If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, it could upend the economies of states where farming and other food-related industries are crucial — and where labor shortages abound.

Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor...Read more

When’s the last time you saw a pundit pause?

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, who was convicted of three felony charges, the pardon was startling because Biden repeatedly pledged before the election that he would respect the federal jury’s conviction.

As the news broke of the president’s decision, ...Read more

Two days after the election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a special legislative session focused on “Trump-proofing” the state from the onslaught of expected attacks on a host of issues including reproductive rights, the environment, and immigrants.

“We won’t sit idle,” said Newsom, as lawmakers have proposed funding for ...Read more

Missouri’s voters have spoken on abortion rights. They declared on Nov. 5, by an unambiguous margin, that the state’s constitution now guarantees women complete control over their own reproductive decisions prior to fetal viability. Period, end, full stop.

Yet it comes as no surprise that some Republican lawmakers are already filing ...Read more

Just days after a former Proud Boy from Miami was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to pardon people involved in the attack meant to overturn his 2020 defeat.

Trump for years has recast the people convicted of crimes related to Jan. 6 as “hostages” of...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump met with the leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday and voiced support for the dockworkers union that shut East and Gulf coast ports in October and may strike again in just over a month.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount ...Read more

William Boyland Jr., a former Brooklyn Assemblyman whose influential family has been dubbed “the Kennedys of Brownsville,” was one of 1,583 people granted clemency by the outgoing Biden administration Thursday.

Boyland Jr., was convicted on 21 bribery and corruption charges in 2014 and sentenced to a 14-year prison term. But in February ...Read more

Julie DeVercelly estimates she and her husband, Gary, have been to Washington, D.C., as many as 30 times over the last decade to lobby for the nation’s first federal anti-hazing law.

It’s been a long journey for the DeVercellys, who lost their son Gary Jr. to alcohol poisoning in 2007 after a fraternity event at Rider University in New ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — A former Pennsylvania judge who was convicted of sending children to jail while receiving millions of dollars in kickbacks from the facility’s operator in the early 2000s was one of the nearly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted Thursday by President Joe Biden.

Michael Conahan had been sentenced to 171/2 years in ...Read more

A religious challenge against Indiana’s near-total abortion ban — arguing the ban violates religious freedom — may proceed through a trial court, the state’s supreme court decided.

In a 3-2 decision, the Indiana Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction against the ban, meaning the state cannot enforce it for the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday he agrees with Tom Homan, the incoming Trump administration’s border czar, on the fact that New York City shouldn’t be a “safe haven” for undocumented immigrants who commit serious crimes.

To that end, Adams said he is exploring whether he can use his executive powers to roll back some of New ...Read more

The former FBI informant who claimed he could prove that then-Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden were paid $5 million a piece by the owners of Ukrainian energy company Burisma now admits he made the whole thing up.

Alexander Smirnov lied when he told the FBI that Hunter Biden, who sat on Burisma’s board while President Joe ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland lawmakers tasked with resolving a daunting multibillion-dollar budget deficit in the coming months will enter those negotiations without any last-minute curveballs — at least on one side of the equation.

The state is on track to collect about the same as previously expected — north of $25 billion — in taxes and ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. has publicly confirmed neither a breakup from longtime fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle nor a new relationship with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson.

But sources close to Trump Jr., 46, and the family of President-elect Donald Trump are opening up to People magazine about the reasons that Trump Jr. became tired of his six-year ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump is Time Magazine’s Person of the Year, and in a lengthy interview with the magazine Trump recalled his furious campaign schedule in the lead-up to the election, which helped him every swing state, including Pennsylvania.

This was Trump’s second time being named TIME’s Person of the Year, and comes a little ...Read more

Connecticut defense contractors and military personnel across the state stand to benefit from billions of dollars in Pentagon spending under an $895 billion defense authorization bill that passed the U.S. House of Representatives Wednesday.

Among the biggest beneficiaries of the National Defense Authorization Act is the state’s southeast ...Read more

On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed a bill that could lead to the Smithsonian Institution taking over the ownership of Philadelphia’s Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History.

The President’s approval is the latest in a series of steps needed before it can officially become a Smithsonian museum. The news comes less than a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With Congress set to adjourn on Dec. 20, Maryland is running short of time and legislative options to achieve top priorities, as an essential bill faces some opposition.

House Republicans are raising concerns about legislation Maryland likely needs to ensure the federal government pays the full cost of replacing the collapsed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 people, the largest one-day act of presidential clemency. He also issued pardons to 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, several of whom would get lighter sentences if convicted now, the White House announced Thursday.

The commutations are for people who were ...Read more