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The U.S. Supreme Court has removed a legal obstacle to the Justice Department's effort to dismiss criminal contempt charges against Steve Bannon, returning the case to the lower court for reconsideration in light of a pending DOJ motion. Bannon's 2022 conviction for refusing to provide testimony or documents to a House committee probing the January…
Shifts in voter sentiment among Cuban, Venezuelan and other Latino communities in South Florida are creating an opening for Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms. Local leaders, voters and party operatives point to a sluggish economy, rising living costs and aggressive immigration enforcement as factors eroding Republican support. Recent local races…
Former British government aide and Fox News host Steve Hilton received an endorsement from U.S. President Donald Trump as the California governor’s race heads into an open primary on June 2. Hilton, a dual national who was David Cameron’s director of strategy until 2012, is competing in a field that polls show is closely split between two Republica…
President Donald Trump and members of his administration described the recovery of a U.S. airman in Iran using explicitly religious language over the Easter weekend. The language - from calling the operation an "Easter miracle" to invoking a Muslim phrase alongside threats of strikes on infrastructure - drew criticism from former lawmakers, civil r…
President Donald Trump is weighing a broader reconfiguration of his Cabinet after removing Attorney General Pam Bondi, according to people familiar with White House deliberations. Sources say growing frustration over the political consequences of the conflict with Iran - now in its fifth week - and a prime-time speech that failed to shore up public…
The administration issued an executive order directing federal agencies to strengthen enforcement of college sports rules covering transfers, eligibility and pay-for-play arrangements, and asked Congress to quickly pass legislation to address these issues. The move follows earlier efforts to limit third-party recruiting payments and growing concern…
A coalition of Democratic state attorneys general, joined by Pennsylvania's Democratic governor, filed a federal lawsuit in Boston seeking to block President Trump's executive order tightening rules around mail-in voting. The plaintiffs say the order improperly directs the U.S. Postal Service and federal agencies to alter how ballots are verified a…
A Colorado appeals court on Thursday vacated the nine-year prison sentence handed to former county clerk Tina Peters while leaving intact her conviction on seven counts related to tampering with voting equipment. The three-judge panel ruled that the trial judge improperly factored Peters's publicly expressed belief in 2020 election fraud into his s…
During oral arguments attended by the president, Supreme Court justices from across the ideological spectrum expressed skepticism about the legality and feasibility of a presidential directive seeking to deny automatic U.S. citizenship to children born on American soil to parents who are neither citizens nor lawful permanent residents. The court pr…
Norman Wong, the 76-year-old great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark, travelled to Washington and stood outside the Supreme Court as justices heard arguments in a case tied to President Donald Trump's attempt to curtail birthright citizenship. Wong urged the court to uphold the 128-year-old precedent recognizing citizenship for those born on U.S. soil, reco…
President Donald Trump has discussed the possibility of firing Attorney General Pam Bondi and naming EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as her replacement, according to media reports citing people familiar with the conversations. The discussions reflect Trump’s dissatisfaction with Bondi’s perceived restraint in pursuing his political adversaries and que…
The U.S. Senate took steps early Thursday to enable the House of Representatives to consider and potentially approve a Department of Homeland Security funding bill that would extend funding through September 30 and bring a nearly seven-week partial DHS shutdown to an end. Senate leaders moved to discard a 60-day stopgap measure sent by the House th…
The National Capital Planning Commission is scheduled to deliberate and vote on the proposed East Wing Modernization Project, a privately financed $400 million, 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House, even as a federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring construction without Congressional approval and the Justice Depa…
The U.S. Supreme Court appeared broadly unconvinced by the administration’s effort to revoke birthright citizenship during oral arguments, with several justices questioning the legal basis for President Trump’s directive. The dispute centers on the 14th Amendment’s Citizenship Clause and a lower court order that blocked the administration’s move. A…
A federal judge has concluded that U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents violated a prior court order restricting warrantless arrests when they carried out an immigration enforcement action in a Sacramento Home Depot parking lot in July 2025. The judge said agents used nearly identical documentation for detentions and directed agents in the Eas…
President Donald Trump will make a televised address at 9 p.m. EDT (0100 GMT) to tell Americans that U.S. wartime objectives in the month-old conflict with Iran have been achieved and to outline a plan to wind down operations within two to three weeks. The announcement comes as public opposition to the war grows, gasoline prices rise amid disruptio…
A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Friday through Sunday found that two-thirds of Americans prefer the United States end its involvement in the month-long Iran war promptly, even if that means failing to achieve the goals set by the Trump administration. The survey of 1,021 people also showed substantial disapproval of U.S. military strikes on Iran, ri…
A 45-year-old Massachusetts resident was taken into federal custody after a standoff in which he emerged from his home holding a long metallic sword. He has been charged in an eight-count indictment alleging a series of threats posted on Facebook against U.S. President Donald Trump, including messages that vowed to travel to the president's Mar-a-L…
A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to pause a district court injunction that prevents the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development from applying new conditions to Continuum of Care grants. Judges said allowing the administration’s rule to take effect would threaten local housing providers and could displac…
President Donald Trump planned a rare visit to the U.S. Supreme Court on April 1 to observe arguments over an executive order he issued upon returning to the presidency that seeks to curtail birthright citizenship. The case comes after a lower court blocked the directive and amid heightened tensions between the president and the court following a m…
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments on Wednesday in a high-profile appeal of a lower-court ruling that blocked an executive order from President Donald Trump that directs federal agencies not to recognize birthright citizenship for children born in the United States when neither parent is a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent resident. The orde…
A three-judge circuit court panel in Wisconsin dismissed a lawsuit brought by Democratic voters seeking to overturn the state's congressional map, ruling that the authority to determine whether the maps must be redrawn rests with the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The decision can be appealed, but it is uncertain whether the state Supreme Court would act…
A federal judge in Texas refused to approve an IRS-crafted settlement that would have permitted churches and other houses of worship to endorse political candidates without risking loss of tax-exempt status. U.S. District Judge J. Campbell Barker found the Tax Anti-Injunction Act barred his review and signing of a consent judgment between the IRS, …
President Donald Trump indicated he will likely appear in person at the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday for oral arguments over his directive aimed at restricting birthright citizenship. The case confronts whether his executive order, which instructed federal agencies not to recognize U.S. citizenship for children born on U.S. soil to parents who a…
A federal judge in San Diego granted the Justice Department's request to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Yu Zhou and Li Chen, a married couple who pleaded guilty in 2020 to conspiring to steal trade secrets and to wire fraud. The decision, which found the couple committed crimes involving moral turpitude during periods when they were required to dem…
