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  • Chief Justice Roberts (front row, center) wrote the majority opinion.

    Supreme Court Hands Trump a Historic Win in Immunity Case

    By Yuval Rosenberg

    Welcome to July! It’s only the first of the month, but we’ve already got fireworks going off in the nation’s capital, where the Supreme Court handed down a landmark 6-3 ruling , decided along...

  • Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) arrives at Democratic Party caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas/ File Photo

    Factbox: What happens in a U.S. government shutdown?

    By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker and Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell and Amanda Becker, Reuters

    In shutdowns, nonessential government employees are furloughed, or placed on temporary unpaid leave. Workers deemed essential, including those dealing with public safety and national security, keep...

  • FILE PHOTO: A pharmacist holds prescription painkiller OxyContin at a local pharmacy in Provo

    Delaware Sues Opioid Manufacturers, Distributors Over Epidemic

    By Nate Raymond, Reuters

    (Reuters) - Delaware on Friday became the latest state to file a lawsuit accusing corporations of helping fuel the national opioid epidemic, suing a wide range of companies involved in making,...

  • FILE PHOTO - Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin listens as U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a tax reform industry meeting at the White House in Washington, U.S., October 31, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

    Trump Tries to Sell Tax Reform to Democrats

    By David Morgan, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump intensified his efforts to sell Democrats on his tax reform plan on Wednesday even as Senate Republicans edged closer to passing a budget measure that...

  • FILE PHOTO: U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson (L) listens to Representative Tom Marino (R-PA) (R) before a House Judiciary committee hearing on the 'Oversight of the US Department of Homeland Security' on Capitol Hill in Washington July 14, 20

    Trump's drug czar nominee withdraws from consideration

    By Sarah N. Lynch and Makini Brice, Reuters

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. lawmaker who was President Donald Trump's pick for drug czar withdrew on Tuesday after a report he spearheaded a bill that hurt the government's ability to crack down...

  • The West Can Defeat ISIS – but What Comes Next?

    By Pete Hoekstra and Clare Lopez, The Fiscal Times

    French President François Hollande is making the rounds of the world’s capitals, jet setting between London, Washington and Moscow with several meetings in-between. He is engaged in a full-throttle...

  • Republican 2016 U.S. presidential candidate U.S. Senator Cruz addresses attendees at the RedState Gathering in Atlanta

    Why Ted Cruz Is Surging in the Polls

    By Eric Pianin

    For months, Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas has been aggressively wooing Iowa voters while positioning himself to pick up some of Donald Trump’s support if the billionaire businessman began to falter. The...

  • The Russian Navy's large landing ship Caesar Kunikov sets sail in the Bosphorus towards the Black Sea, in Istanbul

    Putin Stirs the Pot in Turkey and Iraq

    By Martin Matishak

    Moscow’s is keeping up its multi-pronged retaliation against Turkey for shooting down a Russian fighter jet last month, sending a warship through the country’s main maritime thoroughfare and trying...

  • Newly elected Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Ryan addresses the House for the first time on Capitol Hill in Washington

    Is Congress Stumbling into Another Budget Crisis?

    By Eric Pianin

    Congress must approve more than $1.1 trillion of funding by Friday to keep the government operating for the remainder of fiscal 2016. But congressional leaders are far from reaching an agreement,...

  • A member loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) waves an ISIL flag in Raqqa June 29, 2014. The offshoot of al Qaeda which has captured swathes of territory in Iraq and Syria has declared itself an Islamic "Caliphate" and called on facti

    Here’s How Much ISIS Is Earning Every Day

    By Millie Dent

    ISIS brings in about $80 million a month – or more than $2 million a day – but cracks are beginning to emerge in its finances, according to a new report. U.S. efforts to target of the group’s revenue...