivan & Cromwell partner on the Second Circuit for life, filling the seat vacated by Judge Debra Ann Livingston.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a first-in-the-nation executive order pausing permits for hyperscale data centers for up to a year, citing threats to the power grid, water supplies and ratepayers' utility bills.
A divided Seventh Circuit ruled the state's ban on semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines is consistent with the nation's history of firearm regulation, reversing a lower court as the issue barrels toward the justices.
WatchDemocrats refused to advance the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, 50-46, casting the vote as a referendum on a war now in its fifth month that the White House has struggled to explain.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took responsibility for 'mistakes' in releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files and faced sharp questions on a scrapped anti-weaponization fund and Trump's tax settlement.
WatchThe bipartisan bill would let states lock their clocks to year-round daylight saving time and scrap the twice-a-year switch. President Trump says he will sign it if it reaches his desk.
The former SEC chairman went before senators to become director of national intelligence, replacing acting chief Bill Pulte, and only indirectly acknowledged Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
The initiative pools vulnerability findings from agencies and industry to speed fixes as AI models uncover software bugs faster than security teams can handle them.
The revised measure would let President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas — including China and India — and slap mandatory sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, two Supreme Court justices pressed lawmakers for a nearly 10% budget increase, citing a sharp rise in threats against the federal judiciary.
The Department of Homeland Security paused non-urgent traffic stops following deadly encounters in Texas and Maine, though agents may still stop people with violent criminal histories.
The antitrust suit, led by California's attorney general, defies the Justice Department's approval and seeks to stop what one official called the largest merger in Hollywood history.
A pair of executive orders cut roughly 3 million acres from the two Utah monuments, shrinking them to a fraction of their size as tribal nations say they were never consulted.
The defense secretary said the joint effort will pursue unauthorized disclosures 'with the full force of the law,' days after the government subpoenaed New York Times reporters.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled Trump acted in bad faith and 'improperly' used the courts to legitimize a sweeping immunity pact and a $1.776 billion fund for his allies.
Nearly 5,150 troops will stay in the capital at a cost of more than $3 million a day, even as studies find the deployment has had little to no effect on violent crime.
WatchU.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly dismissed the case against four convicted Capitol rioters with prejudice, writing that no one should mistake his order for agreement with the Justice Department.
A Trump-appointed judge said handing over the personal details of Fulton County's 2020 election staff would chill participation in future elections.
Faculty and students are pressing Yale's leadership not to cut a deal with the Trump administration, which found the medical school admitted Black and Hispanic applicants with lower qualifications.
WatchGov. Henry McMaster, acting on a recommendation from President Trump, named Darline Graham Nordone to serve out the remainder of her late brother's term as Republicans move quickly to protect a fragile Senate majority.
With their primary winner out after sexual assault allegations, Maine Democrats will convene delegates in Bangor on July 25 to pick a new nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November.
The president urged senators to advance the long-stalled digital-asset legislation as disputes over his own $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, developer protections and stablecoin yield continue to block the votes needed to move forward.
WatchThe California Democrat said settlers wielding U.S.-made M4 rifles surrounded his van in the southern West Bank and that Israeli soldiers sided with them, not with the visiting Americans.
The 84-year-old Kentucky senator ended a month of speculation about his health, revealing he was briefly knocked unconscious in a fall at his Washington home and later developed pneumonia.
WatchForeign Minister Roberto Velasco says Mexico will ask U.S. prosecutors and the Justice Department to charge those responsible for the deaths of 17 of its citizens, days after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
Federal agents delivered grand-jury subpoenas — some to reporters' homes — after the Times reported the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 lacked the antimissile defenses of the old presidential jet.
WatchDays after the justices ruled 6-3 that his order defied the 14th Amendment, the president said his lawyers will 'immediately' petition for a rehearing, a maneuver the court has not granted in a decided case in six decades.
The Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, introduced by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson, would strip the program's seasonal limit and offer some unauthorized farmworkers a path in, dividing labor advocates and immigration hawks alike.
In a 71-page opinion, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated three Trump-era policies as unlawfully adopted, restoring the agency's longstanding 12-hour limit on short-term holding.