Marcus Hale
What Is a Pocket Rescission? The Budget Move the GAO Calls Illegal
A pocket rescission lets a president freeze spending until it legally expires, no vote required. The GAO says it's illegal. The current OMB director wants to use it anyway.
What Is a Rate Case? How Utilities Win Permission to Charge More
Residential electricity averaged 18.83 cents per kilowatt-hour in April 2026, up 7.3% in a year. Most of that increase was granted in writing, by a state commission, at the end of an 11-month legal proceeding almost nobody attends.
Trump Calls U.S. Support for NATO 'Ridiculous' Days Before Ankara Summit
Five days before NATO's leaders gather in Ankara, the president reopened the burden-sharing fight, and tied it to a grievance over Iran.
GOP Picks Dallas for Its First-Ever Midterm Convention
Trump says the two-day event at the American Airlines Center will be a ‘rally like none other,’ the first national party convention ever held in a midterm year.
Supreme Court Rejects Trump's Bid to Limit Birthright Citizenship
A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.
Supreme Court Blocks Trump From Firing the Fed's Lisa Cook, for Now
The justices left Lisa Cook on the Federal Reserve Board while her suit proceeds, but cleared Trump to remove an FTC commissioner the same day.
Trump Nominates Lance Schroyer for ICE, a Post Vacant Since 2017
ICE hasn't had a Senate-confirmed director since 2017. Trump's pick of an Oklahoma trooper, Lance Schroyer, tests whether that decade-long gap finally closes.
Supreme Court clears Trump to end deportation shield for 356,000 migrants
The decision turns on a single jurisdictional question: whether courts may review the move at all. The majority said no.
Trump Cancels Housing Bill Signing, Tying It to His Voting Law
The most sweeping housing bill in decades cleared Congress with veto-proof majorities. Then the president attached a condition no one had agreed to.
Mamdani Slate Sweeps NYC House Primaries, Ousting Two Incumbents
Three candidates backed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani won New York's Democratic House primaries, with two beating sitting members of Congress in a pointed message to party leadership.
Senate Passes Housing Affordability Bill 85-5, Sending It to the House
The Senate cleared the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which would expand supply and bar large investors from buying single-family homes. The House could vote within days.
Starmer Resigns as Prime Minister, Opening the Race to Replace Him
The prime minister will stay on as a caretaker while Labour, not the country, picks Britain's seventh leader in a decade.
Starmer May Set Resignation Timetable as Burnham Is Sworn In
The question in Westminster is no longer whether Keir Starmer can hold on, but how he leaves — and whether Andy Burnham can convert a by-election landslide into the leadership.
Starmer weighs resignation as Burnham win shakes Labour
Andy Burnham's Makerfield landslide has emboldened Labour rivals, and reports suggest Keir Starmer could announce a resignation timetable within days.
Trump Wins One Georgia Runoff and Loses the Other
A split night in Georgia: Collins wins the Senate nomination and faces Ossoff, while Trump and Kemp's governor pick, Burt Jones, loses to Rick Jackson.
FBI Says It Thwarted a Drone Plot Against the White House UFC Event
Director Kash Patel said the FBI broke up an alleged plan to use explosive drones and a sniper team against the weekend's White House UFC card, with five arrested.
Newsom Says Trump's Justice Dept. Is Investigating Him and His Wife
Newsom accused Trump of directing the DOJ to investigate him and his wife. The probes reportedly predate the clash, beginning last year over California whistleblower complaints.
Kennedy Center Creates a Trump Fund, Days After Removing His Name
A court said the board couldn't rename the building for Trump. So the board named a fund for him instead, tied to the center's $257 million in federal money.
Starmer Sets Out UK Ban on Social Media for Under-16s
The Prime Minister's child-safety package would raise the minimum age for the biggest platforms to 16, curb chatbots and gaming features, and curfew older teens after 8:30pm.
Trump Endorses Mike Collins in Georgia's Senate Runoff
Two days before the runoff, Trump backed Collins over Derek Dooley, a late MAGA pick that pits the president against Gov. Brian Kemp.