President Donald Trump has put aside an executive order that would have empowered the federal government to take over Washington, D.C. — for now. Trump’s decision coincides with D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser‘s apparent political moderation in recent weeks, from announcing the district would be removing the “Black Lives Matter” mural across from the White House […]

President Donald Trump’s strike this week against a Democratic-linked law firm came years after it faced allegations of aiding unethical and, in some cases, illegal efforts to weaponize the Justice Department against Trump. Trump’s order, which stripped Perkins Coie of its staff’s security clearances and demanded an end to any federal contracts it has with […]

The North Carolina Supreme Court election was held in November, but unlike all the other races held that day, it is still undecided more than four months later. The race for a seat on the Tar Heel State’s high court has stretched far beyond the typical post-election timeline, into the third month of Gov. Josh […]

President Donald Trump’s heated Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky upended the United States’s relationship with Ukraine and Europe. The fact that a routine diplomatic meeting unraveled into an event that reshaped the global order shocked many but has historical precedent. In numerous past incidents, what began as a trivial diplomatic matter became […]