The California Republican Party on Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to issue an injunction to stop the congressional districts state voters approved last year from going into effect.

Arguing that the districts created by Proposition 50 violate federal law because the race of voters was considered when they ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced plans Tuesday to subpoena the group pushing to get recreational marijuana on the 2026 ballot, saying the subpoenas were part of an “escalation” of the state’s investigation into election fraud.

The probe focuses on fraudulent petitions. In order for a proposed amendment to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is dashing any hopes of a quick rollback of President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The justices are set to start a four-week recess next week without having ruled on pending challenges to most of the duties Trump has imposed over the last year. After Wednesday’s hearing on Trump’s effort to fire Federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump could still lead his proposed Board of Peace after he leaves the White House, a U.S. official said.

The chairmanship is Trump’s to hold until he resigns it, the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Tuesday. A future U.S. president could choose to appoint or designate the official U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When matching up the first year of Donald Trump’s second term with other presidencies, there really is no comparison.

Trump’s breakneck pace since returning to office does not draw clean parallels with any single former president, historians say, though certain actions have mirrored those of several predecessors, including ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An unconstrained U.S. president has sided with Russia in its war of conquest in Europe, seized Venezuela’s dictator from his bed in an attempt to take control of that country’s oil, threatened military strikes against America’s closest neighbors and sent tariffs soaring on its friends.

Donald Trump has gotten away with it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The California Republican Party on Tuesday filed an emergency application asking the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the redrawing of congressional boundaries authorized by Proposition 50.

The state GOP filing could be the last stop for the effort to block the redrawing. The new lines are aimed at adding five Democratic House seats in...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — President Donald J. Trump has commuted the five-year prison sentence of a real estate developer convicted two years ago of an elaborate fraud he and a partner used to acquire $50 million in mortgage loans and build an extensive residential real estate portfolio across Hartford.

At the time, federal prosecutors said the “...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ private text messages as he continues to aggressively push for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

In a series of odd posts, Trump mocked European leaders and doubled down on his insistence that they cave to his demands for control of the Arctic island, which is a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Do licensed gun owners have a right to carry a loaded weapon into stores, restaurants and other private places that are open to the public?

California and Hawaii are among five states with new laws that forbid carrying firearms onto private property without the consent of an owner or manager. But the Trump administration joined ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After tearing his achilles tendon in 2024 at a pickleball fundraiser, doctors told Ohio Republican Rep. Bob Latta he would need emergency surgery. Instead, he asked for a scooter, still making it to House votes later that evening.

Over his almost two decades in Congress, Latta is one of the few House members who maintains a near-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appeared ready during oral arguments Tuesday to rule against a Hawaii law that bars gun possession on private property without the property owner’s consent, as most justices expressed concern the law violated the Second Amendment.

The state passed the law in the wake of a 2022 decision by the Supreme Court in ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Congresswoman Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick showed up in Miami federal court on Tuesday but again did not enter a plea to charges of stealing a $5 million overpayment of federal disaster relief funds to her family’s healthcare company.

An indictment filed in mid-November accuses the Fort Lauderdale-area representative of using ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday over how far President Donald Trump can go in removing a member of the Federal Reserve Board, in a case that experts said puts on the line the stability of the nation’s economy and balance of power between government branches.

Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook has ...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed European allies Tuesday and bared leaders’ private text messages as he continues to aggressively pushing for a U.S. takeover of Greenland.

In a series of odd posts, Trump mocked European leaders and doubled down on his demand that they cave to his demands for control of the Arctic island, which is a semi ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — During his first term, President Donald Trump was both praised and condemned for being wildly unpredictable, pushing boundaries and disregarding long-standing norms in Washington.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, then-Vice President Kamala Harris — Trump's opponent — spoke directly to his volatile leadership style in ...Read more

President Donald Trump pitched his populist economic platform to autoworkers and supporters at a casino in battleground states in recent weeks. Now he’s targeting a different audience: the global elite gathered in the Swiss ski village of Davos.

Trump has vowed to unveil details of a sprawling affordability pitch — which has landed Wall ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Hours before Speaker Mike Johnson became the first speaker in U.S. history to address the British Parliament, President Donald Trump was criticizing the United Kingdom’s planned ceding of overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, including the island of Diego Garcia.

“We’ve always been able to work through our differences ...Read more

President Donald Trump pitched his populist economic platform to autoworkers and supporters at a casino in battleground states in recent weeks. Now he’s targeting a different audience: the global elite gathered in the Swiss ski village of Davos.

Trump has vowed to unveil details of a sprawling affordability pitch — which has landed Wall ...Read more