When trade wars escalate, the retaliation list is never random — it's aimed at specific industries and the politicians who represent them.

The House has impeached only 15 federal judges since 1803, all for crimes like bribery or perjury. A 2025 wave of impeachment threats over rulings broke that pattern.

The U.S. Mint struck its last circulating penny in November. Now state legislatures are racing to write the rounding rules cash registers will actually use.

Mid-decade redistricting used to happen about twice a generation. In the last year alone, five states did it. Here's the mechanism behind the current fight for the House.

A senator gavels the Senate in, says nothing, gavels out — and that ritual is enough to strip a president of the power to fill vacancies without Senate consent.

A 110-year-old Senate custom gives home-state senators a quiet veto over judicial nominees, and in 2026 both parties are testing how far it bends.

One blue-colored form, sent to two home-state senators, can freeze a federal judge or prosecutor nomination indefinitely -- no vote, no law, just a century of Senate custom. Trump wants it scrapped. Grassley won't move.

Five days before NATO's leaders gather in Ankara, the president reopened the burden-sharing fight, and tied it to a grievance over Iran.

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.

Washington let the deadline to renew the USMCA pass, keeping the pact alive but subjecting a $1.6 trillion trade zone to yearly reviews through 2036.

A 6-3 court held that the president cannot narrow by executive order a citizenship guarantee the majority located in the Constitution itself.

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.

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.

A mid-June ceasefire between Washington and Tehran is buckling as both sides trade strikes over the Strait of Hormuz.

Washington hit four Iranian targets hours after an IRGC drone damaged a Singapore-flagged ship, straining the 60-day truce meant to reopen Hormuz.

The most sweeping housing bill in decades cleared Congress with veto-proof majorities. Then the president attached a condition no one had agreed to.

For the first time, both chambers of Congress have passed a war powers resolution, telling President Trump to halt the Iran war he launched unless lawmakers authorise it.

As Vance met Iran's delegation above Lake Lucerne, Trump threatened to bomb Iran again, and Tehran refused to give ground on uranium enrichment.

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.

With the Iran war cooling, the leaders meeting in Evian put Ukraine back at the center and pointed the next round of pressure at Russia's energy exports.