House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Monday that she is extending the vote-by-proxy period to Aug. 18, saying the coronavirus crisis is still too hot to force lawmakers to come back to the Capitol to participate in legislating.
The Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a case involving environmental challenges to President Trump's border wall plans, giving him a green light to build without having to comply with the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act and other major protections.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau -- the Wall Street cop agency devised by then-Harvard professor Elizabeth Warren and launched under President Obama -- puts too much power in a single director, making it unconstitutional, the Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Four men have been charged with damaging and trying to tear down the Andrew Jackson statue near the White House, federal prosecutors announced Saturday night.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can't on the one hand praised Black Lives Matter protesters for defying his coronavirus orders, and at the same time get angry at churches that want to open, a federal judge ruled Friday.
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Trump did not have the legal power to siphon money from the Pentagon to build his border wall, erecting another legal hurdle in the path of his most flamboyant campaign promise.
The Trump administration slapped sanctions on top Chinese Communist Party officials Friday, barring them and possibly some family members from entering the U.S. as punishment for curtailing Hong Kong's autonomy.
The Justice Department will be bringing federal charges against those it's able to identify as taking part in an attempt to pull down the statue of Andrew Jackson on federal property near the White House, Attorney General William P. Barr said in an interview posted Thursday.
The call came in to San Diego's 911 center just before 2 p.m. on a Monday in February. It was sunny and nearly 70 degrees in the city — but off to the east, in the Laguna Mountains, there was snow on the ground, sleet was falling and the windchill was in the teens.
Their death pose was captured in a haunting photo: A 2-year-old girl tucked inside her father's arm, both of them washed ashore on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande, drowned after a failed attempt to jump the border.
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the legality of speedy deportations for immigrants who are in the country illegally, ruling that constitutional rights such as access to the court system don't automatically kick in just because someone touches U.S. soil.
The federal government sent coronavirus stimulus checks to more than 1 million dead people, totaling $1.4 billion in bogus payments, according to a new audit Thursday.
Attorney General William P. Barr says to expect a decision on pursuing antitrust action against big tech giants this summer -- and he sounds determined to go after the likes of Google for "censoring" Americans' political debate.
ICE on Wednesday announced the results of coronavirus testing at a Colorado detention facility, saying 1% of the migrants who submitted to a test came back positive.
President Trump said Tuesday morning that the border wall has helped cut the flow of illegal immigration to "just about a record-breaking low," as he prepared to jet off to Yuma, Arizona, to mark more than 200 miles of construction since the start of his administration.
President Trump unleashed American workers to begin the coronavirus recovery Monday, announcing a series of immigration moves that will block hundreds of thousands of new foreign workers the rest of this year and push businesses to offer better pay to those that do come in the future.
The chief of Homeland Security said Sunday that the Obama-era DACA deportation amnesty program for "Dreamers" is still illegal, and the department will try again to cancel it, after the Supreme Court last week shot down a previous attempt to do so.
Immigrant-rights activists took a victory lap Friday over Fairfax County's new sanctuary policy limiting police cooperation with federal immigration agents, saying it could protect thousands of illegal immigrants from being deported.