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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
A deep-red state rejected a GOP-backed constitutional amendment by 24 points after $12.8 million, much of it dark money, was spent on the fight over a 68-year-old selection system.
Grenada, Japan, Indonesia, Cameroon and Winnipeg are all losing U.S. missions in a downsizing that is not tied to any war, coup or rupture in relations.
S. 5046 cleared the Senate HELP Committee 13-9 over the objection of its own chairman. It would void the interagency agreements moving special education, civil rights and student aid work to four other departments.
The amendment would abolish the state's merit-selection commission and put justices on partisan statewide ballots for six-year terms. Kris Kobach and Americans for Prosperity are for it; Gov. Laura Kelly, two former governors and the state bar are against.
Separation boards for transgender service members are held behind closed doors on military bases with no cameras, no transcripts and no public access. At least six troops were barred from their own hearings.
Voters approved a mid-decade redistricting amendment in April. The Virginia Supreme Court voided it in May, saying the legislature started the process too late. Candidates who had already launched campaigns on the new lines are now running on the old ones.
WatchVoters in five states go to the polls Tuesday, but the marquee race is the expensive, bitter Senate contest to replace retiring Democrat Gary Peters — a seat the party has to hold to have any shot at the Senate.
The entries run from December 2019 to December 2022 and cover COVID's origins, Fauci's uneasy relationship with Trump, and his own discomfort with becoming, in his words, the most talked-about person in the country.
The coalition, led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, argues the administration stretched Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act past its breaking point to impose duties on 60 economies.
Prosecutors dropped charges against all four people accused of vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after Interior Department documents showed the damage came from a botched sealant job.
With gasoline above $4 a gallon and Brent crude sliding, the president singled out the two largest U.S. oil companies by name and said they had better hand some of it back.
The Justice Department issued an order Sunday rescinding the "anti-weaponization" fund and put a second concession in writing. Both Republican holdouts say that satisfies them, clearing Blanche for a committee vote Tuesday.
Plaintiffs who say police used excessive force at the Capitol had until Jan. 6, 2023, to file, the department argued Monday. The earliest claim it found was dated July 29, 2025.
WatchSusan Collins and Patty Murray released the text of a stopgap Sunday that funds most federal agencies at current levels through the second week of December. It strips out $1 billion for 'Trump-class' battleships and blocks money from being shifted to Border Patrol.
In a court filing Friday, the bank said its anti-money-laundering team spent months reviewing transaction patterns before it shut more than 300 Trump-affiliated accounts in 2021. It is the first time a bank has formally tied AML concerns to the president's family business.
After reviewing 1,500 pages of evidence and interviewing 16 witnesses, the bipartisan panel found "substantial reason to believe" the North Carolina Republican broke House harassment rules.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was coughing up blood inside Georgia's Stewart Detention Center in early July. He was diagnosed on July 13, released from custody on July 16 and died on July 22.
Attorney General Liz Murrill said Saturday that Louisiana will join Alabama and Florida in examining whether the former NIAID director committed offenses prosecutable in state court. Biden's federal pardon does not reach state charges.
A new Echelon Insights and Brunswick Group survey found affordability is the top concern for 41% of voters — and a CBS News poll found only about a third think either party is doing anything about it.
Thom Tillis and John Cornyn want written assurances the "anti-weaponization" fund is dead. Tillis says the ultimatum guarantees Todd Blanche will not be confirmed as attorney general.
David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist, was indicted for peeling the Lincoln Memorial pool liner. A DOJ filing now says the contractor rushed the job before the America 250 events.
Attorney General Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul allege the federally regulated exchange operates without a state gaming license and let users under 21 place bets. Kalshi and Polymarket now clear roughly $24 billion a month, up from under $5 billion last September.
The additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list cover aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton and tomato producers and push the total to 187 blocked entities. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the companies use 'slave labor.'
A 39-page Office of Legal Counsel memo concludes the ADA imposes no 'integration mandate.' On July 20 the department formally withdrew reliance on its own Olmstead guidance.
Emily Moreno's Cuyahoga County filing accuses the Ohio Republican of harassing and physically grabbing her attorneys after custody hearings. Miller denies all of the allegations.
The government contract that pays for legal representation of unaccompanied minors expired Friday. Providers say HHS is withholding $65 million and will only pay if they hand over confidential information about the children they represent.
WatchHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has refused to explain how his department matched Social Security numbers to voter files that do not contain them. California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania say they still have no idea where the number came from.
The Bureau of Reclamation's proposal spares the four Upper Basin states for now. Lake Powell could fall so low this year that Glen Canyon Dam's turbines stop spinning.
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal want to know how David Brouillette was hired and trained before the July 13 shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford.
WatchAbout 200 Nebraskans lose coverage on Aug. 1 for failing to prove they worked 80 hours a month — the first terminations anywhere under the work rules in Trump's 2025 budget law. Nebraska moved eight months ahead of the federal deadline.