WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is planning to meet with top congressional Democrats this week about the government funding impasse, White House and Capitol Hill officials said Monday, after lawmakers left Capitol Hill for a week on Friday with little movement toward averting a partial shutdown starting Oct. 1.

Trump will squeeze in the ...Read more

President Trump moved Monday to classify the left-wing, anti-fascist movement known loosely as antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, opening up a new front in his battle with political foes and raising legal and ethical questions about how the U.S. government can prosecute a movement.

Antifa activism and violence has spread during the ...Read more

The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking back federal aid: The projects aren’t designed for cars.

A San Diego County road improvement project including bike lanes “appears to reduce ...Read more

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — About 1,500 people filled a gymnasium in Lawrenceville on Sunday night to watch the first debate between the two candidates vying for New Jersey governor: U.S. Rep. Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee, and Jack Ciattarelli, the GOP nominee.

Both candidates made the case that they would make New Jersey more affordable....Read more

NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch and News Corp. asked a U.S. judge to throw out President Donald Trump’s $10 billion libel lawsuit over a Wall Street Journal report tying him to a bawdy birthday note to the late Jeffrey Epstein, calling the case “an affront to the First Amendment.”

The July 17 story about a note bearing Trump’s signature ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it will decide on reversing a 90-year precedent that has protected independent agencies from direct control by the president.

The court's conservative majority has already upheld President Donald Trump's firing of Democratic appointees at the National Labor Relations Board and Merit Systems ...Read more

President Trump’s administration released a report on Monday that Trump claims links childhood autism to Tylenol use by pregnant women, though he did not provide any evidence while speaking at the White House.

The report advises women to avoid using the common fever-reducer early in pregnancy, even though most medical studies have not found ...Read more

Americans long ago decided to trade bullets for ballots. But this exchange isn’t the norm around the world — and isn’t inevitable here either.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk is more than just a horrible tragedy for his family and friends. It was an attack on civil discourse itself. That’s a grave threat to the country’s constitutional ...Read more

Donald Trump’s destructive onslaught against the fair administration of justice and his politicization of prosecutorial power continues. That is what dictators do, which is one of the reasons Trump so admires them.

Trump has now fired Erik Siebert as the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia for refusing to gin up phony mortgage ...Read more

ATLANTA — A blockbuster racketeering case that launched with a bang a little more than two years ago is seemingly ending with a whimper.

On Aug. 14, 2023, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis was the picture of solemnity as she and her team walked to a lectern to announce they had secured charges against then-former President Donald ...Read more

Satish, a graduate student from India studying in San Francisco, thought this fall would be about finishing his business degree and then lining up an H-1B visa, the work permit that’s become a mainstay for skilled immigrants in the U.S.

Instead, he’s worried about his ability to build a career in the U.S. as he tries to make sense of the ...Read more

President Donald Trump was set to release a new report Monday that he says links childhood autism to Tylenol use by pregnant women.

The report is expected to advise women to avoid using the common fever-reducer early in pregnancy, even though most medical studies have not found any conclusive link to rising levels of autism in children.

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As summer 2025 winds down, the Trump administration’s deportation machine is operating at full throttle—removing over one million people in six months and fulfilling a campaign promise to launch the “largest deportation operation in American history.” For supporters, this is a victory lap for law and order. For the rest of the lot, it’...Read more

Trump administration officials plan to link the active ingredient in Tylenol to autism Monday, the Washington Post reported, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter.

Officials plan to warn pregnant women against using the medication, one of the world’s most common, over-the-counter pain relievers, unless they have a fever, the paper ...Read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he has “good memories” of Donald Trump and could talk with the U.S. president again if Washington drops its demands that Pyongyang dismantle its nuclear program, adding that he’ll never surrender his nuclear arsenal.

“Personally, I still have good memories of the current U.S. President Trump,” Kim...Read more

Syria scheduled its first parliamentary elections since the fall of former President Bashar al-Assad for Oct. 5, as its new leaders seek to rebuild state institutions amid diplomatic efforts to stabilize the war-battered country.

Voting for members of the People’s Assembly will take place across all electoral districts, Syria’s state-run ...Read more

Calling it an effort to “save the ‘American dream,’” a bipartisan cohort of House members has teamed up to address housing affordability issues across the country.

They are starting with identifying the factors that are impeding home ownership.

The newly introduced bill would create an interagency task force to address mortgage, ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he plans to nominate Lindsey Halligan — a White House aide spearheading the ideological review of the Smithsonian Institution — to be U.S. attorney in Eastern Virginia, replacing a prosecutor who was forced out for not bringing fraud charges against New York’s attorney general.

Trump announced the move in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump renewed his call for European countries to “stop buying oil” from Russia, a demand he has linked to further U.S. pressure on Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine.

“The Europeans are buying oil from Russia — not supposed to happen, right?” Trump said in a dinner speech at Mount Vernon, Virginia...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department is requiring journalists agree to submit anything they publish about it for government approval as a condition of access, the latest Trump administration effort to control during peacetime what information the public learns about military operations.

The new rule — part of an updated press ...Read more