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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
WatchOn a weekend trip built around the Irish Open at his Doonbeg club, the president said Irish unification 'may as well happen now,' drawing a rebuke from Northern Ireland's largest unionist party and a cordon around Dublin's Phoenix Park.
Gasoline jumped 3.9% in August and is up 27.4% from a year ago as the Iran war keeps oil above $100. Core prices rose 0.3%, and Fed Governor Christopher Waller has already said it 'may not take much' to push him toward tightening.
The White House says enrollees in 30 HealthCare.gov states were 'wrongly overcharged' through exchange user fees under Biden. KFF says a $500 check covers roughly one month of the premium increases many of them absorbed after Congress let enhanced subsidies lapse.
The 81-year-old Trump loyalist had lost the confidence of both the Justice Department and the White House, sources told multiple outlets. His wife, Victoria Toensing, leaves the department Friday. No replacement has been named.
The package includes the nation's strongest AI chatbot law, named for a teenager who died by suicide after months of ChatGPT conversations, and a four-year ban on AI chatbot toys for kids. The EFF calls the social media measure a de facto ban.
Travis County District Judge Cory Liu ruled the company violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, making Texas the first state to hold TikTok liable over child safety. A trial on penalties is expected next month.
The proposed rule, published Friday with a 60-day comment window, would also strip the cushion from L-1, O-1, TN and E-visa holders and their families. About 730,000 H-1B workers and 550,000 dependents live in the U.S.
WatchThe pledge came an hour into his speech at the RNC's first midterm convention in Dallas. Paying it would cost more than $1 trillion, and Congress would have to approve it.
That's the highest since October 2023, with the national debt past $40 trillion. Analysts told CBS News the buyback is 'tinkering on the periphery.'
The unsigned order, with no noted dissents, sends Missouri into November on its 2022 lines and saves Emanuel Cleaver's seat for now.
For decades the Civil Rights Division sent lawyers to polling places to protect voters from discrimination. Harmeet Dhillon is emailing staff to sign up for something broader.
Administrators imposed the moratorium on their own authority. Two board members said they had assumed last year's policy was still running.
There are 11 million extremely low-income renter households in America and about 4 million homes they can afford. The main federal program built 12% of its 2024 units for them.
Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis granted discovery in Alexandria, Virginia, over a fund born from Trump's settlement with the IRS. The attorney general has said the fund is dead; the plaintiffs say nobody ever rescinded it.
Ground beef rose 12.8% and roasts 13.6% in August, against 3.2% for food overall. Ranchers who sold off breeding cows during the drought cannot rebuild the herd before the end of the decade.
Messages between the Pennsylvania senator and his aides, first published by The Wall Street Journal, show him pushing back on constituent meetings, hospital visits and hearings. Two House Democrats from his own state called him lazy.
The state Supreme Court reversed two lower courts that had blocked Question 3, clearing the way for Maryland Democrats to seek the power to redraw congressional maps before 2028.
An inspector general report says former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer broke her own department's anti-harassment policy and resigned the day before investigators were scheduled to question her.
An NBC News Decision Desk poll taken from Aug. 20 to Sept. 1 found opposition to local AI data centers in every party. Forty-five percent said they strongly oppose one.
The energy secretary told 'Face the Nation' that falling prices are 'not an unreasonable expectation.' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had put a date on it.
The Maryland Democrat told 'Meet the Press' that impeachment is 'a critical tool in the toolbox' but not a fetish and not a panacea. Health care comes first if his party wins the House.
Marsh's summer survey found costs per employee would climb 11% if companies did nothing at all. Workers already paying about $5,300 a year are going to pay more in premiums and out of pocket both.
Federal filings show the super PAC split the money evenly between ads boosting the Texas attorney general and ads attacking Democrat James Talarico. The PAC is sitting on roughly $400 million.
Conference Chair Lisa McClain told "Face the Nation" she is standing behind the Ohio congressman despite his ex-wife's abuse allegations. Three Senate Republicans have told him to get out of the race.
Rep. Jason Crow sits on House Armed Services and Intelligence. He says neither panel has been briefed on the polygraphs given to senior officers over leaked weapons-stockpile numbers.
WatchA new NBC News Decision Desk poll of 7,105 adults found that 69% of Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the war in Iran. Republicans have not left him — but the intensity behind their support is draining away with the midterms 58 days out.
Adam Telle, who until Friday handled flood control and Clean Water Act permitting, becomes acting Army secretary after Dan Driscoll resigned amid reported friction with Pete Hegseth.
The attorney general says the fund is dead. But the document rescinding it was never signed by the people who created it — and a magistrate judge in Virginia just opened discovery into how it was built.
Nearly a year after proposing a narrower definition of 'waters of the United States,' the agency is asking the public for more information. It has already received more than 220,000 comments.
An interagency agreement running to 2036 moves funds from the National Institutes of Health to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says up to $2 billion could come out of a single infectious-disease institute.