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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
WatchU.S. District Judge Carl Nichols wrote that the rule's key portions 'exceed any conception of the outer bounds' of the Postal Service's authority. It is the second injunction in eight days against a regulation whose voter portal still does not work.
It is the agency's biggest overhaul in a decade, with redesign plans due by the end of September and full operating capacity targeted for mid-January. Former officials say the director admitted 'they don't know how they are going to do it,' and that the agency is 'begging' ex-staff to come back.
'Everybody's been bugging me,' the president said at his Doonbeg course. Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles are barred from U.S. import starting Sept. 29, though Crown Royal found a four-liter loophole in the fine print.
A day after Anthropic's CEO said the industry needs to hit the brakes, and Musk and Altman agreed, the president told reporters in Ireland he won't cede America's edge to China. Kevin Hassett says White House meetings start this week.
WatchA hidden-camera investigation that aired Sunday caught Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl pitching a convicted aquarium owner at a Ritz-Carlton bar. Other brokers charge up to $3 million, and roughly 70% of Trump's second-term clemency grants never went through the Justice Department.
Speaking at his golf course in Ireland, the president said Ukraine can hit other targets but not refineries because the strikes are 'hurting the world.' U.S. diesel topped $6 a gallon on Friday.
The Beechcraft K35 carrying Rep. Tiffany and his pilot lost power at about 8:50 p.m. Saturday. Both men got out as it sank. Tiffany needed stitches above his right eye, and the FAA is investigating.
WatchA federal judge gave David J. Rush and the Justice Department until October 8 to finish a plea agreement on a timesheet-fraud charge. The $40 million in gold found at his Virginia home is still unexplained.
U.S. District Judge Susan Illston said DHS 'acted arbitrarily and capriciously' when it stripped FEMA of the power to renew its on-call response corps, which makes up about 40% of the agency. The court will now presume the deleted messages would have hurt the government's case.
In his first public appearance since leaving the Pentagon, Driscoll praised the DELTA platform and warned that the U.S. plans to buy 300,000 drones a year while Ukraine builds 7 to 10 million.
Director John Ratcliffe called it the largest release of CIA analysis on 9/11 ever. Seventy of the documents predate the attacks; the last is dated Sept. 12, 2001.
Nazira Haji Zada, 47, whose son and son-in-law were convicted in an ISIS-inspired Election Day 2024 plot, left voluntarily rather than fight charges built on classified evidence she was not allowed to see.
'Japan does it, but they hire our people,' the president told Fox News on Friday. Detroit's trade group wants Congress to lock Chinese vehicles out permanently by the end of December.
A unanimous D.C. Circuit panel ruled the Energy Department exceeded its authority when it invoked a 'narrow, last-resort backstop' in the Federal Power Act to block the 64-year-old plant's retirement, the first court defeat for the Trump administration's campaign to keep aging fossil plants running.
WatchOn a weekend trip built around the Irish Open at his Doonbeg club, the president said Irish unification 'may as well happen now,' drawing a rebuke from Northern Ireland's largest unionist party and a cordon around Dublin's Phoenix Park.
Gasoline jumped 3.9% in August and is up 27.4% from a year ago as the Iran war keeps oil above $100. Core prices rose 0.3%, and Fed Governor Christopher Waller has already said it 'may not take much' to push him toward tightening.
The White House says enrollees in 30 HealthCare.gov states were 'wrongly overcharged' through exchange user fees under Biden. KFF says a $500 check covers roughly one month of the premium increases many of them absorbed after Congress let enhanced subsidies lapse.
The 81-year-old Trump loyalist had lost the confidence of both the Justice Department and the White House, sources told multiple outlets. His wife, Victoria Toensing, leaves the department Friday. No replacement has been named.
The package includes the nation's strongest AI chatbot law, named for a teenager who died by suicide after months of ChatGPT conversations, and a four-year ban on AI chatbot toys for kids. The EFF calls the social media measure a de facto ban.
Travis County District Judge Cory Liu ruled the company violated the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, making Texas the first state to hold TikTok liable over child safety. A trial on penalties is expected next month.
The proposed rule, published Friday with a 60-day comment window, would also strip the cushion from L-1, O-1, TN and E-visa holders and their families. About 730,000 H-1B workers and 550,000 dependents live in the U.S.
WatchThe pledge came an hour into his speech at the RNC's first midterm convention in Dallas. Paying it would cost more than $1 trillion, and Congress would have to approve it.
That's the highest since October 2023, with the national debt past $40 trillion. Analysts told CBS News the buyback is 'tinkering on the periphery.'
The unsigned order, with no noted dissents, sends Missouri into November on its 2022 lines and saves Emanuel Cleaver's seat for now.
For decades the Civil Rights Division sent lawyers to polling places to protect voters from discrimination. Harmeet Dhillon is emailing staff to sign up for something broader.
Administrators imposed the moratorium on their own authority. Two board members said they had assumed last year's policy was still running.
There are 11 million extremely low-income renter households in America and about 4 million homes they can afford. The main federal program built 12% of its 2024 units for them.
Magistrate Judge Ivan D. Davis granted discovery in Alexandria, Virginia, over a fund born from Trump's settlement with the IRS. The attorney general has said the fund is dead; the plaintiffs say nobody ever rescinded it.
Ground beef rose 12.8% and roasts 13.6% in August, against 3.2% for food overall. Ranchers who sold off breeding cows during the drought cannot rebuild the herd before the end of the decade.
Messages between the Pennsylvania senator and his aides, first published by The Wall Street Journal, show him pushing back on constituent meetings, hospital visits and hearings. Two House Democrats from his own state called him lazy.