The conservative majority Supreme Court appeared open today to undermining the landmark Voting Rights Act in a Louisiana congressional redistricting case. Coverage of this live blog has ended. For the ...

On the Senate floor today, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) delivers scathing remarks lambasting Republicans over the government shutdown. Schumer calls out Speaker Mike Johnson for lying ...

THE SHUTDOWN HAS LED TO TRAVEL DISRUPTIONS AT OTHER U.S. AIRPORTS, BUT NOT THIS ONE, AT LEAST NOT YET. NORMAL STAFFING LEVELS FOR TSA AND IN THE TOWER, ACCORDING TO FEDERAL WORKER UNIONS, WHO ALSO ...

On Capitol Hill, Attorney General Pam Bondi faced questions about President Donald Trump's National Guard deployments in U.S. cities and files related to Jeffrey Epstein. We’d like to hear from you ...

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson filed a lawsuit Monday to block the Trump administration from deploying hundreds of National Guard troops from Illinois and Texas in Chicago ...

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President Donald J. Trump’s indomitable resolve and masterful diplomacy culminated yesterday with the release of all remaining hostages, an end to the conflict in Gaza, and a robust foundation for ...

Throughout Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign for the presidency, he repeatedly indicated his desire to deploy National Guard troops into the “crime dens” of American cities and against the “enemy within.” ...

The Associated Press is reporting that 16 people are presumed dead after an explosion in middle Tennessee on Friday, according to authorities in a news conference on Saturday evening. The cause of the ...

Mr. Bolton, who has become a critic of his former boss, is among a string of presidential foes to become prosecutorial targets. But his case gained momentum in the Biden administration. Devlin Barrett ...

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The origin story of L.A.’s Palisades Fire, according to a criminal complaint announced yesterday, reads like a scene from an art-house film. Shortly before midnight on New Year’s Eve, a son of ...