WASHINGTON — The top U.S. intelligence official declassified an email trove purporting to expose a Democratic conspiracy to cast doubt on Donald Trump’s 2016 election win, just as his team seeks to defuse criticism over its handling of files linked to financier Jeffrey Epstein.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said the 114 ...Read more

Taconite plants on Minnesota’s Iron Range will now get two extra years to comply with a rule that would have forced them to cut how much mercury they release into the air.

A proclamation signed by President Donald Trump on Thursday notes that the rule “places significant burdens on a sector critical to the Nation’s industrial foundation,�...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is celebrating the cancellation of Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" on CBS — and calling for even more late-night hosts to be axed.

"I absolutely love that Colbert got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings," Trump wrote Friday morning on Truth Social. "I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has even ...Read more

President Donald Trump bowed to a storm of public pressure and ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to release some documents in the Jeffrey Epstein sex case after The Wall Street Journal published a purported racy happy birthday letter from Trump to the notorious pedophile.

In a late-night social media post, Trump told Bondi to release whatever ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is readying plans for industry-specific tariffs to kick in alongside his country-by-country duties in two weeks, ramping up his push to reshape the United States' standing in the global trading system by penalizing purchases from abroad.

Administration officials could release details of Trump’s planned 50...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump could not contain his glee over CBS’ cancellation of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” — and he predicted that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel would be next to get the ax.

“I absolutely love that Colbert got fired,” the president wrote Friday in a post on Truth Social. “His talent was even less than ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the voter registration lists of several states — representing data on millions of Americans — and other election information ahead of the 2026 midterms, raising fears about how the Trump administration plans to use the information.

The DOJ is also demanding Colorado turn over all records related to ...Read more

ATLANTA – A tidal wave of campaign cash is already inundating Georgia politics — long before most voters are paying attention to next year’s high-stakes midterm elections.

An Atlanta Journal-Constitution analysis of newly filed state and federal disclosures shows tens of millions of dollars in contributions and loans are rapidly ...Read more

After believing in Russian leader Vladimir Putin for the last 10 years as trustworthy old Vlad, President Donald Trump has now correctly decided that Putin may not be the most honest of interlocutors on the world stage.

Trump made this startling discovery — decades after practically everyone else — as Putin continues pummeling Ukraine ...Read more

President Donald Trump never stays still for very long. He makes decisions, only to delay their implementation. He listens to pretty much everybody before he settles on a course of action, only to change his mind at the last minute. Whether it’s withdrawing U.S. troops from Syria during his first term or settling on a tariff regime in his ...Read more

U.S. Rep. John B. Larson is facing a possible reelection challenge next year from former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin that would represent Larson’s toughest race since winning the seat in 1998.

Bronin told Democratic colleagues in conversations at the Women’s Leadership Annual Lunch in Southington that he is considering challenging Larson, ...Read more

President Donald Trump sent a raunchy 50th birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein that included a sketch of a naked woman, her breasts and a squiggly “Donald” signature mimicking pubic hair, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The report comes as the president continues to battle the release of the Justice Department’s files on Epstein, the...Read more

Fox News host Jesse Watters acknowledged Thursday that his program made a mistake in reporting on California Gov. Gavin Newsom's phone conversation with President Donald Trump during last month's immigration raids in Los Angeles.

Newsom filed a $787-million defamation lawsuit against Watters and Fox News on June 27 after the host reported on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump directed the Justice Department to seek the release of grand jury testimony related to Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to mounting pressure from his own supporters for more transparency about the late, disgraced financier.

Trump’s move on Thursday came after The Wall Street Journal published a story ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The case of Jeffrey Epstein, closed long ago by investigators but nevertheless a constant source of fascination to conspiracy theorists, is the story that won’t go away for President Donald Trump, who this week continued to resist releasing documents in the case against bipartisan calls and increasing national interest.

The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republican appropriators want their leadership to bring an initial package of fiscal 2026 spending bills to the floor before August recess, Appropriations Chair Susan Collins, R-Maine, said Thursday.

The committee has reported four of its 12 annual bills: the Agriculture, Commerce-Justice-Science, Legislative Branch and ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho doctors are free to refer patients out of state for abortions without concern for criminal prosecution thanks to an agreement signed by the state’s top attorney that ended a lawsuit over the issue.

Idaho Attorney General Raúl Labrador, along with the Ada and Valley County prosecutors, on Thursday signed a consent ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has undone a 2022 congressionally chartered commission’s renaming of military bases and ships that had for years celebrated the Confederacy, but as of this week both the House and Senate are poised to consider at least a partial reversal of President Donald Trump’s moves.

The House fiscal 2026 NDAA ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The case of Jeffrey Epstein, closed long ago by investigators but nevertheless a constant source of fascination to conspiracy theorists, is the story that won't go away for President Donald Trump, who this week continued to resist releasing documents in the case against bipartisan calls and increasing national interest.

The case ...Read more

Sarah Bignall didn’t get much sleep overnight Wednesday.

The general manager of KAXE radio in northern Minnesota was still awake at 2:45 a.m. watching C-SPAN’s livestream of the U.S. Senate vote on the rescissions package.

Shortly after senators approved the cancellation of some $9 billion in already-appropriated federal funds from the ...Read more