Politics

Lawyers from the Department of Justice clashed with a Maryland district court judge as they once again resisted compliance with a Supreme Court order to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States from El Salvador. Ahead of the hearing, Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Stefania Vasquez Sura …

Police have arrested a man they allege set fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion early on Sunday, while Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Shapiro and his family evacuated, and no one was injured. The Dauphin County District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday that it has charged …

The busiest politician in America over the weekend was not President Donald Trump, or any of his cronies, but Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who spoke before crowds of tens of thousands in Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and at this year’s Coachella music festival as part of his Fighting Oligarchy …

The House’s passage of the SAVE Act last week is the culmination of Donald Trump’s election-denial movement, which has pushed hundreds of laws around the country targeting non-existent voter fraud based on Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. The SAVE Act — which requires documentary proof …

President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador’s president and self-proclaimed “world’s coolest dictator,” Nayib Bukele to the White House on Monday amid a backdrop of controversy and court battles over his administration’s shipment of hundreds of migrants to El Salvador’s notorious prison system without due process. While taking questions from the …

President Donald Trump and his administration are acting like they don’t need to listen to the Supreme Court — even going so far as to publicly pretend the high court told them they have no obligation to send back a man they illegally shipped to El Salvador’s infamous torture prison. …

The Trump administration had announced tariffs on products from China only to walk back that decision on Friday, issuing an exemption from astronomical 145 percent reciprocal tariffs for smartphones, computers, semiconductors, and other electronic devices — although other tariffs would still apply. But on Sunday, the administration had senior White …

So many of the events and policies of the past three months of Donald Trump’s second presidency can be understood as downstream from one simple, Republican Party-wide organizing principle. That is, Trump aims to severely punish and brutalize his enemies, big and small, even if they didn’t do anything illegal …

A former top federal vaccine official spoke on the danger of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. giving “false hope” to people as the Health and Human Services secretary recently promised to identify the “cause” of autism by September. “There are people, probably, who are hearing me now who know that I …

Days after the Supreme Court ordered Donald Trump to “facilitate” the return of a man his administration illegally shipped to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador — allegedly the result of an “administrative error” — Trump’s administration is saying it has no responsibility to actually bring him home. Trump said …