The nation’s highest court paved the way for President Donald Trump to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria fleeing instability and violence in their home countries in a case about their deportation protections under temporary protected status.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices said the federal law is clear in that it...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court invalidated a Hawaii law Thursday that barred the possession of guns on private property without the owner’s consent, the latest in a series of rulings that expanded federal gun rights.

The 6-3 decision from the justices follows a high court ruling from four years ago that expanded federal gun rights outside ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration could restart an Obama-era policy known as “metering” that prevents immigrants from making asylum claims by halting them from reaching the border with Mexico.

The Trump administration had asked the justices to overturn a ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court shielded Bayer AG from tens of thousands of claims that its Roundup herbicide should have been labeled as a cancer risk in a ruling that will help end a decade-long flood of lawsuits that have cost the company more than $10 billion.

Voting 7-2, the justices threw out a $1.25 million jury verdict won by a Missouri man who ...Read more

The nation’s highest court paved the way for President Donald Trump to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Haiti and Syria fleeing instability and violence in their home countries in a case about their deportation protections under temporary protected status.

In a 6-3 decision, the justices said the federal law is clear in that it...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Trump administration may end the temporary protected status granted to more than 350,000 Haitians and Syrians whose home countries remain unsafe.

In a 6-3 decision, the court’s conservative majority said Congress gave the administration, not judges, the power to cancel or renew this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Licensed gun owners have a right to carry a concealed firearm into stores and other private places unless the owner objects, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The 6-3 decision extends gun rights and strikes down laws in Hawaii, California, New York, New Jersey and Maryland.

Those measures would prohibit carrying guns onto ...Read more

WASHINGTON — While lawmakers had been hoping to work this month on a third budget resolution that would set the framework for another filibuster-proof reconciliation bill, some suggested Wednesday that a budget blueprint might slip into July.

“I don’t think we’ll do a markup before July,” said Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., a member of ...Read more

In the upcoming runoff races to replace disgraced former Rep. Eric Swalwell, one candidate has proven herself popular with voters while another has to make up ground if she wants to win — but has a far more robust financial backing to help her attempt it.

Having already voted in two separate primaries for California Congressional District 14,...Read more

NEW YORK — If Tuesday’s sweep by Democratic socialists across New York validated Mayor Zohran Mamdani as the city’s kingmaker, it also established controversial streamer Hasan Piker as an emerging power behind the throne.

The Twitch star and political commentator spent Election Day crisscrossing the city, lending his audience of millions ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As concerns grow over insider trading on prediction markets, a House panel advanced a bill Wednesday that would curb how lawmakers can use them.

House Administration Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., described his proposal as a narrow but important “step in restoring public trust.” With the midterm elections approaching, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on Capitol Hill had been hoping to spend the summer touting a rare bipartisan legislative feat, but Donald Trump and his growing anger toward Senate Republicans torched that effort Wednesday. And more trouble could lie ahead, if a tense in-person meeting was any indication.

Trump descended on the Capitol for a Senate ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more

Gov. JB Pritzker signed a measure into law Wednesday shielding patients from having electronic medical records related to abortion and other reproductive health services received in Illinois disclosed without their consent to out-of-state providers.

Marking the fourth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s “devastating” Dobbs decision ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump canceled his planned signing Wednesday of the landmark housing bill Congress passed this week, in a striking decision to jeopardize a rare bipartisan success in order to demand that lawmakers pass voter ID legislation.

The president’s reversal, as a stage and chairs for the signing ceremony were set up ...Read more

The federal Office of Management and Budget is requesting that $1 billion of an $87.6 billion defense funding package be earmarked for Penn Station, the Daily News has learned.

The funding request is one of several “urgent needs” outlined in a letter — obtained by the Daily News — from Trump’s budget director, Russell Vought, to House...Read more

BALTIMORE — Congresswoman Sarah Elfreth, an Annapolis resident, is the projected winner of the Democratic primary to continue representing Maryland’s District 3 in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Elfreth was sworn in to the U.S. House in January 2025 after Rep. John Sarbanes chose not to seek reelection. Before Congress, Elfreth ...Read more

NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump Justice Department from seizing the medical records of transgender youth from New York City hospitals and cast doubt on the government’s claim that it didn’t want to use the information to prosecute patients.

In a lengthy oral decision announced at a remote...Read more

Texas activists are gathering in Washington on Wednesday to mark the four-year anniversary of Roe v. Wade being overturned.

More than 30 Texans are joining abortion rights advocates from around the country to protest the overturning of Roe v. Wade and to call for abortion access to be reinstated throughout the country.

On June 24, 2022, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s executive order requiring major changes to the way Americans vote suffered another courtroom defeat, this time in a suit brought by Democratic state attorneys general who disputed the government’s claims of widespread voter fraud.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston on Wednesday issued a...Read more