On July 7, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a homebuilder in Houston, woke up before sunrise, ate breakfast prepared by his wife, and drove his construction crew to work. Around 6:50 AM, federal immigration ...

When he sat down for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, attorney general nominee Todd Blanche had his work cut out for him. In the decades since Watergate, the Justice Department has built ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a marathon hearing on Wednesday to consider President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general. In March 2025, Republican senators ...

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett made a rare joint appearance at Capitol Hill on Tuesday, testifying before Congress at back-to-back hearings of the House and Senate Committees on ...

More than 1,400 members of the Tennessee National Guard spent the Fourth of July holiday weekend patrolling Memphis, Tennessee, as part of President Donald Trump’s so-called “Memphis Safe Task Force.” ...

I will say this about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who died on Saturday at 71: He had Donald Trump clocked right from the jump. During the 2016 presidential primary, Graham, ...

Every seven hours, on average, a person in Virginia is killed by a gun, according to a Johns Hopkins School of Public Health analysis. Between 2014 and 2023, Virginia’s overall gun death rate ...

Whenever the Supreme Court decides to review a campaign finance rule, it’s a safe bet that the ultraconservative majority will overturn it as a violation of speech rights. Last week’s decision in ...

In a 6-3 decision last week, the Supreme Court granted President Donald Trump direct control over almost all nominally independent federal agencies. The ruling in Trump v. Slaughter struck down a ...

Shortly after taking office in January 2025, President Donald Trump elevated Emil Bove, a member of his small army of criminal defense attorneys, to a high-profile position at the Department of ...

As the calendar turns to July, the question looming over President Donald Trump’s judicial agenda is not whether Republicans have the votes to confirm his remaining nominees—they do, with some to ...