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After the Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship and let late-arriving mail ballots stand, President Trump and House Republicans are trying to move their goals through Congress instead, but the bills face a divided Senate, the 60-vote filibuster, and a constitutional wall.

A nearly 1,000-page federal filing shows cryptocurrency, not real estate, was the president's largest source of income in his first year back in office, raising conflict-of-interest questions that have no clean answer in existing law.

Washington declined to lock in another 16 years of the North American trade pact, so the deal stays in force but now faces yearly reviews and parallel bilateral talks with Canada and Mexico.

To understand why a president in 2025 and 2026 could bar the nationals of dozens of countries with the stroke of a pen, you have to go back to a Supreme Court that, in the 1880s and 1890s, decided that immigration was a…

To understand why a network of high-speed roads came to be entangled with the fate of America's public lands, it helps to begin with the man whose name the system carries, and with the long personal road that led him to…

A sharp rise in settler attacks and land seizures in the occupied West Bank has drawn coordinated Western sanctions, a Norwegian trade ban, and warnings from inside Israel itself that "annexation" is happening in all but name.

A proposed bill would label nearly 1,800 miles of US Highway 287 as future Interstate 47 in honor of President Trump, a designation that names a road but does not, by itself, fund or build one.

A divided Court held that the Constitution itself guarantees citizenship to nearly every child born on U.S. soil, and the President immediately called on Congress to change it.

A Republican-led Texas board has voted to require Bible passages in the reading list for every public-school student, the first statewide mandate of its kind, reviving a constitutional fight over religion in the classroom.

A divided Supreme Court ruled that President Trump cannot remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook for now, the first such fight in the Fed's 112-year history, even as the same court expanded his power to fire officials at other independent agencies.