“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelenskyy.”

That was the verdict of the editorial team at the Kyiv Independent, one of Ukraine’s leading media outlets, on a remarkable spat in the Oval Office that played out on Feb. 28, 2025.

The online newspaper European Pravda characterized the �...Read more

Journalists covering the Feb. 28, 2025, Oval Office meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described it as a “jaw-dropping” “spectacle” and a “striking breach of Oval Office comity.” Slate’s Fred Kaplan asserted, “Nobody has ever seen anything like it.”

People shouldn�...Read more

President Donald Trump is on the verge of slapping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico while doubling a levy on China, moves that would dramatically expand his push to reshape the U.S. economy, tap new revenues and upend ties with the biggest U.S. trading partners.

The long-promised tariffs scheduled to take effect Tuesday would easily be among ...Read more

President Donald Trump is on the verge of slapping new tariffs on Canada and Mexico while doubling a levy on China, moves that would dramatically expand his push to reshape the U.S. economy, tap new revenues and upend ties with the biggest U.S. trading partners.

The long-promised tariffs scheduled to take effect Tuesday would easily be among ...Read more

Two polls signaled that President Donald Trump risks putting off Americans worried about the economy and inflation with the broad flurry of measures during his first weeks in office.

While about 80% of adults surveyed said Trump should home in on the economy and inflation, they said they believed his top priorities were the U.S.-Mexico border, ...Read more

English should be the official language of the United States, says a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Feb. 28, 2025. The move follows the Trump administration’s termination of the Spanish-language version of the White House website and its Spanish-language account on X, formerly Twitter.

Both were abruptly ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With the Trump administration promising the largest deportation effort in U.S. history, more than 200 people marched through downtown Ontario on Saturday morning in support of the Inland Empire’s immigrant community.

The energetic crowd waved American and Mexican flags, banged drums and unleashed noisemakers as they paraded ...Read more

A federal judge ruled that the head of an independent U.S. agency that protects government whistle-blowers was unlawfully fired last month by President Donald Trump, even as the White House aims to get the case on a fast-track to the Supreme Court.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Saturday entered judgment in favor of Hampton Dellinger...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nearly a dozen cities and counties — including several in the Bay Area — have signed onto a recent lawsuit led by Santa Clara County and San Francisco against the Trump administration, as the fight grows between the feds and local governments that have declared themselves “sanctuaries” for immigrants living in the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump is ordering the Commerce Department to launch an investigation into the national security harm posed by lumber imports, laying the legal groundwork for new tariffs he’s pledged.

The investigation will examine whether exporters like Canada, Germany, and Brazil are dumping lumber into U.S. markets at ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The usual race-to-the-finish mentality of the Maryland General Assembly’s annual session is about to kick up a notch.

A $3 billion state budget deficit, a mid-March federal budget deadline and President Donald Trump’s flood of executive actions have spurred lawmakers’ warnings that the last five weeks will be the most ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dismissal notices went out Saturday to about 85 employees of 18F, a federal agency that works on improving government technology — effectively shutting down an office hailed a decade ago as Uncle Sam’s new tech startup.

The news came in an email early Saturday morning from Thomas Shedd, a former Tesla engineer who’s now the...Read more

The budget resolution that narrowly passed the House on Tuesday represents a significant victory for Republican Speaker Mike Johnson and for the president’s fiscal agenda. Whether it’s good for the country is another matter.

As it stands, the House budget plan would allow for up to $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over the next 10 years and calls ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — Abortions are not yet available in Missouri clinics, despite a judge’s ruling that appeared to clear the way two weeks ago.

As abortion services move towards resuming in Missouri, protests do too

Jacky, right, a sidewalk counselor from Coalition Life, hands the driver of an arriving car literature about alternatives to abortion...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers on Friday were quick to react after President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance argued publicly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House, accusing him of disrespecting the United States before abruptly canceling a joint press conference with the leaders.

Zelenskyy was in Washington to sign ...Read more

President Donald Trump planned to sign an executive order Friday making English the official language of the United States.

Trump’s actions will give government agencies and organizations that receive federal funding the option to only offer instructions in English, according to the White House. The order would reverse a 2000 mandate signed ...Read more

The Department of Justice announced Friday that a federal “task force to combat antisemitism” would visit 10 U.S. college campuses as part of investigations into allegations of antisemitic incidents at campuses roiled by pro-Palestinian protests last spring.

The department said the task force, which is looking into “allegations that the ...Read more

FRANKFORT, Ky. — A faction of the Republican Party, and fellow “followers of Jesus,” continue to celebrate Kentucky’s strict abortion bans and emphasize a need to hold the line against pressure, including from some within the GOP, to add any exceptions.

Instead, they’re fighting to “make abortion unthinkable.”

That message was ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Georgia Senate plans to investigate prominent Democrat Stacey Abrams and a voting rights group she founded after the organization acknowledged it illegally aided her 2018 campaign for governor.

In January the New Georgia Project agreed to pay a whopping $300,000 fine and admitted to 16 violations of campaign finance laws. Now, a...Read more