WASHINGTON — The power of incumbency came up short for some House members from Texas on Tuesday night, with Rep. Daniel Crenshaw losing a primary and others forced into May runoffs.

Crenshaw, a four-term Republican, lost by double digits to Steve Toth, a hard-right state lawmaker who had the backing of the House Freedom Caucus and Sen. Ted ...Read more

Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war, not the president. But most modern presidents and their legal counsel have asserted that Article 2 of the Constitution allows the president to use the military in certain situations without prior congressional approval – and have acted on that, sending troops into ...Read more

The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the $164.7 billion in tariffs collected under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) was unlawful. In a constitutional system governed by judicial supremacy, such a decision should have marked the end of the matter. Instead, it has triggered a historic act of executive defiance.

Despite the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order on artificial intelligence promised a proposal to Congress for a national artificial intelligence law, one meant to unify U.S. policy and address industry fears that conflicting state laws could slow AI growth.

More than two months later, the White House has offered few specifics on what...Read more

With Marimar Martinez standing a few rows behind her, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington on Tuesday that she was not “familiar with the details” of Martinez’s shooting by an immigration agent in Chicago last fall and unaware whether the agent who shot her was ...Read more

The Supreme Court’s ruling Monday affirming the right of parents to know about their child’s gender identity at school has left California educators with complicated questions about how to protect the sometimes competing rights of students, school employees and family members.

The Supreme Court decision in Mirabelli v. Bonta, while falling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem arrived at a Senate oversight hearing Tuesday ready to spar with Democrats in her first Capitol Hill appearance since federal agents fatally shot U.S. citizens Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minneapolis.

But some of the sharpest comments from the Judiciary Committee came from fellow ...Read more

Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison are set to testify before a Congressional committee Wednesday morning in a hearing focused on allegations of widespread fraud in Minnesota government programs.

The state leaders are expected to answer questions from the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which ramped ...Read more

When the bombing of Iran began on Feb. 28, 2026, the Trump administration had not informed the American people exactly what it was prepared to achieve.

Was the attack intended to degrade Iran’s nuclear program? Trump had declared that “obliterated” after last June’s bombing.

Was it to slow Iran’s ballistic missile ...Read more

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem refused to apologize for calling two Minnesotans domestic terrorists after they were shot and killed by federal agents during Operation Metro Surge.

Those comments became a central focus of more than four hours of questioning in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, March 3. ...Read more

Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is preparing for President Trump to declare a national emergency in order to seize control of this year's midterm elections from the states, including by bracing his Senate colleagues for a vote in which they would be forced to either co-sign on the power grab or resist it.

In the wake of reporting last week that ...Read more

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — William & Mary has joined a growing list of universities that have been rebuked by military leadership in a recent Pentagon effort to divert federal resources from institutions deemed “woke” and “anti-American.”

After saying in mid-February it was cutting ties with Harvard University, the Pentagon announced Friday ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Nancy Mace, who is running for the Republican nomination for governor in South Carolina, is criticizing an investigation that accused her of profiting from a program meant for helping federal lawmakers offset living expenses.

The House Ethics Committee voted 6-0 to further review allegations against Mace for allegedly engaging in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis didn’t mince words on Tuesday morning as he called, again, for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s resignation and threatened to block nominations and ensure bills her department needs do not reach the floor.

He also alleged she was violating the law over funding Helene relief to western North Carolina....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday offered a much different explanation for how the United States and Israel opted to launch a surprise war with Iran, contending he pushed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into the conflict.

The U.S. commander in chief offered a brief update on the war’s status, telling reporters in the Oval ...Read more

So much Trump-related news has appeared lately on the airwaves and in web pixels — what with Iran and Epstein and Minnesota and so on — that inevitably a nugget will fall between the cracks.

That seems to have been the fate of the most recent annual financial report of Trump Media and Technology Group, which covered calendar year 2025 and ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday denied that Israel forced the U.S. to join the war against Iran by planning to launch its own assault on Tehran.

Distancing himself from remarks made by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Trump insisted that he alone was the driving force to launch the war against the Islamic Republic.

“It was my opinion that ...Read more

The Oregon Supreme Court on Feb. 5, 2026, issued a ruling that will have a wide impact. More than 1,400 criminal cases had to be dismissed, the justices ruled, due to lack of adequate counsel available for defendants.

Like other states, Oregon must provide defendants with legal representation if they cannot afford attorneys on their ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Ryan Zinke, the Montana Republican who served as Interior secretary during the first Trump administration, is retiring after two stints in the House.

Zinke, the first Navy SEAL elected to Congress, said he’s undergone multiple surgeries in recent years related to his military service.

“The injuries sustained from a ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court handed Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-New York, a lifeline by ruling that her Staten Island-based district does not need to be redrawn ahead of the 2026 midterm congressional elections.

The conservative top court blocked a state court judge’s ruling that ordered the state’s redistricting committee to redraw the lines of ...Read more