Republican congressional leaders pushed back Wednesday on Elon Musk’s harsh criticism of President Donald Trump’s signature budget bill as a fiscally dangerous “disgusting abomination.”

Sen. John Thune and Rep. Mike Johnson both aggressively defended Trump’s sprawling Big Beautiful Bill even as a non-partisan congressional watchdog ...Read more

Former Lexington councilman David Kloiber is the second Democrat to announce a bid to flip Kentucky’s 6th Congressional District from red to blue next year.

Kloiber’s plan is to bring “common sense back to the Commonwealth” by emphasizing in Washington the importance of increasing access to affordable housing, alleviating high costs of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — There’s a wide divide between Republicans and Democrats in Congress. Maybe dogs can bridge the gap?

Rep. Jamie Raskin, a Maryland Democrat, will reintroduce a bill on Wednesday that would allow pet stores to donate expired food and kibble to animal shelters. Rep. Young Kim, a California Republican, will join as its Republican ...Read more

State Rep. Ryan Dotson, R-Winchester, launched his Republican campaign for Congress on Tuesday night with a thunderous prayer calling on God and the voters to let him be the David who slays the Philistine giant Goliath.

“I do know this: I’ll fight. And when David fought the giant, he knocked him out, he cut his head off. I want to bring a ...Read more

Work for now continues daily at Kennedy Space Center on a new mobile launch tower that has already cost more than $1 billion. But the Artemis moon mission it is intended to serve may never happen if President Donald Trump’s plans for NASA come to fruition.

The mobile launcher 2 has been rising steadily at a construction site just north of the...Read more

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei criticized a U.S. proposal for a nuclear deal and called American officials “arrogant” for expecting the Islamic Republic to cease uranium enrichment.

Iran and the U.S. have been engaged in negotiations since April in a bid to end a tense, years-long standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program and...Read more

Congress, its eye on a futuristic form of finance, is debating legislation that would legitimize stablecoins, a specific type of cryptocurrency linked to the U.S. dollar.

But lawmakers eager to do the bidding of this new industry are ignoring the transformation of the American regulatory system and allegations of corruption in the second Trump...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans are running a Spanish-language ad in Rep. Adam Gray’s district, saying he voted for a tax increase.

Gray, D-Calif., last month voted against the “one big beautiful bill” that would keep federal income tax rates at current levels after 2025 and cut some other taxes. If the bill fails, tax rates would go up next ...Read more

Anti-Trump resistance has sunk to a new low.

An employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency is accused of attempting to share classified material with a foreign government out of frustration with President Donald Trump, the Department of Justice said last week.

As Politico reported, Nathan Vilas Laatsch, who worked in IT for the military ...Read more

A concerned and inquisitive President Donald Trump made headlines in February when he said he’d inspect the United States’ gold supply, housed at the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, about 90 miles west of Lexington, Kentucky.

His concern: “Maybe somebody stole the gold.”

Elon Musk, Trump’s former budget-cutting adviser, and ...Read more

SEOUL, South Korea — Left-leaning challenger Lee Jae-myung won South Korea’s presidential election, ending three years of conservative rule in a race that was largely a verdict on his ousted predecessor’s botched attempt to revive martial law in the longstanding U.S. ally.

Lee, a former labor activist, won Tuesday’s election with 49.4% ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — He openly advocated for the death of then-President-elect Donald Trump, hailing himself as an “assassin” and threatening to shoot the would-be 47th commander-in-chief shortly after the election, prosecutors say.

Those words, left on Facebook posts, are at the center of a federal grand jury indictment. On Tuesday, Yucca ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump will attend the upcoming North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit at The Hague, the White House said, as the U.S. president seeks to rally the alliance’s members to step up defense spending.

“I can confirm he will be going to the NATO summit,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on ...Read more

The Trump administration rescinded guidance put in place by former President Joe Biden that directed U.S. hospitals to provide abortions on an emergency basis when they’re medically necessary to stabilize patients.

The guideline was established in July 2022 under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, just weeks after the U.S. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge dismissed California’s lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s tariffs, temporarily stymieing Gov. Gavin Newsom’s biggest political tactic against Trump’s White House.

U.S. District Court Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ruled on Monday that Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta did not have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee used a congressional hearing Tuesday to air grievances about district court rulings against the Trump administration, as Democrats argued judges are simply doing their job.

The joint subcommittee hearing was among the latest Republican pushback to district judges who have ruled ...Read more

Voter approval of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies is running higher than opinions on his overall presidency, according to a pair of recent polls.

Trump scored identical overall voter approval ratings of 46% against 51% disapproval in recent surveys by Morning Consult and Economist/YouGov, both released Tuesday. While those ...Read more

Another nationwide protest against President Donald Trump is coming up. This time, it will take place on his birthday.

The “No Kings” rallies are planned for June 14 and will focus on Trump, his policies, and his spending.

The Saturday events, which are scheduled en masse across the country, will coincide with Trump’s birthday and his ...Read more