WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his administration is weighing whether to take control of the city of Washington, D.C., to help combat crime, in a move that would represent a dramatic upheaval to the capital’s half-century of home rule.

“We could run D.C. I mean, we’re looking at D.C.,” Trump said during a Cabinet meeting ...Read more

Defense-minded lawmakers from both parties on Tuesday welcomed the news that the U.S. is resuming the delivery of military aid to Ukraine, following a pause that dismayed Kyiv and its Hill advocates alike.

The reactions came a day after President Donald Trump announced at the White House that the United States would send more “defensive ...Read more

Tensions over the federal government’s immigration agenda erupted into violence 25 miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas, last week.

A group of 10 to 12 people ambushed corrections and police officers outside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, on July 4, creating a distraction with fireworks and graffiti before firing upon ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Jerome Powell should “resign immediately” if allegations from an administration official that the Federal Reserve chair misled lawmakers prove true, while deepening his personal attacks against the head of the central bank over interest rate policy.

Trump, speaking in a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, called Powell “...Read more

A couple charged in a conspiracy to commit election fraud has pleaded guilty to filling out hundreds of voter applications with fictitious identities that were submitted to county election offices in Minnesota.

Ronnie Williams, 58, of Nevada and formerly of Minnesota, was convicted Tuesday of conspiracy to engage in voter registration fraud in ...Read more

President Donald Trump angrily tried to shut down a reporter who inquired about disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019.

The president’s reaction on Tuesday did little to quell the curiosity of critics who continue to ...Read more

Vice President JD Vance spent the holiday weekend in San Diego, drawing protesters outside a high-end sushi restaurant Sunday evening a day after he was honored at a $2,500-a-seat dinner hosted by a conservative think tank.

According to The New York Times, Vance was also set to attend a fundraising roundtable in the San Diego area on Monday, ...Read more

The calls from Alligator Alcatraz’s first detainees brought distressing news: Toilets that didn’t flush. Temperatures that went from freezing to sweltering. A hospitalization. Giant bugs. And little or no access to showers or toothbrushes, much less confidential calls with attorneys.

The stories, relayed to the Miami Herald by the wives of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House has been in spike-the-football mode since President Donald Trump signed his sweeping tax and domestic policy agenda into law. But the jubilation was interrupted Tuesday as the president and his Cabinet members faced questions on the administration’s trade policy and response to deadly Texas floods.

The ...Read more

If Congress this month approves the White House’s request to cancel $1 billion in federal funding for the United Nations system, experts say it will further exacerbate an already crisis-level financial shortfall for the global intergovernmental organization that the U.S. worked over decades to sustain.

The Trump administration included $1 ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court let President Donald Trump move ahead with plans to dramatically reduce the size of the federal government, lifting a court order that had blocked 19 federal departments and agencies from slashing their workforces.

Granting a Trump request over one dissent, the justices on Tuesday cleared the administration to implement ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed to push forward with his aggressive tariff regime in the coming days, stressing he would not offer additional extensions on country-specific levies set to now hit in early August while indicating he could announce substantial new rates on imports of copper and pharmaceuticals.

The posturing on social media and at a...Read more

CHICAGO — A Champaign abortion provider accused in a lawsuit of perforating a patient’s uterus and leaving half a fetus inside her body has been reprimanded and fined in connection with that case by the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, according to records obtained by the Tribune.

Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle of ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — By the time Chantal had reached central North Carolina on Sunday, July 6, it had already been downgraded to a tropical depression.

The storm, which made landfall Sunday in South Carolina as a tropical storm, brought heavy rain to central North Carolina, with areas in Alamance, Orange, Durham and Chatham counties seeing the ...Read more

The tax break of up to $7,500 on new or leased electric vehicles, as well as the $4,000 credit for used EVs, will be gone after Sept. 30.

To clean energy advocates around the country, that means consumers will pay more and the environment will suffer.

The credit for used EVs in particular is a “lost opportunity to reduce transportation ...Read more

Antisemitism is a “pervasive and escalating problem” in local K-12 schools, according to a Bay State commission that’s issuing recommendations for districts to address the growing issue.

The Massachusetts Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism is out with its initial findings and recommendations when it comes to K-12 education in ...Read more

Search crews slogged through thick mud and debris Tuesday in central Texas, where more than 100 people are confirmed dead after catastrophic flooding.

Authorities described the search as grueling and slow-moving, with unstable rubble piles and high water complicating recovery efforts along the Guadalupe River. Governor Greg Abbott, visiting ...Read more

MIAMI — As Ohad Fisherman sat clasping his newlywed’s hand in a law office with a stunning bay view high above downtown Miami just a day after his rape charge was dismissed, one thing was abundantly clear: His defense team believes the state charged Fisherman and the Alexander twins for a sex crime that it made little effort to prove.

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