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The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is shifting its focus to the Education and Defense Departments this ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape American life and government through executive orders has suffered setbacks in federal courts, where judges have paused several of his marquee policy ...

The opening moves of Trump's second presidency are an exaggeratedly steroidal replay of a familiar dynamic. But this chapter ...

The judge ordered his sentence to be served consecutive to the state sentence he is currently serving for unrelated offenses.

More than thirty actions and executive orders either boost fossil-fuel production or cripple programs that might reduce ...

Plaintiffs are seeking to “check this abuse of power” by asking the courts to declare the Trump regime’s actions unlawful and ...

Retired federal judge Nancy Gertner has weighed in on a current federal judge’s accusation that the Trump administration has defied a judicial order. On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge John ...

The president's administration has faced numerous legal challenges over actions it's taken since he returned to the White ...

The Trump administration is moving rapidly to gut the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), halting the agency’s work, ...

The nation may be edging closer to a constitutional crisis as senior White House officials bristle over a string of court ...

A federal judge will hear arguments on whether to block the Trump administration’s controversial efforts to offer buyouts to federal employees, a policy that could result in tens of thousands of job ...