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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The state Supreme Court reversed two lower courts that had blocked Question 3, clearing the way for Maryland Democrats to seek the power to redraw congressional maps before 2028.
An inspector general report says former Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer broke her own department's anti-harassment policy and resigned the day before investigators were scheduled to question her.
An NBC News Decision Desk poll taken from Aug. 20 to Sept. 1 found opposition to local AI data centers in every party. Forty-five percent said they strongly oppose one.
The energy secretary told 'Face the Nation' that falling prices are 'not an unreasonable expectation.' Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had put a date on it.
The Maryland Democrat told 'Meet the Press' that impeachment is 'a critical tool in the toolbox' but not a fetish and not a panacea. Health care comes first if his party wins the House.
Marsh's summer survey found costs per employee would climb 11% if companies did nothing at all. Workers already paying about $5,300 a year are going to pay more in premiums and out of pocket both.
Federal filings show the super PAC split the money evenly between ads boosting the Texas attorney general and ads attacking Democrat James Talarico. The PAC is sitting on roughly $400 million.
Conference Chair Lisa McClain told "Face the Nation" she is standing behind the Ohio congressman despite his ex-wife's abuse allegations. Three Senate Republicans have told him to get out of the race.
Rep. Jason Crow sits on House Armed Services and Intelligence. He says neither panel has been briefed on the polygraphs given to senior officers over leaked weapons-stockpile numbers.
WatchA new NBC News Decision Desk poll of 7,105 adults found that 69% of Americans disapprove of the president's handling of the war in Iran. Republicans have not left him — but the intensity behind their support is draining away with the midterms 58 days out.
Adam Telle, who until Friday handled flood control and Clean Water Act permitting, becomes acting Army secretary after Dan Driscoll resigned amid reported friction with Pete Hegseth.
The attorney general says the fund is dead. But the document rescinding it was never signed by the people who created it — and a magistrate judge in Virginia just opened discovery into how it was built.
Nearly a year after proposing a narrower definition of 'waters of the United States,' the agency is asking the public for more information. It has already received more than 220,000 comments.
An interagency agreement running to 2036 moves funds from the National Institutes of Health to the Office of the Assistant Secretary of War. Rep. Rosa DeLauro says up to $2 billion could come out of a single infectious-disease institute.
WatchThe party's first-ever midterm convention opens Wednesday in Dallas with a $25,000 price of admission for House members. Three of the most endangered Republicans in the country told Politico they will campaign at home instead.
An unsigned order Friday froze a Fourth Circuit ruling that had stripped party committees of the cheapest political ad rates. Republican committees say broadcasters had already started pulling the discounts.
Judge Trevor McFadden found the publisher, editor and a reporter were likely speaking as employees rather than private citizens, which puts their words outside the First Amendment's protection.
WatchRepublicans and Democrats are running nearly identical attacks on the warehouses powering the AI boom, and the spending is split almost evenly between the two parties.
The order also tells the Interior and Agriculture departments to make it easier for ranchers to shoot wolves, and the White House framed the whole thing around the price of beef.
Judge Indira Talwani said compliance was practically impossible in two months and that disenfranchisement would be practically inevitable. The Justice Department went to the Supreme Court.
A March executive order told USCIS and Social Security to build a list of every adult citizen in every state. Sixty days before the midterms, the portal still is not open.
The state's own Supreme Court threw the map out and ordered a referendum. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway called that a constitutional crisis and went straight to Washington.
Homeland Security says the agency has now topped its own arrest record three consecutive months. An independent data project puts July's number several hundred lower than the government does.
The justices stayed a Fourth Circuit ruling that had blocked political parties from buying broadcast time at the discounted rate reserved for candidates. Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only noted dissent.
HR 4795 would amend the Higher Education Act so any school running a commercial boycott of Israel, or of businesses in Israeli settlements, loses access to federal student aid. Two Republicans voted no.
A new Office of Legal Counsel opinion discards a 1998 reading of the welfare law and stretches the reporting duty far beyond the agencies that hand out the benefits.
Proposed regulations would deny 501(c)(3) status to private schools whose admissions, scholarships, aid or athletics take race into account. They would bite for tax years starting May 31, 2027.
Liz Oyer says Justice Department security officers handed her a termination letter hours after she wrote a memo objecting. The man she says fired her is now the attorney general.
Judge Deborah Boardman enjoined the August executive order that targeted 'alien enemies,' foreign government employees and birth tourism. The White House called her an activist.
The court ruled that a congressional redistricting bill is an 'act' of the legislature like any other, so it can be put to a referendum. The 2020-census map stays in force for the midterms.