Jeff Vaughn says it was a 2022 billboard that convinced him being white and male was becoming a liability.

The then-evening anchor at CBS’s flagship Los Angeles television station remembers seeing an ad for his news program — and realizing it didn’t feature him. It did include all of his co-anchors, none of whom, he says, was a straight ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom told a panel at the Munich Security Conference Saturday that he traveled there to reassure European allies that “Trump is temporary.”

“He’ll be measured in years, not decades,” Newsom said, predicting Trump would suffer heavy losses in the midterm elections and face legal setbacks, including limits on his ...Read more

Barack Obama has finally addressed the racist video President Donald Trump posted of him and Michelle Obama, slamming the move as part of a “clown show” meant to distract from the real issues at hand.

The animated clip shared on Truth Social last week depicted Trump as a lion and the Obamas as apes in a jungle. It quickly drew bipartisan ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, D-Fla., raised legal concerns about the unconventional methods her team was using to boost her public profile in her South Florida district in 2022 — a period that has since garnered allegations of “extensive misconduct” from the House Ethics Committee — but her closest advisers encouraged her to ...Read more

Italy will likely participate in President Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace” as an observer, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said Saturday.

The board is meeting in Washington on Feb. 19 and Italy was invited as an observer country, Meloni said in an interview with local media. “I believe an Italian and European presence is necessary...Read more

President Donald Trump spent part of his Valentine’s Day composing a very lengthy social media post attacking comedian Bill Maher.

Among the president’s grievances was the fact he invited the HBO “Real Time” host to the White House for dinner last April, yet Maher has continued mocking him on his Friday night show.

“Sometime in life ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Saturday celebrated Valentine’s Day by sharing a series of cards that praised his accomplishments while predictably slamming Democrats and even poking fun at his own secretary of state.

The cards, posted by the White House on social media, kick off with a picture of a handcuffed and blindfolded Venezuelan President ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio signaled Saturday that economic reforms could offer the Cuban government a path to easing U.S. pressure even as the Trump administration’s oil blockade pushes the island deeper into crisis.

Speaking on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Rubio declined to spell out specific conditions but suggested ...Read more

U.S. agencies are struggling to find the best method to fund additional software for millions of Iranian civilians to get around their government’s strict internet censors, amid a surge in demand over weeks of domestic unrest.

The State Department, U.S. senators from both parties, and other U.S. agencies have advocated for funding virtual ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin shutdown procedures as its funding from Congress expires at midnight — the third time parts of the U.S. government will have shut down in the last six months.

The shutdown will affect DHS functions other than immigration and border enforcement, which are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Republican state officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to stop a state court order to redraw her Staten Island district ahead of the midterms.

The emergency applications, one from several Republican state officials and another from Malliotakis and a group of voters, argued that the last-minute ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in talks over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event...Read more

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer will shift tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support.

In a speech he’s scheduled to make to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the U.K. prime minister will urge ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly doesn’t expect President Donald Trump administration’s failure to convince a grand jury to indict him and other Democratic lawmakers for a video that told federal troops they can refuse “illegal orders” to at all lower tensions or prevent further actions.

“Sure — the grand jury didn’t indict me a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have used a slim majority to push through some of President Donald Trump’s biggest priorities — and shield him from political and legal trouble — since Trump returned to the White House last year.

But as Trump’s approval ratings slide and the federal government faces a partial shutdown this weekend, ...Read more

The recent FBI search of the Fulton County, Georgia, elections facility and the seizure of election-related materials pursuant to a warrant has attracted concern for what it might mean for future elections.

What if a determined executive branch used federal law enforcement to seize election materials to sow distrust in the results of ...Read more

The Trump administration says it’s revoking more federal grant dollars in Illinois — this time for electric vehicle charging stations.

On the chopping block in Illinois is a $100 million grant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for electric vehicle charging stations and a $3.6 million grant to the Secretary of State’s office...Read more