President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Monday aiming to end cashless bail in Washington and pressure other cities to also eliminate the practice, the latest effort by the White House to overhaul the nation’s criminal justice system.

The order related to the nation’s capital will task law enforcement agencies with ensuring ...Read more

The Trump administration has abruptly eliminated $1.3 million in federal funding for Washington’s Regional Fisheries Enhancement Groups, jeopardizing salmon restoration across the state. The administration should reverse course.

The 14 community-based RFEGs have been a linchpin in the fight to save salmon for three decades. Bringing together ...Read more

This year's most far-reaching immigration case is likely to decide if immigration agents in Los Angeles are free to stop, question and arrest Latinos they suspect are here illegally.

President Trump promised the "largest mass deportation operation" in American history, and he chose to begin aggressive street sweeps in Los Angeles in early June....Read more

Mandates from President Donald Trump’s administration to retain aging coal plants could cause a massive spike in energy costs, according to an independent analysis commissioned by several environmental groups.

Orders from the U.S. Department of Energy to save coal plants from retirement could cost ratepayers more than $3 billion per year, ...Read more

Most California voters strongly disapprove of the Trump administration's immigration enforcement policies and believe that raids in the state have unfairly targeted Latinos, according to a new poll.

The findings, released Sunday, reflected striking emotional reactions to immigration enforcement. When voters were asked to describe their feelings...Read more

President Donald Trump clapped back at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore on Sunday, threatening to “send in the troops” to Baltimore in a lengthy social media post.

The outburst saw Trump mock Moore’s offer for him to “walk the streets” of Baltimore, suggest he could pull federal funding for the reconstruction of the Key Bridge, and imply that ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has highlighted the gang-fueled violence plaguing Haiti, and condemned efforts to expel Haitian refugees living in the U.S.

She called attention to the purging of exhibits of the National Museum of African American History months before President Donald Trump’s recent campaign ...Read more

The Trump administration cannot deny funding to Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of "sanctuary" policies that limit their cooperation with federal immigration agencies, a judge ruled late Friday.

The judge issued a preliminary injunction that expands restrictions the court handed down in April that blocked funding cuts to ...Read more

Looking to bolster his legacy as a global peacemaker, Donald Trump has boasted often in recent days that he’s ended at least six wars. Critics of the president’s record say the truth is a lot more complicated.

Trump has made the assertion repeatedly in interviews, in conversations with foreign leaders and during press appearances, though ...Read more

Minutes after a New York court threw out a nearly half-billion dollar penalty against Donald Trump in a civil fraud lawsuit, the president declared the ruling a “total victory.” Trump still has plenty of reasons to appeal.

While the intermediate appeals court vacated the $464 million penalty, it still found Trump liable for fraud and left ...Read more

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on TikTok, viral Gavin Newsom memes are taking over social media.

There’s Newsom Photoshopped into a classic black-and-white Calvin Klein ad (faux ripped abs and all). Newsom on the cover of a pretend romance novel (Fabio “bodice ripper” vibes abound). Newsom in a T-shirt declaring, “This is ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — When Troy C. Leonard, who worked on designing the President’s House almost two decades ago, first found out that exhibits at the site are at risk under the Trump administration, he said, he was crushed.

“I was devastated that the exhibit that we had worked so hard on and spent so much time and thought so critically about ...Read more

Election officials turned over at the highest rate in at least a quarter century during the last presidential election, according to new research from the Bipartisan Policy Center.

An analysis of shifts in election officials published Tuesday found nearly 41% of election officials administering the 2024 election were different than those in ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would ask Congress for billions in taxpayer dollars for his effort to clean up the District of Columbia and make it safer, arguing the capital city was a “hellhole” before he took over its policing.

“Look, D.C. is a miracle,” he told reporters Friday during a stop at a new White House Historical ...Read more

Rodney King’s famous line “Can we all get along?” feels more relevant than ever today, underscoring our highly regrettable departure from civility toward a more belligerent and uneasy political reality.

But every now and then, we see small but significant signs that there’s movement toward reviving civil discourse. One of those moments...Read more

LOS ANGELES — As Gov. Gavin Newsom's push to redraw California's congressional maps plays out at the state Capitol and on the national stage, a quieter but no less bloody scramble is simultaneously underway.

Newsom's plan — a bid to counter President Donald Trump's drive for more GOP House seats with his own California show of force — ...Read more

President Donald Trump this week threw his full support behind a massive project to turn a sacred Apache site outside Phoenix into one of the world’s largest copper mines, meeting with mining executives at the White House and ridiculing a recent court decision that temporarily halted the transfer of federal lands to their companies.

Trump and...Read more

Rep. Lloyd Doggett, a longtime House Democrat and senior member of the Ways and Means Committee with a progressive track record, will no longer run for reelection to his current seat if Texas Republicans’ redrawn legislative maps aren’t shot down in court.

Under the mid-decade redistricting plans, which are still working their way through ...Read more

Donald Trump is not quite the patrolman in chief, but he did meet Thursday with personnel implementing his law enforcement crackdown inside Washington, D.C.

In his showman’s fashion, he had suggested earlier in the day that he would walk the beat with police officers and National Guard members who have been patrolling the city’s streets ...Read more