The Treasury Department hit Iran with more sanctions Wednesday, this time targeting 30 individuals, entities and vessels enabling illicit Iranian petroleum sales and its production of ballistic missiles and advanced conventional weapons (ACW).

President Donald Trump excoriated Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., over their outbursts during his Tuesday night State of the Union Address.

"When you watch Low IQ Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, as they screamed uncontrollably last night at the very elegant State of the Union, such an important and beautiful event, they had the bulging, bloodshot eyes of crazy people, LUNATICS, mentally deranged and sick who, frankly, look like they should be institutionalized," Trump posted on Truth Social.

West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is leading a group of 21 state AGs asking the United States Supreme Court to reverse a decision that upheld Biden-era Department of Energy efficiency standards that would eliminate many natural gas appliances from the market and households.

Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers will leave Harvard at the end of the academic year amid ongoing fallout over his relationship with the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Summers served as Treasury Secretary for former President Bill Clinton from 1999-2001. He also led the National Economic Council under former President Barack Obama.

Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that he will be working with the Justice and Treasury Departments on the "war on fraud," which President Donald Trump announced during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. 

Trump said he is appointing Vance to lead his administration's nationwide response to public welfare fraud, highlighting recent high-profile revelations of large-scale public fraud linked to the Somali expat community in Minneapolis.

The FBI on Wednesday searched the headquarters of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the district superintendent's home, according to Justice Department officials.

A DOJ spokesperson in Los Angeles told KTLA that law enforcement is executing a “judicially approved” search warrant at the locations but declined to provide further details.

Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., on Wednesday introduced the Dalilah Law to bar states from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

The bill's introduction comes the day after President Trump called on Congress during the State of the Union to pass the legislation, according to Banks' office.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright said Wednesday that his department will be doling out its largest-ever loan, to Alabama and Georgia, to boost the states' electrical grids, which is expected to save residents in both states over $7 billion.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued a string of endorsements in Indiana state legislative races, backing primary challengers to the Republican legislators who opposed his push to redraw the state's congressional maps in time for the midterms.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is scheduled Thursday to give her highly anticipated deposition in the House Oversight Committee's probe into Jeffrey Epstein, followed by former President Bill Clinton on Friday.

The depositions, which will take place in New York, come after a contentious negotiation between the Clintons’ attorneys and House Republicans, led by Oversight Committee Chair James Comer who pushed for in-person, recorded depositions rather than written testimony or declarations. 

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts is seeking direct control over the federal courthouses across the nation so it may tend to necessary repairs that it says risk the operations of the judiciary.

The executive branch is currently responsible for maintaining federal courthouses, though Judge Robert J. Conrad Jr., the director of the Administrative Office, informed Vice President JD Vance that they collectively needed more than $8 billion in repairs. Conrad wrote to Vance and members of both parties in Congress seeking legislation that would permit the judiciary to maintain the buildings on its own.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, ruled that prison contractors cannot immediately appeal a trial court's decision, despite several claims to federal immunity.

The case, Geo Group Inc. v. Menocal, focused on a prison in Colorado that contracted with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. An individual detained at the prison sued over policies that required him to complete labor while detained without little or no pay.