WASHINGTON — More than 80 members of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina sat Wednesday in the Senate gallery watching lawmakers take a vote that was 137 years in the making.

Senators agreed to recognize the tribe and provide full federal benefits in a 77-20 vote. It’s likely that President Donald Trump will sign the bill they passed into ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Dan Newhouse of Washington, who has beaten challengers backed by Donald Trump in the past two election cycles, is the latest House Republican to announce his retirement.

Newhouse said in a statement Wednesday that he had “no reservations or remorse” as he ends his tenure representing central Washington’s deep-red 4th ...Read more

Covert operations are nothing new for the United States. Throughout its history, the U.S. has overthrown governments it didn’t like, supported insurgencies to complicate the goals of its adversaries and organized coups to subvert politicians perceived as being hostile to American interests.

The list of examples is long: to name just a few, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Five months ago, the story of the first session of the 119th Congress was expected to be the passage of President Donald Trump’s signature policy legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill. But that was before the longest partial government shutdown in American history and the intertwined extended absence of the House.

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Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

Citizens of Antigua and Barbuda and Dominica will face new restrictions on entry into the United States after President Donald Trump on Tuesday expanded a partial travel ban to include 15 new countries as of Jan. 1.

In adding the two eastern Caribbean nations to the list, Trump cited concerns about their Citizenship by Investment, or CBI, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump added 20 countries to those facing either full or partial travel restrictions Tuesday, in a proclamation that says the U.S. must exercise “extreme vigilance” during the visa and immigration processes for national security.

The proclamation issued Tuesday added five countries and the Palestinian ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is weighing an executive order that would pressure defense contractors to spend less on stock buybacks and dividends while boosting investment in infrastructure and weapons production, a person familiar with the matter said.

The executive order, which President Donald Trump could sign as early as this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s chief of staff is defending herself after granting an extraordinarily candid series of interviews with Vanity Fair in which she offers stinging judgments of the president himself and blunt assessments about his administration’s shortcomings.

The profile of Susie Wiles, Trump’s reserved, influential...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Professional wrestling legend Mick Foley announced Tuesday that he is "parting ways with WWE" because of the organization's ties with fellow WWE Hall of Fame inductee President Donald Trump.

"While I have been concerned about WWE's close relationship with Donald Trump for several months — especially in light of his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As members of Congress debate whether to ban stock trading, Roy Cooper, the former governor of North Carolina and a Senate candidate, announced his support for a ban.

“A lot of people just don’t trust Washington politicians,” Cooper said in a written statement to McClatchy. “That’s because too many of them look after ...Read more

Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Anderson are engaged.

President Trump revealed his eldest son’s engagement at a White House holiday party Monday night, as Don Jr. also opened up about the next chapter of his life.

“It’s not often that I’m at a loss for words, ’cause we usually do the ranting and raving really well, but this is a little ...Read more

California led a coalition of 16 states Tuesday to sue the Trump administration in an effort to free up billions of dollars in federal funds intended to build and repair electric vehicle charging stations that it argues the White House has illegally blocked.

Attorney General Rob Bonta said the U.S. Department of Transportation did not have the ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — A visibly frustrated Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed two executive orders on Tuesday, Dec. 16, aimed at addressing gun violence after his push for sweeping gun control laws failed to gain traction in the narrowly divided Legislature.

Walz had been pushing for bills banning assault-style weapons and large-capacity magazines after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., on Tuesday said the Pentagon’s newly announced escalation of an investigation into him was part of an effort to deter service members and government employees from speaking out against President Donald Trump.

A Defense Department official confirmed on Tuesday that the Pentagon was escalating a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled a new state-run website Tuesday that tracks what his office calls the "criminal cronies" around President Trump — just the latest trolling tactic by the California governor that directly mirrors Trump's own use of public resources for political score settling.

Newsom pegged the website's ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he will deliver a prime-time speech from the White House on Wednesday night but gave no details on what the topic will be.

“My fellow Americans: I will be giving an address to the nation tomorrow night,” Trump wrote on his social media site. “I look forward to ‘seeing’ you then.”

The 9 p.m. speech will ...Read more

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles said that President Donald Trump has “an alcoholic’s personality” and is obsessed with retaliating against critics even if it undermines his own policies, according to a bombshell magazine story published on Tuesday.

Wiles, considered a trusted and loyal Trump insider, also trashed Vice President JD ...Read more

NEW YORK — Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is engaged to Right Side Broadcasting Network personality Brian Glenn.

The pair announced their impending nuptials on social media with a photo showing the two enjoying dinner at a restaurant where the right-wing lawmaker showed off her new ring.

“She said ‘yes,'” Glenn captioned the ...Read more