Donald Trump's administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to swiftly hear a bid to preserve his sweeping tariffs pursued under a 1977 law meant for emergencies after a lower court invalidated most of the levies that have been central to the Republican president's economic and trade agenda.

The Trump administration took the fight over tariffs to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, asking the justices to rule quickly that the president has the power to impose sweeping import taxes under federal law.

A federal appeals court had invalidated a centerpiece of President Trump’s economic strategy, finding that a 1977 law did not authorize the tariffs.

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of the Trump administration’s cuts to more than $2.6 billion in funding for research grants for Harvard University

A federal judge on Wednesday ruled U.S. President Donald Trump's administration unlawfully terminated about $2.2 billion in grants awarded to Harvard University and can no longer cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.

Eight people were killed and 50 others were wounded over the Labor Day weekend in dozens of shootings in Chicago

President Trump is ramping up his rhetoric about federal intervention in several Democrat-run cities due to crime, but many of the cities with the highest violent crime rates per capita are found in red states run by Republicans.

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said over the weekend that Chicago police will not collaborate with any National Guard troops or federal agents if Trump deploys them to the city in coming days as he has threatened in the past.