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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The outbreak, centered in Lancaster County's Amish and Mennonite communities, is the worst in the country since 1991. Health Secretary Debra Bogen says the CDC's refusal to acknowledge the deaths 'undermines our response.'
Judge Emmet Sullivan's 20-page order found the department's arguments for withholding material 'without merit.' Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act in November, the DOJ released 3.5 million pages in January, and the plaintiff says 'millions' more are still being held back.
The White House Correspondents' Association says the president himself described the move as a 'ban on the free press.' CNN, Politico and MS NOW all say they will fight it, and the AP's lawsuit over its own 2025 ban is still in court.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix found that once Congress zeroed out the $200 tax on 'gangster weapons' in last year's One Big Beautiful Bill, the National Firearms Act's rules lost their constitutional footing. The appeal deadline is October 5. Anyone who joins the gun groups that sued is covered.
Congress has 30 days to block the deal. Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi said the sale could put 'the crown jewels of American military technology within reach of the Chinese Communist Party.' The kingdom is under daily Houthi attack and just lost its East-West pipeline.
The directive, first reported by The New York Times, limits illegal 'take' to intentional acts aimed at a particular animal. It landed the same day a July rule erasing the definition of 'harm' took effect, and days after 21 attorneys general sued over that rule.
Four people familiar with his thinking say the former Waste Management CEO was furious after a June Senate hearing where he was called a 'pawn' in Trump's mail-ballot plan. The Supreme Court blocked key parts of that plan on Monday.
The ACLU-backed suit names Jay Bhattacharya, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and DOGE. One plaintiff's Alzheimer's study was cut off mid-appointment. Another says she can no longer describe 15 years of work on sexual harassment in medicine without tripping the filter.
It is the first data center bill to pass the 119th Congress. The three no votes were progressives who wanted a moratorium. Nearly 70% of Americans don't want a data center near them, and the bill's Republican sponsor is in a toss-up race.
He served 26 years in Congress, four months more filling John McCain's seat, and withdrew from public life last December after a dementia diagnosis. 'Probably a lot of my better achievements were in preventing bad things from happening.'
WatchFifty-eight Democrats crossed over and seven Republicans defected. Hakeem Jeffries said Trump 'cannot be entrusted' with new tariff power. The bill now goes to a president who has spent months saying he wanted it.
The lawsuit says Texas's 'merciless blanket prohibition' killed a 37-year-old mother with diabetes, hypertension and a history of a stillbirth. Her son found her unresponsive on his 15th birthday. 'Honestly, go to hell,' her aunt said of Paxton.
A Fourth Circuit panel heard arguments Tuesday in a case that has been sealed since November. Judge Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, asked whether an 'overbroad disclosure order that reveals sources' compromises a reporter's interest.
Bloomberg counted about 20 cases where Trump bought into companies within a week of publicly promoting them, including DoorDash, Nvidia and Tesla. The White House says outside firms run his money through index-tracking models and nobody in the family directs a trade.
WatchThe Oversight Committee voted 41-0 on Tuesday and the full chamber approved the referral by unanimous consent Wednesday. The matter now goes to the Justice Department, which decides whether to prosecute.
The nonpartisan budget office's first full accounting excludes damage to U.S. bases, the fuel bill for other agencies and interest on the debt. It says restocking missile defenses could take five years, and it notes the Pentagon refused to provide detailed data.
Health, nutrition, environmental and disaster-relief grants took the biggest hits. California, Texas, New York, Illinois and North Carolina lost the most, and the database catalogs everything from maternal health in Michigan to minority-farmer aid in Iowa.
Paid administrative leave rose 435% across 76 agencies covering 95% of the civilian workforce. OPM Director Scott Kupor says the cost was one-time and is dwarfed by $20 billion in recurring savings.
The Kentucky Republican, who lost his primary in May, accuses the war secretary of waging an unauthorized war in Iran, bombing a girls' school, demoting Sen. Mark Kelly and seizing Nicolás Maduro without Congress's consent.
The attorney general said the Supreme Court's mail-ballot ruling changes nothing about the DOJ's election work, citing 11 illegal-voting charges in ten days. 'We're prosecutors, not regulators,' he said of AI.
Huang put the president on speakerphone at the All-In Summit. Trump said data centers are 'the oil of the next 20, 25 years' and that the doubters are 'political people' or 'China.' Huang stopped short of 'hoax,' calling apocalyptic predictions 'not grounded in science.'
Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV's 48-page order preserves the 'duration of status' system that has governed F-1 and J-1 visas for nearly 50 years. Eight higher-education groups and unions sued; the rule drew 22,000 public comments, most of them opposed.
Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell's Protect College Sports Act cleared the filibuster easily on Tuesday. Chris Murphy said it 'protects a system of exploitation,' the NAACP opposes it, and the House has failed repeatedly to pass its own version.
WatchJudge Christopher Cooper ruled the board cannot install a Trump tribute anywhere on the grounds without Congress. The board then declared the main building 'unsafe for continued occupancy,' the CFO resigned, and Trump said the renovation 'will not take place' unless the ruling is reversed.
WatchIn his first congressional appearance since May, the FBI director defended relaxed hiring rules on prostitution and bestiality, brushed off a ProPublica report on Don Jr.'s wedding, and refused to give Blumenthal an unambiguous pledge to keep agents away from elections.
Seven Republicans crossed the aisle on Seth Moulton's resolution as the war entered its seventh month. Hours earlier, Thomas Massie filed impeachment articles against Pete Hegseth, and the CBO put the bill at $2 billion to $3 billion a month.
The Texas Democrat's H.Res. 1486 accused Trump of letting ICE and Border Patrol 'operate without accountability' and cited four people killed by federal immigration agents this year. Democratic leaders declined to whip the vote and voted present themselves.
Median income rose 2.6% in 2025, the official poverty rate fell to 10.2% and child poverty hit a record low of 13.4%. Women's earnings rose 3.2% while men's did not move, and the top 10% gained while the bottom 10% slipped.
The Clarity Act needed 60 votes to advance. Thune said Republicans had granted more than 100 Democratic requests; Warren said the ethics language was 'a tiny little fig leaf' that would let Trump make 'his next $1.4 billion in crypto profits.'
The Future of Life Institute's all-day 'Pro-Human Assembly' also features Marsha Blackburn, Randi Weingarten, Ashley Judd and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Speaker Johnson says a moratorium means 'we will lose the race to China.'