WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump’s vowed crackdown on immigration could strain an already struggling elder care workforce that relies on foreign-born workers in nursing homes and home health settings.

Industry players and experts argue that increasing the long-term care workforce requires more immigration, and Trump’s plans could...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court won’t block Attorney General Merrick Garland from releasing a special counsel’s report detailing the findings of his criminal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump.

But in a Thursday order rejecting requests by Trump and his former co-defendants to stop the report from becoming public, the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump said a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin is being set up.

At a meeting with Republican governors at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, the incoming president told a reporter that Putin “wants to meet” and added, “we’re gonna — we’re setting it up.” Any such meeting, were it to happen...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A day after President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland, Alaska’s Republican U.S. Rep. Nick Begich III made comments that appeared to support Trump’s vision for annexing the Arctic territory that is part of Denmark.

“Today, we know that Arctic routes in the ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump appointed veteran Sam Brown, who lost his bid for the Nevada U.S. Senate seat in November, as the next undersecretary for Memorial Affairs at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Trump announced on his social media Thursday afternoon.

Trump called Brown an American hero and successful businessman who “fearlessly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is planning a flurry of executive orders around immigration, energy, federal workers and regulatory reform in the early hours after his Jan. 20 inauguration, part of a sweeping effort to quickly implement his policy agenda upon taking office.

The plans include immigration executive actions to tighten ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court Thursday turned down President-elect Trump's plea to block a New York judge from sentencing him Friday on his felony conviction in a hush-money case.

The vote was 5-4, with conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito Jr., Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh saying they would granted Trump's request...Read more

Gov. Brad Little is scheduled to dine with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday.

Idaho’s Republican governor is a supporter of the incoming president, and has celebrated recent instances where Idaho has been in the sights of national Republicans, like when billionaire Elon Musk posted on X, formerly called Twitter, about the...Read more

Gov. Brian Kemp joined other Republican governors in a meeting Thursday with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss energy, immigration and other federal policies, the latest sign of the strengthening rapport between the two former rivals.

The meeting took place late Thursday at Trump’s Florida Mar-a-Lago estate after Kemp, recently elected ...Read more

NEW YORK — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to delay Donald Trump’s sentencing in his New York City hush money case less than 24 hours before it is set to take place, marking a significant defeat for the president-elect that means his historic conviction will be finalized before he retakes office.

The nation’s high court denied ...Read more

As tax filing season begins, the Internal Revenue Service will struggle to provide “the quality service that taxpayers and tax professionals need, leading to delays, frustration, and unnecessary costs,” a report from the National Taxpayer Advocate reported Wednesday.

Erin Collins, the taxpayer advocate, has warned of service problems in the...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman plans to visit President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago as the Pennsylvania Democrat cements his role as one of the most moderate members of the party.

The burly first-term lawmaker is expected to jet to Palm Beach over the weekend at Trump’s invitation, although Trump transition officials warned that the meeting was not...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama appeared to indulge in some grave humor at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., sharing laughs and conversation before the start of Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Despite their political differences, Trump and Obama seemed more like old pals as they waited for Carter’s service ...Read more

Donald Trump is set to become the first president of the United States with a felony conviction.

On May 30, 2024, a New York County jury found Trump guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree. That constituted a Class E felony in the state of New York, when the falsification is committed with an intent to ...Read more

President Joe Biden honored former President Jimmy Carter at his state funeral in Washington on Thursday, remembering his longtime friend as a man of character and a patriot who “showed us what it means to be a practitioner of good works and a good and faithful servant of God and of the people.”

“To young people — to anyone — in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump appears ready to let Senate and House Republicans settle their differences over budget reconciliation strategy without putting his thumb on the scales for either the all-in-one measure brewing in the House or the Senate’s bifurcated approach.

Trump met with Senate Republicans on Wednesday night ...Read more

“We take nothing by conquest…Thank God,” wrote the National Intelligencer and Washington Advertiser, an influential Washington newspaper, in February 1847.

The United States had just purchased 55 per cent of Mexico for US$15 million as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The pact concluded the bloody Mexican-American War, ...Read more

In mid-December, on the same day that he granted clemency to 1,500 Americans, President Joe Biden issued pardons to 15 of the nation’s military veterans. These pardon recipients were mainly former officers and non-commissioned officers, aged 46 to 79, with honorable discharges and military decorations. Before or after leaving the armed forces,...Read more

NEW YORK — New York’s highest court on Thursday rejected Donald Trump’s effort to stop his sentencing from going ahead Friday, leaving the matter in the hands of the Supreme Court.

In a letter to Trump’s attorney, Todd Blanche, a New York Court of Appeals clerk said Associate Judge Jenny Rivera had reviewed a proposed order that Trump�...Read more

ATLANTA — Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis is asking the Georgia Supreme Court to overturn the lower court opinion that removed her from the 2020 election interference case involving incoming President Donald Trump and more than a dozen others.

In a Wednesday court filing, Willis’ office argued that the Georgia Court of Appeals ...Read more