The Supreme Court signaled Monday it may be open to blocking a state ruling on partisan gerrymandering at the behest of Pennsylvania’s Republican leaders.

Last week’s Pennsylvania’s high court struck down the state’s election districts on the grounds they were drawn to give the GOP a 13-5 majority of its seats in the House of Representatives.

Unlike other recent rulings, the state justices said they based their ruling solely on the state’s constitution. Usually, the U.S. Supreme Court has no grounds for reviewing a state court ruling that it is based on state law.

The Senate turned back legislation Monday to ban abortion after 20-weeks of pregnancy, halting a Republican-led effort to restrict access to the late-term procedure with a bill that President Trump said he would sign into law.

The House had passed the measure last fall and Trump’s endorsement this month gave it new momentum. But on a 51-46 Senate vote, it failed to clear the 60-vote threshold needed to overcome a Democratic-led filibuster to advance.

Voting in Congress largely fell along party lines. In the Senate, two Republicans, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, opposed the bill. Three Democrats, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.), Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) voted in favor.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is leaving his position ahead of a previously planned retirement this spring.

McCabe has been a frequent target of criticism from President Trump.

Two people familiar with the decision described it to the Associated Press on Monday. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record.

To the list of prominent African American figures against whom President Trump has aired grievances on Twitter, add Jay-Z.

The president began his Sunday by suggesting that the award-winning hip-hop artist was unaware that black unemployment stood at “LOWEST RATE EVER RECORDED,” crediting himself and his economic policies for the phenomenon.

Trump was apparently responding to a television interview the night before, in which Jay-Z, whose real name is Shawn Carter, criticized the president’s profane description of African countries and Haiti, calling Trump’s characterization “hurtful.”

President Trump, in his first State of the Union address Tuesday night, will call for overhauling immigration and spending more on the military and infrastructure. But his vision will confront political realities and budget constraints created by Republicans' recent tax cuts, which he'll tout as a boon to the economy.

Trump's 60 minutes of uninterrupted airtime comes amid reports that his staff blocked him from firing special counsel Robert S. Mueller III in June as the investigation into contacts between Trump's campaign and Russia gathered steam.

Casino mogul Steve Wynn has resigned his position as finance chair of the Republican National Committee amid allegations that he sexually harassed multiple employees at his resorts.

The resignation, first reported by Politico, refocuses the spotlight on the Republican Party as it has struggled to respond to the #metoo movement, and reckon with President Trump’s own history of alleged unwanted sexual advances.

Wynn has been a major donor for Republicans in recent years and a rainmaker for the party. Earlier in his career, he also gave heavily to Democrats. But like Trump, he abandoned the Democratic Party in recent years and focused his effort almost exclusively on helping Republicans.

President Trump was booed Friday when he called the news media “vicious,” “mean” and “fake” during a brief question-and-answer session following his pro-America speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The president, who as a New York businessman was long a mainstay of the city’s tabloids, said that over his career he’s gotten a “disproportionate” amount of press. Yet it wasn’t until he got into politics, he said, that he saw “how nasty, how mean, how vicious and how fake the press can be.”

The comment sparked a smattering of boos and hisses from the crowd, which included world leaders, heads of global companies, intellectuals and foreign media. While such anti-media remarks are familiar to Americans, Trump’s attack was extraordinary for being made before an international audience, given that U.S. presidents historically have been global clarions for a free press.

President Trump still hasn't cracked the 3% solution for the U.S. economy.

Despite frequently boasting that his policies have caused growth to take off, government data released Friday showed the economy slowed at the end of last year after expanding at a 3% annual pace from April through September.

President Trump, meeting with the chairman of the African Union on Friday, ignored questions from reporters about the president’s reference to nations on the continent as “shithole countries” in a closed-door meeting this month.

Trump’s meeting with Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda and chairman of the African Union, was his first meeting with an African leader since the comments, made in a bipartisan meeting at the Oval Office, were reported Jan. 11.

The African Union had called on Trump to apologize for the remarks. It is unknown whether they were discussed at all during the private portion of Friday’s meeting with Kagame, which took place at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

President Trump met separately with the leaders of two of America's closest allies on Thursday, and their public appearances confirmed that the closer of the two is Israel, even as Trump insisted that reported tensions with Britain are a "false rumor."

Both prime ministers — Britain's Theresa May and Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu — received grins, handshakes and warm words as they met with the president on the sidelines of a global forum in Switzerland. But Trump's smiles were cheerier, his touch and words warmer with Netanyahu, and the public portion of their session more than twice as long.