The performance and its cost
92 pieces in the last 30 days
A Politico poll finds 49 percent of Americans either haven't heard of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act or can't explain it — which, if you think about it, is exactly what the name was hoping you wouldn't notice.
A salmonella outbreak tied to a limited egg recall has crossed state lines far beyond the original distribution footprint, leaving federal investigators tracking cases in 17 states.
The First Lady launched the submission window for this year's White House Christmas volunteers and performers in late July, signaling the season's annual decorating operation is already in motion.
Congress, divided by faction and temperament and the ordinary antipathies of political life, contrived nonetheless to pass the first substantial law governing the supply of shelter in more than a generation — apparently without the encouragement of the executive.
A New York Times investigation reveals that pressure to fast-track delivery of the president's new Boeing 747 has driven up costs and forced trade-offs on security features.
President Trump issued a fresh late-Saturday ultimatum to Republican senators, calling on them to eliminate the filibuster and clear the path for his voting bill and other stalled legislation.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility Saturday for a missile and drone barrage targeting Saudi Arabia, citing Saudi strikes on the Yemeni port city of Hodeida as justification.
The National Guard has awarded its largest-ever interagency lodging contract to corporate housing firm Placemakr, locking in apartment-style units for troops stationed in the capital.
Harris County confirms the substance found in a fatally shot Houston man's vehicle was not illegal drugs, leaving immigration agents with a justification and nowhere to put it.
The far-right influencer, once among Ukraine's loudest American critics, sat down Thursday with President Volodymyr Zelensky in what her camp is framing as a new chapter.
The world's richest man is walking back his Washington moment, telling an interviewer he lost perspective during a stretch that reshaped federal spending debates and cost him a chunk of public goodwill.
Fidelity Investments has calculated, with admirable precision, that the ordinary American retiree requires $185,000 merely to purchase relief from bodily infirmity — a figure risen 7.5 percent in the span of a single year.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held hearings on Todd Blanche's fitness to serve as attorney general, with senators devoting considerable bandwidth to the question of whether he is too loyal to Donald Trump — a concern the committee raised by convening in his honor.
A handful of Republican crossovers joined Democrats Thursday to pass a second rebuke ordering the president to obtain congressional sign-off before continuing military operations against Iran.
A new University of New Hampshire survey puts Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 22 percent among likely Democratic primary voters — an early but attention-grabbing number in the state that votes first.
New federal data shows that dozens of states now face the loss of food assistance dollars they voted to trim, as error-rate thresholds set by the very legislation their representatives cheered come due.
A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to overturn Peter Navarro's contempt conviction, finding he failed to prove Donald Trump ever invoked executive privilege to shield his Jan. 6 committee testimony.
Kenneth Kies spent decades as one of Washington's foremost tax minds; now Senate Democrats want to know whether the White House had him removed because he declined to let certain audits disappear.
Troy Jackson, the Democrats' top Senate hope in Maine, publicly broke with Chuck Schumer on the leadership question — and suggested the party boss's blessing might not be welcome baggage in a general election.
Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, says the White House has refused to share casualty figures after three U.S. troops died in the past week.
The New Jersey Democrat is calling his plan MediKids — automatic Medicare enrollment from birth for every child in the country, no paperwork, no premium fight.
Three American service members have died in the Middle East in recent days, including two killed in an Iranian attack on U.S. forces in Jordan on Friday.
Ken Jouppi's 1969 Cessna sits in legal jeopardy after a passenger allegedly stashed a six-pack of Budweiser aboard a flight into a dry village — Jouppi says he had no idea.
The President told Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to stop the wildfires or face new trade penalties — a demand that arrives as smoke from Canadian blazes blankets multiple American states.
A lawyer is pushing Congress to close a tax code loophole that punishes love-scam victims twice — once by the fraudster, once by the federal government.
Retired Navy Adm. James Stavridis warned Sunday that Iran's escalating rhetoric and Houthi activity make the Suez Canal the pressure point Washington cannot afford to ignore.
When a president calls for amending a bipartisan sanctions bill as a memorial gesture, the most generous reading is that he has never read a bill, a memorial, or a dictionary.
Jess Michaels walked out of the acting Attorney General's office this week with three words — and none of them were reassuring.
When the federal rule on GLP-1 coverage quietly shifted this week, the news landed not in a boardroom but in a pharmacy line in Gadsden, Alabama, where Renee Calhoun counted what was left in her pill bottle.
American forces have expanded military operations against Iran, targeting a port facility, energy infrastructure, and bridges, as Iranian forces retaliate with strikes on U.S. bases across the region.
