The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is proposing to formally define event contracts, including those tied to sports, politics, culture and weather, as swaps, in a change the agency says would confirm its exclusive jurisdiction over contracts traded on prediction markets.
D.C. Council member Brooke Pinto announced Monday that she is running to succeed D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, the District's longtime nonvoting representative in Congress.
A federal judge late Sunday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deploying any National Guard units to Oregon at all, after a legal whirlwind that began hours earlier when the president mobilized California troops for Portland after the same judge blocked him from using Oregon's National Guard the day before.
The government shutdown enters its sixth day as Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., demands a deal on expiring Obamacare tax credits before reopening.
Republican Rep. Wesley Hunt of Texas announces Senate run, joining incumbent Sen. John Cornyn and Attorney General Ken Paxton in heated GOP primary battle.
Gov. Greg Abbott, R-Texas, authorized the deployment of the Texas National Guard to Illinois and Oregon to combat crime and protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
Ghislaine Maxwell, 63, was convicted of five counts involving sex trafficking of a minor and conspiracy — a conviction she hopes the Supreme Court will overturn.
2000—Liberal judicial activists eagerly seize opportunities to expand unsound or dubious precedents. In 1971, the Supreme Court had ruled in Bivens v. Six Unknown...
