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A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. District Court Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a 36-page opinion that Planned Parenthood established “a substantial likelihood of success on their …

House Speaker Mike Johnson is under fire from members of his own party for refusing to act on growing demands to force the release of documents related to the investigation into convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Despite mounting pressure from Republican lawmakers, activists, and online influencers, Johnson shut down legislative …

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche intends to meet with convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell in the coming days, Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed Tuesday morning, in what marks the first known outreach from a Department of Justice official to the former Jeffrey Epstein associate since her 2021 conviction. “We are …

Former President Donald Trump reignited controversy over sports team branding Sunday, calling on the Washington Commanders to revert to their former name—the Washington Redskins—and threatening to block the team’s proposed return to a new stadium in the District of Columbia unless they comply. “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ should IMMEDIATELY change their …

As the Texas Legislature’s overtime special session kicked off Monday, Democratic lawmakers promised to make their Republican colleagues’ efforts to redraw the state’s congressional maps as painful and protracted a battle as possible. They threatened to drag out hearings, filibuster and even flee the state to deny the quorum necessary …

The Trump administration on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of FBI records detailing the U.S. government’s surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the King family and key civil rights organizations. The documents, which had been under seal since 1977, provide an expansive — and at …

President Donald Trump’s newly signed tax and spending law will add $3.4 trillion to the U.S. national debt over the next decade and strip health insurance from 10 million Americans by 2034, according to a new report released Monday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The sweeping legislation, which …

The White House has removed the Wall Street Journal from its rotating press pool for President Donald Trump’s upcoming trip to Scotland, a decision that follows the Journal’s report on a 2003 message Trump allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed the decision to POLITICO …

A federal judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to once again publish details about the pace at which it plans to spend money approved by Congress. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet Sullivan wrote in his ruling that Congress “has sweeping authority” to require the …

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said Sunday the Biden administration is holding firm to its Aug. 1 deadline for new tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners, expressing optimism that President Donald Trump’s aggressive trade strategy will yield major new agreements in the coming days. “The next two weeks are going …

Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump signed what he dubbed a “big, beautiful bill,” tax professionals and financial planners are still working to understand how the sweeping new tax law will affect millions of Americans starting next year. The legislation—passed by Congress with narrow Republican majorities—extends and enhances provisions …

President Donald Trump on Saturday urged Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) to cancel the chamber’s traditional August recess and continue working through the summer to confirm his growing list of judicial and executive nominees. “Hopefully the very talented John Thune, fresh off our many victories over the past two …

President Donald Trump on Friday signed the GENIUS Act, the first major federal legislation regulating cryptocurrency, marking a pivotal moment for the fast-growing industry and setting the U.S. on a path to become, in Trump’s words, “the crypto capital of the world.” The bill, which focuses on the regulation of …

In a dramatic and politically sensitive move, the U.S. secured the release of 10 American citizens from Venezuela on Friday through a three-way prisoner swap that also involved El Salvador. Among those freed was former Navy SEAL Wilbert Joseph Castaneda, who had been detained in Venezuela last year during what …

President Donald Trump filed a $10 billion defamation lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and its parent company, Dow Jones, claiming the paper knowingly published “false and malicious” information about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit marks a sharp escalation in a week dominated by renewed scrutiny of …