New legislation aims to penalize college campuses that enable protest encampments, which were a widespread phenomenon last year as a means of protesting the war between Israel and Hamas. The “No Tax Dollars for Colleges Encampments Act,” sponsored by Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., would stop federal taxpayer dollars from going to schools that do not properly share policies about how they handle cases of “civil disturbance” by changing...

Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., the first openly transgender member of Congress, slammed the Republicans on Thursday, accusing them of focusing more on “culture war issues” than the American people. “I appear to live rent-free in the minds of some of my Republican colleagues,” McBride said. The Delaware lawmaker later added that “the Republican Party is obsessed with culture war issues. It is weird and it is bizarre.” GOP...

The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to intervene and allow a narrow version of his executive order banning birthright citizenship to move forward, challenging three nationwide injunctions brought in Maryland, Massachusetts and Washington state. Judges in those states immediately moved to block President Donald Trump’s order banning birthright citizenship, which he signed on his first day in office.  All three courts blocked the ruling nationwide...