WASHINGTON — Senators reached a bipartisan deal Thursday to extend Homeland Security Department funding for two weeks as negotiations continue over how and whether to impose tighter restrictions on federal immigration agents.

The agreement on a short-term funding extension, through Feb. 13, likely clears the way for passing five other fiscal ...Read more

President Donald Trump sued the U.S. Treasury and IRS for at least $10 billion over an unauthorized disclosure of his tax returns to the press during his first term in office, potentially putting American taxpayers on the hook for a massive payout.

The suit was filed Thursday in Miami federal court by Trump, his sons Donald Jr. and Eric, and ...Read more

An investigative subcommittee that spent months examining U.S. Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick has found “substantial evidence of conduct” described in a criminal indictment against her last year and is bringing multiple charges against her.

The House Ethics Committee announced the findings of its investigative subcommittee on Thursday. The...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats reached a deal with the White House late Thursday to prevent a partial government shutdown by moving to temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security for two weeks, providing more time to negotiate new restrictions for federal immigration agents carrying out President Trump’s deportation campaign.

The ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Attorney General’s Office said it is expanding its investigation into petition fraud and is asking local elections officials to hand over more documents related to a proposed recreational marijuana amendment — days ahead of the final deadline for signatures to be verified.

Statewide prosecutor Brad McVay on...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans are working to put one of their top issues back in the spotlight: requiring photo IDs to vote.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., has threatened to shut down the House floor next month if the Senate won’t take up a bill that would require proof of citizenship before registering to vote in federal elections.

And ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The arrival of a U.S aircraft-carrier strike group in the Middle East has given President Donald Trump new, more forceful options to carry out his threats to attack Iran, but the choices carry serious risks of retaliation from Tehran.

At the same time, Trump’s shifting messages about his goals — removing Iran’s leaders, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — California officials, Democrats and civil rights groups told the Supreme Court on Thursday the state should be able to use its new congressional map in the midterm elections this fall, arguing the lines were drawn for political rather than racial reasons.

The filings were in response to an appeal from the state Republican Party ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators reached a bipartisan deal Thursday to extend Homeland Security Department funding for two weeks as negotiations continue over how and whether to impose tighter restrictions on federal immigration agents.

The agreement on a short-term funding extension, through Feb. 13, likely clears the way for passing five other fiscal ...Read more

From coast to coast, groups of people are springing up to protect members of their communities as Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol agents threaten them with violent enforcement.

In Portland, Oregon, community volunteers have delivered food boxes to migrant families scared to leave their homes. In Portland, Maine, ...Read more

Nicki Minaj, who revealed in 2018 that she was brought to the United States as an “illegal immigrant” from Trinidad and Tobago when she was 5 years old, flashed a Trump gold card Wednesday after an event formally launching the president’s IRA-style savings accounts for children. Her citizenship paperwork, she said on social media, was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump was in deal-maker mode Thursday, declaring that an agreement on government funding was “close” and setting the terms of employment for his coming Federal Reserve chair nominee.

Amid the ongoing fallout from federal immigration agents shooting dead a protester Saturday in Minneapolis, Trump huddled with ...Read more

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, an alt-right militia, announced in November 2025 that he will relaunch the group after it disbanded following his prison sentence in 2023.

Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes committed during the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration defended Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard’s participation in an FBI raid of a Georgia county election office to investigate the 2020 election, while senior Democrats raised concerns about her involvement.

An administration official confirmed that Gabbard was on-site during the Wednesday ...Read more

WASHINGTON — White House officials and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer were scrambling Thursday morning to ink a deal that would punt final decisions on fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding but let five other spending bills get to President Donald Trump’s desk next week.

The plan taking shape would include removing the full-year ...Read more

In January 2025, Seema received an email from the International Organization for Migration saying that her flight from Pakistan to the United States, which she and her family were booked on after months of extensive interviewing and background checks by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, had been canceled.

“We had sold our ...Read more

Only 33 of Colorado’s 64 counties have an emergency shelter program specifically for survivors of domestic violence. In the greater Denver area, which includes Adams, Arapahoe, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas and Jefferson counties, there are only five shelter programs for survivors.

I study the policies and programs that serve...Read more

WASHINGTON — White House officials and Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer were scrambling Thursday morning to ink a deal that would punt final decisions on fiscal 2026 Homeland Security funding but let five other spending bills get to President Donald Trump’s desk next week.

The plan taking shape would include removing the full-...Read more

Behind the credit card, ubiquitous in American economic life now for decades, stand a very few gigantic financial institutions that exert nearly unlimited power over how much consumers and businesses pay for the use of a small piece of plastic. American consumers and small businesses alike are spitting fire these days about the cost of credit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats face their first congressional primary of the year next week, with 11 candidates seeking to succeed New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill in a special election that could serve as an early indicator of how Democratic voters feel just weeks before the midterm election season kicks off in March.

Former Rep. Tom Malinowski, Essex...Read more