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The bipartisan measure, which threatens tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian oil, is the first major Ukraine-related legislation to clear Congress in more than two years.
Lance Schroyer's nomination stalled for weeks after Sen. Rand Paul demanded answers on fatal shootings of two US citizens by federal immigration agents, leaving ICE without a Senate-confirmed leader since 2017.
The Federal Open Market Committee voted 12-0 to raise its benchmark rate a quarter point to 3.75%-4%, with Chairman Kevin Warsh citing inflation stoked partly by the Iran war — a move President Trump had publicly opposed.
The measure targets officials tied to land expropriation and alleged discrimination against white South Africans, deepening a year-long rift between Washington and Pretoria.
The justices left in place a lower-court freeze on new Postal Service screening rules for mail ballots, with only two dissents, days before ballots go out for November.
A federal judge found the Department of Homeland Security acted with no reasoned basis when it moved to cut FEMA staffing from 23,000 to about 11,500, midway through hurricane season.
The president's two-day visit to Ireland mixes trade talks and a courtesy call on a critical head of state with expected mass demonstrations over the Iran war and Gaza.
The emergency order shelves a Trump-backed map that would have targeted a Kansas City Democrat's seat, forcing Missouri back to its 2022 district lines for November.
President Trump told a midterm convention crowd in Dallas he would send every adult citizen $5,000 if Republicans keep control of Congress, reviving a pattern of costly, unfunded payout pledges.
The Supreme Court justice's one-line order forces Missouri back to its older map just as the state's ballot deadline arrived, deepening a fight over a mid-decade redistricting pushed by Republicans.
A federal judge's preliminary injunction against new U.S. Postal Service ballot rules sets up a third emergency trip to the Supreme Court in six weeks, with the November midterms bearing down.
A judge blocked new USPS ballot-envelope and voter-data rules just weeks before states begin mailing ballots, and the administration wants the justices to lift that order before the midterms.
Spain's prime minister told lawmakers there is no solid evidence Morocco orchestrated July's mass border crossing, a day after roughly 50,000 protesters rallied in Madrid alone.
A federal whistleblower says the untested verification system the Postal Service built to enforce President Trump's mail-voting order is so fragile that a single scanning error could void thousands of ballots at once, adding new urgency to court fights over the order.
The House voted 370-48 to fund federal agencies through Dec. 11, sending the stopgap bill to President Trump's desk and pushing the next spending fight past the midterm elections.
The youngest Army secretary in U.S. history is stepping down after 18 months, the latest senior military leader to exit the Trump administration amid tension with the defense secretary.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the new sanctions campaign will bring economic isolation 'like the world has never seen,' as the Strait of Hormuz remains far below its pre-war traffic.
A federal judge found the Trump administration punished the AI company for criticizing Pentagon policy, violating First Amendment and due process protections; the government is expected to appeal.
A federal judge lifted her injunction against a Postal Service plan built on Trump's executive order restricting mail ballots, clearing the way for the rules to move forward roughly 90 days before the midterms.
Ottawa is expected to announce dollar-for-dollar countermeasures against the U.S. on Tuesday, days after 50 percent American tariffs on Canadian goods took effect and Ontario Premier Doug Ford and President Trump traded personal insults.
Trump announced a sweeping new sanctions campaign targeting Iran's remaining trade partners, betting that financial pressure can succeed where months of strikes have not.
The president threatened sweeping penalties on any nation aiding Tehran after the 60-day truce underpinning the US-Iran war formally expired without a renewed deal.
A 60-day window for Washington and Tehran to reach a peace and nuclear accord expired without agreement, and President Trump threatened military action against Oman over its role easing the Strait of Hormuz standoff.
A federal judge ruled the administration illegally scrapped a Maryland relocation in favor of a downtown office building.
Trump said the US will scale back joint military exercises with Seoul just as they were set to begin, citing goodwill with North Korea's leader and anger that South Korea would not join US action against Iran.
President Trump has cleared his political operation to steer tens of millions from his super PAC to vulnerable House and Senate Republicans, as advisers privately concede the party's grip on Congress is slipping.
The president's vow to annex the international waterway drew a sharp rebuke from Tehran, as the IEA warns global oil stockpiles are draining fast with the strait still effectively closed.
A White House report accuses more than 40 countries of helping China dodge U.S. tariffs through disguised shipping routes, an allegation Beijing calls a warning shot ahead of a September Trump-Xi summit.
New reporting details how President Trump slipped off Air Force One and onto a decoy flight leaving Turkey last month after officials tracked a specific Iranian missile threat.
CMS chief Mehmet Oz was directed to strip Medicaid and CHIP funding for gender-transition surgery and hormone treatments in minors, a move that lands alongside a separate order paring back the recommended childhood vaccine schedule.
The president boarded the presidential jet on camera in Ankara but was quietly rerouted onto a decoy military plane after officials detected a credible Iranian threat, US media report.
The Senate confirmed Trump's former personal lawyer to lead the Justice Department, while a federal court ruled the president cannot proceed with his White House ballroom without congressional approval.
Netanyahu's rejection of the Trump-backed roadmap threatens to unravel a fragile Gaza ceasefire that has already claimed more than 1,250 lives since October.
Todd Blanche, President Trump's former personal defense lawyer, was confirmed 50-49 after Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski broke with their party over concerns about the Justice Department's independence.
A college student's complaint about a $20 burrito has snowballed into a full-blown Republican argument over affordability, inflation and the party's appeal to younger voters.
A new letter gives Cook three weeks to respond to mortgage-fraud allegations, reviving a fight over the Supreme Court's "for cause" standard for removing Fed governors.
The epidemiologist and former Detroit health director edged out Rep. Haley Stevens by about a point, setting up a November race against Republican Mike Rogers.
The party-line vote follows Fauci invoking the Fifth Amendment more than 100 times, though a Biden pardon clouds any path to prosecution.
The 68–29 vote sends the first major revision of federal project permitting in a generation to the House, pairing faster timelines for grid and housing projects with new judicial-review limits.