ORLANDO, Fla. — Moving swiftly to distance herself from her embattled predecessor, newly minted Supervisor of Elections Karen Castor Dentel said Tuesday that her administration has begun efforts to claw back taxpayer funds from Valencia College and the Central Florida Foundation.

Payments to those groups were made by the previous elections ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania is the first Senate Democrat to sign onto a Republican-led bill that would require federal authorities to detain undocumented immigrants arrested for theft-related crimes.

The bill, passed in the House Tuesday, is slated to come up for a Senate vote on Friday. In addition to requiring federal detention of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Florida blocked the Justice Department from releasing a report on two criminal probes of Donald Trump, setting up a potential legal fight between the president-elect and the prosecutors that investigated him.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said she was temporarily prohibiting public release of the findings ...Read more

NEW YORK — A lawyer for Donald Trump on Tuesday failed to convince a New York appeals court to stop his sentencing from going ahead this week as the president-elect fired off a barrage of frenzied last-ditch attempts to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.

Associate Justice Ellen Gesmer shot down Trump’s ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump refused to rule out using military force to grab the Panama Canal and Greenland on Tuesday, saying U.S. national security depends on winning control of the two territories.

In a free-wheeling press conference, Trump also vowed he would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the “Gulf of America” and proclaimed...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump and the spending-skeptical House may be on a path that could end in a collision over federal spending. Just consider his pricey idea of the U.S. purchasing Greenland.

A group of conservative House Republicans last month demanded deep spending cuts as Congress struggled to pass an extension of ...Read more

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen rebuffed President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy Greenland but welcomed U.S. investment in the self-ruling territory.

The U.S. is “absolutely our closest ally” and Denmark is open to more collaboration in the North Atlantic region, Frederiksen told local broadcasters on Tuesday. “We have a ...Read more

NEW YORK — Lawyers for Donald Trump petitioned a New York appeals court on Tuesday to throw out the guilty verdicts against him before his sentencing later this week in a last-ditch attempt to close the book on his criminal hush money case before he takes office.

The filing to the First Department, Appellate Division appeals court came a day ...Read more

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen put a positive spin on U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s wish to buy Greenland, a self-ruling territory of Denmark.

The U.S. is “absolutely our closest ally” and Denmark is open to more collaboration in the North Atlantic region, Frederiksen told local broadcasters on Tuesday. It’s positive that...Read more

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau on Tuesday issued new regulations barring medical debts from American credit reports, enacting a major new consumer protection just days before President Joe Biden is set to leave office.

The rules ban credit agencies from including medical debts on consumers’ credit reports and prohibit ...Read more

When states give driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants, it affects nondrivers, too — even the littlest ones. Babies born to immigrants from Mexico and Central America are bigger and healthier in states that make that change, our research shows. The longer a law is in effect before a baby is conceived, the stronger the effect.

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LAS VEGAS — It’s easy to complain about gridlock and bureaucracy in Washington D.C., but Nevada’s federal delegation managed to push forward a slate of new laws in the last session of Congress, which concluded Friday, from expediting federal land purchases to securing funds for a new VA hospital in Reno.

Nevada’s two Democratic senators...Read more

In the final days of his presidency, Joe Biden has endorsed a truly bipartisan cause: barring members of Congress from trading on Wall Street using privileged information. If Congress truly aims to represent the American people and not a public- and private-sector ruling class, they must bar themselves from using their positions of power to line...Read more

In 1933, Dr. Francis Townsend penned a Letter to the Editor for the Long-Beach Press-Telegram. His radical, simple idea — to give $200 a month (now, about $4,800) to seniors, on the condition that they spend it all before their next payment — spawned one of the largest citizen movements the nation had experienced up to that point.

A ...Read more

After weeks of speculation over his future, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his intention to resign on Jan. 6, 2025.

His departure will bring an end to more than a decade of power for the progressive politician and once-darling of the liberal left. It follows infighting in his own party and a slump in Trudeau’s ...Read more

Republicans should get in line and support President-elect Donald Trump’s policy goals by offering a single “powerful” bill, the incoming commander-in-chief declared.

In a late Sunday Truth Social post, the soon-to-be 47th president of the United States said he wants to see an omnibus bill on his desk “as soon as possible.”

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WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump took to Truth Social on Monday to deny a report that he might moderate plans for across-the-board tariffs when he retakes the White House, fanning uncertainty about one of the most hotly anticipated policy moves he’s set to make.

And that may have been the point.

Trump and his team have kept ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. will travel to Greenland this week in a surprise visit to the Arctic territory, just weeks after his father, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, rekindled the idea of buying the island from Denmark.

A delegation arrived in the capital Nuuk on Monday, and Trump Jr. himself will land on Tuesday, the head of Greenland’s ...Read more