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Federal worker in Virginia admits to using telework to collect three paychecks at same time

A Virginia woman has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, admitting that she used the federal government's lenient telework policies to claim paychecks for multiple jobs she was working simultaneously.

April 2, 2026

WATCH: Supreme Court justices skeptical of Trump’s birthright citizenship order

The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with how to treat President Trump's attempt to block children of illegal immigrants and short-term visitors from getting birthright U.S. citizenship, with the justices trying to stack his executive order up against more than a century of tradition.

April 1, 2026

Trump arrives at Supreme Court for birthright citizenship argument — believed to be a first

President Trump arrived at the Supreme Court on Wednesday to watch the justices hear oral argument on his executive order trying to carve illegal immigrants and temporary foreign visitors out of America's expansive grant of birthright citizenship.

April 1, 2026

Pro-Trump immigration groups call for Phase II of mass deportations: Arrest migrants at worksites

To carry out his mass deportation promises, President Trump will have to kick his administration into a higher gear, shutting down the jobs that illegal immigrants take, closing their bank accounts and unleashing the IRS to find people working under stolen Social Security numbers, the Mass Deportation Coalition said Wednesday.

April 1, 2026

Appeals court blocks lower judge’s return-to-work order for Voice of America

A federal appeals court on Tuesday suspended a lower court ruling that had ordered Voice of America's employees back to work and ruled President Trump's shutdown attempt was illegal.

March 31, 2026

Trump loses lawsuit against Colorado’s sanctuary policy

A federal judge on Tuesday shot down the administration's lawsuit seeking to puncture sanctuary policies in Colorado and Denver that protect illegal immigrants, saying the feds were trying to commandeer state authorities to do their bidding.

March 31, 2026

Judge shuts down Trump’s White House ballroom project

A federal judge halted President Trump's plans to build a ballroom on the site of the old White House East Wing, saying he acted rashly in moving ahead without Congress and must go to Capitol Hill for permission before continuing any work.

March 31, 2026

Judge says Trump can’t bar NPR, PBS from any government funds

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that President Trump's executive order seeking to bar any federal money from going to NPR and PBS tramples on those networks' speech rights.

March 31, 2026

Supreme Court upholds First Amendment right to ‘conversion’ talk therapy for LGBT kids

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday against a Colorado law that prohibited a Christian counselor from helping LGBTQ children who want to change their sexual orientation or gender identity, saying as long as it's just talking, the counselor has free speech rights that the state cannot take away.

March 31, 2026

Sen. Adam Schiff delivers for casino donors with bill to ban online sports betting

Indian tribes that run casinos were major backers of Sen. Adam B. Schiff's last campaign -- and the California Democrat is now delivering for them, with new legislation to keep them from having to face competition from online betting platforms.

March 31, 2026

Justice Department sues to stop transgender athletes in Minnesota school sports

The Trump administration opened a new front in its legal war against Minnesota on Monday with a lawsuit challenging the state's policies that allow biological boys who identify as girls to compete in girls' sports and to "invade" girls' locker rooms.

March 30, 2026

Islamic charity in U.S. cuts ties with international group over terrorism concerns

The chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee took a victory lap Monday after a major Islamic charity confirmed it has cut ties with an international organization over fears of links to terrorism and antisemitic activity.

March 30, 2026

Supreme Court case reopens 160-year-old battle over birthright citizenship rights

You don't have to go very deep into the U.S. Constitution to see the word "citizen" appear. It's first used in Article I, Section 2, where the founding document says to serve in the House of Representatives someone must have been a citizen for seven years.

March 29, 2026

Border Patrol agent charged with strangling migrant, concealing body cam evidence

Federal prosecutors announced charges against a U.S. Border Patrol agent who they say handcuffed and strangled a detainee, then tried to conceal the body camera footage of the incident.

March 27, 2026

Illegal immigrant charged with illegally voting in 2024 election in Texas

An illegal immigrant who'd been living under the stolen identity of an American citizen has been charged with voting in Texas in the 2024 presidential election, federal authorities said.

March 27, 2026

Minnesota triumphs over Trump in lawsuit on illegal immigration tuition

A federal judge has sided with Minnesota in ruling that the state's policy of offering in-state tuition rates to illegal immigrant college students isn't trumped by federal law.

March 27, 2026

Epstein victim sues DOJ, Google over release of her name in files

A woman who said she is a survivor of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has filed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. government, claiming officials wrongly released information on 100 victims as part of the recent document dump.

March 27, 2026

House panel finds Florida Dem Rep. Cherfilus-McCormick cheated on campaign rules

A House subcommittee has concluded that Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick gamed the system to siphon ill-gotten money into her political campaigns, provided false information on her financial reports and gave special treatment to associates when doling out earmark spending projects.

March 27, 2026

Judge orders Trump administration to nix its ban on using Anthropic’s AI

The Trump administration likely broke the law when it banned the government from using the artificial intelligence tool Claude and forbade any contractors from doing business with its creator, Anthropic PBC, a federal judge ruled Thursday.

March 26, 2026

Democratic congresswoman accused in hearing of siphoning COVID cash to her campaign

With President Trump putting a spotlight on fraud, Congress sought to make an example of one of its own members Thursday, holding a rare public hearing to accuse Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of siphoning millions of dollars of ill-gotten money into her campaigns.

March 26, 2026