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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
The Compassionate Allowances roster now covers 314 conditions, most of them rare pediatric and neurological disorders and aggressive cancers. Applications that match a listed diagnosis skip the queue entirely.
Justice Wayne Ozzi granted a restraining order to three homeowners who say the city wrongly flagged their primary residences. The city appealed within hours, which suspends the order until the appeal is resolved.
Governor Maura Healey signed H 5595 on Monday, striking the four-part test that governed abortions at or after 24 weeks. The state becomes one of 10 with no statutory gestational limit.
Will Scharf, 40, moves from staff secretary to White House counsel on September 1, weeks before a midterm that could hand Democrats subpoena power.
WatchThe president said infants are getting "vats" of vaccine and should be dosed across five separate visits. The Senate's only practicing physician called the order "wrong" within minutes of the signing.
A June Supreme Court decision stripped federal courts of the power to second-guess DHS on Temporary Protected Status. Judges in Boston and Chicago said, in effect, that there was nothing left for them to review.
CoreCivic's revenue jumped 27% and GEO Group's 15% as the number of people in U.S. immigration detention climbed toward 66,000 — with the administration targeting 100,000 beds.
Judge Mary McElroy vacated the department's 2026 funding notice, which would have carved out $1.3 billion for transitional shelter and services in a program that normally sends about 90% of its money to permanent housing.
Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski were the only Republicans to vote no. Trump's former criminal defense lawyer now permanently runs the department that once prosecuted him.
The act lets the president impose tariffs of up to 100% on the five largest buyers of Russian oil and gas. The House is on recess and will not vote before September.
WatchMike Lindell steps into Tuesday's primary with the president's backing, polls showing him ahead, and his own state party questioning where he actually lives.
The National Indian Gaming Commission's enforcement powers belong solely to its chairperson. That seat has been empty for seven months, and no one has been nominated.
A memo from Deputy Defense Secretary Steve Feinberg lands as an outside analysis estimates the U.S. Patriot interceptor stockpile has fallen at least 65% since the Iran war began.
A court filing shows the Treasury has refunded about 60% of the duties the Supreme Court struck down in February — almost all of it to corporate importers, not households.
Jay Bhattacharya said flatly that he trusts the science on measles, DTP and the standard childhood schedule — a message that lands differently coming from an agency under Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The Vermont senator's letter points at $517 million in corporate-backed super PAC spending this cycle — and at one Michigan primary where a single group put in $30 million.
In a Punchbowl News interview that aired Friday, the president declined to endorse the Senate majority leader's reelection as GOP leader, and returned to his demand that Republicans kill the filibuster.
The Honolulu congressman survived a challenge from state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole, who ran against Case's votes on military aid to Israel and an earlier version of Trump's voting bill.
Judge James Wesley Hendrix ruled the 1934 National Firearms Act's paperwork rules for suppressors and short-barreled guns lost their constitutional footing the moment lawmakers eliminated the tax that justified them. Fifteen states brought the case.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut found the Defense Department blew its own regulatory deadlines when it stopped evaluating whether wind farms interfere with military operations, stranding roughly $50 billion in investment across 25 states.
The Southern Poverty Law Center argued it was being prosecuted in retaliation for naming hate groups. U.S. District Judge Emily Marks ruled it offered no evidence of prosecutorial animus, and the 11-count case moves toward trial.
Frank Kendall, who ran the Air Force from 2021 to 2025, was accused of leaking classified details about the Qatari-donated presidential jet. 'I'm completely mystified,' he told the AP.
Texas Southern University's survey puts James Talarico ahead 47% to 45%. The pollster's explanation: Paxton is holding only 85% of Republicans while independents break for the Democrat by 40 points.
WatchA state lawsuit filed in Harris County argues that Senate Bill 10, which orders the Ten Commandments onto every public school classroom wall, collides with the parental rights amendment Texas voters approved in November 2025.
Senators cleared a bipartisan stopgap through Dec. 11 before leaving for a five-week recess, but the House passed its own partisan version — and one grant-rule provision could cost Republican votes.
Republicans wanted a one-year delay before states start paying part of the SNAP bill. Democrats wanted two. Two Republican senators were absent, and the current farm law expires September 30.
An internal memo reported Thursday extends the administration's public-account screening requirement to foreign media representatives. The department declined to confirm it, citing a policy on 'purported internal documents.'
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee acted after Anthony Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment at a hearing on COVID-19 origins. Rather than seek a floor vote he would likely lose, Paul referred the resolution directly to DOJ.
WatchThe D.C. Circuit ruled 2-1 on Friday that the president cannot demolish and rebuild parts of the White House without Congress. Trump said he will go straight to the Supreme Court.
Chairman Brendan Carr and Commissioner Olivia Trusty repealed a national broadcast ownership cap that had stood since 2004. Anna Gomez dissented, saying the agency wants power, not balance.