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The president is turning back the clock to the name the agency held until shortly after World War II.
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As Congress returned to Washington Tuesday, the controversy over files related to convicted serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein has picked back up, with bipartisan pressure to make files related to the federal investigation into Epstein public. Democratic Congressmember Ro Khanna of California has co-authored a bipartisan measure that could compel the Justice Department to release the files. The measure was filed by Congressmember Thomas Massie, a conservative who has clashed with President Trump, and lawmakers will begin collecting signatures for their Epstein resolution starting Tuesday. "We need 218 signatures," says Khanna. "We have 216. We have to get two more Republicans on the bill, and we're in talks with at least 10 who are strongly considering it."
Khanna also discusses attempts by congressmembers to recognize a Palestinian state and enact an arms embargo on Israel. Military support for Israel is "a moral stain on the United States because of our complicity," says Khanna.
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Three months earlier, former President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had a diagnosis of an aggressive form of prostate cancer.
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A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump's economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.
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The meeting between President Trump and Poland's largely ceremonial president, Karol Nawrocki, highlighted divisions within the biggest economic and military power on the European Union's eastern fringe.
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Top campaign officials told House Republicans they should rebrand the measure the president dubbed the "One Big Beautiful Bill," in a nod to its unpopularity with voters.
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President Trump is preparing to send National Guard troops into Chicago and Baltimore, right after a judge in California ruled that he broke the law by deploying troops to Los Angeles against anti-ICE protesters. "This is not about public safety, and it's not about law and order. It's a show of force meant to intimidate, to create fear and send troops to occupy cities, because people in those cities largely and overwhelmingly oppose Donald Trump and his policies," says Jesús "Chuy" García, who grew up in Chicago and now represents the Chicagoland area in Congress.
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A federal appeals court struck down most of President Trump's sweeping tariffs Friday, saying they have no legal basis. The decision could undo many of Trump's tariffs from "Liberation Day" in April, as well as earlier tariffs against Canada, Mexico and China. In its ruling, the appeals court called levying tariffs "a core Congressional power," but the White House had argued the president has authority to impose tariffs without Congress based on the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The tariffs will remain in effect until October, giving the Trump administration time to bring the case to the Supreme Court. The decision encompasses two different cases that had challenged the tariffs: one brought by a group of U.S. states, led by Oregon, and the other brought by a group of businesses.
"It's a sweeping decision that unequivocally rebukes President Trump's idea that he can impose tariffs on American consumers on his own without the approval of the Congress," says attorney Neal Katyal, who represents the businesses that initiated the tariff lawsuit.
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield says his state challenged the tariffs because of their economic impact since "about 70% to 80%" of the costs are paid by U.S. consumers. "I really think we have to start calling them regressive taxes," Rayfield says.
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