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

President Donald Trump has been forthright and transparent in his desire to enrich himself with his cryptocurrency memecoin profiting off of his high public office. Trump is beyond shame, but this corrupt debasement of the Oval Office is accepted by so many who should know better, including his fellow Republicans.

Unlike the hundreds of other ...Read more

“If all else fails, push the start button, look for smoke, and repair what is burning.” During my 15 years working with industry, this was common advice when dealing with troublesome complex electric controls that just would not respond to a more scientific analysis. And it worked. Should we expect a president hellbent on changing the world ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration has declared Baltimore City, the state of Maryland and multiple counties and cities within the Old Line State to be “sanctuary” jurisdictions violating federal immigration laws — a move that could lead to grant cuts and other penalties for the city.

The move comes 31 days after Trump issued an ...Read more

Philadelphia stood among 16 Pennsylvania cities and counties named Thursday night on the Trump administration’s list of sanctuary jurisdictions, places now to receive formal notice of what the president calls non-compliance with federal immigration law.

Montgomery, Delaware and Chester counties also were put on the list. So were the cities of...Read more

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas is one of hundreds of jurisdictions across the U.S. that the Department of Homeland Security labeled as a so-called “sanctuary” for undocumented immigrants, a classification the mayor and Nevada’s governor rejects.

“These sanctuary city politicians are endangering Americans and our law enforcement in order to ...Read more

CHICAGO — A day after President Donald Trump’s stunning decision to commute the federal life sentence of Larry Hoover, lawyers for the Chicago-born Gangster Disciples founder were singing the president’s praises while Chicago’s new FBI boss told the Tribune he “deserves to be in prison.”

Trump abruptly ended Hoover’s long quest to...Read more

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and President Donald Trump met for the first time in the president’s second term and sent mixed messages over their long-running spat over interest rates.

The Fed, in a statement, said the top central banker did not discuss interest rates at the White House meeting with Trump. The president has berated ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to immediately block a lower court ruling that barred the United States from implementing tariffs involving dozens of countries.

Hours later, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit put a temporary administrative halt to the lower court order, at least ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court offered President Donald Trump a temporary reprieve from a ruling threatening to throw out the bulk of his sweeping tariff agenda, offering at least some hope to a White House now facing substantial new restrictions on its effort to rewrite the global trading order.

The administration celebrated the order ...Read more

President Donald Trump told Gov. Gretchen Whitmer earlier this year that he would not pursue pardons for individuals convicted in a kidnapping plot against the governor, Whitmer told the Michigan Public Radio Network Thursday.

The second-term Democratic governor said she plans to contact the White House and remind Trump aides of that ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Bruce Springsteen isn’t the only New Jersey-raised artist using his music to protest against the Trump administration.

Add Adam Weiner of Philly band Low Cut Connie to the list. Weiner, who grew up in Cherry Hill and lives in South Philly, has released a new song, “Livin in the USA,” which speaks to the anxiety and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court narrowed federal judicial scrutiny of environmental reviews by federal agencies, ruling Thursday that courts should defer to agency decisions about the scope and content of statements on the environmental effects of a project.

The decision also finds that while those agency impact statements need to address the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pardon of former Rep. Michael G. Grimm is on the public record.

The Department of Justice released pardon documents Thursday, a day after reports that the president had issued them. A White House official confirmed the New York Republican’s pardon ahead of the official release.

The pardon, one of a ...Read more

MACKINAC ISLAND, Mich. — U.S. Rep. Bill Huizenga, a Republican from Holland, said Thursday that he's considering running for the U.S. Senate in 2026 and could announce his campaign as soon as this summer.

"I want to make sure we win," Huizenga told reporters at the Detroit Regional Chamber's Mackinac Policy Conference. "I want to make sure we...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to immediately block a lower court ruling that barred the United States from implementing tariffs involving dozens of countries.

The government said in the filing that it plans to seek emergency relief from the Supreme Court on Friday if it doesn’t get “at ...Read more