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Bond investors went ballistic when President Donald Trump’s tariffs took effect this week. Consider it a preview for what’s in store.The sharp sell-off in go...
The head of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission this week told agency employees they didn’t have to work April 18, inadvertently sparking a sense of ...
The Air Force Academy has axed affirmative action in its admissions, the government said in a recent court filing.
Students for Fair Admissions, whi...
GREENBELT, Maryland — An exasperated federal judge commanded the Trump administration Friday to begin providing “daily updates” on whether it is doing anythi...
President Trump's vice grip on the Republican Party wobbled this week after tariffs turned allies into critics and his agenda’s big budget bill hit a snag wi...
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the George W. Bush administration detained suspected terrorists and alleged “enemy combatants” in ...
President Donald Trump’s attacks on major law firms have divided the legal community all the way down to its newest members: law students considering their f...
Immigration advocates are fighting the Trump administration’s policies one by one in court. But after scoring some early wins, activists say they’re overwhel...
Donald Trump has been obsessed with preventing a nuclear holocaust since he was a bumptious boy builder back in the 1980s. Back then Trump reportedly propose...
The Supreme Court is requiring the Trump administration to “facilitate” the return of a Maryland man deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador...
Speaker Mike Johnson flashed a grin as he chided reporters in the Capitol this morning: “I told you not to doubt us.” Moments earlier, the House had approved...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has won out as a leading voice within the White House on President Donald Trump’s tariff strategy. Now he has to deliver on ...
Donald Trump is targeting the law firm that represented Dominion Voting Systems, the voting services company that sued Fox News for airing lies about the 202...
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The Senate early Friday morning voted to confirm President Trump’s choice to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, retired Lt. Gen. Dan Caine.
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Ken Paxton’s entry into the U.S. Senate race in Texas is becoming a major headache for Republicans.Top GOP senators were maneuvering to undercut the Texas at...
Donald Trump is trying to use a historic federal civil rights commission to advance his agenda on issues like alleged non-citizen voting, antisemitism on col...
Democrats are targeting Donald Trump's weakened standing on the economy — even after the president paused his far-reaching reciprocal tariff policy that reve...
Republicans, and apparently some Democrats, are still obsessed with limiting noncitizen voting, which is already illegal and exceedingly rare.The House on We...
President Donald Trump this week upended not just his tariff strategy but his trade teamFormer hedge fund manager and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — the ...
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago President Austan Goolsbee on Thursday offered an unusually blunt assessment of administration policy, saying tariffs risk a “...
