Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a law school audience Thursday that the Trump administration's use of the Supreme Court's emergency docket is "unprecedented in the court's history", a complaint that says less about executive overreach than it does about the liberal…
The Department of Homeland Security on Friday ordered every furloughed employee back to work, ending a staffing standoff that left the nation's largest security agency short-handed for nearly two months while Congress failed to pass a funding bill. The recall…
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt ordered flags across the state to half-staff Friday after an Oklahoma Highway Patrol trooper was killed in a crash on Interstate 35 earlier in the week. Trooper Vernon Brake was one of three people who died…
A federal judge in Washington ruled Thursday that the Pentagon is obstructing journalists and defying an earlier court order that required the Department of Defense to restore access to credentialed reporters, a finding that sets up a direct clash between…
Former first lady Michelle Obama told comedian Hasan Minhaj on her "IMO" podcast Wednesday that the United States is living through a "janky" version of itself, a word she returned to again and again as she described a country she…
The chief of staff for an Alaska House Democrat was arrested early on a Sunday morning in Juneau after police say she was caught speeding down the center of the road with open containers of alcohol in her car, and…
Ivanka Trump said she was at the family's Bedminster, New Jersey, estate on July 13, 2024, when commotion broke out and the televisions switched on, and she watched, almost in real time, as a gunman opened fire on her father…
Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with David Axelrod, the longtime Democratic strategist who helped Barack Obama win the White House in 2008, in a quiet Vatican sit-down that neither side has been willing to explain. The meeting has fueled speculation…
Brian Hooker was arrested by the Royal Bahamas Police Force in connection with the disappearance of his wife, Lynette Hooker, 55, who vanished during a boating trip near Elbow Cay last weekend. His lawyer called the arrest "shocking." But a…
The man charged with killing a 23-year-old Ukrainian immigrant on a Charlotte, North Carolina, light rail train last August will not face trial any time soon. Decarlos Dejuan Brown Jr., 34, has been deemed "incapable to proceed" after a psychiatric…
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