Usually when people announce, “Here’s the thing,” I want to ask, really? Did God stop by today with a cheese danish for the both of you, to tell you what the thing was?

But here’s the thing: We’re going to need you this Saturday.

What is happening in Los Angeles with the National Guard is not simply President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Starting today, the Trump administration will impose a long-expected revamp of the cruel policy that made it very clear during the early days of his first term that the president was not bluffing on his desire to indiscriminately target entire classes of immigrants in his promised crackdown: the travel ban.

This time, President Donald Trump has...Read more

The race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will play a decisive role in the “New Cold War” with China.

America currently enjoys a multi-year lead in cutting-edge AI technologies. This lead is protected by export controls that prevent China from obtaining America’s best technology and slow its progress in developing AI ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former Republican Ryan Crosswell, who resigned his post as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in February in a break with the Trump administration, has announced that he is running for Congress in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley — as a Democrat.

Crosswell, a 44-year-old Marine veteran who was born in Pottsville, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he intended to send letters to trading partners in the next one to two weeks setting unilateral tariff rates, ahead of a July 9 deadline to reimpose higher duties on dozens of economies.

“We’re going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks, to countries, telling them what ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers were back in court Wednesday to renew their push to dismiss the New York jury verdict that makes him the only person convicted of a felony to serve as president.

Trump was convicted last year in Manhattan state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans rescued their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill from an early death in the Senate Wednesday by passing a measure deleting various provisions that would have violated Senate budget rules.

To avoid a stand-alone vote on the fixes, automatic adoption of the resolution correcting the engrossment of the House ...Read more

The League of United Latin American Citizens is planning counterprotests across Texas in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement that he mobilized the Texas National Guard ahead of demonstrations against the Trump administration this week.

“We have 277 councils in the state of Texas, and so you’re going to see a lot of folks out there...Read more

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over his handling of the dramatic break with President Donald Trump, days after a call with two of the president’s top allies.

Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles called Musk last Friday to urge him to end his conflict with Trump, said people ...Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced late Tuesday he deployed Texas National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of protests planned for Wednesday night against a Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

He also said he plans to send guardsmen elsewhere in the state to “uphold law and order,” days ahead of planned ...Read more

The Republican-led House of Representatives was poised Wednesday to hold a do-over vote on President Donald Trump’s sprawling budget bill to tweak some provisions that ran afoul of the complicated rules allowing the GOP to pass the bill using the arcane reconciliation process.

The amended Big, Beautiful Bill would nix a measure cracking down ...Read more

DENVER — Hundreds of Coloradans in Douglas County will mobilize Saturday for an anti-Trump rally, even after the town of Parker tried to shut them down, organizers say.

The Parker-led group will join thousands of people in cities across the country hosting “No Kings” rallies on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s birthday, “in response...Read more

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling-out last week, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said on his social-media platform, X. “They went too far.”

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CHICAGO — State election officials have informed Senate President Don Harmon that he will face more than $9.8 million in penalties pending an appeal of a case alleging he broke an Illinois election law designed to rein in big money in political campaigns.

The calculation of the potential penalty emerged only days after the Oak Park Democrat ...Read more

Elon Musk, who served as a close adviser and confidant to President Donald Trump until a bitter public falling out last week in a series of social-media posts, issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over how he handled the rupture.

“I regret some of my posts about President @realDonaldTrump last week,” he said on his social-media ...Read more

On April 24, President Donald Trump issued another questionable executive order, this one calling for deep-sea mining in both federal and international waters. The former is within his control; the latter would be a violation of international law.

Although the U.S. is not a signatory to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea— the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump can continue to enforce his global tariffs for now, a federal appeals court held in a win for the president on one of his signature economic policies.

The order Tuesday by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit extends an earlier, short-term reprieve for the administration as it presses a challenge to a ...Read more

Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford announced this week he is joining a coalition of 15 other Democratic attorneys general in a lawsuit against the Trump administration to stop the redistribution of devices that the lawsuit claims enable firearms to fire like machine guns.

The Democrat’s latest lawsuit particularly targets the Bureau of ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned protesters to stay away from his controversial military parade planned for Saturday in Washington D.C. — or face “very big force.”

As he defends his crackdown on immigration protests in Los Angeles, Trump said authorities wouldn’t hesitate to flex their muscles if protesters seek to disrupt the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has shifted into a noticeably military mindset, just days before hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles will rumble along the streets of the nation’s capital.

“Those foolish enough to challenge America’s Army have been met with unyielding strength, unbreakable spirit and unstoppable, overwhelming force...Read more