A federal bench trial begins Monday over a lawsuit that challenges a Trump administration campaign of arresting and deporting faculty and students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations and other political activities.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent late Sunday fired back at Larry Summers for the former Treasury secretary's criticism of President Trump’s massive tax and spending legislation. In a thread on X, Bessent demanded an apology from Summers for comparing the deaths that some estimates predict will result from the health care cuts in the bill to...
Members of Congress are carrying on the tradition of "oversight by showing up" to inspect Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, and the Trump administration should abandon its attempts to block these efforts and embrace the bipartisan tradition of congressional site visits that helped to win World War II.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio will travel to Malaysia between July 8 and 12 for meetings of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), marking his first official trip to Asia. Rubio will seek to highlight U.S. commitment to the region, as relations have been strained by President Trump’s reciprocal tariff threats. The administration has...
While local, state and federal assets are in place across central Texas in the aftermath of Friday's deadly floods, volunteers are also helping out through efforts coordinated through first responders.
The Trump administration announced Monday it is revoking the terrorist designation for Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), the group responsible for the overthrow of Syria’s longtime dictator Bashar Assad but which grew out of an al Qaeda branch in the country. The removal of the terrorist designation comes about a week after President Trump directed the...
The White House on Sunday dismissed “doom-mongering” from former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers and other critics of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” after the president signed it last week. “I think that there's been a lot of — a lot of doom-mongering, a lot of scare-mongering, and this isn't the first time, by the way....
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (N.Y.) is demanding that the Commerce Department’s inspector general investigate vacancies at National Weather Service offices and whether they increased the death toll in recent flash flooding in Texas. Schumer wrote in a Monday letter to Roderick Anderson, the Commerce Department’s acting inspector general, urging him to immediately “open an...