Texas Democrat Christian Menefee won a special election Saturday to fill a long-vacant Houston district that will temporarily shrink the House Republican majority.

San Diego and San Jose sued the Department of Justice Friday, which is threatening to cut grant funds used by local law enforcement to investigate internet crimes against children by imposing unconstitutional conditions on the money.

Conservative satirical news publication The Babylon Bee LLC won a court order Friday striking down Hawaii’s law regulating AI deepfakes during elections as an unconstitutional violation of the First Amendment.

Texas judges will be taken at their word when it comes to how much time they’re spending on cases, the state supreme court announced in a preliminary order Friday, opting against requiring proof or detailed documentation of their work.

Virginia Democrats have set a date to ask voters to authorize redrawing congressional districts and tilt the map more in their favor, despite a judge’s ruling they violated the state constitution.

The California legislature passed a bill Thursday that exempts federally recognized Native American tribes from paying property and real estate transfer tax on returned ancestral land.

The US Federal Aviation Administration said it expects other countries’ aviation authorities to accept its certifications, as President Donald Trump threatens Canada over certification of Gulfstream jets.

The US State Department has approved the sales of about $6.7 billion of armaments to Israel, including AH-64E Apache attack helicopters, and $9 billion for Patriot missiles to be purchased by Saudi Arabia.

Canadian Industry Minister Melanie Joly said the country’s aviation regulator is working toward certifying Gulfstream jets and that she believes the Trump administration’s complaints about delays can be resolved.

Canadian billionaire Jimmy Pattison’s development company said Friday it won’t move forward with the sale of a Virginia warehouse that the Department of Homeland Security planned to convert into an ICE jail.

Despite protests in small towns and cities across the US, the Trump administration is pushing ahead with the purchase of warehouses it plans to convert into immigration jails in what could be the largest expansion of such detention capacity in US history.

Pernix Guam LLC says the US Navy improperly demanded $16.6 million in liquidated damages under a $26.4 million contract to build a stealth aircraft repair shop at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam, after the company endured typhoon-related delays.

For much of the time that President Donald Trump was mulling his potential choice for the next chair of the Federal Reserve, the debate in markets swirled around whether his pick would lower interest rates as aggressively as he preferred.

Tech industry and labor leaders plan to meet in March as Representative Ro Khanna pushes for a compromise deal over a proposed billionaire tax that has rattled Silicon Valley, a person familiar with the meeting said.

President Trump says the Trump Kennedy Center will close on July 4 for two years to begin construction of the new entertainment complex, in a Truth Social post.

Iran’s supreme leader warned of a “regional war” as tensions continued to mount over potential US strikes on Tehran and top Israeli military officials visited Washington.

A Texas federal judge issued a scathing ruling Saturday ordering the release of a 5-year-old and his father who were detained in Minnesota and sent to a detention center.

The Democratic candidate for a Texas state Senate seat in a conservative district near Dallas won a runoff election Saturday, overcoming a late intervention from President Donald Trump in a race viewed as a bellwether for this year’s midterm elections.