When the U.S. Senate considers five Floridians who are up for federal judgeships, three of them should be forced to answer a familiar Washington question: What did you know and when did you know it?

Ed Artau and Jordan Pratt are Florida appellate judges who recently wrote opinions sure to please President Donald Trump, who announced their ...Read more

DENVER — President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax bill would jeopardize food assistance for tens of thousands of low-income Coloradans, while requiring the state to pick up tens of millions of dollars in new spending, according to analyses from two think tanks.

Trump and House Republicans’ bill, which passed the U.S. House on May...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. will not allow any uranium enrichment as part of any deal with Iran under any deal the countries reach, President Donald Trump said.

Trump made the comment in a social media post Monday evening, without elaborating. The U.S. president has regularly signaled that he thinks a deal may be near, and said Iran could face ...Read more

Harvard University lawyers urged a federal judge to rule quickly that the Trump administration’s freeze on about $2.6 billion in federal funding is illegal and that it violated the school’s free speech and regulatory rights.

In a court filing Monday, Harvard argued that the U.S. has not produced enough evidence to show that the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is eager to land more trade deals, but talks with China and Europe continue to languish amid communications breakdowns and fresh tariff threats.

So far there has been few signs of a breakthrough with either of the two biggest American trading partners. In recent days, the path forward has only grown more ...Read more

On Thursday, President Donald Trump’s Department of Homeland Security released a list of jurisdictions it said defied federal immigration law. On Saturday, Canyon County, Idaho, Sheriff Kieran Donahue criticized the list, which included the city of Boise. Now, the department has removed the list from its website.

Was Donahue, a Republican who...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has reversed its decision to shutter eight California outposts of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to a letter from agency head Brooke Rollins.

The about-face came at the urging of a group of Democratic California lawmakers led by Sen. Adam Schiff, who decried plans from the unofficial ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate this month will navigate a minefield of concerns from across the ideological divide among Republicans as well as lobbyists and stakeholders as it works to tweak and approve the House-passed “big, beautiful” budget bill.

Democrats, meanwhile, are lining up an assault on the filibuster-proof bill using all the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — While Republicans warn of lean times ahead, many on Capitol Hill are hoping Congress will choose to pony up more money for itself.

Several legislative branch agencies are seeking substantial funding hikes for fiscal 2026, even as the White House proposes steep cuts to domestic spending and foreign aid, as outlined in a detailed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House’s nearly $4 trillion tax package is set for a makeover in the Senate starting this week when lawmakers return to Washington. It’s not clear yet how extensive the changes will be, but lawmakers and interest groups see plenty of opportunities for tweaks to suit their needs.

Senate Republicans have a more permissive ...Read more

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman walked onto the stage through a doorway cast in a bright blue light. Republican Sen. Dave McCormick followed from the right-hand side, which was glowing bright red.

But from there on, it was mostly an agreeable conversation between Pennsylvania’s senators under white lights at Boston’s Edward M. Kennedy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide a case out of Illinois over the ability to challenge post-Election Day ballot counting, a high-profile cause for President Donald Trump and Republicans.

The appeal, brought by Rep. Mike Bost, R-Ill., and Illinois Republican presidential electors, seeks to revive their challenge to...Read more

BOSTON — A pair of Pennsylvania lawmakers met in Boston on Monday for what was billed as a “vigorous” debate between opposing ideologies, but what actually occurred was the sort of bipartisan collegiality rarely seen in Washington politics at present.

U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and David McCormick, a Democrat and Republican both in their ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — Mexican citizens went to the polls Sunday to elect thousands of judges in a historic vote championed by President Claudia Sheinbaum as an essential democratic reform — and assailed by opponents and many legal experts as a crude maneuver to consolidate ruling-party power.

The vote marked the first time that Mexico has elected ...Read more

In a lengthy ruling last week, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon of D.C. knocked down President Donald Trump’s efforts to punish the law firm WilmerHale by stripping its lawyers of security clearances and attempting to prevent government contractors from working with it, part of a broader strategy to target the legal sector.

Leon channeled the...Read more

It wasn’t long ago that a sheriff trading fake badges in exchange for cash would have earned universal condemnation. But that was before the age of President Donald Trump, when a pledge of personal support for the president can be exchanged for a free pass from punishment.

Nearly every chief executive, certainly every one in recent memory, ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed former President Joe Biden for the weekend flamethrower terror attack on supporters of Israel in Boulder, Colorado, which was allegedly carried out by an undocumented immigrant from Egypt.

Trump said lax immigration security allowed accused attacker Mohamed Sabry Soliman to remain in the U.S. after ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — The future of Mexico’s judiciary was decided by a small minority of voters after an unprecedented election of federal judges, including all members of the nation’s top court.

The electoral authority, known by its Spanish acronym, INE, estimated voter turnout at 12.6% to 13.3% in a preliminary count released late Sunday, as ...Read more

ATLANTA — Pledging to be a voice for “families, science and reason,” Georgia state Rep. Jasmine Clark jumped into the race Monday to unseat U.S. Rep. David Scott, becoming the latest Democrat to mount a generational challenge against one of the state’s longest-serving legislators.

Clark, a microbiologist and college professor, said in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court refused Monday to hear a 2nd Amendment challenge to the bans on semi-automatic rifles in Maryland, California and eight other blue states.

Gun rights advocates say these AR-15s are owned by millions of Americans, and they argue the 2nd Amendment protects weapons that are "in common use by law-...Read more