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U.S. politics: the White House, Congress, the courts and the campaigns, and what each move means.
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano was coughing up blood inside Georgia's Stewart Detention Center in early July. He was diagnosed on July 13, released from custody on July 16 and died on July 22.
Attorney General Liz Murrill said Saturday that Louisiana will join Alabama and Florida in examining whether the former NIAID director committed offenses prosecutable in state court. Biden's federal pardon does not reach state charges.
A new Echelon Insights and Brunswick Group survey found affordability is the top concern for 41% of voters — and a CBS News poll found only about a third think either party is doing anything about it.
Thom Tillis and John Cornyn want written assurances the "anti-weaponization" fund is dead. Tillis says the ultimatum guarantees Todd Blanche will not be confirmed as attorney general.
David Hearn, a 67-year-old former Olympic canoeist, was indicted for peeling the Lincoln Memorial pool liner. A DOJ filing now says the contractor rushed the job before the America 250 events.
Attorney General Letitia James and Gov. Kathy Hochul allege the federally regulated exchange operates without a state gaming license and let users under 21 place bets. Kalshi and Polymarket now clear roughly $24 billion a month, up from under $5 billion last September.
The additions to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act entity list cover aluminum, apparel, copper, cotton and tomato producers and push the total to 187 blocked entities. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the companies use 'slave labor.'
A 39-page Office of Legal Counsel memo concludes the ADA imposes no 'integration mandate.' On July 20 the department formally withdrew reliance on its own Olmstead guidance.
Emily Moreno's Cuyahoga County filing accuses the Ohio Republican of harassing and physically grabbing her attorneys after custody hearings. Miller denies all of the allegations.
The government contract that pays for legal representation of unaccompanied minors expired Friday. Providers say HHS is withholding $65 million and will only pay if they hand over confidential information about the children they represent.
WatchHomeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has refused to explain how his department matched Social Security numbers to voter files that do not contain them. California, Nevada, New Jersey and Pennsylvania say they still have no idea where the number came from.
The Bureau of Reclamation's proposal spares the four Upper Basin states for now. Lake Powell could fall so low this year that Glen Canyon Dam's turbines stop spinning.
Rep. Robert Garcia and Sen. Richard Blumenthal want to know how David Brouillette was hired and trained before the July 13 shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford.
WatchAbout 200 Nebraskans lose coverage on Aug. 1 for failing to prove they worked 80 hours a month — the first terminations anywhere under the work rules in Trump's 2025 budget law. Nebraska moved eight months ahead of the federal deadline.
U.S. District Judge Nathaniel Gorton in Boston froze three USCIS policies that tied work authorization to a new asylum fee and retroactively hit TPS holders from El Salvador, Sudan and Ukraine.
WatchIn a filing that names Donald Trump and Brendan Carr directly, the network says an early review of eight of its station licenses is a search for a pretext. The FCC is expected to rule in August.
The document says tenure 'more often leads to stagnation, complacency, and inflexibility.' It would give officials 60 days to begin a line-by-line review of every class at the service academies and war colleges.
The slide, shown at the AIDS 2026 conference in Rio, mislabeled every African country it highlighted. A Reuters analysis found an OpenAI watermark on the image.
Kirsten Gillibrand's measure to force a withdrawal of U.S. forces failed by a single vote, with three Republicans crossing over and one Democrat voting no. The Pentagon now counts 18 American service members killed and more than 600 wounded.
The interim final rule took effect immediately, ending the guarantee of a non-adversarial interview with an asylum officer. Immigration judges can now dismiss applications on the paperwork alone.
Two Republicans want written guarantees that a $1.8 billion fund born of Trump's IRS settlement is dead and that his family's audit immunity is narrow. The Judiciary Committee postponed Thursday's vote rather than lose it.
Federal officials never named immigration enforcement as a goal when the Memphis Safe Task Force launched. Ten months in, immigration arrests are up sixfold and most of those taken in had no criminal convictions.
Solicitor General D. John Sauer wants the justices to lift a Massachusetts judge's injunction covering 23 states and D.C. An appeals court warned the order 'would sow confusion and threaten disenfranchisement of many eligible voters.'
Netanyahu and Zelenskyy sat in the same pews as Vance, Pence and Justice Kavanaugh for the South Carolina senator's funeral, 17 days after his sudden death at 71.
WatchThe Defense secretary's memo makes hormone screening a standard part of the periodic health assessment for active-duty and reserve troops, and endocrinologists are warning that the treatment it opens the door to carries real risks.
Federal officials were directed to install temporary signage along the paths to the museum telling visitors the exhibits inside contain "inaccurate" history and pointing them elsewhere.
U.S. District Judge Patti Saris put the termination of South Sudan's Temporary Protected Status on hold weeks after the Supreme Court told lower courts to stay out of TPS decisions.
Antares, Valar Atomics, Deployable Energy and Aalo Atomics all reached criticality on schedule. Trump called the milestone 'pretty much a miracle' at a White House event with the companies' founders.
Officials are debating a campaign against JNIM, the al-Qaeda affiliate that has become the strongest militant force in the Sahel, days after an ambush killed at least 50 Malian soldiers.
WatchThe Rules and Bylaws Committee voted Friday to keep South Carolina in the lead-off slot on January 22, 2028, choosing Black voters over Nevada's Latino electorate as the party's first test. New Hampshire falls to third.