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President Donald Trump's administration told the Supreme Court its controversial White House ballroom project is "65% finished" to argue it's too late for judges to halt construction.

But newly reviewed budget and internal records suggest that number doesn't add up, The Washington Post reported.

President Donald Trump’s push to slap America’s name on major bodies of water could soon expand to the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, an idea that left The Jim Acosta Show dumbfounded.

Trump floated renaming one or both oceans Thursday while celebrating his decision to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America” amid escalating tensions with Canada.

President Donald Trump erupted at New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman on social media Friday, calling her a “stalker” and demanding that she surrender money earned from reporting about him.

“Maggot Hagerman, the Fake Reporter from The Failing New York Times, an unattractive person both inside and out,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform before adding that the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was “a SCAMMER!”

Three judges appointed by President Trump just delivered a major legal blow to prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket — rejecting the very industry the Trump administration has been actively defending as federally regulated financial exchanges rather than gambling.

According to CNN, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously Friday that Nevada regulators can treat sports-related prediction contracts as gambling subject to state oversight, rejecting Kalshi and Crypto.com's bid to block the state from shutting down their operations. The 3-0 panel found sports event contracts don't qualify as federally regulated derivatives, directly contradicting the position the platforms and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission have pushed under Trump's watch.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche tried to avoid swearing under oath about his redactions in the Epstein files case by slipping in a six-month-old letter to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) into government records overnight and then telling a judge that it was something it wasn't.

Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan had ordered the Justice Department to respond by Thursday, after ruling in June that it was violating the Epstein files transparency law, which required an explanation for redactions. That explanation was never published in the Federal Register even though the law set a deadline of Dec. 19, 2025.

Rhode Island's House Speaker and Attorney General are both calling on a Democratic state lawmaker to resign after learning she quietly made a South Carolina home her primary residence — while continuing to collect her legislative salary and serve constituents from 1,000 miles away.

State Rep. Julie Casimiro, who has represented North Kingstown and Exeter since 2017, made her Hardeeville, South Carolina home her primary residence as of July 1, according to Boston Globe reporting. Casimiro isn't running for reelection but says she intends to finish out her current term remotely, continuing to earn her $794.38 biweekly salary plus health insurance until her successor is sworn in this January.

The hosts of the Legal AF podcast are sounding the alarm over what they call a corruption crisis at the Supreme Court, arguing the justices have been captured by the billionaires who bankrolled their rise.

On a recent episode, host Alex Aronson laid out the case as he introduced legal scholars Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan, authors of the forthcoming book Supremacy. Aronson said the court is deeply conservative and compromised.

President Donald Trump may have inadvertently handed Democrats an opening on one of the signature issues that helped propel him back to the White House: immigration.

That’s according to a new memo obtained exclusively by The Bulwark from the Democratic-aligned group Winning Jobs Narrative Action, which found that two immigration messages tested with voters each boosted support for Democrats by about 2 percentage points.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to bring back a Nigerian man it secretly deported despite a court order protecting him from return to Nigeria — after Immigration and Customs Enforcement lured him in with a fake appointment and shipped him through three countries via an unmarked border crossing.

Etinosa Osahon, a 49-year-old green card holder who'd lived in the U.S. since 2002, had been granted deferral of removal under the Convention Against Torture after immigration judges found he'd been tortured twice by Nigerian officials over his former membership in the extremist group Boko Haram, including being hung from the ceiling and forced to stare at the sun. For 14 years, he complied with every ICE check-in requirement without incident, married a U.S. citizen, and raised three American children.

President Donald Trump’s own tweets came back to haunt him Friday after a federal judge rejected his latest attempt to escape his criminal hush-money conviction.

U.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein denied Trump’s bid to move the already-decided New York case into federal court, where the president sought to have his conviction overturned on presidential immunity grounds.