In twin rulings, the justices said President Trump could fire independent regulators for any reason but explicitly affirmed the Fed's independence and said its leaders could not be fired at will. read more
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) announced on Monday that he plans to use an unusual maneuver to merge the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act with the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) ... read more
President Donald Trump on Monday remained undecided over whether he'd sign a bipartisan housing bill, saying shortly after the House speaker sent it to the White House that it was "so unimportant" compared with his efforts to secure a controversial overhaul of federal elections. read more
Temperatures hit 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in parts of Europe on Sunday as storms moved into other areas, with France reporting 1,000 excess deaths during the record-breaking heatwave. read more
Comedian Bill Maher on Sunday received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Washington institution that is entangled in a legal battle over President Donald Trump's effort to overhaul it. read more
Trump v. Slaughter, one of two "unitary executive" cases that the Supreme Court handed down on Monday, is the culmination of a nearly 40-year fight by Republican judges to expand the powers of the presidency. read more
The 6-3 decision ruled police need a warrant to get people's location data, even if it's shared with companies like Google and Apple. read more
The Supreme Court on June 29 said Mississippi can count late-arriving mail-in ballots, handing a defeat to President Donald Trump, who is trying to curtail voting by mail. read more
Before Robert F. Kennedy Jr. became the head of the Health and Human Services he crusaded against chemicals like glyphosate. Now activists who helped him in that fight are feeling betrayed by the Trump administration.
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Data centers are now devouring land, electricity, water, and chips -- and driving up the price of just about everything. read more
Attorneys for President Donald Trump have said that the BBC is trying to turn the president's defamation lawsuit against the corporation into a trial on the events of January 6 ... read more
America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump's presidency is testing how far it's come. read more
The move to remove rank insignias from uniforms of chaplains comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reduced the number of religious affiliation codes from more than 200 to 31. read more
The Guardian reports that The National Design Studio (NDS), an agency that's funding source and oversight are unclear, has installed visitor-tracking software on vital federal websites. The NDS is staffed by Doge veterans.
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SiriusXM Radio Host Megyn Kelly: "Why is it we only take people from sh*thole countries like Haiti and Somalia? Yes. Good question. Also, why cannot we have some people from Norway and Sweden? ... " read more
An analyst's missed remarks and US intelligence systems that weren't connected to one another are among the missteps that investigators have surfaced while probing the cause of a missile strike on an Iranian school that killed an estimated 120 children, people familiar with the matter said. read more
