Donald Trump is back in office and already flexing executive authority in unprecedented ways. NPR hears analysis from Bowdoin University's Andrew Rudalevige, who studies presidential power.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday appointed two outside attorneys to defend the lower-court decisions in two cases in which the federal government has declined to do so. In a brief order on Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON – For years, conservative activist Ed Martin has promoted Donald Trump's false claims about a stolen 2020 election ...

Officials involved in Jan. 6 prosecutions say the Trump administration isn't protecting them from threats. "We don't think they'll care — unless and until one of us gets killed," an official told NPR.

Sen. Mitch McConnell answers questions about the Supreme Court, the Jan. 6 pardons, his relationship with President Trump, ...

The Supreme Court on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) Legal experts say ... they can drive up prices. Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the libertarian ...

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

The dream of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has become ... laid by the slain civil rights leader. Louisiana Supreme Court Justice John Michael Guidry, the keynote speaker, was the first African ...

Their cases were the subject of a multi month-long trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court last year before Justice Martin Burns.

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau stopped performing its oversight duties as soon as Trump appointed Scott Bessent as ...

On Friday afternoon, the justices agreed to consider a Catholic school’s effort to become the nation’s first religious charter school after the Oklahoma Supreme ... spring. Michael Huston and ...