A federal judge in Oregon issued a written opinion rebuking Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for attempting to strip Medicare and Medicaid funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors, ruling that Kennedy exceeded his legal authority and bypassed the…
Joe diGenova, the veteran Washington attorney and former U.S. attorney, will be sworn in Monday in Miami as counsel to the attorney general, taking the reins of the Justice Department's investigation into the origins of the Trump-Russia probe. The appointment puts a longtime critic of…
The Department of Justice has found at least 350,000 dead people on voter rolls across the jurisdictions it has reviewed so far and referred roughly 25,000 individuals with no citizenship records to the Department of Homeland Security, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and former President Barack Obama met in person for the first time Saturday at a Bronx preschool, a carefully staged visit that came just as the Democratic mayor's relationship with President Trump is deteriorating over a proposed tax on…
President Donald Trump signed a 10-day extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act on Saturday, keeping the warrantless surveillance program alive through April 30 after House Republican leaders failed overnight to advance either a five-year rewrite or the clean 18-month renewal the…
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled late Friday night that construction of President Donald Trump's White House ballroom can move forward, putting a temporary hold on the lower-court order that had frozen part of the…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Saturday in the Oval Office aimed at accelerating federal review and research access for psychedelic-based treatments, calling the move "historic reforms" designed to help veterans and others suffering from severe mental illness. Podcaster Joe Rogan stood alongside the…
Federal authorities arrested a 44-year-old Woodland Hills woman at Los Angeles International Airport on Saturday night, charging her with brokering the sale of Iranian-made drones, bombs, bomb fuses, and millions of rounds of ammunition to Sudan's military, a scheme prosecutors say she ran while living…
The Department of Justice has found at least 350,000 dead people still listed on voter rolls across multiple jurisdictions, and has referred roughly 25,000 individuals with no citizenship records to the Department of Homeland Security for further investigation, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet…
Former congressman Eric Swalwell billed more than 100 alcohol delivery purchases to his campaign accounts over a four-year stretch beginning in 2020, spending roughly $6,100 through the app Drizly, and that was only the beginning of what federal filings reveal about how the California Democrat…
On Friday night, Tim Walz stood on a stage in Barcelona next to Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, Brazilian President Lula da Silva, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa. The event was billed as a "progressive summit," a gathering of left-wing heads of state united…
Former Congressman David McKinley, a seventh-generation West Virginian who spent more than a decade fighting for coal miners and Mountain State workers on Capitol Hill, died peacefully at his home in Wheeling. He was 79. Tributes from across West Virginia's political leadership poured in Friday,…
President Trump on Thursday nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a Brown University, trained physician, military veteran, and former deputy surgeon general, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, installing a credentialed public health official at the helm of an agency that has endured mass…
President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the FDA to expedite its review of psychedelic-based treatments for severe mental health conditions, with a sharp focus on veterans suffering from PTSD, traumatic brain injuries, and depression. The move pairs new federal research dollars with a…
