President Trump's new nominee for the Supreme Court argued that presidents should be protected from lawsuits and investigations while they're in office.
According to a federal judge, migrant children under the age of 5 must be reunited with their parents by Tuesday's deadline. But less than half of those in custody will be returned by then.
It often falls to health care providers to discern whether the asylum-seekers who say they've been tortured or persecuted in their homeland bear physical and psychological evidence of that harm.
New Jersey will be able to keep using a new system that eliminates cash bail. A federal judge Monday ruled in favor of the new system, against the wishes of the bail bonds industry.
A wildfire that struck the Santa Barbara area over the weekend is part of a "new normal" of California fires: they hit populated areas hard and they spread fast.
The federal judge is conservative and just 53. He is a former Bush White House staffer with deep political ties and the most experience as a judge on Trump's shortlist. But he is also controversial.
Dozens of immigrant recruits who joined the military through a special Defense Department program, promising a path to citizenship, have been abruptly discharged with little or no explanation.
A Washington insider with roots in politics, he believes a sitting president should be protected from litigation and criminal investigations. If confirmed, he would solidify the conservative majority.
Tuesday is the deadline for the Trump administration to reunite migrant parents separated from their children under the age of 5 at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trade tensions have reached a boiling point with tit-for-tat tariffs between the U.S. and China. But even before these levies went into effect other tariffs were having a big impact on U.S. companies.