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The Court's decision overruling a 1935 precedent lets the president fire the leaders of roughly two dozen independent agencies, including the board that hears federal workers' firing appeals.

The National Park Service took down the panels telling the story of the nine people George Washington enslaved and installed a reworked 11-panel set overnight, acting under a 2025 executive order while the city's lawsuit continues.

A coalition of twelve Democratic attorneys general asked a federal court to stop the roughly $110 billion combination of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery on antitrust grounds, weeks after the Justice Department approved the deal without conditions.

Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia activist held for 104 days in 2025, has filed a federal civil-rights suit accusing Trump administration officials and pro-Israel groups of a coordinated plan to surveil, detain, and deport pro-Palestinian activists.

The Times has asked a federal court to block the grand jury subpoenas of its journalists, and the prosecutor who issued them would not tell senators whether the president personally directed them.

President Trump has ordered a full naval blockade of Iran's ports and a third and fourth night of strikes reaching toward the Bushehr nuclear area, as Iran hits US bases and Gulf tankers, the Houthis strike Saudi Arabia, and oil climbs back toward $87.

A federal officer fatally shot a 26-year-old Colombian motorist in Biddeford, the second ICE killing in a week, and the Trump administration responded by ordering officers to pause most vehicle stops even as the account of the shooting shifted and no body camera recorded it.

President Trump signed two Antiquities Act proclamations cutting Utah's Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments from a combined 3.2 million acres to roughly 302,600, reopening the excluded land to mining and reviving an unresolved fight over whether a president may shrink a monument a predecessor created.

Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order freezing state permits for new data centers of 50 megawatts or more for up to a year, making New York the first state to pause the AI build-out while regulators write new rules on grid costs, water, and who pays.

A federal judge in Florida ruled that President Trump's lawsuit against his own IRS was never a genuine legal dispute, barred all sides from treating their deal as a court-blessed settlement, and referred lawyers for possible discipline.