A federal judge has blocked President Trump's attempt to impose new immigration-status checks for a host of government benefit programs, saying the administration wrongly rushed its reinterpretation of law into effect.

House lawmakers erupted at one another Wednesday when a Republican lawmaker requested Speaker Mike Johnson say a prayer for Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk and his family.

In April, rising conservative star Charlie Kirk posted a survey showing those on the political left were far more likely to justify murdering Donald Trump and his then-sidekick Elon Musk.

Senate Republicans late Wednesday killed an amendment filed by Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer to the annual defense authorization bill to force the Justice Department to release its files on the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case.