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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
Jay Bhattacharya said flatly that he trusts the science on measles, DTP and the standard childhood schedule — a message that lands differently coming from an agency under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Vermont senator's letter points at $517 million in corporate-backed super PAC spending this cycle — and at one Michigan primary where a single group put in $30 million.
In a Punchbowl News interview that aired Friday, the president declined to endorse the Senate majority leader's reelection as GOP leader, and returned to his demand that Republicans kill the filibuster.
The Honolulu congressman survived a challenge from state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, who ran against Case's votes on military aid to Israel and an earlier version of Trump's voting bill.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled the 1934 National Firearms Act's paperwork rules for suppressors and short-barreled guns lost their constitutional footing the moment lawmakers eliminated the tax that justified them. Fifteen states brought the case.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut found the Defense Department blew its own regulatory deadlines when it stopped evaluating whether wind farms interfere with military operations, stranding roughly $50 billion in investment across 25 states.
The Southern Poverty Law Center argued it was being prosecuted in retaliation for naming hate groups. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ruled it offered no evidence of prosecutorial animus, and the 11-count case moves toward trial.
Frank Kendall, who ran the Air Force from 2021 to 2025, was accused of leaking classified details about the Qatari-donated presidential jet. 'I'm completely mystified,' he told the AP.
Texas Southern University's survey puts James Talarico ahead 47% to 45%. The pollster's explanation: Paxton is holding only 85% of Republicans while independents break for the Democrat by 40 points.
WatchA state lawsuit filed in Harris County argues that Senate Bill 10, which orders the Ten Commandments onto every public school classroom wall, collides with the parental rights amendment Texas voters approved in November 2025.
Senators cleared a bipartisan stopgap through Dec. 11 before leaving for a five-week recess, but the House passed its own partisan version — and one grant-rule provision could cost Republican votes.
Republicans wanted a one-year delay before states start paying part of the SNAP bill. Democrats wanted two. Two Republican senators were absent, and the current farm law expires September 30.
An internal memo reported Thursday extends the administration's public-account screening requirement to foreign media representatives. The department declined to confirm it, citing a policy on 'purported internal documents.'
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee acted after Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment at a hearing on COVID-19 origins. Rather than seek a floor vote he would likely lose, Paul referred the resolution directly to DOJ.
WatchThe D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the president cannot demolish and rebuild parts of the White House without Congress. Trump said he will go straight to the Supreme Court.
Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty repealed a national broadcast ownership cap that had stood since 2004. Anna Gomez dissented, saying the agency wants power, not balance.
H.R. 5334 would let the president tariff the biggest buyers of Russian oil, blacklist Moscow's shadow fleet and extend Iran sanctions. Rand Paul gets one amendment vote first.
WatchOne order targets commercial "birth tourism." The other expands the list of babies the administration says the 14th Amendment never covered. The ACLU says both will die the same way the last one did.
Rep. John Rose spent $13 million of his own money and lost. In the redrawn 5th District, a former state agriculture commissioner backed by two ex-governors beat the incumbent Trump endorsed.
HHS proposed scrapping more than 100 pages of federal regulations governing the preschool program for 700,000 poor children, handing oversight to state childcare licensing agencies. A 60-day comment period starts now.
Dr. Erica Schwartz, a retired Navy rear admiral and former deputy surgeon general, takes over an agency that has gone nearly a year without a Senate-confirmed leader since Susan Monarez was forced out 29 days into the job.
The House Ethics Committee found 'substantial reason to believe' the North Carolina Republican harassed two young female staffers and recommended censure. He is finishing his term but leaving the ballot before the September 4 deadline.
The government's own auditors could not verify 96% of the grant savings the Department of Government Efficiency advertised, and found that 108 of the 264 leases it took credit for cancelling were already being cancelled before it existed.
WatchThe Senate Homeland Security Committee meets at 8:30 a.m. to decide whether Anthony Fauci broke the law by invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times under subpoena. Paul says he will refer the matter straight to the Justice Department.
Defense Department estimates provided to Congress project an average of 2,500 troops in Washington through January 2029, at a cost covering fiscal years 2027 through 2029.
Trump's former personal lawyer won over Republican holdouts John Cornyn and Thom Tillis only after formally killing a $1.8 billion 'anti-weaponization' payout fund. With Collins opposed and Mitch McConnell absent, the math on the Senate floor is now razor-thin.
The freshman congressman won the Missouri 1st District Democratic primary 59.2% to 36.9% in a rematch that turned almost entirely on U.S. military aid to Israel. Roughly $8.4 million was spent on the race, about $7.2 million of it behind Bell.
An evenly divided 10-judge D.C. Circuit panel restored an April 2025 injunction against Administrator Lee Zeldin's termination of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund awards. Six judges said canceling them 'based solely on a policy disagreement' likely broke the law.
WatchThe 41-year-old former state health director won Michigan's Democratic Senate primary 48.5% to 47.5% over a congresswoman backed by Chuck Schumer and Gretchen Whitmer. He faces Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Burke Law Group lists immigration among two dozen practice areas but has no staff specializing in it. The contract starts Aug. 15, two weeks after the previous provider's deal expired unrenewed.