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...
For more than 50 years, federal civil rights law has included a principle called disparate impact: the idea that a policy or practice can be unlawful discrimination even without proof of intent, as long as it produces unequal outcomes for protected groups. A company...
The Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, is the federal law that created the insurance marketplaces where roughly 22 million Americans bought their health coverage in 2025. Starting in January 2026, the subsidies that had been making those plans...
The 21st Century Road to Housing Act passed the Senate 85 to 5 and the House 358 to 32 with the kind of bipartisan margins lawmakers rarely produce. Trump was scheduled to sign it at the White House. He canceled the ceremony and told Congress he would not put his name...
