Missouri has become the center of an extraordinary legal and political battle over congressional redistricting, as courts clash over whether the state can use a Republican-drawn map backed by President Donald Trump…
The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive a controversial federal system designed to help states verify the citizenship of people on voter rolls, escalating a major election-law dispute…
Taiwan is increasingly using its extraordinary dominance of the global semiconductor industry as a form of economic and diplomatic power, presenting itself as an indispensable democratic partner in the artificial-intelligence revolution while…
For decades, raising taxes has been close to political heresy for many Republicans. But the approaching financial crisis facing Social Security is beginning to challenge that orthodoxy, with some Republican lawmakers signaling…
Across the United States, a troubling contradiction is emerging in the housing crisis: thousands of apartments officially classified as affordable are sitting vacant while millions of the country’s poorest renters cannot find…
House Democrats are preparing an aggressive legislative and investigative agenda if they regain control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections, but an emerging challenge could determine whether…
The Trump administration has formally backed OpenAI in its high-stakes copyright dispute with The New York Times and other publishers, arguing that artificial-intelligence companies should generally be allowed to use copyrighted material…
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from sending several longstanding California vehicle-emissions waivers to Congress for potential repeal, delivering an important victory to California in its escalating battle with…
The Trump administration is dramatically increasing pressure on state governments to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement, warning that states could lose billions of dollars in federal welfare funding if their agencies fail…
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to narrow birthright citizenship, dealing another legal setback to the administration after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected an earlier version of the…
