WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed former U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers for Michigan's open U.S. Senate seat ― the day after another potential contender for the GOP nomination bowed out.

"From the U.S. Army to Congress, Mike has served our Nation with distinction, and will bring that same Fighting Spirit to the U.S. Senate," ...Read more

President Donald Trump is endorsing Ashley Moody for a full term U.S. Senate seat.

Moody, who was twice elected to be Florida Attorney General, was appointed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in January to replace Sen. Marco Rubio. Trump had tapped Rubio to be Secretary of State, leaving the seat open.

She’ll face voters in a senate race for the first ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a $9 billion package of spending cuts that ends federal funding for public broadcasters and reduces foreign aid, the White House said.

The measure was spurred by onetime Trump ally Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative, the Department of Government Efficiency, which sought to shutter ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump downplayed his clash with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell over cost overruns during a tour of the central bank’s renovation project on Thursday, making it clear that he saw the issue of lower interest rates as a more pressing concern.

After a tour that saw Trump and Powell publicly trade barbs over...Read more

Multiple defense bills on Congress’ post-recess agenda would cement in law the Trump administration’s restrictions on health care for transgender members of the military community.

The provisions could have a lasting effect on the lives of perhaps several thousand current and former Defense Department personnel — both uniformed and ...Read more

The season 27 premiere of “South Park” may have been delayed two weeks, but it made quite an entrance Wednesday night – so much so that even the White House took note. It is perhaps not all that surprising since President Donald Trump played a starring role.

Though many of Trump’s real-world policies and actions were spotlighted in the ...Read more

UnitedHealth Group’s confirmation of a federal probe into its Medicare business comes just as lawmakers in Washington are newly calling for reforms in the sprawling Advantage program, which now provides coverage for a majority of Medicare beneficiaries.

For years, Medicare Advantage, or MA, has been a lucrative line of business for private ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Deflect, distract, delay. Then depart.

President Donald Trump and congressional Republican leaders have been forced to pivot from celebrating a string of legislative and foreign policy wins to doing anything possible to distract angry “Make American Great Again” loyalists. On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there appears to...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end sanctuary city law policies in New York City, arguing that the laws that protect migrants violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court, cites Sunday’s shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aimed at removing homeless people from streets.

The measure, titled by the White House as “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” calls on Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek to overturn legal rulings the Trump administration says make it difficult for cities and states...Read more

NEW YORK — The Trump administration has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to end sanctuary city law policies in New York City, arguing that the laws that protect migrants violates the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court, cites Sunday’s shooting of an off-duty Customs and Border ...Read more

In a marked shift in U.S. policy toward Venezuela, the Trump administration has quietly approved a new license allowing oil giant Chevron to restart its operations in the South American nation, according to sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

The decision this week represents a departure from earlier hard-line measures and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has set up a “strike force” to probe unfounded claims that former President Barack Obama illegally pushed allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to boost Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she’s eager to “investigate potential next legal steps” following the release...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans delivered some big legislative victories this month in Congress for President Donald Trump. But when it comes to funding the government, it’s a familiar story on Capitol Hill.

Lawmakers in the House headed home this week for summer break, having passed only two of the 12 government funding bills for 2026.

Unless ...Read more

“Because I said so” never is persuasive or satisfying. And it certainly should not be regarded as acceptable when it is the Supreme Court resolving important issues — up to and including matters of life and death — without the slightest explanation. Yet, that has been the pattern in recent weeks, as in a series of significant cases the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that he would not go below 15% as he sets so-called reciprocal tariff rates ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline, an indication that the floor for the increased levies was rising.

“We’ll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15% and 50%,” Trump said Wednesday at an AI summit in Washington. “A ...Read more

Dead six years, child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein is causing a problem for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party and has now caught House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is backflipping wildly.

This week, the Trump toady lived up to that description by sending the House out of town early on its month-long summer recess right as bipartisan ...Read more

When you consider all the damnable behavior that congressional Republicans have meekly accepted from President Donald Trump — his frequent and blatant constitutional violations, his deranged cabinet appointments, his reckless dismantling of much of the federal government, and most of all what should have been the permanently disqualifying ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic candidates are eyeing a 2026 campaign strategy that targets Republicans for supporting provisions in their sweeping tax and spending law that analysts say may result in higher energy prices.

Last year, Donald Trump won the presidency while running on the slogan “Drill, baby, drill” and frequently criticizing ...Read more