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The courts can only do so much to protect us. Will more people be doomed to the fate of Kilmar Abrego Garcia?

“If it is not possible to end the war in Ukraine, we need to move on,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said as he departed meetings in Paris.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent complained to President Trump that the acting commissioner had been installed without his knowledge.

A Nepali investigation blamed lawmakers and officials for looking the other way. The $216 million airport receives only one international flight a week.

Further studies are needed to determine whether K2-18b, which orbits a star 120 light-years away, is inhabited, or even habitable.

Since the post-Nixon era, the Internal Revenue Service has had a degree of independence from the White House. President Trump is seeking to change that.

The group performing traditional Chinese dance has been under scrutiny for its treatment of performers and financial practices.

Employees of AmeriCorps who were put on administrative leave include all those who work for a national disaster response program.

Trump is disappearing people to a Salvadoran prison for terrorists. And he says he wants to send “homegrown” Americans there next.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio put about 40 employees on leave who had tracked disinformation by China, Russia, Iran and terrorist groups.

It was not immediately clear why every generating plant on the island went offline Wednesday. Puerto Rico has a history of problems with its electricity supply.

The move was a remarkable attempt by a jurist to hold the White House accountable for its apparent willingness to flout court orders.

Israel developed plans for attacking Iranian nuclear facilities that would have required U.S. assistance. But some administration officials had doubts.

Britain’s Supreme Court ruled that the word “woman” refers to biological sex under the country’s anti-discrimination law, in a blow to trans rights activists.

Bernie Sanders and his apparent heir, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have drawn enormous crowds on their “Fighting Oligarchy” tour, energizing a beaten-down Democratic Party.

State officials argue in a lawsuit that the U.S. Constitution expressly gives the authority to impose tariffs to Congress.

President Trump says he is powerless to retrieve a man who was deported because of an administrative error. But he has done so before.

Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.

The Trump administration will freeze over $2 billion in federal funds because Harvard refused to comply with a list of demands. Harvard leaders believed saying no was worth the risk.