When he sat down for his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, attorney general nominee Todd Blanche had his work cut out for him. In the decades since Watergate, the Justice Department has built ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee held a marathon hearing on Wednesday to consider President Donald Trump’s nomination of Todd Blanche to be the next attorney general. In March 2025, Republican senators ...

More than 1,400 members of the Tennessee National Guard spent the Fourth of July holiday weekend patrolling Memphis, Tennessee, as part of President Donald Trump’s so-called “Memphis Safe Task Force.” ...

I will say this about Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who died on Saturday at 71: He had Donald Trump clocked right from the jump. During the 2016 presidential primary, Graham, ...

Every seven hours, on average, a person in Virginia is killed by a gun, according to a Johns Hopkins School of Public Health analysis. Between 2014 and 2023, Virginia’s overall gun death rate ...

Whenever the Supreme Court decides to review a campaign finance rule, it’s a safe bet that the ultraconservative majority will overturn it as a violation of speech rights. Last week’s decision in ...

As the calendar turns to July, the question looming over President Donald Trump’s judicial agenda is not whether Republicans have the votes to confirm his remaining nominees—they do, with some to ...

A familiar American story has unfolded over the past few days: A famously corrupt judicial body made an unprecedented decision on Sunday, granting an emergency request by President Donald Trump to set ...

In a pair of cases decided on Tuesday, the Republican majority on the Supreme Court restricted the ability of transgender young people to participate in school sports with their peers. The people who ...

In a country awash with World Cup enthusiasm, it is hard to miss how much sports matter to athletes for reasons that go far beyond the outcome in any single competition. Yet the conservative ...

Roundup is the most widely used herbicide in the United States. Since 2015, over 65,000 people diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after repeated exposure to Roundup have sued its manufacturer, the ...