Susan Monarez’s 28-day tenure as the nation’s top public-health official was doomed from the start. Her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., wanted her to do two things: champion his dubious anti-vaccine agenda and uphold “gold-standard science” at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Recognizing the conflict, Monarez chose the latter...Read more

Writing in 1788, Alexander Hamilton famously described the judiciary as “the least dangerous branch” of the federal government. He thought that it would never be in a position to do serious damage to American life because it had neither “the sword nor the purse…but merely judgment.”

President Donald Trump and his allies seem to ...Read more

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is appealing to the White House for help fast-tracking a plan to build a nuclear reactor in the state.

Hochul announced in June a goal of adding at least 1 gigawatt of nuclear capacity, and she’s been in contact with President Donald Trump about accelerating the federal approval process, she said during an ...Read more

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Jadyn Winsett twisted her new engagement ring around her finger, scanning the sea of navy sport coats, sailor stripes and string pearls at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for a glimpse of a Supreme Court justice.

Across the room stood Amy Coney Barrett, the high court’s youngest member, who could hardly have ...Read more

A Clark County school board member is the latest to enter a crowded field of Republicans looking to oust Democratic Rep. Susie Lee in 2026.

Lydia Dominguez, who launched her campaign last week, joins former mayoral candidate Tera Anderson, Dr. Aury Nagy, “Halo” composer Marty O’Donnell and others in the June 2026 primary for Nevada’s ...Read more

One transgender student from the Charleston area can still use the bathroom of his choice after a Wednesday U.S. Supreme Court order.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson and state Superintendent Ellen Weaver had asked the highest court in the U.S. to block a federal injunction that allowed one Berkley county student to use the bathroom ...Read more

ATLANTA — Nathan Wade, the former special prosecutor who once quarterbacked Fulton County’s election interference case against President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others, is suing AT&T for handing over his cellphone records to defense attorneys as they sought to remove him from the probe.

In a suit filed Tuesday in federal district...Read more

WASHINGTON — One of the Senate’s Republican leaders on artificial intelligence released the broad strokes of a plan on AI regulation Wednesday, along with a draft bill that would establish a regulatory “sandbox” with the hope of driving AI innovation.

Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, put forward what he called a regulatory “light-...Read more

NEW YORK — Comedic actor Rosie O’Donnell said she missed her daughter’s college graduation because she was advised that returning to the U.S. might not be safe.

The “League of Their Own” star moved to Ireland when President Donald Trump took office in January. The gay performer said at the time that she and her autistic, nonbinary ...Read more

BOSTON — Boston Mayor Michelle Wu took a victory lap Wednesday after trouncing Josh Kraft by a 48-point margin in the preliminary election, saying that her sweep of every ward was indicative of voters feeling the city is moving in the right direction.

Wu, flanked by her allies on the Boston City Council and state delegation, said outside City...Read more

WASHINGTON — Reality TV star Spencer Pratt joined two Republican senators on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to bring attention to a newly launched congressional investigation into the response to the Palisades fire in Los Angeles.

“I feel like this is going to be so powerful for all of the United States because there shouldn’t be disasters ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Turnout in Charlotte’s primary came close to doubling results from two years ago as voters cast ballots amid growing national attention around a fatal light-rail stabbing.

The fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on the Blue Line light rail Aug. 22 entered the national spotlight this weekend after video of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Comptroller Brad Lander leads incumbent Rep. Dan Goldman by 19% in a new progressive poll of a potential Democratic primary matchup in the deep-blue NY-10 district spanning lower Manhattan and brownstone Brooklyn.

Lander, who is enthusiastically backing Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral candidacy, leads Goldman 52% to 33% in the poll of a...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat James Walkinshaw won Tuesday’s special election for Virginia’s 11th District to fill the unexpired term of his former boss, the late Democratic Rep. Gerald E. Connolly.

Walkinshaw, a Fairfax County supervisor, was leading Republican Stewart Whitson, an Army veteran and former FBI official, 75% to 25%, when The ...Read more

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — As the Missouri Senate prepares to debate a gerrymandered congressional map, President Donald Trump has ordered Republican senators to fall in line and pass it with no changes.

“I will be watching closely,” the Republican president posted on social media.

The post came just hours after the Missouri House approved ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The outlines of a potential government funding solution is taking shape.

Congressional leaders are discussing a plan that would avert a government shutdown by extending federal funding, allowing more time for them to reach a more comprehensive agreement that would include updated funding levels for federal agencies.

The ...Read more

It’s hard to pin down exactly where President Donald Trump falls on the subject of vaccinations. He launched Operation Warp Speed to develop the coronavirus vaccines early in the pandemic and confirmed he received the shots, but he’s also nominated — and continues to stand by — an avowed anti-vaxxer to lead the nation’s public-health ...Read more

On Sept. 2, the Donald Trump administration killed 11 people by destroying a boat that allegedly was being used by the Venezuela-based Tren de Aragua gang to transport narcotics to the United States. The strike came with a message from Secretary of State Marco Rubio: Those who dare to ship drugs to the United States risk their lives.

But if the...Read more

When I was a young UCLA constitutional law major, we learned that the Constitution wasn’t just parchment behind glass: It was a living promise, fragile and ferocious, meant to protect the people when power overreached.

But on Monday morning, the Supreme Court taught me something new: that those promises, in the hands of a certain kind of ...Read more