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A leading conservative think tank with ties to congressional Republicans and the Trump administration is urging deep federal health spending...

The administration is advancing a multi-front immigration strategy after court rulings.

• TPS for Haitians: Supreme Court permitted termination of...

Speaker Mike Johnson met with defense industry executives including Radiance Technologies at a Birmingham GOP fundraiser, discussing midterm...

Congress just approved its largest housing legislation in decades, passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with a 358-32 House vote to boost...

President Trump signed a proclamation suspending countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco to lower costs and strengthen...

House Republican infighting has turned routine procedural votes into leverage points, collapsing floor control and forcing an early July recess.
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The rollback of export controls on Anthropic's Fable model offers relief but leaves U.S. AI policy in disarray.

• An ad hoc licensing regime with...

Republican Darren Bailey’s campaign is leveraging AI-generated images and videos on social media to mock Gov. JB Pritzker, citing massive engagement...

President Trump has started construction of a new helipad on the South Lawn after the VH-92A Patriot helicopters proved unable to land there without scorching the grass. Lockheed Martin is funding the work with a $5 million donation.

Crypto firms have become the dominant corporate political donors in the 2026 midterms, spending $189M—more than a third of all corporate donations—to...

Election integrity faces overlapping pressures from individual violations, foreign operations, and institutional clashes.

• Non-citizen fraud cases...

• Mike Rogers faces AFL-CIO attacks in Michigan over Trump policies, a pivotal Senate race where Democrats see an opening
• Hickenlooper defeats...

The Supreme Court’s Trump v. Slaughter decision fundamentally reshapes the administrative state, with direct implications for the NLRB, EEOC, and other federal agencies.

• The 6-3 decision strikes down 1974 limits on coordinated party-candidate spending, freeing parties to pool and direct funds for ads, polling, and...

The U.S. Conference of Mayors condemned the Trump administration for targeting mayors amid policy disagreements and withholding funds ahead of...

The Taking Care of America's Veterans Act expands benefits for combat-disabled retirees, caregivers, and others by redirecting projected VA savings...

The House overwhelmingly approved the TRIA reauthorization bill 373-15, extending the federal terrorism insurance backstop through 2034. This early...

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