Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson used a nearly hour-long appearance at Yale Law School on Monday to publicly criticize her conservative colleagues for issuing emergency orders that allowed the Trump administration to advance key policy goals, calling their legal reasoning "scratch-paper musings" and their…
The Senate voted down a Democratic war powers resolution on Wednesday, defeating an effort to force President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from hostilities in Iran without explicit congressional authorization. The final tally, 47 to 52, marked the fourth time this year that Senate…
A 40-year-old Department of Homeland Security auditor was shot and stabbed while walking her dog in Atlanta on Monday morning, one of three victims targeted in an alleged rampage by a 26-year-old man who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2022 despite what officials now…
Nancy Pelosi told an audience at George Washington University on Monday that President Trump's public clash with Pope Leo XIV over the war in Iran was not worth discussing on its merits, only as a matter of psychology. "It isn't even worthy of a conversation;…
A 60-year-old high school principal in Oklahoma charged an armed former student in a school lobby, took a gunshot to the right leg, and still wrestled the shooter to the ground, likely preventing a mass killing that the suspect told investigators he had modeled on…
Bishop Robert Barron, one of the most prominent Catholic voices in America and a member of the Trump administration's own Religious Liberty Commission, issued a sharp rebuke of President Donald Trump's public comments about Pope Leo XIV, saying the president's words were "entirely inappropriate and…
The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline fell to $4.11 on Wednesday, marking the fifth consecutive daily decline since Friday, according to AAA data reported by the Washington Examiner. The one-cent drop from Tuesday's price is real, but so is the fact…
Florida Republican Cory Mills is refusing to step down from Congress despite mounting pressure from lawmakers in both parties, a new House Ethics Committee investigation, and a trail of allegations that includes a domestic disturbance call, a protective order, and an ex-girlfriend's accusation that he…
The Republican-led Senate voted 47-52 on Wednesday to reject a Democratic resolution that would have forced the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the conflict in Iran absent explicit congressional authorization, the fourth time this year the chamber has turned back such an effort. But the…
Two prosecutors from U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro's office showed up without warning at Federal Reserve headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday, asked to tour the site of a $2.5 billion renovation project, and were denied entry. The confrontation marks the latest escalation in an ongoing…
House Oversight Democrats said Tuesday they will move to hold former Attorney General Pam Bondi in contempt of Congress after she failed to appear for a deposition tied to the committee's Jeffrey Epstein investigation. Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) announced the threat on X, and the…
Lea Bardon, the White House director of Cabinet Affairs, is stepping down from the Trump administration to become executive vice president at The Sovereign Advisors, a Washington-based public affairs firm founded by longtime Trump confidant Taylor Budowich. The move, first reported by Politico on Tuesday,…
Body camera footage released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shooting 17-year-old Emeshyon Wilkins in the back of the head as the teen ran away, directly contradicting an earlier police statement that Wilkins had pointed a gun at officers. The video, obtained through discovery…
The U.S. Supreme Court will convene Friday morning for a public non-argument session and may announce at least one opinion from the bench, setting the stage for what could be one of the most consequential stretches of decisions in recent memory. The justices will take…
