The Trump administration has sued California over the state's voter-approved animal welfare law, which protects hens, pigs and calves from being kept in small cages, claiming the law has driven up egg prices and violates federal farming laws and regulations.

"California has contributed to the historic rise in egg prices by imposing unnecessary ...Read more

Democrats quickly fired away at Rep. David Valadao’s record once President Donald Trump signed the “Big Beautiful Bill” that cut taxes and Medicaid funding, saying that because of Valadao’s vote, “rural hospitals across America are now at risk of closing.”

It’s impossible to predict the specific impact on hospitals and for that ...Read more

The Secret Service has suspended six agents tasked with securing the Pennsylvania rally where Donald Trump was shot last year.

Matt Quinn, Secret Service deputy director, told CBS News that their punishments range from 10 to 42 days of leave without pay or benefits. They include several agents at the service’s Pittsburgh field office, along ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, is directing state lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map at a special legislative session later this month.

Under the current GOP-drawn Texas map, Republicans won 25 of the state’s 38 House seats last fall, while Democrats took the remaining 13 districts. But allies of ...Read more

Brazil spent months flying under the radar as Donald Trump upended global trade. Now that it’s in the spotlight, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva may stand to benefit from the attention.

Hours after the U.S. president threatened to hit Brazil with 50% tariffs, the leader known universally as Lula announced that, rather than rush to appease...Read more

Many so-called experts predicted that President Donald Trump’s economic agenda would usher in an inflationary Armageddon. This projection was so oft repeated in the media that many Americans, especially Democrats, believed a depression was imminent. Yet the economy is thoroughly beating expectations, with consumers’ expectations becoming ...Read more

When President Donald Trump decided last month to send the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Gov. Gavin Newsom, many political and legal watchers were certain that courts would view the move as illegal, a belief that was quickly shattered when a panel of appellate judges appointed by presidents from both political ...Read more

Sen. Thom Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, told President Donald Trump that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act could become his “Obamacare.”

The remark, made to CNN’s Jake Tapper in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday night, is a striking comment with the midterm elections looming over Republicans.

CNN’s broadcast marked Tillis...Read more

President Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods sent the country’s currency plunging as the U.S. leader sharply escalated a dispute with Latin America’s largest nation and leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In a letter posted to his social media account, Trump cited Jair Bolsonaro — the right-wing former ...Read more

President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for speaking English articulately, seemingly unaware of the fact that English is Liberia’s national language.

“Such good English, that’s beautiful,” Trump said during a Wednesday meeting at the White House with five African leaders. “Where did you learn to speak so ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Florida Rep. Stephanie Murphy, once a leader of centrist Democrats in the House, announced Wednesday that she is running for mayor of Orange County, home to Orlando.

“You may know me as your former congresswoman,” Murphy says in a video announcing her campaign. “Before I ever stepped foot in Washington, I worked in ...Read more

Former President Joe Biden’s personal physician Wednesday refused to answer a Republican congressional committee’s questions about his health and fitness to serve, citing doctor-patient confidentiality.

Dr. Kevin O’Connor also invoked his rights under the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering questions during a House Oversight Committee ...Read more

President Donald Trump will not be presenting Congress with a new to-do list anytime soon as Senate and House Republicans turn to other pressing matters after narrowly approving most of the president’s second-term priorities.

As the ink dried on the GOP-crafted and -passed “One Big, Beautiful Bill Act” that Trump signed into law on July ...Read more

Donald Trump’s threat to impose 50% tariffs on Brazilian goods sent the country’s currency plunging as the U.S. leader sharply escalated a dispute with Latin America’s largest nation and leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In a letter posted to his social media account, Trump said he was making the change “due in part to Brazil�...Read more

The Department of Homeland Security announced it has subpoenaed Harvard for “foreign student information” Wednesday, the latest escalation in a long back and forth between the university and Trump administration.

“If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will,” the Department of Homeland Security and DHS ...Read more

ATLANTA — Crime and gun violence among young people in the metro Atlanta area are decreasing, and law enforcement officials say it’s not the boys in blue on patrol but rather city-run youth programs that are shifting the trend for kids.

Recent headlines about shootings in metro Atlanta involving young victims have raised alarm about gun ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The draft defense authorization bill that the House Armed Services Committee plans to mark up in the coming days would require the Pentagon to set up counter-drone defenses at a handful of military-related facilities inside the United States.

The mandate is one of several ways the measure manifests deep congressional concerns ...Read more