NEW YORK — President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday for falsifying business records in a years-old scheme to defraud voters, closing out the historic case that involved a hush money payment to a porn star and formalizing Trump as a convicted felon 10 days before his return to the White House.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Juan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court during oral arguments Friday appeared ready to allow a law that would ban social media giant TikTok unless it divests from its Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd. by Jan. 19.

The justices occasionally questioned how the law would impact the free speech rights of the platform and its users. But they generally ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in relation to his Manhattan hush money case, cementing his legacy as America’s first convicted felon to assume the presidency.

The case involves Trump’s falsification of business records to pay porn star Stormy Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged one-night stand between them in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded highly skeptical Friday of TikTok's free-speech defense, signaling they are not likely to strike down the law that could shut down the popular video site the day before President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office.

The justices, both conservative and liberal, said Congress was concerned...Read more

WASHINGTON — The new GOP Congress is getting closer to passing a law that would allow Kentucky’s attorney general to sue the Department of Homeland Security if it fails to enforce federal immigration statutes.

The Laken Riley Act — supported by every Republican member of the commonwealth’s congressional delegation — is intended to ...Read more

SEOUL — They gathered in subzero temperatures, waving banners that read, "Stop the steal."

Some voiced faint hope that President-elect Donald Trump would support their cause; others accused China's Communist Party of infiltrating South Korea's news media.

All of it was in the service of one aim: to save South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday morning for falsifying business records in a scheme to defraud voters in 2016, marking an official end to the explosive case that involved hush money payments to a porn star and formally making Trump a convicted felon 10 days before his return to the White House.

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice ...Read more

Special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Trump’s Jan. 6 election interference case could be released as early as Monday after a federal appeals court denied a bid to keep it secret.

Now that the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has decided not to block the report, Attorney General Merrick Garland is expected to release it anytime...Read more

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