In an emergency ruling, the justices preserved the district of a Republican congresswoman, despite a lower-court ruling that it illegally diluted the power of minority voters.
The Justice Department told the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Monday that it was no longer interested in pursuing the cases contesting executive orders barring law firms from government business.
Christian teachers and parents challenged the state’s policies, which they say require schools to hide students’ transgender status from their parents.
President Trump, President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, center, and President Felix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo participate in a signing ceremony at the Institute of Peace in Washington in December 2025.
NYU Langone Health had stopped providing puberty-blocking medication and hormone treatments after the federal government threatened to pull its funding.
The Trump administration said in a memo it wanted to “avoid the risk of impaired objectivity” by hiring former staff members to wind down operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Former staff members and supporters of the U.S. Agency for International Development held a rally last month in Washington to mark one year since the agency was largely dismantled.
A surge in sensors and cameras, combined with artificial intelligence, has transformed U.S. intelligence’s ability to locate foreign heads of state. Add to that an American president willing to capture or kill them.
Nicolás Maduro was captured by U.S. forces in January after American intelligence was able to locate him at an apartment inside a Caracas military base.
James Talarico is talking up his beliefs and his status as a seminary student. Jasmine Crockett, his opponent, is the daughter of a pastor and is steeped in the Black church.