In a marked shift in U.S. policy toward Venezuela, the Trump administration has quietly approved a new license allowing oil giant Chevron to restart its operations in the South American nation, according to sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations.

The decision this week represents a departure from earlier hard-line measures and ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice has set up a “strike force” to probe unfounded claims that former President Barack Obama illegally pushed allegations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to boost Trump.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said she’s eager to “investigate potential next legal steps” following the release...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans delivered some big legislative victories this month in Congress for President Donald Trump. But when it comes to funding the government, it’s a familiar story on Capitol Hill.

Lawmakers in the House headed home this week for summer break, having passed only two of the 12 government funding bills for 2026.

Unless ...Read more

“Because I said so” never is persuasive or satisfying. And it certainly should not be regarded as acceptable when it is the Supreme Court resolving important issues — up to and including matters of life and death — without the slightest explanation. Yet, that has been the pattern in recent weeks, as in a series of significant cases the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested that he would not go below 15% as he sets so-called reciprocal tariff rates ahead of an Aug. 1 deadline, an indication that the floor for the increased levies was rising.

“We’ll have a straight, simple tariff of anywhere between 15% and 50%,” Trump said Wednesday at an AI summit in Washington. “A ...Read more

Dead six years, child sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein is causing a problem for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party and has now caught House Speaker Mike Johnson, who is backflipping wildly.

This week, the Trump toady lived up to that description by sending the House out of town early on its month-long summer recess right as bipartisan ...Read more

When you consider all the damnable behavior that congressional Republicans have meekly accepted from President Donald Trump — his frequent and blatant constitutional violations, his deranged cabinet appointments, his reckless dismantling of much of the federal government, and most of all what should have been the permanently disqualifying ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic candidates are eyeing a 2026 campaign strategy that targets Republicans for supporting provisions in their sweeping tax and spending law that analysts say may result in higher energy prices.

Last year, Donald Trump won the presidency while running on the slogan “Drill, baby, drill” and frequently criticizing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Republican-led House committee subpoenaed convicted sex offender and Jeffrey Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell on Wednesday to testify next month while The Wall Street Journal separately published its latest piece drawing a link between President Donald Trump and the disgraced financier.

The Oversight Committee’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump was told by Attorney General Pam Bondi that he’s mentioned “multiple times” in files related to the probe of notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to multiple reports.

Bondi told Trump in May that his name appears alongside many other prominent people in Justice Department documents about the Epstein ...Read more

Thwarted in federal court, Planned Parenthood has filed a state lawsuit challenging the implementation of a decades-old Nevada law that requires doctors to notify parents of a minor seeking an abortion.

In April, a federal judge paused a 1985 law from going into effect until the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resolved a motion for a pending ...Read more

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to remove members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday, the latest ruling from the court’s conservative bloc temporarily blessing Trump’s firing of independent agency officials.

Wednesday’s brief, unsigned order would allow the administration to re-fire three members of ...Read more

Senate Republicans are pushing to quickly confirm Emil Bove to a spot on a federal appellate court, as the president’s former defense attorney has emerged as the most contentious judicial nominee so far this Congress.

Bove’s bid for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit narrowly moved forward on a procedural motion this week, days ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — Jack Perry admits that he does not have the normal pedigree for a member of Congress.

After spending a career in the garbage hauling business, Perry said that he is running as a Democrat against 77-year-old U.S. Rep. John B. Larson in a potential multicandidate primary in 2026.

Perry, 35, also gained attention by pledging ...Read more

President Donald Trump was told by Attorney General Pam Bondi that he’s mentioned “multiple times” in files related to the probe of notorious sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, according to a new report Wednesday.

Bondi told Trump in May that his name appears alongside many other prominent people in Department of Justice documents about the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled again Wednesday that it believes the president has the power to fire the leaders of agencies and commissions that Congress said were independent.

Granting another emergency appeal, the justices set aside a Baltimore judge’s order and upheld President Trump’s decision to fire the three Democratic ...Read more

NEW YORK — Republican Rep. Mike Lawler Wednesday announced he’ll skip the New York governor’s race and will instead run for reelection in his Westchester County-based swing congressional district.

“After months of deliberating over this and really working through it, I’ve decided the right thing to do for me and my family and my ...Read more