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President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he shared a well-documented friendship, though Trump denies any involvement in the financier’s crimes. Epstein, who surrounded himself with the rich and …

Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate voted Tuesday to adjourn until January, defying mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and Gov. Mike Braun to redraw the state’s congressional districts before the 2026 session begins. The 29–19 vote on “organization day,” the ceremonial kickoff of the legislative year, amounted to an explicit rejection of …

Democrats on Capitol Hill are renewing a long-stalled push to let Americans sue federal law enforcement officers for violating their constitutional rights, seizing on recent allegations of excessive force and unlawful conduct by agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration crackdown. The legislation — reintroduced Tuesday by Rep. Hank …

Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest …

In his first visit to the White House since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received an effusive welcome Tuesday from President Donald Trump, who again rejected U.S. intelligence conclusions and insisted the prince “knew nothing” about the 2018 killing. “You’re mentioning somebody that …

Congress moved with rare speed and near unanimity Tuesday to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, delivering a sweeping bipartisan rebuke to months of resistance from President Donald Trump and Republican leaders. The House voted 427-1 to approve the …

David Richardson, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, resigned Monday after roughly six months at the helm, ending a short and tumultuous tenure defined by budget battles, internal unrest and criticism of the agency’s response to catastrophic summer flooding in Texas. Two administration officials confirmed the resignation, …

The House is poised to overwhelmingly approve legislation Tuesday that would force the Justice Department to publicly release all records related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a dramatic culmination of months of bipartisan pressure and a sudden shift in support from President Donald Trump. The measure, authored by …

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., accused President Donald Trump this weekend of endangering her safety, claiming his escalating public attacks helped trigger a recent pipe-bomb threat at her construction company and a surge of harassment, including hoax food deliveries. “President Trump’s unwarranted and vicious attacks against me were a dog …

A federal magistrate judge on Monday sharply rebuked the Justice Department’s handling of its case against former FBI Director James Comey, citing a “disturbing pattern of profound investigative missteps” and ordering prosecutors to provide defense lawyers with the full record of the grand jury proceedings that led to Comey’s indictment. …

President Donald Trump is escalating pressure on Republican leaders in Indiana, publicly calling for the ouster of the state Senate’s top lawmaker after he declined to reconvene the chamber to consider a mid-cycle redrawing of congressional maps favored by the GOP. In a pair of sharply worded posts Sunday on …

The Federal Aviation Administration said Sunday it will fully lift the emergency flight restrictions imposed at 40 of the nation’s busiest airports during the record-setting government shutdown, clearing airlines to resume normal operations beginning Monday at 6 a.m. EST. The announcement came in a joint statement from Transportation Secretary Sean …

President Donald Trump abruptly abandoned months of efforts to block the release of federal records tied to Jeffrey Epstein, reversing himself just as dozens of House Republicans appeared poised to defy him on a bipartisan bill to force the documents’ disclosure. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, …

President Donald Trump has again pardoned Dan Wilson, a self-described militia member who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol and later pleaded guilty to unrelated federal firearms offenses. The new “full and unconditional” pardon, signed Nov. 14, wipes away the Kentucky man’s gun convictions …

The Justice Department quietly replaced several presidential pardons posted online this week after observers noticed that multiple documents appeared to contain identical versions of President Donald Trump’s signature — a discovery that set off questions about whether the signatures were authentic. The pardons, dated Nov. 7, included clemency for former …