The Justice Department filed a lawsuit Thursday against Virginia, challenging two new state laws that would ban federal law enforcement officers from wearing masks on duty and effectively dismantle local immigration enforcement partnerships across the state.
The Senate Armed Services Committee voted 18-9 Wednesday to advance its version of the fiscal 2027 National Defense Authorization Act, with language formally renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War.
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) sent a letter Thursday to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Mehmet Oz demanding an investigation into approximately $1.5 billion in federal Medicaid and Medicare funding that he alleges Planned Parenthood used to provide transgender procedures to minors.
The State Department on Thursday sanctioned Cuba's state-owned oil and gas company, Union Cuba-Petroleo (CUPET), as the Trump administration tightens economic pressure on the island nation's communist government amid what officials describe as an escalating confrontation.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that his department is reviewing allegations involving the Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) alleged terror ties.
The Senate GOP's campaign arm filed a complaint Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission, accusing a Democratic political consultant of helping launch a same-name Republican Senate candidate in Alaska in what Republicans say is a coordinated effort to confuse voters before the state's August primary.
FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that a federal grand jury has indicted eight individuals following what authorities describe as a coordinated campaign of vandalism, intimidation, and violence stretching from March 2024 to April 2025.
