Both the Republican-controlled House and Senate overwhelmingly passed a bill Tuesday demanding the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files after President Donald Trump abruptly reversed his strident opposition while still maintaining the scandal is a “Democrat hoax.”

Hours after a group of Epstein’s victims made another emotional plea for ...Read more

When Florida’s government unveiled a proposal this summer to trade 600 acres of a beloved St. Johns County wilderness preserve, Floridians of all political backgrounds felt blindsided.

Though the plan was scrapped after widespread protest, including from President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, questions remained about how an idea to give ...Read more

Kentucky’s 4th Congressional District Rep. Thomas Massie notched another win Tuesday in his effort to release the full files related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Massie’s push on a discharge petition to force the release of the documents had long faced opposition from President Donald Trump and House GOP leaders, but those power ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The long-standing fight to demand the Justice Department release all documents tied to its investigation into late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein shifted to President Trump on Tuesday after the House and Senate, within hours of each other, voted overwhelmingly to publicize the files.

Trump, who tried to thwart the ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read has sued witnesses from her murder case who she argues framed her for the killing of John O’Keefe and are “actually involved” in her Boston police officer boyfriend’s death.

Read and her defense team have filed a civil complaint in Bristol Superior Court against witnesses they point to as “third parties” for O�...Read more

WASHINGTON — The scene at the White House on Tuesday was vintage Donald Trump. He welcomed one of the world’s most controversial figures, verbally lambasted a reporter and announced a major arms deal that could shake up the Middle East. And all before lunch.

There was the 47th U.S. president warmly shaking hands with Saudi Arabia’s de ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — President Donald Trump has issued a second pardon to a Kentucky man who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

Daniel Edwin Wilson, who is from Louisville, was pardoned Nov. 14 for illegally possessing firearms and unregistered firearms.

Wilson was previously pardoned for his participation in the 2021 Capitol attack. He ...Read more

DEDHAM, Mass. — Accused killer Brian Walshe pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to investigators and disinterred the body of his wife, Ana, before jury selection began for his murder trial.

This comes after a Bridgewater State Hospital psychiatrist found Walshe to be “competent and ready to stand trial,” a finding that Judge Diane ...Read more

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein says he’s receiving little to no information from federal officials about Border Patrol’s operations and can’t say whether federal agents will move beyond the Charlotte and Raleigh areas.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Tuesday Border Patrol agents have arrested more than 200 people in the ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Federal immigration agents arrested a man who documented their activities in Charlotte on Tuesday, his friends told The Charlotte Observer.

It happened Tuesday afternoon at the parking lot of the Eastway Crossing Shopping Center, they said. The man’s lawyer said he’s concerned because the FBI won’t let him visit his ...Read more

ANALYSIS — The scene at the White House on Tuesday was vintage Donald Trump. He welcomed one of the world’s most controversial figures, verbally lambasted a reporter and announced a major arms deal that could shake up the Middle East. And all before lunch.

There was the 47th U.S. president warmly shaking hands with Saudi Arabia’s de facto...Read more

ATLANTA — The strained relationship between Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board is fraying.

The latest divide came last week when the board, which Democrat and Republican state lawmakers have described as dysfunctional, found out that secretary of state investigators would no longer attend board meetings...Read more

ATLANTA — The strained relationship between Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and the State Election Board is fraying.

The latest divide came last week when the board, which Democrat and Republican state lawmakers have described as dysfunctional, found out that secretary of state investigators would no longer attend board meetings...Read more

CHICAGO — Starting Wednesday, Illinois residents will be able to use their iPhones to show their driver’s license at select airports, restaurants and bars.

Under a major digital shift that Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias cast on Tuesday as a long-promised modernization of government services, Illinois residents will be able to add ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — After the publication of a report this week on the city’s remote voting options, Anchorage officials sought to clarify its offerings, which they say were mischaracterized in a national news story.

Among the options to vote in Anchorage’s by-mail local elections, voters can choose to cast their ballots electronically, ...Read more

President Donald Trump is drawing widespread criticism after lashing out at a female reporter who was pressing for information about files related to Jeffrey Epstein.

While speaking to reporters on Air Force One Friday, Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey attempted to ask Trump about the release of the so-called Epstein files, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal court has blocked Texas from moving forward with a new congressional map hastily drawn in recent months to net Republicans up to five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in next year’s midterm elections.

The ruling on Tuesday is a major political blow to the Trump administration, which set off a ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The FBI has read or listened to Washington, D.C., and Sacramento lobbyists’ conversations as part of an ongoing corruption investigation that has so far ensnared Dana Williamson, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s former chief of staff, former Deputy State Attorney General Sean McCluskie and lobbyist Greg Campbell, according to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A panel of federal judges on Tuesday blocked Texas from using its new congressional map in next year’s midterm elections, saying the new lines were likely unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

The 2-1 opinion from Judge Jeffrey V. Brown of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, joined by Judge David C. ...Read more