The document is one of the most closely watched economic indicators that businesses and policymakers rely on.| NOTUS
Today’s notice: Schrödinger’s health care talks. Guard deployments vs. the courts. Meet the candidate who quit Trump’s DOJ to run for Congress. Plus: Kellyanne Conway brings Ukraine to Trumpworld.| NOTUS
Ryan Crosswell was a prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, which has been all but obliterated under Donald Trump.| NOTUS
Campaigns think that the underlying issues of immigration and health care will drive voters in 2026, even if the shutdown is a distant memory.| NOTUS
Bipartisan discussions are brewing, but the Senate is still headed for a week of voting on the same pair of stopgap funding measures — over and over and over.| NOTUS
The appointment follows a tumultuous tenure from MAGA firebrand Ryan Walters, who recently resigned.| NOTUS
Trey Trainor resigned last week from his seat on the FEC, leaving the body two members short of operational.| NOTUS
“Trump’s claim isn’t true — but if he’s finally ready to work with Democrats, we’ll be at the table,” Chuck Schumer said.| NOTUS
At a Monday news conference, Johnson called Jeffries’ offer to debate “nonsense.”| NOTUS
Nearly all of ICE’s detention centers are run by privately owned companies and have been criticized for overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions.| NOTUS
Conway is using her ties to Trump officials on behalf of her client, a Ukrainian oligarch and advocate whose work advances the position of Ukraine.| NOTUS
“The American people, regardless of where they reside, should not live under the threat of occupation by the United States military,” the lawsuit states.| NOTUS
The Democratic National Committee is spending millions ahead of November elections in New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania and California.| NOTUS
Officials at the DCCC warned that if the incumbent loses the primary, Democrats will lose a seat in the general election.| NOTUS
Today’s notice: House Republicans stay home. House Democrats … maybe do, too? Touching the Third Rail of American politics. Madison Cawthorn burns his bridges. Plus: Developments in Chicago and Portland.| NOTUS
Just one employee at the Bureau of Labor Statistics is left to put together the data needed for Social Security increases.| NOTUS
“I just can't express to you how stupid I think this is,” Sen. Josh Hawley told NOTUS.| NOTUS
Political chaos is gripping the island territory as residents’ power bills increase.| NOTUS
The move comes just hours after a federal judge temporarily halted the White House’s attempt to federalize the Oregon National Guard.| NOTUS
The dramatic incursions are part of a nationwide campaign the White House claims is aimed at fighting crime in Democratic-run cities.| NOTUS
“We were just taken aback at the audacity,” said an attorney representing an asylum-seeker who was set to be released but was instead detained on his 18th birthday.| NOTUS
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the strikes will continue “until the attacks on the American people are over.”| NOTUS
“Coming back now, you’re just negotiating against yourself,” House Appropriations Chair Tom Cole said.| NOTUS
President Donald Trump is pressing for a rapid end to the war in Gaza.| NOTUS
The governor won a legislative battle this week. It could have 2028 presidential implications.| NOTUS
Lawmakers want those responsible for approving the medication to be ousted during potential reductions in force.| NOTUS
The speaker has argued that the House has done it’s job and there isn’t a reason to return until the government reopens.| NOTUS
The scandal-ridden former North Carolina lawmaker has launched a run for a House seat in Florida.| NOTUS
The agreements will add more than 5,700 beds for the detention of immigrants.| NOTUS
Today’s notice: The political-pressure shutdown. No new economic reports on the horizon. Mike Johnson’s social media advice. And: Democrats’ new moves against a classic Trump tactic.| NOTUS
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its report on schedule during the 2019 shutdown. This time, nearly every employee was furloughed, per agency contingency plans.| NOTUS
A key Wall Street regulator has languished in limbo for months, and the White House is reportedly exploring other options.| NOTUS
Brian Quintenz, who Trump nominated in February to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is facing headwinds.| NOTUS
Brian Quintenz’s nomination never recovered after the billionaire co-founders of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Gemini urged Trump to dump him.| NOTUS
Lagging badly in polls, the mayor confirmed in a video that he’s suspending his campaign after weeks of denying he was considering an exit.| NOTUS
Democrats say they plan to keep calling Trump and the GOP fascists if they keep acting like fascists.| NOTUS
The FEC needs at least four members to function. It’s about to drop to only three.| NOTUS
Both Republicans and Democrats have put forward names but the White House says there are “no personnel announcements at this time.”| NOTUS
The Federal Election Commission is about to lose its quorum for high-level business.| NOTUS
The dozen-plus grand jurors were split on the prosecutor’s allegations, agreeing to indict Comey based on one alleged lie but not on a second.| NOTUS
The president said the left “better not” get Republicans energized.| NOTUS
Republican Trey Trainor confirmed he’s resigning, leaving the nation’s hobbled campaign finance enforcement agency even further from a quorum.| NOTUS
The Trump administration’s aggressive approach to overhauling the executive branch has obscured how federal dollars are actually being spent — even for the members of Congress.| NOTUS
He served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during President Donald Trump’s first term.| NOTUS
The decision comes after Kimmel insinuated on his program Monday that Charlie Kirk’s shooter was a conservative.| NOTUS
“They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that,” he told reporters Thursday.| NOTUS
They provided little information about who was involved in the shooting, despite earlier reports that detainees were among those who'd been injured.| NOTUS
“We simply cannot accept any capitulation to Donald Trump's attacks on our fundamental freedoms,” the New York City mayoral frontrunner said.| NOTUS
Former USAID and State Department officials worried about the future of democracy in America say they’re actively organizing to resist Trump, inside and outside of government.| NOTUS
The Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” report misinterprets some studies and cites others that don’t exist, according to the listed authors.| NOTUS
At least two Texas communities along the U.S.-Mexico border have purchased technology that tracks people’s locations using data from personal electronics and license plates.| NOTUS
