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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
Garret Anderson, one of the most decorated players in Los Angeles Angels history and a cornerstone of the franchise's only World Series championship, died Friday at his Newport Beach, California, home after what was described as a medical emergency. He was 53 years old. The…
President Trump is absent from the National Rifle Association's annual convention in Houston this weekend, the second year running he has passed on the gathering, and the no-show is drawing fresh attention to the organization's diminished financial and political standing inside the Republican coalition. The…
Utah's governor and top Republican lawmakers have launched an independent investigation into state Supreme Court Justice Diana Hagen over allegations she exchanged "inappropriate" text messages with the attorney who argued a landmark redistricting case before her court, a case she helped decide unanimously in July…
A Minnesota prosecutor filed two felony assault counts against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent this week, alleging he pointed his service weapon at two civilians on a Minneapolis highway in February, a case the county attorney calls the first criminal charge against a federal…
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…
