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Supreme Court expands presidential power over federal jobs, but allows Cook to stay, for now

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 29, 2026 7:49 pm - The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one...
Supreme Court says Fed’s Cook can keep her job for now, but it upholds other Trump firings

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 29, 2026 10:35 am - The Supreme Court on Monday dramatically expanded presidential power, upholding President Donald Trump’s firings of the heads of independent federal agencies with one important exception: the Federal Reserve.
Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge

By MARK SHERMAN
Jun 29, 2026 9:11 am - The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump.
Supreme Court rejects Trump’s push to toss $5 million verdict in E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse case

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Jun 29, 2026 8:48 am - WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push by President Donald Trump to throw out a jury’s finding that he sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll at a N...
Pakistani airstrikes kill 36 civilians in Afghanistan and wound 160, officials say

By ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN and SUZAN FRASER
Jun 29, 2026 8:17 am - Pakistani forces' ground operations and strikes killed at least 36 civilians in Afghanistan overnight and wounded more than 160 others, Afghan officials said Monday, as tensions between the neighbors escalated. One Afghan official said the attacks would be met with retaliation.
Trump says Iran has requested a meeting, but Iranian officials say nothing has been scheduled

By JON GAMBRELL and JOSH BOAK
Jun 29, 2026 8:12 am - President Donald Trump said Monday on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though one of Iran's top negotiators said no further talks had been scheduled after attacks across the Persian Gulf over the weekend challenged negotiations to end the war.
America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump's presidency is testing how far it's come

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI
Jun 28, 2026 3:30 pm - The 250th anniversary of America's liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares...
Fear grips Haitian communities after Supreme Court ruling unwinds protection from deportation

By GISELA SALOMON, PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Jun 26, 2026 10:00 pm - A 35-year-old nurse in Kentucky prepared her will. The single mother named a legal guardian for her four children and transferred her properties into their names.She felt like she needed to prepare for death — in case she gets deported back to Haiti, a country she fled at 9 years old.
Appeals court rejects Trump EPA bid to abandon rule restricting deadly soot pollution

By MATTHEW DALY
Jun 26, 2026 7:23 pm - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution.
A Trump commission urges ‘bridges’ between church and state in sweeping draft report

By PETER SMITH
Jun 26, 2026 4:52 pm - A new report by a Trump administration commission suggests replacing the idea of separating church and state with the idea of building bridges between them.

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