WASHINGTON — After a stretch of uncertainty in May in which its leader and another director were removed by President Donald Trump, the Library of Congress is again under fire, though this time from congressional appropriators looking to take a chunk from the institution’s budget.

A spending proposal from House Republicans would lop off ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s not every day that you get to see a politician — let alone a president — give a “f---.”

But that’s just what President Donald Trump did on Tuesday. The ceasefire between Israel and Iran he had announced the night before seemed to be already unraveling, and a visibly irritated Trump expressed his frustrations in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The owner of a controversial Trump-themed store facing eviction in Chicago’s northwest suburbs has agreed to move out of the building next month as part of a settlement agreement with the landlord filed Wednesday in McHenry County Circuit Court.

Yet Lisa Fleischmann of the Trump Truth Store in Huntley said she hasn’t given up ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans' proposal to force states to take on billions of dollars in federal food benefit costs is back in the Senate's version of the massive tax package after revisions published Wednesday by the Senate Agriculture panel.

Senate Agriculture Chairman John Boozman, an Arkansas Republican, announced that the Senate ...Read more

Americans can be forgiven for feeling a bit exhausted by the head-spinning pace of events in the Middle East. From calls for negotiation to sudden bombings and missile strikes, to a failed attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar then a promise of a ceasefire quickly followed by a claim that both Israel and Iran violated that ceasefire, the last ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s coalition has always been a Frankenstein’s monster — stitched together from parts that were never meant to coexist.

Consider the contradictions: fast-food fanatics hanging out with juice-cleanse truthers chanting “Make America Healthy Again” between ivermectin doses, immigration hardliners mixing with business...Read more

CHICAGO — With Illinois’ March primary for the 2026 midterm elections less than a year away, politicians are lining up to fill the seats being vacated by longtime members of the state’s congressional delegation who are retiring or campaigning for higher office.

The domino effect that began in late April with U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Tuesday appeared to undermine years of U.S. sanctions on Iran, giving its biggest customer China the green light to carry on buying its oil as he seeks to bolster a ceasefire with Israel.

The announcement on social media — which surprised both oil traders and officials in his own government — could ...Read more

THE HAGUE, Netherlands — U.S. President Donald Trump ensured that NATO’s high-stakes summit would be a nervy affair to the end as he flew in to The Hague fueling doubts about whether the U.S. remains fully committed to defending its allies.

The U.S. president was feted as the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by King Willem-Alexander on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are stepping on the gas to get the giant budget reconciliation package to President Donald Trump’s desk after a renewed push by the president for his Capitol Hill allies to meet his July 4 deadline.

But from tax provisions to Medicaid changes, roadblocks remain in meeting that aggressive timetable, which is ...Read more

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit back at President Donald Trump Tuesday in a mushrooming social media spat after he called her dumb.

“I’m a Bronx girl,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “You should know that we can eat Queens boys for breakfast. Respectfully.”

The back-and-forth started over the weekend when the progressive congresswoman ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A day ahead of a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s choice of former defense attorney Emil Bove for a lifetime spot on a federal appeals court, a former Justice Department attorney said Bove had discussed plans to defy potential court orders that may frustrate the president’s deportation plans.

Bove, who was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One over the Atlantic on Tuesday, President Donald Trump turned his attention for a brief moment from the diplomatic victory he had brokered between Israel and Iran to one that has proven far more elusive.

"I'd like to see a deal with Russia," Trump told reporters before arriving in the Netherlands for a NATO ...Read more

A provision that would mandate the sale of federal public lands across the West — including in Colorado — cannot be included in the Republican budget bill, the U.S. Senate’s nonpartisan rulekeeper has decided.

Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough ruled late Monday that the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of U.S. Forest Service and ...Read more

​WASHINGTON — Three years after the Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion in the United States, Senate Democrats are calling for the removal of further abortion restrictions in the Republican reconciliation bill.

Speaking at a news conference Tuesday, the third anniversary of the landmark decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican leaders are stepping on the gas to get the giant budget reconciliation package to President Donald Trump’s desk after a renewed push by the president for his Capitol Hill allies to meet his July 4 deadline.

But from tax provisions to Medicaid changes, roadblocks remain in meeting that aggressive timetable, which is ...Read more

WASHINGTON — NATO leaders kicked off a summit in the Netherlands this week without President Donald Trump, with some saying they made the journey to preserve the core values of the alliance. But a fired-up American commander in chief could put that focus to the test.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he was at the NATO summit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Robert Garcia of California will take over as the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, signaling a shift toward younger leadership among his party.

The ranking member position opened earlier this year when Virginia Rep. Gerald E. Connolly announced he would step down after his esophageal ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered Republican lawmakers to stay in Washington, D.C. for as long as it takes to bridge their differences and pass his sprawling budget bill.

With a self-imposed July 4 deadline looming, Trump warned the GOP-led Congress that there will be no fireworks in their home districts and holiday cookouts until they ...Read more