Full federal appeals court strikes down New Jersey’s 36-year-old assault weapons ban and magazine limits, splitting with every other circuit.
Federal judge rules the administration illegally used an OMB budget clause to cancel billions in grants Congress already approved for states.
Trump threatens new tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke five months after the Supreme Court ruled he lacks unilateral tariff authority.
Trump endorses Darline Graham for a full Senate term three days after she was sworn in to her late brother Lindsey Graham’s seat.
DHS Secretary Mullin threatens state election officials with prison unless they screen voter rolls through a database a federal judge has blocked.
Good Trouble Lives On rallies open three days of voter registration and civil rights events at hundreds of locations honoring John Lewis.
Charlotte creates a registry letting residents certify pollinator gardens as natural habitats, exempting them from code violation citations.
U.S. completes a seventh straight night of strikes on Iran as Iranian attacks on Jordanian bases injure American service members.
ICE arrests an Alaska state government attorney and ships him to Washington state detention, declining to say how he violated his admission terms.
Federal judge scolds Justice Department lawyers for citing an apparently AI-fabricated case while opposing an ICE detainee’s release petition.
Epstein survivor Annie Farmer calls Blanche abrasive and condescending after the meeting a GOP senator required before voting on his confirmation as attorney general.
Treasury forces out its top tax official after he warned a White House request would break the law barring presidents from directing IRS audits.
Louisville jury orders ghost gun sellers to pay $104 million to the mother of a teen who killed himself with a kit shipped without a background check.
Appeals court lets the Pentagon keep requiring government escorts for journalists, overturning a judge who found the restrictions defied his prior order.
FDA investigates iceberg lettuce Taylor Farms supplied to Taco Bell as the cyclospora outbreak grows to nearly 7,000 suspected cases in 34 states.
Trump demands ABC and NBC lose their broadcast licenses for declining to air his election address live, while merger-seeking CBS carried it.
FDA approves Merck’s Lipfendra, the first cholesterol-lowering pill in a drug class dominated by injections, cutting LDL nearly 60% in trials.
Trump’s teleprompter operator faces a federal probe for allegedly winning nearly $100,000 betting on which words the president would say in speeches.
Trump’s media company will sell Wall Street firms high-speed access to his Truth Social posts, letting traders profit from presidential announcements before markets react.
DHS lets immigration officers weigh food, housing, and health benefit use against green card applicants, reversing a 2022 rule limiting reviews to cash welfare.
Canadian wildfire smoke drives hazardous air through Saturday for 120 million Americans from Minneapolis to the mid-Atlantic as nearly 900 fires burn.
Plainclothes ICE agents abandon a 57-year-old Vietnamese man half-handcuffed on the Las Vegas airport floor after a bystander starts filming.
Family and court records show the ICE officer who killed a Colombian man in Maine has a history of violent threats and abuse allegations.
Trump orders voter roll purges and criminal probes of intelligence officials in a primetime address airing debunked election claims four months before midterms.
New Jersey job-protected leave expands today to part-time workers, new employees, and small business staff previously excluded from coverage.
U.S. strikes hit Iranian bridges, an airport, and a rail station on a sixth straight night after Trump said infrastructure attacks would come next week.
Federal judge dismisses DOJ’s demand for New Mexico voter rolls with Social Security numbers, one of 14 such lawsuits yet to yield any data.
Federal judge blocks State Department from revoking visas and green cards of researchers targeted solely for working in content moderation and disinformation fields.
Trump suggests images of the Iranian girls’ school strike that killed 120 children may be AI-generated, months after Pentagon investigators identified a U.S. Tomahawk.
National Park Service installs panels overnight at Philadelphia’s President’s House saying Washington’s enslaved staff enjoyed autonomy and theater tickets, replacing exhibits on slavery’s brutality.
New York Times moves to quash grand jury subpoenas FBI agents served at three reporters’ homes demanding they name confidential sources.
Former Obama White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler tells House investigators Epstein was a masterful liar who used respectable people to legitimize himself.
Trump overrules DHS Secretary Mullin’s pause on ICE traffic stops one day after it began, following MAGA criticism the shootings response looked weak.
Trump fires the U.S. attorney federal judges appointed in Seattle less than an hour after his swearing-in, without responding to two weeks of outreach.
U.S. Mint will produce $1 coins bearing Trump’s face despite a law limiting currency portraits to deceased individuals, Treasury Secretary Bessent announces.
Senate hearings for Trump’s attorney general and spy chief nominees turn contentious in one day, spanning the weaponization fund, Epstein redactions, and 2020 election denial.
Defense Secretary Hegseth orders annual testosterone screening for troops 30 and older as the administration pushes wider access to hormone therapy.
Rangers evacuate up to 10,000 campers from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters as smoke from over 100 Canadian wildfires blankets the Midwest and Northeast.
House defeats a $3.3 billion cut to Israel military aid 104-314, with more Democrats voting to end the funding than to keep it.
Bloomington, Indiana offers neighborhood groups up to $1,000 for resident-led climate projects like community gardens, composting, and solar on shared buildings.
U.S. fires missiles to disable a tanker running the Iran blockade as Trump threatens to hit Iranian power plants and bridges next week.
Hundreds rally at ICE’s Scarborough, Maine facility a day after agents killed Johan Sebastián Guerrero, with the state Senate president telling ICE to leave her state
HUD withholds more than 100 records on DOGE’s use of AI in housing policy, citing an AI privilege that does not exist in records law.
Pentagon plans to keep National Guard troops in Washington through the 2029 inauguration, converting a crime surge into a garrison costing $3 million daily.
New York becomes the first state to ban new large AI data centers, freezing 50-megawatt projects for a year as electric bills climb 68% since 2019.
Justice Department subpoenas 13 top law firms for their communications with Trump’s personal lawyer while asking a judge to shield the White House’s own records.
Trump’s company took $2 million from a top Korea Aluminium investor while the firm fought a Commerce Department case over dodging Chinese aluminum duties.
Trump says his primetime address Thursday will reveal election security findings, with sources expecting voting machine claims four months before the midterms.
Cyclosporiasis spreads to 34 states with 141 hospitalized as the CDC says the source is still unknown, a day after Michigan pointed to lettuce.
E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6 million from Trump three years after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse, and two weeks after the Supreme Court declined his appeal.
