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President Trump threatened to use the federal government to upend New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's new pied-a-terre tax a day after a judge ordered an emergency pause of the new surcharge.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday breathed new life into the Department of Homeland Security's plans to use a speedy deportation power on migrants who were paroled into the U.S., potentially giving the Trump administration a new tool to boot ...

Immigrant rights advocates rushed to a federal court Tuesday to ask the judge to shut down President Trump's latest attempt to restrict birthright citizenship, saying the Supreme Court has already settled the issue and the White House lost.

Republicans aiming to flip Alabama's 2nd Congressional District after redrawing the heavily Black district in their favor will pick their nominee Tuesday to challenge U.S. Rep. Shomari Figures, the Democratic incumbent who is seeking a second term ...

Connecticut Democrats are choosing whether to stick with U.S. Rep. John Larson, a longstanding fixture in the state's politics, or embrace a generational change by choosing a far younger replacement.

A Marine veteran who has been in Russian prison since 2022 has been released and is on his way to the U.S. to remedy his "dire" condition.

Resurfaced online posts and a podcast reveal that Abdul El-Sayed, the Michigan Democratic Senate nominee, criticized Fourth of July fireworks and the right to bear arms, plus linked football to the slave trade.

A Pakistani official said parties inched closer to an elusive peace between the U.S. and Iran on Tuesday, the latest murmur of progress as mediators scrounge for common ground on the Strait of Hormuz and ending the war.

A new Justice Department memo says President Trump can extend executive privilege to private advisers outside of the government, a legal conclusion that expands the number of individuals who could be shielded from congressional probes as Democrats ...

The Justice Department deployed monitors to polling sites in Minnesota during the state's primary elections on Tuesday.