The Trump administration lost its attempt to overturn a federal court's deportation amnesty policy Tuesday, after another federal judge dismissed the Justice Department's lawsuit, calling it a "potentially calamitous" clash between the Executive Branch and the judiciary.

More than a dozen senior generals and admirals have been fired since President Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, including the first women to lead the Navy and the Coast Guard, and the second African American to serve as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench over an order by the chief judge that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals.

U.S. President Donald Trump claims that the war in eastern Congo is among the ones he has stopped, after brokering a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda in June. But residents, conflict researchers and others say that's not true.

California, Washington and New Mexico could lose millions of dollars of federal funding if they continue failing to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung said his staff feared that President Trump would ambush him about his government's raids on churches and turn his Oval Office meeting into a "Zelenskyy moment," describing Mr. Trump's comments as "very threatening."

Nigel Farage, the leader of Britain's hard-right Reform UK party, said Tuesday that if he wins the next election he will leave the European Convention on Human Rights and immediately detain and deport anyone who arrives in the country illegally, including children.

A Trump administration proposal to reverse a landmark finding that climate change is dangerous to the public relies heavily on a report from the Department of Energy that dozens of scientists say is flawed.

Democrats regularly complain about how unfair the electoral system is. What they are about to learn in the coming years is that the biggest unfair advantage the GOP has is that Republicans are good at governing. The New York Times has an early preview of what the 2032 Electoral College map could look like based on population projections, and every data point cuts against Democrats. […]

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