In the first week of October, with the government shutdown underway, the Senate confirmed President Donald Trump’s nominee to head up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Neil Jacobs.

Jacobs, who served as the acting under secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere during the first Trump Administration, is best ...Read more

President Donald Trump has argued that he needs to deploy National Guard troops across state lines to protect federal personnel and property or to support overwhelmed local law enforcement in cities he claims are “overrun” by crime.

But a Stateline analysis of U.S. Census Bureau and federal crime data shows that Trump’s deployments and ...Read more

In the annals of American politics, few figures have reshaped the landscape as profoundly as President Donald Trump. His bombastic style, unfiltered rhetoric, and policy disruptions galvanized the Republican base while triggering a seismic reaction among Democrats.

As Trump’s second term approaches its end in 2029, the GOP stands at a ...Read more

Small businesses challenging many of President Donald Trump’s global tariffs urged the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm lower court rulings that the import levies amount to a massive illegal tax on American companies.

Trump usurped the power of Congress to tax when he issued levies in February and April under an emergency law that was never ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed to boost beef imports from Argentina as the U.S. faces soaring meat prices. But any increases may offer little relief to consumers — and risk angering American ranchers.

Trump said on Sunday that buying more meat from Argentina would “bring our beef prices down” while also aiding the struggling South American ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if “habitual drug users” should lose their gun rights under the Second Amendment.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any “...Read more

For most of this year, caseworkers in Rep. Suhas Subramanyam’s office have struggled to get through to federal agencies, as mass layoffs rippled through the Trump administration.

His staff was starting to make inroads again with certain agencies, like the Internal Revenue Service, the Virginia Democrat said.

Then, the shutdown came.

“They...Read more

President Donald Trump over the weekend continued to paint San Francisco as a hotbed of crime, and suggested in a Fox News interview, once again, that he planned to send federal troops to the city by the bay.

“I think they want us in San Francisco,” Trump told Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo during a Sunday interview. “San Francisco was truly...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and congressional Democrats have announced a sweeping investigation into potential misconduct in the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration crackdown that has ensnared citizens, made use of racial profiling and terrified communities for months.

Bass and the top Democrat on the House ...Read more

Outrage spread Monday over President Donald Trump’s effort to mock the huge No Kings protests over the weekend by posting an AI video of himself dumping waste on demonstrators.

Supporters of the sprawling rallies that drew millions slammed Trump for posting the 18-second clip depicting him wearing a crown and piloting a KING TRUMP warplane ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is expected to host Senate Republicans for a Rose Garden lunch Tuesday, while the ongoing partial government shutdown continues to have no end in sight.

A GOP source confirmed the plan for the White House visit, which comes as the Senate majority will also try this week to call up a bill that would pay ...Read more

WASHINGTON — One of the lawmakers working on the Senate Banking Committee’s next iteration of crypto legislation doesn’t want to revisit a provision in earlier legislation prohibiting stablecoin issuers from offering interest because she’s got her hands full advancing the latest bill.

Sen. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., is resisting efforts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide the constitutionality of a federal law banning gun possession for anyone who is an “unlawful user” or addicted to any controlled substance.

Ali Danial Hemani was charged with violating the law when federal agents found cocaine, marijuana and a pistol during a search of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide if "habitual drug users" lose their gun rights under the Second Amendment.

The Trump administration is defending a federal gun control law dating to 1968 and challenging the rulings of two conservative appeals courts that struck down the ban on gun possession by any "unlawful user" of ...Read more

Influential conservative groups with deep pockets are pushing Republicans to demand steep concessions from Democrats in exchange for extending health care subsidies, a move that risks prolonging a U.S. government shutdown now in its 20th day.

Activists on the right, including the billionaire Koch family’s political arm, are running ads and ...Read more

Other than frustration at surging migration, Latin America has not merited the same level of attention in Washington as the Middle East, Europe or Asia in recent history. That indifference has ended with the second Trump administration, but the nature of our renewed attention is not exactly what many of our neighbors might have hoped for.

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Almost two years ago, Ashleigh Merchant sat at a desk in the cluttered back room of her Marietta law office, her mind racing.

It was deadline day for pretrial motions in the Fulton County case accusing Donald Trump and 18 others of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia. Merchant’s paralegal was about to upload a document that ...Read more