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FILE – Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Fed Governor Lisa Cook claimed 2nd residence as ‘vacation home,’ undercutting fraud claims used by Trump to fire her

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Christopher Rugaber, and others

Rebecca Slaughter, commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), listens in a black suit and a necklace during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 13, 2023.

Courts once again bend to Trump’s will, upholding his power to fire a FTC commissioner because he thought she disagreed with his ‘administration’s priorities’

By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press, and others

Donald Trump

Trump suddenly at risk of losing a ‘pillar’ of his trade strategy and having to refund a big chunk of $159 billion from tariff revenues

By Paul Wiseman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

FBI agents search civilian cars at a checkpoint near the White House in Washington, D.C.

DC’s attorney general says Trump’s police takeover is illegal and will ‘wreak operational havoc’ in the capital

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Ashraf Khalil, and others

FILE – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Supreme Court conservative majority clears way for DHS to deport migrants to South Sudan who have no ties there

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

FILE – The U.S. Social Security Administration office is seen in Mount Prospect, Ill., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)

Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Justice Elena Kagan greets President Donald Trump

Supreme Court tosses Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit accusing U.S. gunmakers of fueling cartel war

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

An oil pumpjack in Utah

The Supreme Court unanimously greenlights a $1.5 billion oil railroad expansion in Utah

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Militia in South Sudan

The Trump administration quietly deported migrants to South Sudan, one of the most violent countries in the world. A judge says he expects they ‘will be treated humanely’

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

FILE – Jeanine Pirro arrives at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, Nov. 16, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)

Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county judge, as interim top federal prosecutor in D.C.

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

FILE – The Supreme Court at sunset in Washington, Feb. 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick, File)

Trump administration asks Supreme Court to let it strip legal protection from 350,000 Venezuelan migrants

By Mark Sherman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

FILE – President Donald Trump speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Capitol in Washington, Feb. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Trump administration can stop approving new refugees but it has to allow in ones already accepted, court rules

By Lindsay Whitehurst, Gene Johnson, and others

In this photo provided by El Salvador’s presidential press office, prison guards transfer deportees from the U.S., alleged to be Venezuelan gang members, to the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (El Salvador presidential press office via AP)

Judge says Nazis detained in the U.S. during World World II got better legal treatment than Venezuelan immigrants who were deported to El Salvador

By Michael Kunzelman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others

A protester holds signs that read: "This billionaire stole your social security number" during a protest

DOGE told it can’t access Social Security systems holding personal data on millions of Americans and judge calls its work a ‘fishing expedition’

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press

Protesters

Elon Musk’s DOGE temporarily blocked from its ‘nearly unlimited’ access to millions of American’s Social Security information—for now

By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press