The Senate on Thursday cleared legislation that would repeal a Biden administration regulation charging oil and gas producers a fee on methane emission leaks for President Trump's signature.
The rule of law -- the principle that everyone must obey judicial orders and that laws apply equally to everybody -- has become a cudgel for critics of President Trump as he fires federal workers, halts spending and rewrites immigration enforcement.
Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development were clearing out desks at the agency's headquarters on Thursday, as President Trump's efforts to curtail foreign assistance spending took hold.
President Trump on Thursday welcomed to the White House British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the second of three world leaders visiting this week, as European and Ukraine leaders seek a seat at the table for peace talks with Moscow.
The Trump administration complained to the Supreme Court that one of the people it's trying to fire, special counsel Hampton Dellinger, is positioning himself to block firings of other employees.
A Senate panel advanced legislation Thursday that would permanently put fentanyl and its chemical cousins on the Schedule I list of controlled substances, instead of leaving it there temporarily.