Professional gamblers say a tax change tucked into the One Big Beautiful Bill could wipe out their profits and drive them toward offshore betting sites -- threatening an industry that reportedly raked in nearly $115 billion last year.

House Republicans, up all night, are ready to vote on President Donald Trump's $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill after GOP leaders and the president worked to persuade skeptical holdouts to drop their opposition by his Fourth of July deadline. Not so fast, the top Democrat says.

Supreme Court justices frequently chide their critics by pointing to how many of their decisions are unanimous -- but that unanimity was tougher to find this year.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin said they will speak by phone Thursday, their sixth publicly disclosed chat since Trump returned to the White House this year.

In the state that served as the model for the Obama-era health overhaul, advocates and health care workers fear the Trump administration is trying to dismantle a popular program that has provided insurance, preventive care and lifesaving medication to hundreds of thousands of people.

First lady Melania Trump was set to visit with sick patients at Children's National hospital in Washington on Thursday as the children made Fourth of July arts and crafts ahead of the holiday.

House Republicans say they've finally rounded up the GOP support needed to pass President Trump's sweeping tax cut legislation, but Democrats are using procedural tactics to slow down a final vote.

The Supreme Court announced Thursday it would hear two disputes over state laws banning male-born athletes from competing in female sports, giving the justices a headlining issue for their next term that opens in the fall.

In recent years, state governments have regulated pornography according to a notion of absolute freedom of speech. In a 6-3 decision on Free Speech Coalition, Inc. v. Paxton, the Supreme Court ruled against this misunderstanding. Namely, the court upheld Texas House Bill 1181, requiring that websites with sexually explicit content verify their visitors’ ages. The […]

The University of California system on Wednesday sought to reiterate a policy that bans student governments from boycotting specific countries, including Israel, amid the Trump administration’s investigation into the school and threats of pulled funding. UC President Michael Drake sent a letter to his chancellors that said leaders on campuses, including student governments, cannot...