In a letter blasting the House’s handling of the impeachment inquiry, the White House indicated Friday that President Donald Trump will not participate in future proceedings.
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A federal judge in Indiana granted a stay of execution late Thursday to a white supremacist convicted 20 years ago of killing an Arkansas gun dealer and his family, blocking what would have been the first execution carried out by the federal government since 2003.
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Rebuking President Donald Trump, the House of Representatives on Friday passed a resolution supporting a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read moreConfronting President Donald Trump with a 2009 ad where he called for a global partnership climate change, members of Congress signaled at a press conference Friday that the new course is White House is charting doesn’t speak for them.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit on Thursday stayed two injunctions against a Trump administration rule that makes it easier to deny immigrants green cards based on their use of public benefits, but the rule will remain on hold due to nationwide injunctions issued in two other states.
Read moreTwo documentary film organizations filed a federal lawsuit against the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security in the District of Columbia Thursday over the registration requirement that forces 14.7 million visa applicants to disclose their social media aliases.
Read moreIn an auspicious hearing for a butterfly sanctuary standing in the way of the planned wall on the southern border, the D.C. Circuit pressed the government Thursday on evidence that Border Patrol agents had cut locks on the property.
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The Senate on Thursday confirmed two nominees to federal district courts in North and South Carolina, one of which will end the longest judicial vacancy in the country.
Read moreAttorneys representing both sides of the aisle will present evidence, but no witnesses, when the House Judiciary Committee holds its next hearing in the impeachment inquiry Monday
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The overall U.S. trade deficit dropped 7.6% in October to the lowest level in more than a year, narrowed in part by a decrease in imports from China.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday praised U.S. sanctions on Iran, and asked Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to apply even stronger pressure.
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Federal prosecutors have interviewed the head of Ukraine’s state-owned gas company in their investigation of the business dealings of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and two of Giuliani’s business associates.
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Chinese tech giant Huawei has asked a U.S. federal court to throw out a rule that bars rural phone carriers from using government money to buy its equipment, on security grounds.
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The Senate on Wednesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to a seat on a federal court in Missouri, over objections from Democrats and one Republican to her record of anti-abortion litigation.
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Hundreds of thousands of Americans are set to lose their food stamp benefits under tighter state requirements unveiled by the Trump administration Wednesday.
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Several hospital groups sued the Trump administration Wednesday in an effort to keep their procedure prices secret as health care costs – and profits – continue to rise.
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The International Criminal Court was packed Wednesday as hearings began over whether prosecutors can investigate potential war crimes in Afghanistan.
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Advancing the titanic fight over California’s longstanding ability to set car emissions standards, the Trump administration on Tuesday asked a federal judge to toss the state’s high-profile lawsuit due to lack of jurisdiction.
Read moreU.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos forced more than 45,000 defrauded students to repay loans in violation of a court order – far more than the 16,000 originally estimated, the department revealed in a court filing Tuesday.
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A federal judge told the Justice Department on Tuesday that its case for the legitimacy of President Donald Trump appointing the acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services eviscerates a law Congress passed to ensure top agency officials are Senate-confirmed.
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