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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
WatchThe 84-year-old Kentucky senator has not been seen in public since June 14, when paramedics were sent to his home for an 'unconscious person' and a dispatcher logged a cardiac arrest. His office insists only that he 'continues to improve.'
National Democrats gave Platner an ultimatum over a sexual assault allegation, and party figures are already eyeing his spot in the marquee race against Susan Collins.
The DOJ wants full registration lists with Social Security and driver's license numbers. So far, no court has sided with the department — and a dozen states have handed the data over voluntarily.
The justices affirmed that children born on U.S. soil are citizens regardless of their parents' status — a decision researchers say protects a group projected to add trillions to the economy.
The annual financial reports show the justices' outside income is driven largely by book deals, while only two members reported gifts and Chief Justice John Roberts reported none at all.
The State Department's commemorative passport for America's 250th anniversary depicts President Trump at the Resolute Desk, and it is issued only in person, by appointment, at a single office in Washington.
Lawmakers will convene Aug. 3 to advance a constitutional amendment that could clear the way for an 8-0 Democratic congressional map, escalating the national gerrymandering war.
The justices took up challenges to assault-weapons bans in Illinois and Connecticut — the first time the court will directly rule on the constitutionality of such laws.
The suit says U.S. agencies shared confidential records — including claims of religious conversion and LGBTQ persecution — with Tehran through the Pakistani embassy.
With state Sen. Mallory McMorrow out of the race, Michigan's Aug. 4 Democratic primary narrows to a high-stakes showdown between Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive Abdul El-Sayed.
Prominent Democrats including Elizabeth Warren pulled their endorsements after a sexual assault claim, throwing the party's best shot at Susan Collins into chaos.
Roughly 700 members of the white nationalist group, faces covered and carrying Confederate and inverted American flags, moved through Washington near the Capitol and Union Station as the country marked its 250th Independence Day.
WatchThe president used a 'Salute to America 250' keynote to praise his Iran war, warn of 'communists' and vow to restrict mail-in ballots — an unusually political Fourth of July address delivered after severe weather forced a two-hour evacuation of the Mall.
A 55-page report alleges donors who thought they were funding the official America250 commission were quietly rerouted to a Trump-aligned group — conduct the authors say may amount to wire fraud.
An Arizona case headed to the justices in October could reshape a decades-old protection that bans systematic voter removals within 90 days of a federal election.
The cost-cutting initiative launched by Elon Musk reached the expiration date written into its charter, ending an 18-month experiment that reshaped the federal workforce but fell far short of its goals.
The first-time candidate's upset in Denver's deep-blue district positions her to become the first Gen Z woman in Congress and signals fresh peril for establishment Democrats.
A New Orleans grand jury charged the state's first female attorney general with intimidation and malfeasance, touching off what one prosecutor called a 'constitutional crisis.'
The president's annual financial filing reported income more than triple the prior year, with the biggest gains flowing from the family's cryptocurrency ventures.
Writing for the majority in NRSC v. FEC, Justice Kavanaugh said decades-old caps on coordinated party expenditures violate the First Amendment — unleashing party money months before the midterms.
Fourteen Republicans joined Democrats to block a procedural rule, stalling the must-pass NDAA and forcing Speaker Mike Johnson to start the July Fourth recess without action.
WatchMarking America's 250th anniversary, the president abandoned the unifying tone of past Independence Day addresses, branding communism a bigger threat than 9/11 and the world wars.
The justices ruled that laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring transgender girls from female teams violate neither Title IX nor the Constitution.
WatchIn a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter, the justices erased a 1935 precedent that had shielded agency commissioners from at-will removal — though they pointedly carved out the Federal Reserve.
The Fourth of July clemency wipes out convictions for selling 'defeat devices' that bypass federal pollution limits, with the president casting the men as victims 'persecuted by the Biden Administration.'
The president called the bipartisan measure to boost home supply 'of minor importance' and refused to sign it until lawmakers deliver his sweeping elections bill, blindsiding Senate Republicans months before the midterms.
An internal memo ordered an 'immediate surge' of agents and analysts to a reinvigorated criminal investigation into Georgia's 2020 vote — the centerpiece of Trump's long-running claims that the election was stolen.
WatchChief Justice John Roberts wrote for the majority in Trump v. Barbara, affirming that nearly every child born on U.S. soil is a citizen and striking down the president's day-one executive order.
The 29-year-old labor activist won more than double the votes of a veteran progressive, while Attorney General Phil Weiser captured the Democratic nomination for governor over Sen. Michael Bennet.
The president's nominee would become the first Senate-confirmed director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2017 as the administration accelerates mass deportations.