In early June 2025, a claim spread online that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, "America cannot function if President Trump has to deal with co-equal branches of government ...

Palestinians say they are being terrorised and pushed out of their homes and land, and the Israeli authorities are turning a blind eye to what a human rights group calls "ethnic cleansing".

Everyday ethics: Balancing the branches of government The best way to serve the public interest is to have a legislature and judiciary able to keep a president in check.

Gov. Bob Ferguson kept Washington guessing for weeks: Would he sign state lawmakers’ final $78 billion operating budget, or wouldn’t he? May 20 finally brought answers — even if they didn ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson kept Washington guessing for weeks: Would he sign state lawmakers’ final $78 billion operating budget, or wouldn’t he? May 20 finally brought answers — even if they didn ...

It was never meant to be $2tn. Elon Musk’s vow last year to cut almost a third of the annual federal budget, made in front of a frenzied Maga crowd during a Trump rally at New York’s Madison ...

Not understanding how power is allocated among the three branches of government, he said, leaves a void that invites a ... N.H., Justice Souter was in an amiable mood, but he gave guarded answers.

As judges face attacks from President Donald Trump, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. says government “doesn’t work if the judiciary is not independent.” Updated May 8, 2025 6 min ...

In an interview with reporters at the White House, Musk gave hazy answers about the work he’d been doing and DOGE’s future and seemed taken aback by the intense backlash he’d encountered.

Scholars of presidential power can identify seeds for some of Trump’s moves in precedents set by past presidents, but they expressed shock at the number of contestable actions he has initiated ...

Good Tuesday morning. This is Jack Blanchard, celebrating 100 days in the Playbook hot seat. (Yes, we both started the same day.) Back on Jan. 20, your author promised to create “an impartial ...

Every student learns about the three branches of government in civics class. There's the legislative branch, the judicial branch and the executive branch. But in Tennessee, there's an unusual ...