On the night of January 24, 2025, the White House Presidential Personnel Office sent a wave of emails to inspectors general across the federal government. The emails were brief. They said that due to changing priorities, the recipient’s position was terminated...
A 15 percent tariff surcharge currently applied to nearly all goods imported into the United States from nearly every country on earth expires on July 24, 2026, under the terms of the federal law that authorizes it. The law that created the authority — Section 122 of...
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais that significantly weakened Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the central legal mechanism used for decades to prevent states from drawing congressional maps that dilute the...
On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued a 6-3 ruling in Trump v. Slaughter that overturned a 91-year-old precedent and gave the president the authority to fire the heads of independent federal regulatory agencies at will, for any reason or no reason at all. The...
At a NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey on July 7 and 8, 2026, President Trump escalated his push to acquire Greenland, the self-governing Danish territory in the Arctic, telling reporters the United States needs the island “for the protection of the world” and...
In September 2025, President Trump signed a presidential memorandum deploying the National Guard to patrol the streets of Memphis, Tennessee, as part of a new law enforcement initiative called the Memphis Safe Task Force. White House deputy chief of staff Stephen...
