Supreme Court lets White House ballroom construction continue 5-4, Chief Justice Roberts dissenting, as the 65% complete project could finish before courts decide its legality.
Rep. Chuck Edwards tells colleagues “poetry is not sexual misconduct” in a 22-page letter fighting censure over gifts of jewelry, guns and vacations to 2 young staffers.
Documents show Health Secretary Kennedy wrote Samoa’s leader in 2019 asking to study its MMR vaccines, contradicting his Senate testimony that the trip had “nothing to do with vaccines.”
Judge cuts off DOJ’s claim that the Kennedy Center is “dilapidated” as a “non sequitur” while weighing whether Trump’s board can put his name on the facade and grounds.
ICE signs a no-bid $16.7 million contract for 6,000 pairs of electric shock gloves to use on detainees and protesters, hours after 16 senators asked it to cancel.
Maryland judge blocks the November redistricting ballot question, ruling Democrats missed their own July 1 certification deadline in the August special session.
Trump submits an unusual, fully classified Saudi civil nuclear agreement to Congress, starting a 90-day clock that approves it without a rejection vote.
Legal watchdog files bar complaints against US Attorney Pirro and 2 deputies for seeking to indict 6 Democratic lawmakers a grand jury refused to charge.
FBI seizes former Rep. Swalwell’s devices in a sexual misconduct investigation as the White House declassifies files on his contact with a suspected Chinese spy.
Rep. Pingree says the man ICE killed in Maine had no final removal order and wasn’t the intended target, contradicting the agency’s account.
Kentucky Governor Beshear says McConnell has ignored his request for proof of capacity as the 84-year-old senator recovers at home after leaving rehab.
CENTCOM commander visits the USS Abraham Lincoln after a sailor went overboard and families reported mental health struggles aboard.
Fauci refuses Senator Ron Johnson’s request to testify voluntarily, days after Republicans voted him in contempt for invoking the Fifth Amendment.
Senator Mark Kelly, a former Navy combat pilot, says Trump “knows nothing about this stuff” after the catapult reversal order likely to cost billions.
Emily Moreno sues Rep. Max Miller after 400,000 people accessed his posted Dropbox folder containing a nude photo of their 2-year-old daughter.
Trump’s White House construction will cost at least $927 million with taxpayers covering most of it through a maintenance account, a Post review shows.
Rep. Lisa McClain falsely claims on Fox Business that 82% of women vaccinated in early pregnancy miscarried, citing a debunked misreading showing normal rates.
DOJ declares Trump’s talks with private advisers outside government covered by executive privilege, a shield against subpoenas if Democrats win Congress.
Trump says “stranger things have happened” when asked about declaring a national emergency to impose voting restrictions the Senate refused to pass.
GOP senators publish 11 of Fauci’s 34,000 seized texts, spotlighting an early 2021 exchange on vaccine risks in pregnancy the CDC later resolved.
Hegseth dedicates Joint Base Lindsey Graham a month after the senator’s death, joined by the sister appointed to his seat within a day.
Rep. Max Miller stays on Ohio’s November ballot after letting the GOP’s last replacement deadline pass despite domestic abuse allegations and an Ethics probe.
USPS narrows its quarterly loss to $2.5 billion but still projects running out of cash by early 2027 under its $15 billion borrowing cap Congress set in 1990.
Senate confirms Trump’s former defense lawyer Todd Blanche as attorney general 50-49, after he killed the $1.8 billion weaponization fund to win holdout Republicans.
Senate confirms Cameron Hamilton to lead FEMA 15 months after he was fired for telling Congress the agency should not be eliminated.
Senate votes 90-6 to fund the government through December 11, adding a provision barring Trump from blocking federal grants to states for political reasons.
Ohio’s second GOP senator calls on Rep. Max Miller to resign over abuse allegations 4 days before the deadline to replace him on the ballot.
FCC votes 2-1 to eliminate the 39% TV ownership cap Congress wrote into law in 2004, claiming authority to repeal the statutory limit itself.
Senate Republicans vote to hold Fauci in contempt after he invoked the Fifth Amendment 111 times, arguing his Biden pardon voids the protection.
Sen. McConnell, 84, leaves rehab for home recovery 7 weeks after his hospitalization, still refusing live appearances as Kentucky’s governor demands proof of capacity or resignation.
Kennedy’s HHS hands Sen. Ron Johnson’s panel a copy of Fauci’s government iPhone, days after his released journals exposed private medical histories.
Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director, filling a chair vacant since Kennedy ousted her predecessor for disagreeing on vaccine policy.
GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards quits his toss-up North Carolina race days after House Ethics recommended censure, leaving Republicans 3 months to find a nominee.
Rand Paul’s Fauci diary dump exposed more than 20 people’s names and medical histories, a NOTUS review finds, with some still unredacted.
GOP Rep. Max Miller demands an ethics probe of himself as his ex-wife’s lawyer says his document dump included a sensitive photo of their toddler.
House Ethics panel recommends censure for GOP Rep. Chuck Edwards, finding his conduct toward 2 young staffers violated the “spirit” of harassment rules.
Senate GOP holdouts Cornyn and Tillis agree to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after DOJ puts the weaponization fund’s death in writing.
Acting AG Blanche formally kills the $1.8 billion payout fund for Trump’s prosecuted allies to win two GOP holdouts, a day after Trump vowed to revive it.
Senate appropriators reach a bipartisan deal funding the government through Dec. 11 and blocking OMB Director Vought’s rule giving the White House final say over federal grants.
GOP Sen. Moreno says former son-in-law Rep. Max Miller should not serve in Congress, two days after declining to say whether Miller should quit the race.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
All 14 GOP senators on Armed Services vote to kill expanded military IVF coverage, reversing course on the treatment Trump promised free for all.
Senate panel advances a CDC director nominee after nearly a year without one and a preparedness pick who repeated vaccine falsehoods.
Trump floats withdrawing Blanche’s attorney general nomination until two GOP holdout senators leave office, keeping him in the job as acting.
Senate rejects a bid to limit Trump’s war powers 49-50 as the Iran war spreads to Egypt for the first time.
Interior Dept. asks Congress for $10 million more to cover Freedom 250 costs after promising private donors would fund events beyond the $150 million appropriated.
Grassley cancels the committee vote on acting Attorney General Blanche after two GOP senators demand written proof the $1.776 billion weaponization fund is dead.
Ex-White House adviser Fauci invokes the Fifth at a Senate COVID hearing, saying Chairman Paul called it solely to trap him into a false statement.
Energy Department names Idaho, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah as potential nuclear waste hosts while seeking to scrap the law requiring Yucca Mountain storage.
Trump eulogizes Graham as a force of nature at Washington National Cathedral, calling the senator’s sister and appointed successor his proudest legacy.