Federal judge James Boasberg is the target of an impeachment effort by President Trump and House Republicans after questioning the administration's decision to disregard an order.
A federal judge on Tuesday said Elon Musk and DOGE likely violated the U.S Constitution with its "accelerated" shutdown of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
The big picture: The shutdown harmed public interest and deprived Congress of using its constitutional authority as the public's elected representatives to decide what to do with an agency it created, the judge said in his written opinion.
Democrats in Congress are attempting to reset after a chaotic few weeks with a "Medicaid Day of Action" on Tuesday aimed at putting Republicans back on the defensive.
DOGE said its staffers and acting U.S. Institute of Peace president Kenneth Jackson entered USIP's D.C. headquarters with a police escort on Monday evening amid an apparent standoff.
The big picture: Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) said on Bluesky he was at the building to "conduct congressional oversight" over "DOGE's break in" and said he had spoken to George Moose, who was reportedly fired from his role as acting USIP president.
The Trump administration on Tuesday in court filings defended its deportation of Venezuelans, including gang members, saying that two of three flights took off before a judge ordered them not to.
Why it matters: The Trump administration insists they were within their rights to conduct deportation flights after the president invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 via an executive order.
President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a series of steps to work toward an eventual ceasefire in Ukraine following a two-hour call on Tuesday.
Putin continued to signal, however, that he has major reservations about the unconditional ceasefire Trump has proposed, according to the Kremlin.
Why it matters: The most significant announcement from the call was what the White House referred to as an "energy and infrastructure ceasefire."
Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.
Why it matters: GOP lawmakers have unleashed an unprecedented flood of long-shot impeachment articles aimed at federal judges who are standing in the way of the president's agenda.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Tuesday he backs Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) continuing in his role despite their divergence on shutting down the government last week.
Why it matters: Jeffries previously demurred when asked if he had confidence in Schumer's leadership, raising the specter of a break between the two congressional leaders.
The White House on Monday sharply rejected a tongue-in-cheek call from a French politician to return the Statue of Liberty to France.
Why it matters: Raphaël Glucksmann, a French European Parliament member, quipped this weekend that the Trump administration's values didn't align with those represented by the statue.
Just eight months after President Trump picked JD Vance to be his vice president, Vance is already positioned to be MAGA's heir apparent for 2028.
"I think it's inevitable at this point that Vance will be the [GOP] nominee in 2028," Sen. Jim Banks (R-Indiana), a close Trump ally, tells Axios. "He's the future of the America First movement and he's already proven himself."
Why it matters: Many of Trump's longest-serving aides and most fervent supporters now see the vice president as the vehicle to lock in Trump's worldview for at least the next decade
In their view, Trump broke the old Republican Party — and Vance can finish building the new one.
The Trump administration has removed a 2024 surgeon general's advisory on the public health impacts of gun violence and a related webpage from the Health and Human Services website.
The big picture: Firearms are the leading cause of death for children and teens in the United States and account for an average of 45,738 annual deaths nationwide.
Top MAGA-world figures are leaning into a fight with the judicial system over the constitutionality of President Trump's deportations last weekend of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
President Trump has recorded a video for social media in which he urges unauthorized immigrants to "self-deport" — and use a newly launched app to report that they're leaving the U.S., Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The 90-second video — set to appear on Instagram, X, YouTube and Rumble — is part of a broader advertising campaign aimed at encouraging such immigrants to leave before U.S. officials arrest them.
Editor's note: Read the latest on the astronauts' splashdown and see photos here.
Two NASA astronauts who spent more than 280 days aboard the International Space Station undocked from the ISS early on Tuesday, kicking off their long-awaited return journey.
The big picture: Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams have been in a galactic holding pattern hundreds of miles above the Earth's surface after boarding the ISS in June 2024 as part of the Boeing Starliner's first crewed test flight.
A Texas midwife was arrested and charged with illegally performing abortions, the state's attorney general announced Monday.
The big picture: The case is believed to be one of the first in which a health care provider was charged with violating a state abortion ban since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
Navy warship USS Gravely is on a mission to strengthen security at the U.S.-Mexico border, Pentagon officials said.
Why it matters: The deployment of the guided-missile destroyer that last year was involved in shooting down Iran-backed Houthi rebels' ship attacks in the Middle East to a region the U.S. Coast Guard ordinarily covers marks an escalation in the Trump administration's immigration crackdown efforts at the border.
A federal judge gave the Justice Department a Tuesday deadline to provide additional information on the Trump administration's defiance of a court order halting deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, according to a court docket.
President Trump said Monday he's ending U.S. Secret Service protection for former President Biden's adult children, Hunter Biden and Ashley Biden, "effective immediately."
The big picture: Although Biden extended protection for his family members until July before leaving office, theSecret Service said it would comply with Trump's decision to terminate protection.
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