The burden of supporting asylum-seekers with food and housing often falls to cities, creating severe budget crunches. But Denver is piloting a new approach designed to integrate immigrants into the workforce faster.

The Denver Asylum Seekers Program offers six months of rent-free housing along with legal assistance, food aid and ...Read more

Happiness may be reshaping America’s political landscape.

Since the 1960s and the election of President John F. Kennedy, younger voters have supported Democratic candidates, while older voters leaned Republican. But that dynamic has been evolving, and now, in 2024, large numbers in both groups are bucking traditional assumptions ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump survived his second assassination attempt on Sept. 15, 2024, marking the latest chapter in a long history book. Presidential assassination attempts, whether successful or not, are fairly commonplace in American history.

There have been 45 men elected president since the country’s founding. And 40% of ...Read more

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump was set to return to the campaign trail Tuesday for the first time since the apparent assassination attempt over the weekend — as he prepared for a rally on Long Island Wednesday.

After speaking briefly by phone with Vice President Kamala Harris, who told him she was grateful he was safe, Trump ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — After months of questions about his position on abortion, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson said Tuesday his “opinion on that right now matters very little.”

The Republican governor candidate addressed Charlotte-area business and civic leaders Tuesday at a luncheon hosted by the Hood Hargett Breakfast Club, where he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate committee investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Butler, Pa., plans to issue an interim report by the end of the month, the panel's chair said Tuesday.

U.S. Sen. Gary Peters, D-Mich., said there were still plenty of questions to be answered and people to interview, but the ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has launched an unusual investigation into thousands of validated petition signatures that were used to get the abortion amendment on November ballots.

The effort, which one county elections supervisor called “unprecedented,” has included law enforcement knocking on doors and elections ...Read more

Florida’s prosecutors will pursue a case against the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the “most serious straightforward offense, which is attempted murder,” Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday.

DeSantis said Tuesday he signed an executive order assigning the case to the Attorney ...Read more

ATLANTA — County election boards across Georgia are urging the State Election Board to stop making new rules so close to November’s presidential race, even as the state board considers more changes later this week.

The Cobb County Board of Elections unanimously approved resolution Monday seeking a 90-day rule making “quiet period” ...Read more

Florida’s prosecutors will pursue a case against the suspect in the apparent assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump over the “most serious straightforward offense, which is attempted murder,” Gov. Ron DeSantis announced Tuesday.

DeSantis said Tuesday he signed an executive order assigning the case involving the ...Read more

Donald Trump headlined an event billed as the unveiling of a crypto platform promoted by the Republican nominee and his sons, putting the spotlight on a niche digital-asset sector with a history of controversy.

The project, World Liberty Financial, will be part of the decentralized finance segment of digital assets and is supposed to help with ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean said Monday she wants the congressional task force already investigating the Butler County assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump to look into Sunday's assassination attempt at his Florida golf club.

"Certainly we are looking at the same very related sets of issues, so to me it makes sense to ...Read more

A group of former members of Congress wants action before the end of this session on legislation barring lawmakers from owning or trading individual stocks.

The former lawmakers, organized by Issue One, a Washington-based political reform group, on Monday sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., and Minority Leader ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — President Joe Biden soaked up energy from a crowd of hundreds in Philadelphia who lauded his investment in Historically Black Colleges and Universities on Monday as he solidifies his legacy as a supporter of these institutions.

Standing on a stage between two American flags and screens projecting him, Biden addressed a crowd of...Read more

A sharp-eyed Secret Service agent spotted a rifle barrel poking through the fence, likely foiling a second assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Sunday as he played a round of golf at his course near West Palm Beach.

Ryan Routh, Trump’s would-be assassin, fled before firing a shot and was quickly found and placed under arrest.

Sunday’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Attorneys for the House and the Justice Department told a federal judge Monday that a monthslong subpoena fight has so far taken up hundreds of attorney hours at an approximate cost of more than $443,000.

The declarations were filed in response to an order from Judge Ana Reyes of the U.S. District Court for the District of ...Read more

The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump sparked calls from President Joe Biden and lawmakers to bolster the Secret Service protection for the former president with either more resources, strategic changes or more agency oversight.

Senators on the appropriations panel that oversees the Secret Service funding, in the wake of the first ...Read more