To President Donald Trump, all this good news amounts to a “national emergency.” Or so he claimed in one of the flurry of executive orders signed on his first day in office. Dire, too ...

Over the years, Congress has passed a number of laws that grant special powers to the president in the event of an emergency.

Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the ... quickly to a crisis by creating exemptions to rules that would normally constrain the president. “The president has a pretty wide latitude ...

An appeals court let stand an order blocking President Donald Trump from curtailing automatic birthright citizenship nationwide.

The agency issued an internal memo saying it would “pause” a regulation directing that schools, libraries and other public ...

Under the rule, rebuilt structures could be required to be elevated above the expected height of a future flood or be ...