In February, the Supreme Court struck down the sweeping global tariffs Donald Trump had imposed on nearly every country on Earth. The justices ruled he had exceeded his authority. The tariffs that had been generating tens of billions of dollars a month for the federal...
On Tuesday, Iowa Republicans handed Donald Trump a defeat that has not happened anywhere else this primary season. Businessman Zach Lahn beat Trump’s hand-picked candidate, Rep. Randy Feenstra, in the Republican primary for governor. The margin was less than a...
The Senate voted 52 to 47 Thursday morning to pass a $70 billion immigration enforcement bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol through the end of the Trump administration. The vote came after 18 straight hours of procedural votes. One Republican, Lisa Murkowski of...
The Congressional Budget Office now projects that the Social Security trust fund will run out of money in 2032. That is one year sooner than the Social Security Administration’s own trustees had projected last year. If Congress does not act before then, 67...
A three-judge federal panel found in 2023 that Alabama’s congressional map intentionally diluted the voting power of Black citizens. The court ordered the state to draw a new map. Alabama refused. The case went to the Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, in a 6-3...
When Donald Trump was elected president in 2024, Forbes put his net worth at $2.3 billion. By March 2026, Forbes put it at $6.5 billion. That is a $4.2 billion increase in roughly 14 months. Democrats have noticed. And they are making it the central argument of their...
