The administration has ramped up its efforts in the courts to push claims of voter fraud but has been rejected by judges at all levels.

Just 236 people have been charged with voting-fraud-related offenses by the Trump administration, despite its unsubstantiated claims that fraud is widespread.

The rejection demonstrates the department’s harried push to prove President Trump’s unsubstantiated claims of rampant voter fraud.

Trump administration officials had sought admissions data from Harvard, including student application essays, to see if the school was complying with a court decision banning affirmative action.

Repeated compliance disputes and personal attacks on judges are straining relations between the executive branch and the judiciary.

The ruling dismisses the Department of Justice’s lawsuit that pre-emptively contested the results of a race that includes two candidates named Daniel Sullivan.

After a Cornell student’s lawsuit alleging the school failed her when she reported sexual assault, there’s a new focus on Title IX, the federal law barring sex discrimination in federally funded education. Our Washington correspondent Michael C. Bender traces how interpretations of the law shifted between the Obama and Trump administrations.