By Ann E. Marimow The Supreme Court on Friday backed President Donald Trump’s request to scale back lower-court orders that have for months blocked the administration’s ban on automatic citizenship for the U.S.-born babies of undocumented immigrants and foreign visitors, ruling that those nationwide injunctions went too far. The 6-3 decision, with the liberal justices […]
By Evan Halper, Hannah Natanson A company led by former energy secretary and Texas governor Rick Perry has submitted a federal application to build a nuclear power complex on what sponsors say would be the world’s largest data-center campus – a project with a distinctly political veneer. Republican Perry is co-founder of Fermi America, a […]
By Lakshya Jain, Harrison Lavelle — As Republicans crafted their One Big Beautiful Bill, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) offered a warning: “Our voters support social insurance programs. More than that, our voters depend on those programs.” While House Republicans ignored his pleas, opting to pass a bill with cuts to Medicaid that the Congressional Budget […]
By Ann E. Marimow, Casey Parks — Supreme Court allows Tennessee ban on gender-transition care for minors A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for states to ban certain gender transition treatments for minors, a landmark decision on a polarizing issue the Trump administration has seized on in initiatives targeting transgender rights. In […]
U.S. Senators responsible for reviewing the impact of the “Big, Beautiful Bill” say Medicaid cuts in the House proposal and further cuts proposed this week by Senate Republican leaders could force over 300 rural hospitals, including 15 in New Mexico, to close. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR), the leading Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, and […]
By Cat Zakrzewski, Natalie Allison, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez — President Donald Trump is prepared to send National Guard troops into more U.S. cities if protests against immigration raids expand beyond Los Angeles, administration officials said Wednesday, potentially opening the door to the most extensive use of military force on American soil in modern history. Defense […]
Curse words and outrage peppered reactions by New Mexico’s elected U.S. senators and representatives to news that California’s Hispanic Senator, Alex Padilla, was forcibly removed by law enforcement from a press conference with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem on Thursday. Kristi later told reporters that Padilla had not identified himself, though video widely […]
Video: Sen. Alex Padilla (D-California) on June 12 was pushed out of a room as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem held a news conference on the L.A protests.(c) 2025 , The Washington Post By Maegan Vazquez, Gaya Gupta, Jonathan Baran, Washington Post — A Democratic senator from California was forcibly removed and handcuffed after he interrupted […]
Washington Post staff — President Donald Trump urged Iran to “make a deal” with Israel “before it is too late,” after Israel launched what it called a preemptive strike on Iran’s nuclear program and military targets. The strikes killed four senior commanders, including Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according […]
By Aaron Gregg — Elon Musk now says he ‘went too far’ in some of his posts about Trump Elon Musk walked back some of his criticism of President Donald Trump early Wednesday in an apparent attempt to mend their relationship after last week’s dramatic falling out. “I regret some of my posts about President […]
