The sentencing of Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan national who was convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the United States, was adjourned Monday after he asked for new lawyers. “I was thinking of having new lawyers who will represent me,” said Abdullah, who represented himself during the trial last year that ended with him…

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of a district court judge’s order that 16,000 terminated federal probationary employees across six agencies and departments be immediately reinstated. The request is the latest challenge to a nationwide preliminary injunction issued by a federal district court judge in response to Trump’s executive…

Amid calls for him to step down as Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Chuck Schumer said he would not and defended his decision to support the continuing resolution to fund the government. “The CR was certainly bad, you know, the continuing resolution. But a shutdown would be 15 or 20 times worse,” Schumer told NBC’s “Meet…

In President Donald Trump’s escalating battle with the judiciary, he and his Republican allies have zeroed in on a similar message. No single judge, they argue, should be able to use an injunction to block the powers of the country’s elected chief executive. “That’s a presidential job. That’s not for a local judge to be…

President Donald Trump announced Friday that two key functions of the agency he is seeking to dismantle, the Department of Education, will be moved to new departments: The Small Business Administration will take on student loans, and the Department of Health and Human Services will take on special needs and nutrition efforts. “I do want…

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour is an attempt to stand up to President Donald Trump’s agenda. “I’m trying to make it clear to the people throughout the world and throughout our own country, that the American people are not going to sit idly by and allow Trump [to] establish an oligarchic…

ROME — Pope Francis on Sunday made his first public appearance since being hospitalised in Rome more than five weeks ago. Officials at Gemelli Hospital, where the 88-year-old pope has been undergoing treatment after being diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia, said earlier they were preparing for the pope to appear in a window. Seated in a…

The IRS is nearing a data-sharing agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that would allow immigration officials to use tax data to support the Trump administration’s deportation agenda, two sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. After weeks of negotiations, administration officials are close to reaching an agreement that would enable ICE officials…

Wyoming Republican Rep. Harriet Hageman tangled with a fiery town hall audience in her home state on Thursday night as she went back and forth with constituents over Elon Musk’s DOGE and cuts to federal spending. At one point, Hageman sparred with a woman who said she was a retired military officer and Republican, who…

Former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Jessica Aber was found dead Saturday morning, in Alexandria, Virginia, according to police. She was 43. Police in Alexandria, Virginia, were called to a home on Beverly Drive in the suburb of Washington, D.C., at around 9:18 a.m. Saturday for the report of an unresponsive woman,…