Voters in three states approved voter ID measures, while California rejected a billionaire wealth tax and Idaho turned down a proposal to expand abortion rights.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are gang members have been held since their removal from the United States. The tour included two crowded cell blocks, the armory and an isolation unit.
A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a judge's blockade on President Trump using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang suspects, saying the administration appears to be stretching the law too far.
Lt. Gen. Steven W. Gilland, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, told lawmakers Wednesday his administration has combed the academy's curriculum looking for potential violations of President Trump's ban on "woke" classes and found two: a history course called "Race, Ethnicity, and Nation" and "Power and Difference" offered by the West Point English department.
A federal appeals court halted a lower court's order that had directed Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency to submit to legal discovery and turn over records about its operations, ruling Wednesday that the judge was too quick to allow it.
President Trump suggested that the encrypted message app Signal may be "defective" after a journalist was inadvertently added to a group chat that included his top administration officials discussing recent airstrikes in Yemen.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Georgia state Sen. Brandon Beach for U.S. treasurer. He has served as a state senator in Georgia since 2013.
For more than a year, Sen. Steve Daines has been arduously cultivating support in Congress to permanently extend President Trump's first-term tax cuts.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell rejected the Justice Department's demand that she recuse herself from a case involving President Trump, saying Wednesday that the allegations against her were "innuendo and basic legal disagreements."
President Trump and his aides mounted a defense Wednesday of the administration's accidental release of missile attack plans to a journalist, telling lawmakers the mistake didn't affect the successful military operation in Yemen and that no classified information was revealed.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said messages sent inadvertently to a reporter in a group chat were not "war" plans, they were "attack" plans used to update key U.S. officials on action taken against Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Sen. Rand Paul, following in the footsteps of his father, is reintroducing a one-sentence bill to eliminate the federal Department of Education, but the legislation may have more traction now as President Trump has already taken steps to dismantle the agency.
The Rand Corporation is warning lawmakers they need to prepare for the sudden emergence of advanced artificial intelligence "wonder weapons" in cyberspace.
DOGE announced it slashed 113 contracts valued at $4.7 billion for $3.3 billion in savings for programs like climate change in Peru and gender equity in Mexico.
