WASHINGTON — Most of the people flying from Georgia to Washington this weekend were coming to celebrate Donald Trump’s return to the White House. Sarah Sheehan was in town to protest it.

The Griffin resident met up with her mother and her mother’s co-worker, two nurses who traveled from Oregon. Together, the three of them participated ...Read more

As inauguration day approaches, members of the crypto industry are eagerly anticipating a slew of digital asset friendly executive actions at the dawn of a second Trump administration.

Potentially at the top of the wish list would be an executive order prompting the regulatory agencies, including the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The four years between Donald Trump’s first term in office and his second were marked by an extraordinary political shift in Florida.

In January 2021, President Joe Biden entered the White House with Florida ostensibly still on the map of battleground states. Republicans held power in Tallahassee, but by simple majorities in ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday doubled down on defending his meeting with soon-to-be president Donald Trump, claiming he was “fighting for” New Yorkers, as fellow Democrats accused him of cozying up to Trump in efforts to get a presidential pardon for his federal corruption case.

“I don’t care if it’s a ...Read more

Hours before a deadline that would require TikTok to be divested or shut down, the incoming White House administration offered a lifeline to the widely used video-sharing app — in contrast to last-minute criticism from the outgoing Biden administration.

President-elect Donald Trump said Saturday he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day...Read more

The announcement came via the president-elect’s preferred social media platforms: Donald Trump was launching another crypto-related project.

Dubbed “the only official Trump meme” on the website associated with the social media post, the token features an illustration of the incoming U.S. president with his first in the air — an image ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President-elect Donald Trump will likely visit the Los Angeles area next week to view the wildfire damage, he said on Saturday. The trip is expected to be his first outside the nation's capital after being inaugurated Monday.

"I will be, probably, at the end of the week. I was going to go, actually yesterday, but I thought it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said he will “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day reprieve from a U.S. law that threatens to shut down the popular platform as soon as Sunday.

Trump said in an exclusive phone interview with NBC’s Kristen Welker that he’ll “probably announce it on Monday” — the day of his inauguration to a...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Progressive activists in Congress have put mounting pressure on President Joe Biden to direct the archivist of the United States to certify and publish the Equal Rights Amendment — which would become the first explicit mention of women in the U.S. Constitution.

When Biden announced Friday that he believed the sweeping ...Read more

Tom Homan has crisscrossed America since President-elect Donald Trump named the former cop and immigration official his border czar, promising “shock and awe” alongside the biggest deportation the U.S. has ever seen.

But wherever Homan goes, from New York City to Texas, he’s zeroed in on two cities he plans to target in the first days of...Read more

Tom Homan has crisscrossed America since President-elect Donald Trump named the former cop and immigration official his border czar, promising “shock and awe” alongside the biggest deportation the U.S. has ever seen.

But wherever Homan goes, from New York City to Texas, he’s zeroed in on two cities he plans to target in the first days of...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — In the two years since federal abortion protections were overturned and a near-total ban on the procedure was enacted in Kentucky, lawmakers have filed six bills to add exceptions to the state’s strict abortion ban.

But nearly all of them have floundered — the fate of the two bills proposed this session remains to be seen...Read more

Ana, a University of Minnesota student who is undocumented, said it’s hard to talk about her anxiety as President-elect Donald Trump returns to office. She’s afraid of losing everything she’s achieved in the U.S.

“Personally, I feel very scared about this new president,” said Ana, who only agreed to be interviewed using her nickname ...Read more

TikTok said it will be forced to “go dark” in the U.S. on Sunday unless there is a clear statement from the Biden administration to service providers that are maintaining its availability.

Statements issued on Friday by the White House and the Department of Justice “have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance” to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has distributed at least $27.6 billion of dollars in financing to clean-energy companies in its final days before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

The moves — including a $15 billion loan guarantee to California utility PG&E Corp. for a host of clean-energy projects announced Friday — mark ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A Boise State University public policy survey found that the majority of Idaho residents prefer abortion policies that are more lax than the state’s current restrictions.

The university published the results of its annual public policy survey Friday. It came as state officials and stakeholders are unsure whether President-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider whether a Maryland school system is violating the Constitution by incorporating LGBTQ-friendly books into the elementary school curriculum without giving parents the right to opt out.

Plunging into a culturally divisive fight, the justices agreed to hear an appeal by parents who say ...Read more

New York City Mayor Eric Adams said he didn’t discuss his federal corruption case with soon-to-be president Donald Trump during their meeting in Florida on Friday — and he chided a growing chorus of fellow Democrats back in New York who are blasting him for the sit-down.

Late Thursday, Adams’ office first announced the mayor would meet ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump announced Monday’s inaugural ceremony will be held indoors, with temperatures in the teens to low 20s forecast for the region.

The move, which will spare visitors and workers from the frigid cold, also means many who had planned to come to the Capitol grounds will be left disappointed.

The Joint ...Read more

The Supreme Court has paved the way for TikTok to be banned in the U.S. on Sunday.

The highest court on Friday upheld a new law that requires the social media app's Chinese owner to sell off TikTok's U.S. business or face a nationwide ban.

"Given just a handful of days after oral argument to issue an opinion, I cannot profess the kind of ...Read more