WASHINGTON — Members of a left-leaning group tried to get Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer, the No. 3 Republican in the U.S. House, to hold a town hall to talk about President Donald Trump’s sweeping changes to Washington.

Receiving no response, Wright County Indivisible and Indivisible North Metro chose to hold one without him. At least 300 people...Read more

About two dozen election bills have been introduced in Idaho this legislative session, a total that signals fewer questions around voting across the state compared to past years.

Since the 2020 election, far more election bills have typically been introduced, according to Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane and legislative archives. Right out...Read more

House Republicans announced a spending bill to keep government agencies open through Sept. 30, daring Democrats to vote against it and risk a disruptive March 15 shutdown.

The move tees up a dramatic confrontation on Capitol Hill next week and threatens to further fuel uncertainty for a federal workforce roiled by swift and aggressive cuts made...Read more

New York colleges and universities are freezing hiring and warning that President Trump’s federal cuts endanger the very existence of their research programs.

On Thursday, SUNY convened 14 schools in a letter to the New York Congressional Delegation against drastic slashes to medical research. The universities included Columbia, NYU, Cornell,...Read more

President Donald Trump campaigned on a promise to cure what he said was an ailing U.S. economy. Little more than a month into his second term, he’s starting to hint that the treatment might hurt.

The administration is still lavishing Americans with visions of a golden age to come. Yet in the course of a madcap week – which saw a flurry of ...Read more

House Republicans announced a spending bill to keep government agencies open through Sept. 30, daring Democrats to vote against it and risk a disruptive March 15 shutdown.

The move tees up a dramatic confrontation on Capitol Hill next week and threatens to further fuel uncertainty for a federal workforce roiled by swift and aggressive cuts made...Read more

Democrats would have us believe that Hunter “Fortunate Son” Biden was hired by Burisma for his skills, that his artworks’ lofty sales had nothing to do with the fact that his father Joe was the sitting president, and all the breaks and favors afforded him were due to coincidence, not connections.

Why then, has the bubble protecting Hunter...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has come, gone and returned to the White House, but Boeing Co. still hasn’t delivered the new Air Force One jet that he’s eager to board after it’s painted in a red, white and blue color scheme of his own invention.

“They can never finish the damn thing,” he complained last month, a day before Boeing’s ...Read more

In his address to Congress, President Donald Trump got it terribly wrong and was hugely hypocritical to assail the bipartisan CHIPS Act as a “horrible, horrible thing.” He claimed, “We give hundreds of billions of dollars and it doesn’t mean a thing. They take our money and they don’t spend it.”

The 2022 law (Creating Helpful ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Nearly three years after her arrest on the steps of the Idaho Capitol, abortion rights protester Avalon Hardy said she is still seeking justice for what she alleged were unlawful actions taken by law enforcement.

She won some key decisions in her legal quest earlier this year, while also seeing some of her case dismissed.

...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump’s company sued Capital One Financial Corp., accusing it of illegally “de-banking” him for political reasons by abruptly canceling hundreds of accounts for his sprawling real estate business after his first term ended in 2021.

The Trump Organization had been doing business with Capital One for decades ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump and his fellow defendants in the Fulton County election interference case could eventually receive reimbursement for attorney fees, under a bill that passed the Georgia Senate on Thursday night.

Senate Bill 244 would allow criminal defendants to recover the fees if they successfully argue that a prosecutor ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — During a news conference inside the Oval Office on Friday, President Donald Trump said he has not considered pardoning former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.

Trump addressed the topic, which began circulating after prominent conservative podcaster Ben Shapiro floated the idea earlier this...Read more

Amid the chaos of the Trump administration’s first few weeks in office, a court case regarding the president’s legal right to stop payment of nearly $2 billion in U.S. Agency for International Development contracts poses an important legal question whose answer may show just how strong the country’s separation of powers actually is.

...Read more

President Donald Trump says he has written to Iran’s supreme leader to open talks for a new deal that could prevent Tehran from successfully building nuclear weapons.

Even though he killed a similar deal with Iran in his first term, Trump said in a new interview that he wrote a letter to Ali Khamenei this week warning that Iran should ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland Democrats have asked the State Board of Elections to sanction what they are calling a “shadowy” and illegal campaign against Gov. Wes Moore ahead of his reelection bid next year.

The campaign, which has identified itself only as “No Moore” since its launch in early February, has targeted the Democratic governor ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s frenzied tariff barrage has been marked by reversals and faulty rollouts, baffling U.S. trading partners and businesses while raising questions about the aims of his signature policy.

During his six weeks in office, Trump imposed sweeping Canada and Mexico tariffs, only to pull back with exemptions and...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s frenzied tariff barrage has been marked by reversals and faulty rollouts, baffling U.S. trading partners and businesses while raising questions about the aims of his signature policy.

During his six weeks in office, Trump imposed sweeping Canada and Mexico tariffs, only to pull back with exemptions and...Read more

When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called President Donald Trump this week to discuss the imposition of stiff U.S. tariffs, Trump linked the decision to deadly fentanyl and undocumented migrants crossing into the U.S. along its northern border.

Trump said he blamed Trudeau for "weak border policies" allowing "tremendous amounts" of ...Read more