Nevada Assembly leaders want Joe Lombardo to consider recruiting state employee candidates from the pool of federal employees who have been laid off since the start of the Trump administration, according to a Wednesday letter to the Republican governor.

Democrats leading the 42-member body said they were concerned about the impact of federal ...Read more

As the Trump administration continues to slash the federal workforce, the National Park Service — which has lost nearly 10% of its staff to the sweeping cuts — just reported that 2024 set a record high for visits to its parks.

Nearly 332 million people showed up to hike, camp or simply get a breath of fresh air in America’s national parks...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is considering exempting certain agricultural products from tariffs imposed on Canada and Mexico, the latest move by the administration on Wednesday to offer relief to certain sectors from the sweeping new import taxes.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins told Bloomberg News that “everything is on the ...Read more

Immigration enforcement supporters clashed with sanctuary city advocates outside City Hall Wednesday as a congressional committee heard from Mayor Michelle Wu in Washington.

Some protesters from both sides met face-to-face in showdowns, triggering Boston Police officers to intervene and break up multiple verbal confrontations. No arrests were ...Read more

New York Attorney General Letitia James told schools on Wednesday that President Trump’s attempts so far to ban diversity, equity and inclusion programs were on shaky legal ground — paving the way for a showdown with the White House.

In joint guidance led by James, a coalition of 14 attorneys general said neither an executive order nor a ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday waded into the decadeslong debate over nuclear waste, hearing debate over whether a private company can build a repository designed to store tons of spent fuel that has stacked up over the years at commercial power plants across the country.

The case examines whether the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has the ...Read more

U.S. prosecutors charged 10 Chinese citizens and two government agents for computer hacks that targeted dissidents, religious groups, news outlets and American government agencies.

The Chinese government paid Anxun Information Technology Co., a cybersecurity firm also known as i-Soon, to hack and steal information in a manner that obscured its ...Read more

President Donald Trump gave his new administration high marks in a bullish speech to Congress on Tuesday, arguing he is making fast work of his promised agenda on immigration, the economy, international trade and global conflicts, and that the U.S. is stronger for it.

"We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations accomplish in...Read more

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — A hearing on legislation that would allow terminally ill people to end their lives with the help of a physician was postponed Wednesday as lawmakers sought more time to refine the proposal, which advocates are again pushing after failing to get a version through the General Assembly last year.

The measure would legalize ...Read more

President Donald Trump warned Hamas there will be “hell to pay” if the militant group doesn’t immediately release its hostages in Gaza.

Trump issued the caution in a social media post Wednesday that followed a rare direct meeting between a U.S. official and Hamas, designated a terrorist organization by the United States and other nations....Read more

President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, marking the first time in the country’s 248-year history that the government has established a formal tongue.

“From the founding of our Republic, English has been used as our national language,” the order, which was...Read more

The Haitian government has hired as a lobbyist an influential member of President Donald Trump’s recent campaign to regain the White House.

Carlos Trujillo, a former Republican congressman from Florida who served as Trump’s ambassador to the Organization of American States, has filed paperwork with the Department of Justice showing that his...Read more

Many Americans who tuned in to watch President Donald Trump’s speech in Congress had a positive reaction, according to a new poll, which surveyed around 400 people and included an outsized number of Republicans.

It was the president’s first speech to Congress since returning to the White House.

But compared with past speeches, his positive...Read more

WASHINGTON — Texas Democratic freshman Rep. Sylvester Turner, who spent nearly three decades as a state lawmaker and eight years as Houston mayor, died on Wednesday just two months into his first term in Congress.

Turner’s family said in a statement that he had been taken to a hospital Tuesday after attending President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

DENVER — A Florida man was sentenced Tuesday for threatening public figures, including Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold.

Richard Kantwill was sentenced to two years in prison and three years of supervised release, and has been ordered to pay a fine of $10,000, according to a news release from the Colorado Secretary of State.

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The marquee Republican-backed bill limiting college practices of diversity, equity and inclusion passed the Kentucky House of Representatives Wednesday with the unanimous backing of GOP members.

House Bill 4, sponsored by Rep. Jennifer Decker, passed 81-18 following a long debate, featuring hard pushback from the majority of the chamber’s 20 ...Read more

A Missouri lawmaker who texted the state’s 988 suicide hotline saying that she had a gun to her head won’t face criminal charges, the Cole County Prosecutor’s Office announced Wednesday.

Cole County Prosecutor Locke Thompson said in a news release that Rep. Tricia Byrnes, a Wentzville Republican, won’t face charges for the incident. ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — House Speaker Destin Hall filed legislation Wednesday that would require sheriffs to notify federal immigration authorities before releasing anyone being held at those officials’ request.

Hall previously led the charge in the GOP-controlled legislature to enact legislation requiring sheriffs to honor the detainer requests ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Presidential addresses to the nation, whether joint sessions of Congress or State of the Union speeches, were historically an opportunity to promote national unity while also highlighting policy differences.

That ship has long sailed, but President Donald Trump’s address in the Capitol on Tuesday night — and the response ...Read more