WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said he spoke to Emmanuel Macron after a viral video showed the French president being shoved in the face by his wife.

“He’s fine. They’re fine. They’re two really good people I know very well, and I don’t know what that was all about,” Trump said Friday after being asked about the incident...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — A Louisville woman who sued Kentucky late last year in an effort to overturn the state’s near-total abortion ban withdrew her lawsuit on Friday without explanation.

Represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, the plaintiff — referred to with the pseudonym Mary Poe — was roughly seven weeks pregnant ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom's office sent a letter on Friday requesting that the Trump administration remove California from its list of sanctuary jurisdictions that obstruct the enforcement of federal immigration law.

The Department of Homeland Security issued the list this week in accordance with an executive order President ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday said he’d consider pardoning embattled rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs, who’s currently on trial in the same Manhattan courtroom where Trump was found liable for sex abuse in 2023.

“Nobody’s asked, but I know people are thinking about it,” he told a Fox News reporter in the Oval Office.

Combs faces ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he is firing Kim Sajet, the longtime director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, for being "a highly partisan person, and a strong supporter of DEI."

The announcement, made on Truth Social, comes as Trump pushes to remake some of the highest profile national arts institutions so they ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday cut off a lifeline to more than 500,000 immigrants from Cuba and three other countries, as the justices overturned a federal judge’s order that halted the Trump administration’s plan to revoke their humanitarian parole.

The court granted the administration’s emergency request to lift the judge’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats find themselves in familiar powerless territory when it comes to trying to stop President Donald Trump from what they see as potential violations of a constitutional clause meant to prevent presidents from accepting gifts or other items of value from foreign countries without the consent of Congress.

During Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may seek to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who recently entered the United States under a two-year grant of parole, the Supreme Court decided Friday.

Over two dissents, the justices granted an emergency appeal and set aside rulings by judges in Boston who blocked Trump’s repeal of the parole ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to end a key humanitarian parole program, known as CHNV, that allowed hundreds of thousands of people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to legally enter the United States. The decision affects more than half a million migrants who had been granted temporary legal ...Read more

State Sen. Robin Webb will no longer be the Democrat from Grayson.

But she’s not leaving the Senate, or Grayson. She’s switching her party registration, leaving her six Democratic colleagues and becoming the 32nd Republican in the 38-member body.

The Eastern Kentucky politician announced her plans to switch parties to become a Republican ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s Campaign Finance Board dealt a blow to mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo on Friday, withholding $1.3 million in matching funds from him — but gave a big lifeline to his opponent Adrienne Adams, clearing her for $2.4 million in critical public cash as the Democratic mayoral primary election looms weeks away.

Adams...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may seek to deport hundreds of thousands of immigrants who recently entered the United States under a two-year grant of parole, the Supreme Court decided Friday.

Over two dissents, the justices granted an emergency appeal and set aside rulings by judges in Boston who blocked Trump’s repeal of the parole ...Read more

SAVANNAH, Ga. ― Dust rarely gathers on open U.S. House seats.

The incumbent announces he or she won’t seek reelection, and would-be successors rush to launch campaigns to raise money and establish themselves as early front-runners.

Georgia’s 1st Congressional District, a post open for more than three weeks now, is breaking that norm.

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WASHINGTON – The Trump administration has put 20 Minnesota counties, the state’s two largest cities, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and the state government on notice that they’re in defiance of federal immigration law.

On Thursday evening, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a nationwide list of municipalities, counties and ...Read more

The court ruling that blocked much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs threatens to blow what some economists estimate as a $2 trillion hole into the U.S. fiscal outlook over the coming decade, should the judgment stay in place.

The ruling could also present a new obstacle for Republicans who are relying on the revenue to help ...Read more

Two schools in North Carolina — Duke University and Davidson College — may end up caught in the crossfire of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rein in “woke, elite” institutions.

House Republicans have proposed increasing taxes on Duke and Davidson’s endowments from 1.4% to 7%. That leaves university officials, and even at least ...Read more

American universities have long feared that the Chinese government will restrict its country’s students from attending institutions that cross Beijing’s sensitive political lines.

Universities still fear that consequence today, but the most immediate threat is no longer posed by the Chinese government. Now, as the latest punishment meted ...Read more