A constitutional fight over spending complicates GOP unity on Capitol Hill as President Donald Trump holds back billions in funding appropriated by Congress. The Government Accountability Office, a congressional watchdog, has repeatedly ruled that canceled or delayed funding for biomedical research, K-12 education, and more is illegal and runs afoul of the Impoundment Control Act, […]

Indiana is the newest state to step up to help the Trump administration in its massive undertaking of carrying out the nation’s “largest-ever” deportation operation. The state emerged in early August with formal plans to have state troopers go after illegal immigrants, as well as shifting part of a state correctional facility to be used […]

A Texas judge blocked former Texas Democratic Rep. Beto O’Rourke from supporting Democratic Texas lawmakers who fled the state to deprive Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) of his needed quorum to pass a redistricting plan. On Friday afternoon, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued O’Rourke and his political group, Powered by People, alleging they engaged in […]

The man suspected of killing four people at a Montana bar was arrested after a weeklong manhunt. Michael Paul Brown, 45, opened fire at an Anaconda bar last Friday, killing a bartender and three customers, identified by officials as Nancy Lauretta Kelley, 64; Daniel Edwin Baillie, 59; David Allen Leach, 70; and Tony Wayne Palm, […]