The former first lady, out promoting her new memoir, told interviewers the press applied one set of rules to her husband and a far more forgiving set to his successor.
Federal courthouses are leaking, molding, and serving water you wouldn't offer a hostile witness — and the people in charge of fixing them are busy being in charge of not fixing them.
Democrats and voting-rights groups say a primetime White House address repeating unverified claims of Chinese election interference in 2020 signals a plan to contest November 2026 results before voting begins.
A 26-page memo by a political appointee triggered a federal civil-rights investigation into Nike that officials are now using as a template to target diversity programs across corporate America.
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company has filed suit against a South Carolina man it accuses of manipulating its Grok chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material.
As the President prepares a cordial White House reception for South Carolina's newest senator, the truckers and farmers who powered his coalition are paying more than five dollars a gallon to fill their tanks.
Demonstrators from Virginia to Arizona are set to gather this Saturday and Sunday to push back on the power, water, and land demands of the AI infrastructure boom.
President Trump said Tuesday he has no interest in negotiating with Iran at present, blaming the newest Iranian delegation for blocking any path to an agreement.
The Senate once passed the Sunshine Protection Act, and now the House may finally join them, because nothing says legislative efficiency like spending years debating what hour the sun should pretend it is.
A coalition of survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse sent a formal letter to the Senate this week urging lawmakers to reject acting Attorney General Todd Blanche's bid for permanent confirmation ahead of scheduled hearings.
Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told a House appropriations subcommittee Monday that threats against the court have risen sharply and, in her words, come dangerously close.
A Navy pilot killed in a crash earlier this month pushed the official U.S. military death count to 14, a figure the institution has declined to foreground in its public accounting of the conflict.
Donald Trump's financial disclosures record a man pulling $6 million a day from private ventures while drawing a $400,000 government salary — fifteen times the presidential wage, per day, every day.
The president called in to Fox & Friends to remember Senator Lindsey Graham, who died from an apparent stroke, revisiting one of Washington's most-watched loyalty loops.
President Trump ordered the US Navy back into the Strait of Hormuz on Monday as American and Iranian forces traded strikes across the waterway, with a 20 percent cargo levy declared on every vessel passing through.
In a Fox News Sunday eulogy, the South Carolina senator offered an affectionate send-off that didn't bother to sand down the rough edges — and was more honest for it.
President Trump phoned into NBC News's Meet the Press Sunday to say Sen. Lindsey Graham's sudden death has set back the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act at a critical moment.
South Carolina law sets a two-step process for replacing the longtime senator: a temporary gubernatorial appointment first, then a special Republican primary to pick a permanent nominee for November.
Federal subpoenas landed Friday on four New York Times journalists who reported on security concerns surrounding the Qatari-gifted Boeing 747 now flying as Air Force One.
Mike Johnson has now presided over nine failed rule votes in under three years, which raises a question about the word 'presided' — specifically, what it means when nothing gets decided.
A federal judge on Friday granted a Justice Department request to dismiss the remaining cases against four Proud Boys leaders convicted over the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
On a single Friday in July 2025, the Cook Political Report quietly reclassified four of five gubernatorial contests in Democrats' direction — a quiet ledger entry that carries loud arithmetic into November.
The president stopped short of a veto threat, meaning the legislation could still become law, but his refusal signals a deepening break with Senate Republicans over election-integrity demands.
It turns out the grooved edge on your dime is not a design quirk — it is a 300-year-old anti-fraud measure that the U.S. Mint still relies on today.
In a historic display of legislative efficiency, the House Republican majority assembled, counted its votes, found them insufficient, and went home — a process that required nothing from the opposition and everything from the mirror.
A federal judge signed off on the settlement Wednesday, saying her reservations did not clear the legal bar required to block an agreement between two consenting parties.
A parasitic illness known for causing severe, prolonged gastrointestinal distress has surged to reported clusters in at least a dozen states, with federal investigators yet to identify a common food or water source.
Governor Andy Beshear sent a letter to Mitch McConnell's office asking for a health update after the senator's June 14 hospitalization, citing mounting worry among Kentuckians.
The Barrackville Town Council and mayor terminated their entire police force effective immediately — and announced it via a Facebook post.
President Trump told reporters at the NATO summit in Ankara he no longer wants to deal with Tehran, triggering an immediate spike in global oil markets.
Top Senate Democrats are demanding written answers from companies linked to President Trump and his family over whether a Justice Department settlement with the IRS blocks federal tax investigations or prosecutions.
