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.

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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

President Joe Biden offered condolences and pledged federal support at a prayer service with family members of the victims of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans.

During the service hosted by the Archdiocese of New Orleans, Biden said he was “here to stand with you, agree with you, pray with you, let you know you are not alone. The ...Read more

NEW YORK— A Manhattan judge on Monday denied a Hail Mary motion by Donald Trump to stop his sentencing in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case from going ahead this week.

In a brief written decision, state Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan kept in place Trump’s sentencing set for Friday at 9:30 a.m. after the president-elect’s lawyers ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A last-minute insertion into House Republicans’ rules package for the 119th Congress substantially raises the bar for voting on legislation under suspension of the rules late in the week or over the weekend, in a concession to conservatives upset about recent deals with Democrats on big-ticket spending bills.

The change ...Read more

WASHINGTON — There was no horde of protesters outside the Capitol on Monday morning ahead of the quadrennial certification of election results.

A smattering of individuals trudged through the snow — which rocked the D.C. region with several inches overnight — and took photos from behind the fencing that was set up in a wide perimeter ...Read more

MIAMI — For eight years, federal election lawyers have been pursuing former Republican U.S. Rep. David Rivera in court, claiming he funneled illegal political contributions to a candidate running against the congressman’s main Democratic rival in a 2012 Miami-Dade primary campaign.

On Monday, the Federal Election Commission stopped chasing ...Read more

A proposal by federal agencies that could have severely limited the use of fixed climbing anchors in wilderness areas is now dead, following adoption of legislation signed into law by President Joe Biden last weekend.

Among the provisions in the wide-ranging EXPLORE Act (an acronym for “Expanding Public Lands Outdoor Recreation Experiences”...Read more

WASHINGTON — Snow shovels replaced riot gear on Capitol Hill on Monday and de-icing materials dotted the sidewalks that four years prior were stained by bear and pepper spray, as Congress made Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory official on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

No Democratic lawmakers rose to challenge any...Read more

WASHINGTON — Snow shovels replaced riot gear on Capitol Hill on Monday and de-icing materials dotted the sidewalks that four years prior were stained by bear and pepper spray, as Congress made Donald Trump’s Electoral College victory official on the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.

No Democratic lawmakers rose to challenge any...Read more

​WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday softened his push for “one powerful bill” to pass much of his agenda through the budget reconciliation process, saying he remained open to a two-bill strategy favored by Senate Republicans “as long as we get something passed as quickly as possible.”

Trump told conservative radio ...Read more