Politics

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday struck down President Trump’s executive order targeting D.C.-based law firm WilmerHale, declaring the order “unconstitutional” and permanently blocking the administration from enforcing it.  U.S. District Judge Richard Leon issued his opinion Tuesday afternoon, blocking the president’s efforts to restrict Wilmer Cutler Pickering …

Washington — The House voted to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his role in congressional investigations of former President Donald Trump, making him the 25th House lawmaker to face the punishment in U.S. history.  The measure passed along party lines by a vote of 213 to 209. Six Republicans …

Washington — The House voted on Wednesday to reject a GOP-backed resolution to censure Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff for his role in congressional investigations of former President Donald Trump, effectively killing the effort to publicly reprimand him.  House Democrats moved to table a resolution introduced by Republican Rep. Anna Paulina …

The House passed legislation to lift the debt ceiling and cut spending Wednesday and has sent it to the Senate, which is racing to vote on it before June 5, when Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has estimated that the nation will default on its debt obligations if lawmakers don’t act in …

Rep. Zooey Zephyr, the transgender Montana lawmaker who was silenced after telling Republicans they would have blood on their hands for opposing gender-affirming health care for kids, cannot yet return to the statehouse House floor and participate in debate, a judge ruled Tuesday. The ruling came after attorneys for the …

Washington — Susan Rice, one of President Biden’s most trusted aides and his top domestic policy official, will be leaving the administration next month in what will mark one of the most high-profile departures from his administration, the White House announced Monday. Since the start of Mr. Biden’s presidency, Rice …

A “curious” toddler entered White House grounds on Tuesday, triggering U.S. Secret Service officers before the child and the parents were reunited, the Secret Service said.  U.S. Secret Service chief of communications Anthony Gugliemli said in a statement that the uniformed division “encountered a curious young visitor along the White …

Washington — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said Friday that he did not believe he was required to report luxury trips and vacations he accepted from a billionaire and GOP megadonor, and vowed to comply with new guidelines clarifying the type of gifts justices must disclose publicly. Thomas issued a …

The Biden administration moved Friday to require patients see a doctor in person before getting attention deficit disorder medication or addictive painkillers, toughening access to the drugs against the backdrop of a deepening opioid crisis. The proposal could overhaul the way millions of Americans get some prescriptions after three years …

Ulysses S. Grant was still president when workers finished the Baltimore and Potomac Tunnel, which connected Philadelphia and Washington through rail travel for the first time. But 150 years later, the tunnel that runs under some of Baltimore’s residential neighborhoods is more of a chokepoint than a lifeline. There’s only …