WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump shared the head table at an exclusive Washington dinner Saturday night with George W. Bush. It was fitting, considering the 47th president has increasingly been borrowing from the playbooks of predecessors he’s long criticized.

While Trump’s second-term penchant for stretching or obliterating laws and ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has spent $573 million from an emergency response fund on immigration efforts over the last three years, including millions to equip agencies with radios and high-tech cameras, his administration informed the Legislature last week.

In a report issued Saturday, the Division of Emergency ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — Highlighting his belief that Pennsylvania continues to be "on the rise" under his watch, Gov. Josh Shapiro on Tuesday unveiled a $53.3 billion state budget proposal for 2026-27 that pumps up spending on K-12 education, seeks to reap billions from skill games regulations, and almost certainly will trigger a fight over tapping ...Read more

Haitian advocates and Democratic lawmakers in Florida said Tuesday that while they welcome a federal judge’s ruling Monday night to pause the end of temporary immigration protections for more than 300,000 Haitians, they will keep fighting “until protection turns into permanence.”

“We celebrate, but we do not stop,” said Nancy Metayer ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Committee debate paused Tuesday on a bill that would speed federal approval of new satellites as Democrats raised concerns about potential automatic approval, especially as Elon Musk’s SpaceX seeks to build a large constellation of artificial intelligence data satellites.

The Senate Commerce Committee recessed a planned markup ...Read more

Florida public education advocates claimed a victory Monday in their ongoing effort to stop lawmakers from requiring school districts to hand taxpayer funded property to privately run interests.

State Sen. Keith Truenow, R-Tavares, moved to replace his bill (SB 824) that would require school districts that have lost enrollment over three years ...Read more

When authorities were initially called to Nancy Guthrie’s desert home a few miles north of Tucson, Arizona, on Sunday, they immediately found what officials described as suspicious and concerning circumstances.

There was no sign of the 84-year-old mom of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie, but essentials she would travel with remained: ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday signed off on a plan to give financial relief to Palisades fire victims who are seeking to rebuild, endorsing it nearly 10 months after Mayor Karen Bass first announced it.

On a 15-0 vote, the council instructed the city's lawyers to draft an ordinance that would spare the owners of homes,...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Senate approved an expansion of Colorado’s red flag law on Tuesday, sending the proposal to the House for consideration.

Senate Bill 4 would build off Colorado’s 2019 extreme risk protection orders law, which allows family members, law enforcement, health care professionals and educators to petition the courts to ...Read more

Melinda French Gates is reacting to the newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein that mention her ex-husband, Bill Gates.

Last week, documents that showed draft emails Epstein wrote to himself went public, where he claimed the Microsoft co-founder had contracted an STI from “Russian girls.”

In the draft dated back in 2013, Epstein writes...Read more

Just hours before her abduction, Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie enjoyed an evening out with her other daughter, according to a report.

“We have a start point,” Pima County Sheriff Chris Nanos told Us Weekly of their search efforts.

“The family took her home from dinner at about 9:30 to 9:45” ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — As he prepares for Tuesday night’s precinct caucuses, Democrat Jason Chavez is issuing an unusual warning to some of his fellow DFLers: stay home.

“I do not recommend folks who are vulnerable to deportation to show up. In fact, I will tell them ‘it is not safe for you to go,’” said Chavez, a Minneapolis City Council ...Read more

WASHINGTON — National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard rebuked Democratic lawmakers and others who expressed alarm over her participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office, saying that President Donald Trump had asked her to be there.

Criticizing what she called “blatantly false and slanderous accusations” by members ...Read more

NEW YORK — State Attorney General Letitia James said Tuesday that she will send trained observers to monitor ICE agents to document enforcement and protect New Yorkers’ rights.

“We have seen in Minnesota how quickly and tragically federal operations can escalate in the absence of transparency and accountability,” James said in a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Brentwood couple is suing the city of Los Angeles and Mayor Karen Bass, claiming their constitutional rights were violated when city officials blocked them from demolishing the home where Marilyn Monroe died in 1962.

In a 37-page complaint that accuses the city of collusion and bias, the lawsuit filed by homeowners Brinah ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone headed toward a U.S. aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, spooking oil markets amid heightened tensions between Washington and Tehran.

A U.S. F-35C warplane shot down the drone in self-defense as the unmanned aircraft “aggressively approached” the USS Abraham Lincoln with “unclear ...Read more

BALTIMORE — In separate party-line votes Tuesday, the Maryland House and Senate passed legislation to end local law enforcement cooperation agreements with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, fast-tracking two identical bills that have ignited heated debate across party lines over immigration policy and public safety.

In the Senate,...Read more

Bill and Hillary Clinton have agreed to testify in person to a Republican congressional investigation into notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, apparently ending their defiant campaign of resistance.

The former president and ex-secretary of state emailed staffers for the GOP-led House Oversight Committee saying they would accept GOP demands and...Read more