The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of student activism that helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools.

In April 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a ...Read more

The first parents convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass school shooting committed by their child were Jennifer and James Crumbley. The Crumbleys were convicted in 2024, after their 15-year-old son Ethan killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.

In March 2026, Colin Gray became the first parent ...Read more

WASHINGTON —The House Appropriations Committee is set to undergo a major shake-up following the midterm elections, especially among its Republicans.

With four members retiring, two running for Senate and four others in potentially tight reelection contests, nearly a third of the committee’s Republicans may not return in the next Congress.

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It must have been a confounding day for “No Kings” protestors. Their placards at rallies held around the country decry President Trump’s “authoritarian regime” and the “fascism” under which Americans now live. They’ve blasted the ballroom Trump was building adjacent to the White House.

Two federal judges upended that notion ...Read more

DENVER — Democrat Trisha Calvarese, who was vying for a second chance to take on U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert in the November election, has dropped out of the primary race in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.

Her Tuesday evening announcement came 48 hours before she and her Democratic rival were set to compete in the 4th District ...Read more

Miami is no stranger to excess. In this city, gaudy isn’t so much an insult as a way of life. But even in a place known for Lamborghinis, Brazilian butt lifts and wannabe billionaires, President Donald Trump’s planned presidential library stands out.

On Monday, the Trump Library Foundation released the first rendering of the downtown ...Read more

This week, the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments on a case of long-settled law that shouldn’t even be before the justices: birthright citizenship.

The court will weigh President Donald Trump’s outlandish executive order purporting to end the automatic grant of citizenship to those born on U.S. soil to undocumented immigrants. We doubt...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional Democratic leaders sued to block President Donald Trump from prohibiting mail-in voting for anyone not on a preapproved list of citizens to be compiled by the Department of Homeland Security.

Top Democrats in the House and Senate, along with their campaign committees and the Democratic National Committee, allege ...Read more

The Trump administration is preparing to outline a tiered system for its broad tariffs on steel and aluminum products in an attempt to simplify a process that has dogged American companies for months.

The US will maintain 50% tariffs on a large number of derivative products in which the duty will be calculated by the value of the actual ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump must still face civil lawsuits seeking to hold him accountable for his role in the lead up to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, a federal judge ruled Tuesday in a long-running litigation from Democratic House members and Capitol Police officers.

Judge Amit Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Inside the Supreme Court, as justices heard oral arguments in the case over birthright citizenship, President Donald Trump became the first sitting president to attend such a proceeding.

Outside the court, the great-grandson of Wong Kim Ark — the San Francisco man whose landmark Supreme Court case affirmed birthright ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and GOP leaders united behind a plan Wednesday to end the record-breaking partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, committing themselves to a two-track strategy that includes passing a reconciliation bill for immigration enforcement funding by June 1.

With the shutdown stretching into its ...Read more

President Donald Trump says he hopes to pull the United States out of NATO as the rift in the trans-Atlantic alliance gets wider over his war with Iran.

Long a skeptic of the Western alliance, Trump said in an interview published Wednesday that he is well along the way to trying to pull the U.S. out of the North American Treaty Organization ...Read more

MIAMI — When Brian Ballard, a prominent Florida lobbyist who raised millions for Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, signed a contract with a wealthy Venezuelan to help expand his TV station into the United States, he disclosed the $50,000 monthly retainer on a lobbying form with the U.S. government in 2017.

But when former Florida ...Read more

WASHINGTON — More than five years after violent riots at the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump still can’t avoid lawsuits seeking to hold him legally responsible for the chaos that temporarily disrupted Congress’ certification of the 2020 election.

A federal judge in Washington handed a multipart loss to Trump on Tuesday night, keeping...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Despite a circuit judge’s ruling that voided the resolution impeaching Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, her April trial in the state Senate will continue as planned, lawmakers say.

Tuesday morning, Franklin Circuit Judge Phillip Shepherd voided Goodman’s March 20 impeachment in the House, saying she committed no ...Read more

House Republicans caved to pressure Wednesday and agreed with the Senate to pass a partial funding bill to end the Department of Homeland Security government shutdown that spawned chaos at airports.

Reversing his previous stance, House Speaker Mike Johnson agreed to push for passage of the bipartisan Senate bill that funds DHS agencies ...Read more

A profanity-laced tweet from U.S. Rep. Susie Lee’s personal X account about President Donald Trump has raised some eyebrows on social media.

The post from Lee, D-Nev., appeared to criticize the president for his decision to attend a U.S. Supreme Court hearing Wednesday regarding birthright citizenship.

“So f——— f—ed up,” the post...Read more