The risk of another partial government shutdown escalated quickly Saturday after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident who was protesting a Trump administration immigration crackdown.

Within hours of the shooting, Senate Democrats pledged to oppose a roughly $1.33 trillion spending package needed by Friday to avert a shutdown if...Read more

The notion that Denmark alone, or Europe together, could defend Greenland against an American force had become the source of relentless mockery within the White House. The Danish were dismissed as "irrelevant," while Europe was portrayed as a shadow of its former self. If President Trump chose to take control of this Arctic island, the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump entered office last January thanks in part to a wave of Hispanic voters, enough in one solidly-Democratic Central Florida County to turn it GOP red. But the tide may be changing.

A year into his presidency, the driving factor for many Hispanics — Trump’s campaign promise to improve the economy — is...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said U.S. military forces used a weapon that he referred to as “the discombobulator” during the U.S. operation in Caracas to remove former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power earlier this month.

“The discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said in an interview with ...Read more

MIAMI — Soon after Susie Wiles ran Donald Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign in Florida, she moved to Washington to join Brian Ballard’s lobbying firm, which was mainly known for its political clout and connections to Florida’s GOP governors.

With her ties to Trump, Wiles brought an instant cachet to Ballard Partners. Among ...Read more

President Donald Trump appeared to hope that last week would amount to an extended victory lap marking the first anniversary of his return to the White House, starting with a celebratory press conference capped by a demonstration of his global muscle at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Things didn’t turn out as planned, either at home or ...Read more

Donald Trump lauded the U.K.’s military after Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the U.S. president to apologize for downplaying the role of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan.

The president in a Saturday social media post stopped short of making a full apology, but said that British forces are “second to none” and that their “GREAT ...Read more

Sure, President Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy has alienated allies, shredded the U.S.-led rules-based global order, nudged Canada closer to China and turned NATO into something resembling your uncle’s Facebook page after someone brings up politics.

Other than that? Everything’s terrific.

Just kidding. It might be even worse than ...Read more

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests in its mass deportation campaign, including breaking down doors in Minneapolis homes, a bombshell report from the Associated Press on Jan. 21, 2026, said that an internal ICE memo – acquired via a whistleblower �...Read more

Over the past year, images of masked, heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting men, women and children – outside of courts, at schools and homes – have become common across the United States.

The video of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good – a U.S. citizen – in Minnesota on Jan. 7, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has dispatched naval assets to the Middle East, prompting fresh speculation that he’ll follow through on threats to attack Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters ...Read more

This year's midterm election already was going to be frustrating for many voters in a vast, rural swath of Northern California whose staunchly conservative district has been redrawn to favor Democrats after the passage of Proposition 50 last fall.

Their longtime Republican congressman, Doug LaMalfa, a rice farmer from rural Butte County who had...Read more

The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday unanimously struck down a state law deployed by Republicans to fight abortion access, a sweeping ruling that wrestles power away from top statewide officials.

The law, signed by Republican Gov. Mike Kehoe last year, marked a key tool in Republican officials’ yearslong effort to halt abortions. It severely ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Thousands of marchers descended on the National Mall on Friday as some of the nation’s most powerful politicians pledged to take the next steps to ending abortion.

The annual March for Life rally serves as a key jumping point for abortion-related policy announcements from conservatives. But anti-abortion advocates had warned ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House left Thursday night after barely shooting down another war powers resolution and passing a last slate of funding bills, leaving it up to the Senate to avert a partial government shutdown by next week’s deadline.

But with a major winter storm predicted to blanket Washington and other swaths of the country in double ...Read more

MIAMI —The Florida-based conservative fundraising platform PSQ Impact landed a giant client this week — Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation — despite having just launched last month.

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., could stand to benefit from the deal.

He’s one of the largest shareholders on the Board of Directors for the...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy carrier strike group is moving toward the Middle East as President Donald Trump revives his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters aboard ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration lawyers have joined California Republicans in urging Supreme Court to block California’s new election map on the grounds that one district in the San Joaquin Valley was drawn to favor Latinos.

Two months ago, Donald Trump’s lawyers called on the court to uphold a new Republican-friendly election map in ...Read more

Nearly 500 people have stopped to sign a giant replica of the birthday card President Donald Trump gave to the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. The clandestine arts activism group Secret Handshake erected the pop-up monument Monday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The messages speak volumes about this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican former Rep. Chris Collins, who represented a Western New York district until he resigned in 2019 and pleaded guilty in a corruption scandal, on Friday announced his comeback bid in Florida.

Collins, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020, is joining a crowded primary field for the deep-red seat that ...Read more