Coming into the new presidency the playbook for traders was obvious. Bet it all on a core of America First-linked champions, from Tesla Inc. and crypto to smaller companies.

Turns out, amid spiraling policy shifts and worsening economic data, whittling yourself down to just a few bold calls has been one of the worst things to do in the era of ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump is vowing a new approach to getting homeless people off the streets by forcibly moving those living outside into large camps while mandating mental health and addiction treatment — an aggressive departure from the nation’s leading homelessness policy, which for decades has prioritized housing as ...Read more

While seeking another stay in the White House, Donald J. Trump did what most politicians do: promised the moon to those who might help him get elected. Trump also assured us that promises made would be promises kept. But as former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo is famously quoted, “You campaign in poetry. Some of the promises called for ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to start his reciprocal tariff push with “all countries,” tamping down speculation that he could limit the initial scope of tariffs set to be unveiled April 2.

“You’d start with all countries, so let’s see what happens,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One. “I haven’t heard a rumor ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he wouldn’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, telling NBC News in a phone interview on Sunday that “there are methods” that would allow him to do so.

“I’m not joking,” Trump said. “But I’m not — it is far too early to think about it.”

The 22nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,...Read more

Iran has told U.S. President Donald Trump it won’t engage in direct negotiations with his administration, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in televised remarks.

Pezeshkian said the decision was conveyed in Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s response to a letter Trump had sent earlier this month on the prospect of new talks over...Read more

President Donald Trump said he expects consumers to migrate to U.S.-made cars if automakers raise prices in response to the 25% tariffs on all imported vehicles and parts that he has vowed to impose.

“I couldn’t care less if they raise prices because people are going to start buying American cars,” Trump said in an interview with NBC ...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Democrats, hoping to enshrine federal voter protections in state law, are pursuing a bill that would bar voter discrimination based on race, sexual orientation and gender identity in state law — just as President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at overhauling elections nationwide.

Sen. Julie Gonzales, a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he “couldn’t care less” if automakers raise car prices in response to the planned tariffs on imported vehicles.

Trump was asked in an interview with NBC News on Saturday whether he warned foreign automaker chief executives not to raise consumer prices in response to the 25% tariffs he plans to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — He is, by most accounts, a LeBron James of lawyers – a master who’s handled more Supreme Court cases than just about anyone else in recent history.

Now Paul Clement is stepping into a delicate new role: Big Law’s big lawyer.

As President Donald Trump targets one leading law firm after another, WilmerHale has turned to ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued a sweeping executive order this week calling for changes to U.S. elections, including requirements for people to prove citizenship when registering to vote and to have ballots be cast and received by Election Day.

National voting rights groups have railed against the order, calling on officials to reject it and ...Read more

A proposed law would permanently classify fentanyl-related substances as a Schedule I controlled substance and establish corresponding penalties, and federal lawmakers are pushing to see it get passed.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., the former attorney general of Florida, attempted to raise more support for the HALT Fentanyl Act during a press...Read more

When it was time to vote on the House Republicans’ budget package last month, Rep. Brittany Pettersen had her arms full. Quite literally.

Pettersen, a Colorado Democrat, had just given birth four weeks earlier. She wasn’t allowed to vote by proxy — a process that allows a colleague to cast a vote in a member’s stead, something that was ...Read more

Pierre Poilievre seemed to be on an unstoppable march to political victory.

It was late December and Justin Trudeau’s government was in disarray. The Canadian prime minister had lost his finance minister, was deserted by key members of his party and had gone into hiding from the media. Poilievre’s Conservative Party, already well ahead in ...Read more

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg on March 27, 2025, ordered top Trump administration officials to preserve records of their messages sent on the messaging app Signal from March 11 to March 15 following a transparency watchdog group’s lawsuit alleging that the officials have violated the Federal Records Act.

This marked the latest ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson, who was set to begin serving his nearly 10-year prison term for lying to investors in his startup, had his term commuted by President Donald Trump on Friday, according to a senior White House official.

Watson was convicted last July by a federal jury in Brooklyn, New York, of a wire fraud ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can fire members of two independent agencies, a divided federal appeals court in Washington ruled, boosting the president’s efforts to dramatically reshape the U.S. government.

In a 2-1 order issued Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit halted decisions by lower court judges that blocked Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has formally asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in his effort to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 227-year-old wartime law.

A brief filed by acting Solicitor General Sarah H. Harris on Friday asks the nation’s highest court to vacate the order issued by a U.S. District Court, which ...Read more

Democrats are battling Republicans for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court and two special congressional elections in Florida that are shaping up as surprising early tests of President Donald Trump’s second term political clout.

With signs of GOP political weakness spreading, Democrats are hoping to hold onto a liberal-controlled spot on ...Read more

NEW YORK — A Rockefeller Center law firm representing Voice of America and its affiliates is claiming victory after winning a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration, which hopes to silence the broadcasting network that’s shared U.S. messaging globally for over 80 years.

Andrew G. Celli, Jr., founding partner at Emery ...Read more