National Politics

President Trump and his administration are asking the Supreme Court to dismiss an $83 million defamation verdict won by E. Jean Carroll.

New filings seek the dismissal of a case charging former FBI Director James Comey with threatening President Donald Trump on social media.

Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky subpoenaed Dr. Anthony Fauci to appear before a Senate committee to discuss the COVID pandemic’s origins.

Eighty communities across the country saw their funding stripped.

The Senate took the first steps toward passage of a Russian sanctions bill with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Capitol.

350,000 Haitians who have been living and working legally in the U.S. since 2010. The termination exposed them to deportation.

House lawmakers left for August break without a deal to rein in bad bosses.

Teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez “no longer works in the federal government” but officials would not say whether he resigned or was fired.

The states — Tennessee, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Utah and Idaho — all have Republican governors who say they welcome the chance to help America reclaim its leadership in civilian nuclear energy.

The nation’s advanced weapons stockpiles have become a flashpoint in the five-month-long conflict.