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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The emergency application landed Thursday afternoon, one day before midterm ballots begin going out. The challengers have until 10 a.m. Tuesday to respond.
Trump signed a Section 232 proclamation doubling the price of large or thermal-imaging drones and their components. Smaller civilian models get 25%.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said ground breaks within a fortnight on the granite triumphal arch near Arlington National Cemetery. Construction is expected to run two to three years.
Republican leaders scrapped the last two weeks of September, sending members home until after the November 3 election. Days earlier the speaker had promised the House would work every day on the calendar.
Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced a one-year ban on student-facing generative AI from pre-K through eighth grade, plus hard screen-time caps. The city is disabling AI features inside 38 ed-tech contracts to enforce it.
Andy Biggs's constitutional amendment needed a two-thirds majority. Democrats argued Congress has changed the court's size seven times since 1789 and should keep the power to do it again.
Only Edwards himself and Rep. Ralph Norman voted no. A bipartisan ethics report found the North Carolina Republican gave two young female aides jewelry, handguns and poetry.
Seth Moulton and his allies outspent Markey nearly two to one on television. Massachusetts Democrats picked the Green New Deal author anyway.
Draft guidance would make a mother's I-94 or green card part of her newborn's passport file — the first concrete machinery behind Trump's Aug. 6 birthright citizenship order.
Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin closed out 'Operation Rotten Apple' with a New York City news conference aimed squarely at Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The stopgap holds agencies at current spending levels through Dec. 11 and heads to President Trump's desk. Nineteen Republicans and 29 Democrats voted against it.
Three U.S. officials say the defense secretary personally removed at least six colonels selected for two-star rank by an Army board. More than 80 generals and admirals have now been fired or blocked under him.
The disclosure to Sen. Richard Blumenthal says a single unreadable barcode could void an entire batch of ballots, and that USPS kept building the system while a court order told it to stop.
The 90-day proclamation takes effect Sept. 1, right as ranchers head into their peak selling season. 'Most of whom are MAGA Republicans,' one GOP senator wrote.
The bureau changed its background-check standards in June without announcement. It lost 1,139 special agents in 2025, and Director Kash Patel has said the old rules were costing him qualified recruits.
Gabriel Perez had the speeches before the president delivered them. Kalshi's own surveillance system caught the pattern, froze more than $90,000 in his account, and referred him to federal regulators.
WatchThe executive order, signed at Johnson Space Center, would build a fourth service academy for the Space Force, NASA and the commercial launch industry. Ted Cruz is already lobbying to put it in Texas.
The British commentator, a longtime advocate of aggressive deportation, was picked up near New Orleans. DHS says he entered legally in 2019 and overstayed.
The Justice Department accused the chain of filling thousands of invalid prescriptions across roughly 4,600 pharmacies. At trial, the exposure was $67,627 per prescription.
The ruling directly contradicts a 3rd Circuit decision from April. About 20 states are already in court over prediction markets, and both sides now expect the Supreme Court.
WatchThree sources tell CNN that Navy leadership is weighing whether to strip a Pearl Harbor hero's name from a Ford-class carrier and replace it with President Trump's. No aircraft carrier has ever been named for a sitting president.
The publisher, the editor-in-chief and a reporter say they were served separation notices for insubordination after the paper documented conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
A DOJ filing describes a 'death spiral' for the building without the president's intervention. Lawyers for the board member suing to keep his name off it called the argument 'unconscionable.'
U.S. Northern Command says the aircraft were downed Tuesday night and Wednesday morning after being judged hostile. It won't say where, or which cartel they belonged to.
The executive order directs the Interior Department to change the federal name database. Canada's prime minister noted the existing name is older than the Declaration of Independence.
WatchMinnesota's senior senator crushed six rivals in Tuesday's Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for governor. She now faces House Speaker Lisa Demuth in a state that has not elected a Republican governor in 20 years.
Ten Republicans ran in Tuesday's special primary for the Senate seat left vacant when Graham died in July. Nobody cleared 50%, so the appointed senator now faces a two-week sprint against a sitting congressman.
Trump Media says more than 10 customers have signed up for its Truth API. The president owns 41% of the company selling faster access to his own market-moving statements.
Trump said he directed CMS administrator Mehmet Oz to make the change. Mental health coverage stays; surgery and hormone therapy do not.
WatchThe 78-year-old Democrat had held Connecticut's 1st District since the late 1990s. A former Hartford mayor 31 years his junior made the whole race about that.