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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
An analysis of ad data shows the GOP has poured $53 million into border-security messaging across 88 races, betting that immigration is a winning issue in November.
The vice president announced the birth at Walter Reed on Sunday morning, saying mother and baby are 'happy and healthy' and the couple's three older children are 'overjoyed.'
The 3rd Circuit's 10-5 en banc decision is the first time a federal appeals court has voided a state ban on semiautomatic rifles, opening a split with a court that upheld Illinois' ban days earlier.
Written notice reached FBI managers that the bureau will no longer scrutinize whether immigration agents were assaulted before opening fire; the Justice Department and DHS deny any policy change.
The former state Senate president swept the weekend caucuses, winning 456 of 500 elected delegates as Shenna Bellows and Nirav Shah exited, ending the scramble triggered by Graham Platner's collapse.
Kenneth Kies, once Trump's personal tax lawyer, was pushed toward the exit after telling officials a proposed request would violate a statute barring the White House from steering IRS audits, people familiar with the matter say.
Under a rule set to publish July 20 and take effect in September, officers can again weigh an applicant's use of Medicaid, food stamps and housing aid — a shift analysts say could push nearly a million people to forgo help they are entitled to.
WatchThe president called the networks' decision not to carry his primetime address an act of "fraud" that "should mean a revocation of their licenses." Only Fox and CBS aired it — and both attached disclaimers.
WatchA record 103 Democrats joined GOP Rep. Thomas Massie to strip $3.3 billion in funding for Israel, a measure that failed 104-314 but laid bare a deepening rift in the party.
President Trump's former personal lawyer, now acting attorney general, faced hours of sharp questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, with his confirmation far from assured.
A 79-page proposal would ring the historic protest square with 8-to-9-foot fencing that can be closed during 'heightened conditions' and repave its walkways in granite.
The Federal Highway Administration quietly removed five strategies from its 'Proven Safety Countermeasures' as the Transportation Department wages a campaign against what Secretary Sean Duffy calls 'DEI bike lanes.'
Kathryn Ruemmler, once White House counsel to Obama, defended her 'Uncle Jeffrey' emails before the House Oversight Committee, calling her dealings with the financier 'a mistake.'
WatchThe 9 p.m. speech is expected to allege Chinese interference and vulnerabilities in voting machines, as critics warn the president is again trying to cast doubt on his 2020 defeat.
WatchDefense Department officials privately peg the price of the U.S.-Israeli campaign against Iran at $80 billion to $100 billion once destroyed aircraft, battered bases and spent munitions are counted — far above the roughly $30 billion the administration has cited publicly.
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction stopping the State Department from revoking or denying visas to noncitizens who study disinformation, fact-check, or do trust-and-safety work, finding the government failed to tie them to any foreign manipulation of U.S. debate.
With government funding set to lapse Sept. 30 and Speaker Mike Johnson sending the House home without a defense bill, Republicans fear another Democratic opening just weeks before the November elections.
The 50-45 party-line vote installs the Sullivan & Cromwell partner on the Second Circuit for life, filling the seat vacated by Judge Debra Ann Livingston.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a first-in-the-nation executive order pausing permits for hyperscale data centers for up to a year, citing threats to the power grid, water supplies and ratepayers' utility bills.
A divided Seventh Circuit ruled the state's ban on semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines is consistent with the nation's history of firearm regulation, reversing a lower court as the issue barrels toward the justices.
WatchDemocrats refused to advance the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, 50-46, casting the vote as a referendum on a war now in its fifth month that the White House has struggled to explain.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took responsibility for 'mistakes' in releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files and faced sharp questions on a scrapped anti-weaponization fund and Trump's tax settlement.
WatchThe bipartisan bill would let states lock their clocks to year-round daylight saving time and scrap the twice-a-year switch. President Trump says he will sign it if it reaches his desk.
The former SEC chairman went before senators to become director of national intelligence, replacing acting chief Bill Pulte, and only indirectly acknowledged Joe Biden's 2020 victory.
The initiative pools vulnerability findings from agencies and industry to speed fixes as AI models uncover software bugs faster than security teams can handle them.
The revised measure would let President Trump impose tariffs of up to 100% on the biggest buyers of Russian oil and gas — including China and India — and slap mandatory sanctions on Vladimir Putin and his inner circle.
In a rare Capitol Hill appearance, two Supreme Court justices pressed lawmakers for a nearly 10% budget increase, citing a sharp rise in threats against the federal judiciary.
The Department of Homeland Security paused non-urgent traffic stops following deadly encounters in Texas and Maine, though agents may still stop people with violent criminal histories.
The antitrust suit, led by California's attorney general, defies the Justice Department's approval and seeks to stop what one official called the largest merger in Hollywood history.
A pair of executive orders cut roughly 3 million acres from the two Utah monuments, shrinking them to a fraction of their size as tribal nations say they were never consulted.