Washington / New York — A federal court has done what Congress would not: directly challenged the legal foundation of President Donald Trump’s sweeping 10% baseline tariff increase, ruling that the administration overstepped its statutory authority in imposing the levies without sufficient congressional authorization. The decision sent immediate shockwaves through financial markets, supply chain boardrooms,…

Rome / Washington — Secretary of State Marco Rubio is set to meet Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican in what diplomatic observers are calling one of the most consequential — and delicate — engagements in recent US-Vatican relations. The visit comes after weeks of quietly escalating tensions between Washington and the Holy See, spanning…

The Trump administration has moved aggressively to shield some of America’s biggest oil companies from legal accountability, filing a federal lawsuit against the state of Minnesota to kill a six-year-old climate deception case — just weeks after the state’s own Supreme Court cleared it to move forward. On May 4, 2026, the US Department of…

By Staff Reporter | May 4, 2026 President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday that he had never suggested the United States might be better off walking away from nuclear negotiations with Iran — a claim immediately contradicted by video footage of his own public remarks made less than 24 hours earlier. The denial, delivered…

A legally significant clock ran out on May 1, 2026 and the United States government’s response was to argue the clock never started in the first place. As the 60-day deadline imposed by the 1973 War Powers Resolution expired, House Speaker Mike Johnson stepped forward with a statement that was both politically calculated and constitutionally…

Cupertino | May 1, 2026 In a move that blends legal recovery with political optics, Apple CEO Tim Cook has confirmed that the company is actively pursuing refunds on Trump tariffs it paid over the past year — and that every dollar recovered will be funnelled back into the United States economy. The disclosure came…

As the United States wages the Iran war on one front and a naval blockade in the Persian Gulf on another, the Justice Department made clear on April 29, 2026, that Washington is fighting a very different but equally consequential battle much closer to home. In a sweeping indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court, US…

After months of legal battles, Supreme Court rulings, and bureaucratic scrambling, hundreds of thousands of American importers are finally approaching the moment they have been waiting for: the first refund payments from Trump’s tariffs are expected to begin flowing around May 11, 2026. The repayment operation — one of the largest in US customs history…

A bombshell report has cracked open one of Washington’s most closely guarded secrets: inside the Trump administration, Vice President JD Vance has been privately questioning whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is giving President Trump an accurate picture of the US war in Iran — and the cracks are widening by the day. The Report: Vance…

The gunfire outside the white house correspondents’ dinner had barely stopped echoing when a different kind of assault began — one waged not with weapons but with screenshots, clipped video, and algorithmic amplification. Within minutes of the first reports of shots fired outside the Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026, social media platforms were saturated…