BOISE, Idaho — Nearly three years after her arrest on the steps of the Idaho Capitol, abortion rights protester Avalon Hardy said she is still seeking justice for what she alleged were unlawful actions taken by law enforcement.

She won some key decisions in her legal quest earlier this year, while also seeing some of her case dismissed.

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NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s company sued Capital One Financial Corp., accusing it of illegally “de-banking” him for political reasons by abruptly canceling hundreds of accounts for his sprawling real estate business after his first term ended in 2021.

The Trump Organization had been doing business with Capital One for decades ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and his fellow defendants in the Fulton County election interference case could eventually receive reimbursement for attorney fees, under a bill that passed the Georgia Senate on Thursday night.

Senate Bill 244 would allow criminal defendants to recover the fees if they successfully argue that a prosecutor ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — During a news conference inside the Oval Office on Friday, President Donald Trump said he has not considered pardoning former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

Trump addressed the topic, which began circulating after prominent conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro floated the idea earlier this...Read more

Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly $2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of powers actually is.

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President Donald Trump says he has written to Iran’s supreme leader to open talks for a new deal that could prevent Tehran from successfully building nuclear weapons.

Even though he killed a similar deal with Iran in his first term, Trump said in a new interview that he wrote a letter to Ali Khamenei this week warning that Iran should ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Democrats have asked the State Board of Elections to sanction what they are calling a “shadowy” and illegal campaign against Gov. Wes Moore ahead of his reelection bid next year.

The campaign, which has identified itself only as “No Moore” since its launch in early February, has targeted the Democratic governor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s frenzied tariff barrage has been marked by reversals and faulty rollouts, baffling U.S. trading partners and businesses while raising questions about the aims of his signature policy.

During his six weeks in office, Trump imposed sweeping Canada and Mexico tariffs, only to pull back with exemptions and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s frenzied tariff barrage has been marked by reversals and faulty rollouts, baffling U.S. trading partners and businesses while raising questions about the aims of his signature policy.

During his six weeks in office, Trump imposed sweeping Canada and Mexico tariffs, only to pull back with exemptions and...Read more

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called President Donald Trump this week to discuss the imposition of stiff U.S. tariffs, Trump linked the decision to deadly fentanyl and undocumented migrants crossing into the U.S. along its northern border.

Trump said he blamed Trudeau for "weak border policies" allowing "tremendous amounts" of ...Read more

Few cities have experienced a sharper economic change of fortune than Detroit.

It was one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation between 1900 and 1950.

In the nearly 75 years since then, it has lost over 60% of its population, becoming the defining example of a postindustrial city in decline.

Chronic population ...Read more

President Donald Trump launched his second term with a series of executive orders, asserting his authority more decisively than in 2017. His moves, shaped directly by unfiltered public opinion, align – for now – with what many Americans want. Pollsters are tracking this public sentiment in real time.

A pollster – of which I am ...Read more

Political spin is nothing new, and identifying reliable news and information can be hard to do during any presidency. But the return of Donald Trump to the White House has reignited debates over truth, accountability and the role of media in a deeply divided America.

Misinformation is an umbrella term that covers all kinds of false ...Read more

Donald Trump is the third U.S. president to pardon a large group of insurrectionists. His clemency toward those convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection – including seditious conspiracy and assaults on police officers – was different in key ways from the two previous efforts, by Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Ulysses S. ...Read more

War is a numbers game. Each side involved must marshal the supplies, troops and firepower needed to sustain the fight, thwart advancing armies and, hopefully, prevail.

But it’s also a game of uncertainty.

For the past three years, Ukraine’s military planners have had to approach every battle with a series of cold ...Read more

A CNN instant poll after Tuesday night’s joint address to Congress reported that 66% of speech watchers said that President Donald Trump’s policies will move America in the right direction.

That’s a pretty good snapshot of how the night went for Democrats, who spent the evening disrupting the proceedings, walking out, refusing to stand ...Read more

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China, claiming they would fix trade imbalances and protect jobs. However, instead of helping American workers, these tariffs act as hidden taxes; they drive up costs and feed inflation. While average Americans bear the brunt of higher prices and lost jobs, the ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The on-again, off-again threat of U.S. tariffs on goods from Mexico and Canada took another dizzying turn Thursday, when President Donald Trump declared that Washington would temporarily reverse some of the sweeping taxes that he imposed just two days earlier.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he would pause for one month ...Read more