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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The 84-year-old Kentucky Republican, who retires in January, told reporters it was 'time to get back to work' on the farm bill. His return restores a 12-11 GOP edge on the Agriculture Committee.
WatchIn a fly-fishing interview at his in-laws' Montana ranch, the California governor said the two Democrats share the same voters and the same friends. Harris leads him by 11 points in the RealClearPolitics average and has not said whether she will run.
The J.H. Campbell plant was supposed to retire in May 2025. Secretary Chris Wright's Section 202(c) order kept it burning coal for more than a year at a cost of roughly $259 million, which Midwest ratepayers are on the hook for. Similar orders in five other states now look legally exposed.
Judge George O'Toole Jr. found the essay prompt 'calls for the applicant's personal views on a political topic' and likely violates the First Amendment. It had appeared on more than 70,000 postings for nonpartisan civil service jobs since May 2025. OPM has until the end of the week to pull it.
In two late-night Truth Social posts the president called José de Rivera's stainless-steel sculpture 'strange' and said it 'tells visitors nothing about America.' The Smithsonian's Board of Regents, not the White House, controls the museum, and its secretary, Lonnie Bunch, has already announced he will leave at the end of the year.
WatchAn unsigned, one-paragraph order Monday left in place a Massachusetts judge's injunction against the USPS rule born of Trump's March executive order. Twenty-three states and D.C. had sued, and Justice Kavanaugh wrote that election officials 'do not have sufficient time to reasonably implement the rule before the elections.'
ProPublica found that Umar Kremlev, the 43-year-old head of the International Boxing Association who received the Order of Friendship from Putin in May, spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on the May 24 festivities. Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson called it 'an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend.'
The federal complaint, filed in New York with student Mohammad Zubairi and a suspended pro-Palestinian group, accuses Columbia of hiring private investigators to monitor Khalil, retaliating against students who reported harassment, and rewriting its discipline rules to punish criticism of Israel.
The suspensions, tied to an estimated $39 billion in suspected PPP and EIDL fraud, were announced in Kansas City alongside a summer 'Heartland fraud surge' that produced more than 160 defendants. One Missouri man is accused of claiming to own dozens of businesses, including 'Fur Lives Matter.'
Draft resolutions filed in court Monday offer 10 marble inscriptions crediting Trump and ask trustees to shut the main building immediately. Rep. Joyce Beatty says the safety claim cites a consultant who expressly disclaimed it.
Padilla and Schumer say the 'Unlawful Voter Initiative' could amount to thousands of state-law violations and has already created federal law enforcement records against naturalized Americans. They gave Secretary Mullin until Sept. 21 to answer.
The suit says DHS cannot call one of the emptiest stretches of the border an 'area of high illegal entry' to waive the law. Roughly 65% of the 609-mile project runs across private property.
The president blamed the world's diesel crisis on the Ukraine war rather than his own war on Iran. Zelenskyy said any halt has to last past Russia's 'elections' and not collapse the moment fuel prices ease.
The former CIA director's lawyer disclosed the subpoena in a court filing and said Brennan also remains a target in a separate Washington investigation into whether he lied to Congress in 2023.
Starting Friday, immigration officers can weigh food stamps, housing aid, WIC and college financial aid against green-card applicants. Mamdani says 3.1 million New Yorkers are foreign-born and the rule is 'intentionally vague.'
The rule had required coal plants and new gas plants to cut 90% of their CO2 by 2032. The EPA's own prior analysis credited it with preventing 30,000 deaths a year. Power-sector emissions rose 4.1% in 2025, the first increase in two decades.
WatchU.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the rule's key portions 'exceed any conception of the outer bounds' of the Postal Service's authority. It is the second injunction in eight days against a regulation whose voter portal still does not work.
It is the agency's biggest overhaul in a decade, with redesign plans due by the end of September and full operating capacity targeted for mid-January. Former officials say the director admitted 'they don't know how they are going to do it,' and that the agency is 'begging' ex-staff to come back.
'Everybody's been bugging me,' the president said at his Doonbeg course. Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles are barred from U.S. import starting Sept. 29, though Crown Royal found a four-liter loophole in the fine print.
A day after Anthropic's CEO said the industry needs to hit the brakes, and Musk and Altman agreed, the president told reporters in Ireland he won't cede America's edge to China. Kevin Hassett says White House meetings start this week.
WatchA hidden-camera investigation that aired Sunday caught Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl pitching a convicted aquarium owner at a Ritz-Carlton bar. Other brokers charge up to $3 million, and roughly 70% of Trump's second-term clemency grants never went through the Justice Department.
Speaking at his golf course in Ireland, the president said Ukraine can hit other targets but not refineries because the strikes are 'hurting the world.' U.S. diesel topped $6 a gallon on Friday.
The Beechcraft K35 carrying Rep. Tiffany and his pilot lost power at about 8:50 p.m. Saturday. Both men got out as it sank. Tiffany needed stitches above his right eye, and the FAA is investigating.
WatchA federal judge gave David J. Rush and the Justice Department until October 8 to finish a plea agreement on a timesheet-fraud charge. The $40 million in gold found at his Virginia home is still unexplained.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said DHS 'acted arbitrarily and capriciously' when it stripped FEMA of the power to renew its on-call response corps, which makes up about 40% of the agency. The court will now presume the deleted messages would have hurt the government's case.
In his first public appearance since leaving the Pentagon, Driscoll praised the DELTA platform and warned that the U.S. plans to buy 300,000 drones a year while Ukraine builds 7 to 10 million.
Director John Ratcliffe called it the largest release of CIA analysis on 9/11 ever. Seventy of the documents predate the attacks; the last is dated Sept. 12, 2001.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, whose son and son-in-law were convicted in an ISIS-inspired Election Day 2024 plot, left voluntarily rather than fight charges built on classified evidence she was not allowed to see.
'Japan does it, but they hire our people,' the president told Fox News on Friday. Detroit's trade group wants Congress to lock Chinese vehicles out permanently by the end of December.
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel ruled the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it invoked a 'narrow, last-resort backstop' in the Federal Power Act to block the 64-year-old plant's retirement, the first court defeat for the Trump administration's campaign to keep aging fossil plants running.