The president told reporters he sees no problem selling advanced fighter jets to Turkey, brushing off bipartisan pushback during a face-to-face meeting with the Turkish leader on his territory.
When the official record of a thing and the official announcement of the same thing share no overlap whatsoever, we are either witnessing a clerical error or the purest form of corporate poetry.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum confirmed the same contractor awarded a prior no-bid deal will handle Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool repairs, citing their “fantastic job” on previous work.
Two Tennessee National Guard soldiers shot and killed Tyrin Johnson on Sunday while operating under the Memphis Safe Task Force, a federal deployment ordered by President Trump.
The Texas senator publicly thanked the president for intervening in a FIFA disciplinary ruling, turning a soccer referee's decision into the latest front in America's culture-war tournament.
A Fourth of July crowd on West 31st Street in Brooklyn turned into a crime scene late Saturday night when gunfire erupted during holiday festivities, leaving eight people wounded.
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said he disagreed with the group's ideology but defended the Independence Day march of roughly 400 masked white nationalists through Washington under the First Amendment.
The president took to Truth Social within moments of leaving the stage Saturday to grade the pyrotechnics display himself, weather delays and all.
Millions have flooded the streets for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's funeral ceremonies, but his son and named successor Mojtaba has yet to make a single public appearance at the services.
Pennsylvania's governor put a dollar figure on judicial deference last Friday, and the arithmetic is not flattering to six people in black robes.
The president granted clemency Friday to two convicted fraudsters and nine men charged with stripping emissions controls from trucks, hours before the nation's semiquincentennial celebrations.
America250 was appropriated into irrelevance, Freedom250 stepped into the void, and the country's semiquincentennial became a branding opportunity with fireworks — exactly as the Founders intended, presumably.
The Louisiana Supreme Court issued an emergency stay Tuesday, freezing a 16-count grand jury indictment against sitting Attorney General Liz Murrill less than a day after it was handed down.
Millions of Iranians joined days of funeral ceremonies following Khamenei's death in U.S. and Israeli airstrikes on Feb. 28, with burial now imminent.
After a 15-term Colorado incumbent fell to a progressive challenger, Rep. Ro Khanna used the result to call on the party's establishment wing to clear the way for new leadership.
Across the country, water utilities are raising rates faster than wages move, and the cost lands hardest on the household that cannot call a senator back.
When the executive branch rewrote who counts as a public servant in good standing, two federal judges took the premise seriously — and that was the end of the premise.
Defense Department spokesperson Sean Parnell declared the court-mandated return of unescorted press access a “risky environment,” as the Pentagon moved to appeal the temporary injunction.
The president told reporters he leaves his finances to third-party managers, after disclosures surfaced showing more than $1 billion in crypto-related revenue generated while he holds office.
The former Trump adviser publicly dismissed the FBI director's falling-crime data on his War Room podcast, exposing a rare split inside the administration's law-and-order coalition.
Becky Pepper-Jackson, the West Virginia sophomore whose case reached the nation's highest court, recently claimed a state shot put title — a win that drew sharp words from her own governor.
The Supreme Court has permitted states to bar transgender female athletes from women's sports, a ruling whose most immediate subject is a West Virginia teenager who competed under the very framework now dismantled.
A coalition of 26 jurisdictions filed suit against the Trump administration Tuesday, arguing its new rule defining which Medicaid recipients qualify as medically frail is dangerously narrow and will strip coverage from vulnerable patients.
The Supreme Court, in its infinite wisdom, has ruled that the executive branch may fire anyone it likes — a constraint the English crown apparently lacked the imagination to impose on itself.
The FHFA director renewed public allegations of mortgage fraud against Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook within hours of the Supreme Court blocking her removal.
Joe Biden stepped to a podium on June 28th, 2026, and said the word most of official Washington has been spelling out in euphemism for two years running — and the specifics behind it are worth sitting with.
New York's newly elected progressive mayor went national Sunday, telling ABC that democratic socialism is no longer a ceiling on political ambition — including at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Sen. Raphael Warnock condemned Democratic Socialists of America members who chanted threats at House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries during a public bar event, calling the tactic corrosive to party unity.
The Congressional Black Caucus broke publicly with Sen. Elissa Slotkin on Friday, issuing unified backing for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries after she called for fresh Democratic leadership.
Turkey's president converted a well-tended relationship with Donald Trump into sanctions relief, dropped court cases, and a major U.S. arms package — all before the NATO summit cameras rolled.
In a case about an alleged assassination attempt, the most dangerous act turned out to be a prosecutor speaking to a reporter, which is apparently what we call justice now.
