By Sonam Sheth is an Evening Politics Editor at Newsweek who is based in New York. She joined Newsweek in 2024 and previously worked at Business Insider and CNBC. Sonam has extensive experience covering national security, foreign policy, elections, and stories at the intersection of law and polit...

a federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to immediately release Mahmoud Khalil, the former Columbia University graduate student activist who has been held in a Louisiana detention center since his arrest in early March.The judge had previously ruled that Khalil could not be held...

Politics By Melissa QuinnPolitics Reporter Melissa Quinn is a politics reporter for CBSNews.com. She has written for outlets including the Washington Examiner, Daily Signal and Alexandria Times. Melissa covers U.S.

Abortion is almost entirely banned in Texas, but a handful of different laws and amendments have made the specifics of the ban complex and sometimes confusing. The short version: Abortion is entirely illegal in Texas, with rare exceptions when the pregnant woman’s life is at risk. When it comes...

June 16, 2025 8:19 amAs more details emerge on former President Joe Biden‘s mental and physical state while in office, President Donald Trump and his allies have seized on the autopen in their attacks on Trump’s predecessor.Biden, 82, has faced a whirlwind of public scrutiny, with new report...

Supreme Court Eight in 10 respondents believe the Trump administration shouldn't ignore a federal court ruling the White House doesn't like, per the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll. Chief Justice John Roberts, center-left, along with, from left, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, Neil Gorsuch...

Federal agents attempt to control protesters in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday as demonstrations continue after a series of immigration raids began last Friday. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered ...

June 8, 2025 12:01 amAfter then-President Joe Biden engineered the largest illegal immigrant invasion in our nation’s history, voters soundly rejected the Democratic Party’s open borders policies. They chose to embrace the order and security of President Donald Trump’s vision of a secure b...

Los Angeles Protests Live Updates: Marines Could Arrive Tuesday, Reports Say Jun 10, 2025, 08:06am EDT ToplineCalifornia Gov. Gavin Newsom said the state will sue to block the White House deploy hundreds of U.S. Marines to Los Angeles in response to protests over federal immigration raids, as he...