WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to allow challenges to EPA rules on air pollution in local courts across the country, pushing back on an effort from the Trump administration to concentrate the cases in Washington.

The oral arguments are connected to the yearslong fight over a Biden administration effort to create a ...Read more

Is the U.S. angling for a repeat of the Sino-Russian split?

In an Oct. 31, 2024, interview with right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson, President Donald Trump argued that the United States under Joe Biden had, in his mind erroneously, pushed China and Russia together. Separating the two powers would be a priority of his administration. “I...Read more

Heads of state are the symbolic leader of a country. Some of them, like King Charles III of the United Kingdom, carry out largely ceremonial roles these days. Others, like Saudi Arabian King Salman, are absolute monarchs and involved in governing the country’s day-to-day activities and policies. It also means that the Saudi monarch gets to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers are looking to curtail the power of federal district courts as President Donald Trump and his administration push back on rulings that have slowed his actions on immigration, the firing of federal probationary employees and efforts from the Department of Government Efficiency.

House Majority Leader Steve ...Read more

CHICAGO — The administration of President Donald Trump forged ahead this month with plans to shrink the federal government’s national real estate footprint, canceling hundreds of office leases across the country and proposing to sell off many properties.

In the Chicago area, as of this week nearly 200,000 square feet of leased federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a pair of cases Wednesday over how much power Congress can give to executive agencies without running afoul of the Constitution, which could end up shaping how legislation is written.

The arguments center on whether Congress handed over too much power to the Federal Communications ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado lawmakers are poised to permit the use of public funding to cover abortions after voters removed that restriction last fall — and proponents argue it will actually save the state money.

That’s because the annual cost of covering abortion through Medicaid and another plan — projected at nearly $5.9 million — would be ...Read more

From Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to Big Tech to Republican members of Congress to universities to law firms, President Trump is using bullying intimidation tactics to get his way. His targets can push back or give in, but capitulation to a bully only brings more bullying.

Zelenskyy now agrees to what Trump offers (although that ...Read more

Even before President Donald Trump started his trade wars, McDonald’s Corp. top brass knew this year would start sluggishly.

Prices are up for food, paper goods and labor, while many of the Chicago-based burger chain’s core customers are finding the menu unaffordable. As a result, CEO Chris Kempczinski told investors last month, “The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As court orders against his administration mount, President Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on federal judges in recent days, railing against their authority and calling for their impeachment.

In particular, the president seems to have zeroed in on the idea of limiting federal district judges’ ability to issue ...Read more

We all learned long ago, perhaps on the playground, that giving in to a bully only makes things worse. That is why it is shocking to see capitulation on the part of those being illegally bullied by President Trump. This will only embolden him.

On Thursday and Friday, a law firm and Columbia University surrendered.

Trump said Thursday that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump wants Ukraine to repay the United States for helping to defend the country against Russia’s invasion.

Since 2022, Congress has provided about US$174 billion to Ukraine and neighboring countries to assist its war effort. Trump inflated this figure to $350 billion in a March 2025 White House meeting with French ...Read more

Dick Harpootlian, the South Carolina attorney who represented convicted killer Alex Murdaugh in his six-week 2023 murder trial, has a new high-profile client: Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden.

Harpootlian will be representing Hunter Biden in a federal libel lawsuit that Biden brought against Patrick Byrne, an outspoken ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he expected efforts to slash the size of the federal government’s workforce would bring it down to an appropriate level in the next two to three months as he met with billionaire adviser Elon Musk and Cabinet officials on Monday.

“We’re getting down to a point we think probably over the next two ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is canceling dozens of National Institutes of Health grants funding health equity research, including work studying Black maternal and fetal health and HIV.

Grantees were told in termination notices delivered over the last several days that their project “no longer effectuates agency priorities” and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his team have had success in driving down egg prices, but achieving this campaign promise largely has been drowned out by their aggressive push to expand executive authority, target political rivals and dismantle certain government agencies.

Some congressional Democrats, sensing a politically weakened ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The family of a woman who died a year after being “ejected” from a revolving door at Trump International in Las Vegas is suing the property.

A wrongful death lawsuit filed March 18 in Clark County District Court against Trump International Hotel claims California resident Diana Truschke, 78, died because of injuries she ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid from former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to consider hearing arguments against a long-standing legal precedent that affords media organizations broad protections from libel lawsuits.

On Monday, the court denied Wynn’s petition to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark 1964 ruling that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed concerns Monday about the future of race in redistricting, part of oral arguments in the yearslong fight over a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana.

The state and a group of voting rights plaintiffs asked the justices to preserve the state’s current ...Read more