The Supreme Court’s decision invalidating President Donald Trump’s tariffs sends a clear and crucial message: The justices will not be a simple rubber stamp approving presidential actions. In the first year of Trump’s new term, 24 challenges to presidential actions came to the court, almost all on its emergency docket. In 22, the justices ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Monday named a dozen challengers running in Republican-held districts to its inaugural list of candidates slated to receive extra attention and resources.

The “Red to Blue” list provides a glimpse into how Democrats view the House battleground and the candidates the party ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide on shielding energy producers from dozens of lawsuits seeking to hold them liable for costs of global climate change.

In the past decade, dozens of cities, counties and states, including California, have joined state-based lawsuits that seek billions of dollars in damages, and they have ...Read more

Not surprisingly, the Supreme Court on Friday struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariff agenda, ruling that the White House doesn’t have the authority to act unilaterally under the statute cited. The justices had signaled as much during oral arguments in November, when the solicitor general made the dubious assertion that the ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday insulted the “supreme court” by refusing to capitalize the name of the nation’s top court and vowed to resume his global trade war after the justices struck down most of the tariffs he imposed in a politically damaging ruling.

Even as Trump claimed the conservative Supreme Court’s ruling actually boosted ...Read more

On the merits, the Supreme Court’s decision last week to invalidate much of the president’s global tariff regime is to be welcomed. Yet the court’s judgment, sound as it might be on constitutional grounds, can’t by itself undo the damage that America’s turn to protectionism has already caused — nor prevent worse to come.

Avoiding ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House and Senate called off Monday evening votes as another snowstorm hit the Northeast, but President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address remains on track for Tuesday evening.

And as Trump prepares to deliver the first official State of the Union address of his second term, the Department of Homeland Security ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is reportedly issuing administrative subpoenas to identify anonymous social media accounts that criticize U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Google, Meta and Reddit have complied with at least some of those requests, according to The New York Times.

These subpoenas appear alongside other...Read more

When a coupon suddenly appears on your phone as you approach a store, you might find it convenient and even helpful. But the same AI systems that know where you are and try to influence your purchases can be used to infer what you fear, what you trust and which stories you are likely to believe. AI-fueled marketing algorithms are becoming ...Read more

Can nothing stop President Donald Trump? Despite widespread opposition, Trump continues his blustering, unchecked by the usual guardrails of American politics. He’s attacking Venezuela, then threatening Greenland and sending federal immigration agents into American cities from Minneapolis and Portland to Chicago and Washington. His power seems...Read more

This week, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote on whether to overturn a 20-year ban on mining next to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

If the measure passes, it would again allow mining companies to apply for mineral leases on federal land in Superior National Forest. It would also mark a major victory for Republican U.S. Rep. Pete ...Read more

In a swift reversal of fortunes, countries that had been hardest hit by U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs have emerged as the biggest winners from the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down his emergency levies.

China, India and Brazil are among those now seeing lower tariff rates for shipments to the U.S. after the court ruled on ...Read more

With his move to impose new global tariffs, U.S. President Donald Trump isn’t just trying to repair a trade policy dismantled by a Supreme Court rebuke. He’s also declaring the world’s largest economy is facing a profound balance-of-payments crisis.

The potential problem for Trump and his administration with that argument: Many economists...Read more

The U.S. and Iran are set to resume talks Thursday in Geneva, Omani mediators said, extending the search for a diplomatic solution to the latest standoff over Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he expects to meet U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff for the talks and reiterated that Iran won’t be pressured ...Read more

Talk show host Stephen Colbert made headlines on Feb. 17, 2026, when he wrapped a network statement in a dog-waste bag and tossed it in the trash.

He did it live, while on air.

The move came after CBS lawyers reportedly told him he could not broadcast a scheduled interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico ...Read more

Sacramento-area Rep. Doris Matsui won the California Democratic Party endorsement Saturday evening with 67% of the vote, exceeding the necessary 60% a candidate must earn for the endorsement to be placed on the party’s consent calendar.

However, Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang, Matsui’s opponent, is challenging the results. Vang won ...Read more

Chinese President Xi Jinping is heading to the negotiating table with Donald Trump with a boost in bargaining power, after the U.S. leader lost his ability to quickly raise tariffs for nearly any reason.

Weeks before Trump lands in Beijing on March 31, the first trip by an American president since his last visit in 2017, the Supreme Court ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff-policy defeat in the U.S. Supreme Court won’t unravel individual deals the administration has sealed with its trading partners, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said.

Those deals, which the administration made with China, the European Union, South Korea and others, remain in place, Greer said Sunday ...Read more

Taylor Swift’s latest album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” generated a cultural whirlwind: chart-topping success, social media saturation and frenzied debate over her artistic evolution.

Nonetheless, despite this warm reception, opinions on Swift are deeply polarized by party. Democrats are far more likely to view her positively; ...Read more

DETROIT — Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the Ambassador Bridge, gave $1 million to a political action committee that supports Republican President Donald Trump less than a month before Trump threatened to block the opening of a new, competing span between Detroit and Canada.

The $1 million receipt for the super PAC MAGA Inc. was revealed ...Read more