WASHINGTON — Jimmy Carter’s final journey to the nation’s capital Tuesday was a solemn affair, a vivid if rare reminder that the presidents, Supreme Court justices and members of Congress can come together for the greater good.

Washington’s VIPs engaged Tuesday in a time-honored American ritual. They gathered to eulogize the 39th ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to oversee what he has promised to be the country’s largest ever deportation effort says he will need tens of billions of dollars to carry out the mission, but it will ultimately reduce taxpayers’ burden.

“That’s a lot of money. It is,” Tom Homan, who Trump named to lead deportation operations as ...Read more

Most Americans believe history will judge President Joe Biden’s time in office harshly, according to new polling.

In the latest Gallup poll, 54% of respondents said they think Biden will be remembered as a poor or below average president. A much smaller share, 19%, said they believed he’ll go down as an outstanding or above average ...Read more

Federal District Court Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday temporarily blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith’s final report on his probes of President-elect Donald Trump.

The Florida jurist, who delivered several Trump-friendly rulings in the classified documents case, ordered the Department of Justice to keep the report sealed until ...Read more

It no longer sounds like a joke.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump escalated his remarks about making Canada part of the United States during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Tuesday. And he reiterated that he intends to put “substantial” tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico.

Asked if he would use military force...Read more

WASHINGTON — Although President-elect Donald Trump will not take office for almost two weeks, he is already making his “America First” mantra a priority — and it may include other parts of the globe.

Trump proposed renaming the Gulf of Mexico and would not rule out using military force in Panama in a meandering news conference that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers pressed forward this week on an immigration bill with bipartisan support as a first push on a tough-on-immigration approach promised by President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans in the 2024 election.

The House on Tuesday voted 264-159 to pass the legislation known as the Laken Riley Act, with 48 Democrats ...Read more

The footfalls of a military honor guard echoed Tuesday across the Capitol Rotunda as Congress paused to welcome the late President Jimmy Carter for the last time in a ceremony steeped in his deep Christian faith, military service and post-presidency work.

“Today, we gather to celebrate the life of a man whose works will echo for generations ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said NATO nations should spend the equivalent of 5% of their economic output on defense, escalating his demands on European allies to more than double the current target.

“I think NATO should have 5%,” Trump said Tuesday at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort Florida. “I’m the one that got them to pay...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump says wind farms off the Massachusetts coast are “driving the whales crazy,” and his administration will look to enact a policy that halts the development of the “garbage” energy source.

“They are dangerous,” Trump said of wind farms during a lengthy news conference Tuesday, touching on his central ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — Moving swiftly to distance herself from her embattled predecessor, newly minted Supervisor of Elections Karen Castor Dentel said Tuesday that her administration has begun efforts to claw back taxpayer funds from Valencia College and the Central Florida Foundation.

Payments to those groups were made by the previous elections ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is the first Senate Democrat to sign onto a Republican-led bill that would require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes.

The bill, passed in the House Tuesday, is slated to come up for a Senate vote on Friday. In addition to requiring federal detention of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report on two criminal probes of Donald Trump, setting up a potential legal fight between the president-elect and the prosecutors that investigated him.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said she was temporarily prohibiting public release of the findings ...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday failed to convince a New York appeals court to stop his sentencing from going ahead this week as the president-elect fired off a barrage of frenzied last-ditch attempts to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.

Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer shot down Trump’s ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to grab the Panama Canal and Greenland on Tuesday, saying U.S. national security depends on winning control of the two territories.

In a free-wheeling press conference, Trump also vowed he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and proclaimed...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and the spending-skeptical House may be on a path that could end in a collision over federal spending. Just consider his pricey idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland.

A group of conservative House Republicans last month demanded deep spending cuts as Congress struggled to pass an extension of ...Read more

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy Greenland but welcomed U.S. investment in the self-ruling territory.

The U.S. is “absolutely our closest ally” and Denmark is open to more collaboration in the North Atlantic region, Frederiksen told local broadcasters on Tuesday. “We have a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump petitioned a New York appeals court on Tuesday to throw out the guilty verdicts against him before his sentencing later this week in a last-ditch attempt to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.

The filing to the First Department, Appellate Division appeals court came a day ...Read more