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The Supreme Court’s late April 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais gutted Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act, blocking a congressional map with two...

Early polling shows Donald Trump Jr. trailing in the 2028 GOP field, though his stance leaves room for shifts.

• CPAC straw poll placed him tied for...

Republican Chris McGowan won his party's nomination unopposed for Iowa's 4th congressional seat and will face Democrat Dave Dawson in November. Dawson framed the race around threats to rural hospitals, Medicaid cuts, and family farms hit by tariffs.

Originally subpoenaed in March for a formal videotaped deposition under oath, Pam Bondi's appearance was downgraded after her April firing to a...

Congress's repeated failures on core responsibilities stand in sharp contrast to ongoing pay raise discussions and high spending proposals.

• Backlog...

Rebuilding federal science capacity requires redesigning White House processes, not restoring 2021 structures that agencies can no longer support.

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• Anti-weaponization fund of $1.776B scrapped, no longer moving forward.
• Fund intended to compensate claimed victims of unfair federal...

The Court faces 26 remaining opinions, many high-stakes Trump challenges.

• Executive power: Likely to block Trump's Fed firing but allow FTC...

• Black and Latino voters who shifted to Trump in 2024 over economic concerns are now most likely to reconsider their support.
• Inflation at 3.8%,...

The BUILD America 250 Act shifts power toward states with more flexible highway funding while cutting federal priorities.

• Strengths: New bridge...

Lawmakers are demanding answers after the White House intervened to secure a $620 million loan for a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. The move highlights...

Justice Thomas's dissent in the Whitton fair-trial case takes an odd detour from standard criminal jurisprudence.

• It pivots to three unrelated...

A federal appeals court ruled the Trump administration's transgender troop ban illegal, finding it arbitrary and based on animus toward a politically...

Treasury Secretary Bessent confirmed the department prepared a mock $250 bill featuring Trump's portrait and a 250th anniversary logo, but stressed...

Senate Democrats called Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin's threats to pull CBP officers from sanctuary city airports "insane", accusing the department of reckless spending and fueling partisan clashes over immigration enforcement funding.

Federal termination of over 1,700 NIH grants tied to diversity research has eliminated hundreds of millions in capacity for studies on maternal...

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