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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The defense secretary said the joint effort will pursue unauthorized disclosures 'with the full force of the law,' days after the government subpoenaed New York Times reporters.
U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams ruled Trump acted in bad faith and 'improperly' used the courts to legitimize a sweeping immunity pact and a $1.776 billion fund for his allies.
Nearly 5,150 troops will stay in the capital at a cost of more than $3 million a day, even as studies find the deployment has had little to no effect on violent crime.
WatchU.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly dismissed the case against four convicted Capitol rioters with prejudice, writing that no one should mistake his order for agreement with the Justice Department.
A Trump-appointed judge said handing over the personal details of Fulton County's 2020 election staff would chill participation in future elections.
Faculty and students are pressing Yale's leadership not to cut a deal with the Trump administration, which found the medical school admitted Black and Hispanic applicants with lower qualifications.
WatchGov. Henry McMaster, acting on a recommendation from President Trump, named Darline Graham Nordone to serve out the remainder of her late brother's term as Republicans move quickly to protect a fragile Senate majority.
With their primary winner out after sexual assault allegations, Maine Democrats will convene delegates in Bangor on July 25 to pick a new nominee to challenge Republican Sen. Susan Collins in November.
The president urged senators to advance the long-stalled digital-asset legislation as disputes over his own $1.4 billion in crypto earnings, developer protections and stablecoin yield continue to block the votes needed to move forward.
WatchThe California Democrat said settlers wielding U.S.-made M4 rifles surrounded his van in the southern West Bank and that Israeli soldiers sided with them, not with the visiting Americans.
The 84-year-old Kentucky senator ended a month of speculation about his health, revealing he was briefly knocked unconscious in a fall at his Washington home and later developed pneumonia.
WatchForeign Minister Roberto Velasco says Mexico will ask U.S. prosecutors and the Justice Department to charge those responsible for the deaths of 17 of its citizens, days after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston.
Federal agents delivered grand-jury subpoenas — some to reporters' homes — after the Times reported the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 lacked the antimissile defenses of the old presidential jet.
WatchDays after the justices ruled 6-3 that his order defied the 14th Amendment, the president said his lawyers will 'immediately' petition for a rehearing, a maneuver the court has not granted in a decided case in six decades.
The Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act, introduced by House Agriculture Chairman Glenn Thompson, would strip the program's seasonal limit and offer some unauthorized farmworkers a path in, dividing labor advocates and immigration hawks alike.
In a 71-page opinion, U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts vacated three Trump-era policies as unlawfully adopted, restoring the agency's longstanding 12-hour limit on short-term holding.
The governor said his soldiers were sent only to help with America 250 events near the National Mall — not the block-by-block 'presence patrols' that mirror President Trump's federal task force across the capital.
A rule finalized Friday scraps a definition on the books since 1981 that treated habitat destruction as harm — meaning bulldozing a nest or clear-cutting a forest is no longer illegal so long as the animal itself isn't directly killed.
After a 2021 sexual-assault allegation collapsed his support and Chuck Schumer pulled national money, Platner filed withdrawal papers days before the deadline. Maine Democrats now have until July 27 to pick a replacement.
On a 50-state 'Returning Education to the States' tour, Education Secretary Linda McMahon is defending President Trump's drive to dismantle her own department — even as courts and Congress stand between her and its abolition.
WatchThe $400 million Boeing 747-8 gifted by Qatar is missing the laser jammers and countermeasures on the older presidential jets, and the Secret Service urged Trump to fly the old plane home from Turkey as the Iran conflict flared.
The federal lawsuit targets Maryland's new Community Trust Act, arguing that limits on cooperation with ICE are unconstitutional. It is the latest in a string of suits against Democratic-led states.
WatchA Domestic Policy Council report titled 'Saving America's Story' accuses the National Museum of American History of 'extreme political activism' and hands eight museums a 120-day deadline to fall in line ahead of the nation's 250th birthday.
In an unsigned order with no noted dissents, the justices refused to block Texas's App Store Accountability Act, the first law of its kind requiring age checks and parental consent before minors can download apps.
WatchThe 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act becomes law Friday, barring the largest institutional investors from scooping up more single-family homes as prices hit a record.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion striking down Trump's executive order, joined by two conservatives and the court's three liberals.
The Democratic nominee suspended his campaign after a woman accused him of a 2021 assault, an accusation he flatly denies. Maine Democrats now have until July 27 to pick a replacement to challenge Susan Collins.
The president removed all three remaining commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, leaving the only federal agency devoted to election administration with no one able to act.
A federal appeals court refused to block the payout from the 2023 jury verdict that found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which cleared Congress with overwhelming majorities, will take effect this week even though the president canceled his own signing ceremony and called the measure a 'big yawn.'