Donald Trump

Criticism of "activist" judges predates the term and has come from both ends of the political spectrum. Democratic and Republican presidents alike have accused the courts of exceeding their constitutional role.

It was their first face-to-face meeting since they argued in front of cameras in the Oval Office in February — and comes as efforts intensify to end Russia's war in Ukraine.

On Thursday, three federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, D.C., said Trump's anti-DEI efforts were on shaky legal ground.

President Trump made good on a campaign promise to ask the Department of the Interior to recognize the Lumbee people of North Carolina — a tribe whose Native identity has long been called into question.

President Trump says he likes Biden's idea to open up federal lands for AI data centers. His White House is looking for ways to ensure U.S. dominance in the sector.

Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017, but the release has been held up by national security concerns.

The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty for capital crimes "committed by an alien illegally present in this country." Lawyers say the order could be difficult to enforce.

The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."

The most "relevant" results that come up in a search of "abortion" on HHS.gov, the website for the federal Department of Health and Human Services, are several years old, from the first Trump administration.

A group of 18 state attorneys general signed on to a lawsuit filed Tuesday seeking to block the administration's move, describing it as unconstitutional.