Participation in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the federal food assistance program formerly known as food stamps and commonly called SNAP, has fallen by more than 4.5 million people since July 2025, according to an analysis by the Center on Budget and...
Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska announced on August 7, 2026, that she will vote against the confirmation of Todd Blanche as Attorney General of the United States, citing concerns about the politicization of the Justice Department under his leadership....
On April 29, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3, along ideological lines, that Louisiana’s majority-Black congressional district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander. The ruling, in the case Louisiana v. Callais, effectively gutted what remained of Section...
Abdul El-Sayed, a public health official and former executive director of the Detroit Health Department, won the Michigan Democratic Senate primary on August 4, 2026, defeating four-term Congresswoman Haley Stevens in a close race that was not called until the morning...
The Senate voted 89 to 4 on Monday, August 3, 2026, to advance a short-term government funding bill that would keep the federal government open through December 11, 2026, more than five weeks past the November 3 midterm elections. The vote is a procedural step — a...
On Sunday night, August 2, 2026, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche issued a formal order terminating the Justice Department’s ‘anti-weaponization fund,’ an $1.8 billion pool of money the Trump administration had established to compensate political...
