The Trump administration extended a waiver allowing purchases of Russian oil — a policy that manages the humanitarian fallout of its own Iran war by directing demand toward Moscow at the moment Russian oil revenues fund the Ukraine invasion.
A Brookings Institution report finds 145,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from at least one parent through immigration detention — ten times the scale of the 2018 crisis that triggered federal litigation and congressional hearings. No federal agency is tracking them.
Trump sued the IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department settled the case with $1.776 billion in public money, no independent oversight, and no public eligibility criteria — then handed his administration the keys to decide who qualifies.
Lineup to include pastor who called Democratic platform ‘demonic’, Christian author who said he would die in fight to overturn 2020 election and rabbi who has defended torture The defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, will this weekend headline a faith rally on the National Mall in Washington DC hosted b
A new CNN survey finds 77% of Americans believe White House policies have raised their cost of living — a near-consensus that includes voters from the president's own coalition. The president has already said their financial pain doesn't move him.
Exclusive: In letter seen by the Guardian, 30 members of Congress warn US president’s Cuba military operation would worsen ‘mass suffering’ US politics live – latest updates More than 30 members of Congress have urged Donald Trump’s top officials to end the use of the Guantánamo Bay naval base for i
Ryan Nichols is the fifth person pardoned for the January 6 Capitol attack to face new criminal charges. The pattern is not a coincidence — it is the predictable outcome of clemency used as political reward.
The State Department approved more than $8 billion in arms to Gulf nations and Israel last Friday. Every recipient is actively involved in a war Congress never authorized — and the clock to block the sales is already running.
A Guardian US analysis documents what critics call a deliberate pattern: the Trump administration is not contesting court orders through legal channels — it is simply ignoring them. The people paying the price are sitting in detention facilities, waiting for bond hearings a federal judge already ord
The Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Fifth Circuit ruling that would have ended mail-order mifepristone prescriptions. The order, signed by Samuel Alito, preserves access for now — but the legal architecture to eliminate medication abortion nationwide is still intact and moving forward.
Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS may be settled by his own administration — creating a $1.7 billion taxpayer-funded compensation fund for Trump and his political allies. Legal scholars say there is no precedent for a president controlling both sides of a federal lawsuit in which he
The Senate's seventh war powers vote on Iran failed 49 to 50 — the closest margin yet. Republican defections are growing with each attempt, and the constitutional question of who authorizes this war remains unanswered.
City Commissioner David Suarez is accused of hiring the trucks to single out members of the activist group Jewish Voice for Peace. The post Miami Beach Official Hired Billboard Truck to Call Pro-Palestine Activists “Jew Hater,” Lawsuit Alleges appeared first on The Intercept.
The Justice Department is threatening states that won't provide DHS officers with undercover license plates, framing a demand for covert surveillance infrastructure as a constitutional mandate — with no court precedent to back the claim.
The Trump administration's six-month freeze on new Medicare home health and hospice enrollments is framed as fraud prevention. The mechanism it uses punishes patients who need end-of-life care, not the bad actors already inside the system.
Pete Hegseth brought a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget request to Capitol Hill — and no accounting of how much is funding a war Congress never authorized. That omission is the strategy.