WASHINGTON — Senate Commerce Republicans’ decision to tie a moratorium on state and local regulation of artificial intelligence to the federal broadband expansion program is raising new questions as Republicans push to pass their sweeping budget reconciliation bill in the coming days.

The provision, which was included in reconciliation text...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had no plans to speak to onetime ally Elon Musk and added that he was still looking at canceling the billionaire’s government contracts — an indication that their public feud is far from over.

“We’ll take a look at everything,” Trump told reporters Friday. “It’s a lot of subsidy.”

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After leading the U.S. House in a prayer with an entreaty to God to help people “remember that we belong to one family” on Friday, a Sikh man from South Jersey was the target of a highly critical social media post by U.S. Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., who found the participation by a non-Christian “deeply troubling.”

In a post that’s been...Read more

Even before President Donald Trump told Haitians this week they will no longer be welcome in the United States, travel from the crisis-wracked Caribbean nation was already difficult. It’s been restricted by deadly gang violence, repeated airport shutdowns and years-long visa delays at the U.S. Embassy in Port-au-Prince.

Now, with the newly ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of states and companies used the Trump administration’s own statements against them while urging a federal appeals court to pause the sweeping new tariffs on dozens of countries.

The Thursday filings at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit come as the Trump administration seeks to keep the tariffs in place ...Read more

A defense attorney who worked with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein claims his former client provided no information that would implicate President Donald Trump in any illegal activity.

Epstein, who hanged himself at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, was known to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s domestic drama threatens to overshadow a coming G7 summit, and a recent meeting with the German chancellor — with quips about World War II — suggests awkward moments could overtake the confab in Canada, which Trump has proposed making the “51st state.”

The question of how much German ...Read more

President Donald Trump continued his war of words with Elon Musk on Friday, saying the Tesla tycoon “has lost his mind” — even as Musk seemed to be softening his stance in their epic feud.

Trump on Friday told reporters that while Musk may be ready to make amends, he’s not ready to rekindle his friendship with the tech billionaire, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The clamorous end to President Trump’s alliance with Elon Musk is increasing pressure on the White House over its signature legislation known as the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” — a bill under intense scrutiny in the Senate that Musk wants killed over its price tag, but that Trump views as critical to the success of his ...Read more

If a new YouGov poll is any indication, the public is still digesting this week’s explosive fallout between President Donald Trump and former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) leader Elon Musk.

Some 52% of respondents to Thursday’s poll said they side with “neither” Trump nor Musk as the world’s most powerful man and world’...Read more

With new legal muscle, the nonprofit Freedom of the Press Foundation is upping pressure on Paramount Global to abandon efforts to settle President Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit targeting CBS and “60 Minutes.”

Respected Washington litigator Abbe David Lowell this week joined the team representing the New York advocacy group, which has...Read more

The Netherlands will hold a general election on October 29 after far-right leader Geert Wilders pulled his Freedom Party out of the Dutch government earlier this week.

The Minister of the Interior Judith Uitermark posted the date on X Friday.

Wilders pulled the plug on the coalition after his partners rejected his latest proposals to curb ...Read more

It’s hard to believe U.S. trade policy could get any more confused and confusing, but somehow it has. Last week’s court ruling deeming many of the tariffs levied by the White House to be illegal has only deepened the uncertainty confronting U.S. companies and trading partners.

What’s clear, however, is that the decision hasn’t deflected...Read more

In a video message Thursday, Duke University President Vincent Price said the private Durham school will offer new faculty buyouts ahead of likely staff layoffs in response to multiple federal funding threats under the Trump administration.

“We will, for the foreseeable future, have to be smaller — and do our work with fewer people,” ...Read more

Social media exploded with hot takes from all over the political spectrum Thursday amid the very public and acrimonious split between President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The feud between one of the world’s most powerful leaders and the world’s wealthiest man appeared to be simmering even before Musk left the White House last week after ...Read more

MIAMI — A day after President Donald Trump proclaimed full or partial travel restrictions for Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela and 16 other countries, U.S. tourist-visa holders from the targeted nations lacked clarity about whether they will be allowed into the United States when the ban is in force Monday.

The confusion stems from language the White ...Read more

President Donald Trump and Sen. Elizabeth Warren have long had a rocky relationship characterized by deep policy disagreements and insult hurling.

Trump has called the Massachusetts Democrat a “basket case” and frequently referred to her as “Pocahontas.” In turn, Warren has described Trump as a “thin-skinned fraud” and a “wannabe ...Read more

After the House passed the massive tax breaks and spending cuts package in May, congressional Republicans from high-tax states claimed victory.

The reconciliation bill, after some late-in-the-game negotiating, included an increase to the cap on how much of a deduction taxpayers can claim to offset high state and local tax obligations.

Raising ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced sanctions on four judges of the International Criminal Court for alleged “transgressions” against the U.S. and Israel, escalating pressure on what the U.S. labels a highly politicized institution.

The decision follows President Donald Trump’s executive order in February authorizing ...Read more