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President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to block the opening of a major new international bridge linking Detroit to Canada, demanding that Canada hand over at least half ownership of the project and agree to additional unspecified conditions in his latest escalation over cross-border trade. In a lengthy social media …

Democrats have opened tentative talks with the White House over demands for sweeping new restrictions on President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement crackdown, just days before funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to expire and another partial government shutdown threatens. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer said Monday that …

Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate and convicted co-conspirator of financier Jeffrey Epstein, invoked her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination during a closed-door virtual deposition with the House Oversight Committee on Monday, according to Chairman James Comer and lawmakers who attended the session. “This is obviously very disappointing,” Comer, a Kentucky …

President Donald Trump decided to exclude Democratic governors from a traditional annual meeting at the White House and to disinvite several others from a black-tie dinner, according to the White House, the governors and the National Governors Association. The National Governors Association organizes the bipartisan winter gathering that usually includes …

President Donald Trump’s efforts to dismantle the Department of Education has created a crisis that critics long feared: leaving marginalized students vulnerable to misconduct with little federal intervention. A new report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), a nonpartisan arm of Congress, paints a damning picture of how mass layoffs …

Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez won a decisive victory Saturday in a special election for a state House seat in a district President Donald Trump carried by double digits in 2024, delivering another warning sign for Republicans amid a string of Democratic overperformances in special elections. Martinez defeated Republican Brad …

For many Democrats, the mood during President Donald Trump’s first year back in office has been decidedly grim. But at a Saturday campaign rally in Atlanta, U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff told voters that “the first light of dawn is on the horizon.” In a 30-minute speech at the Georgia International …

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to continue sending billions of dollars in child care subsidies and other social service funds to five Democratic-led states, temporarily blocking an effort by the administration to withhold the money amid allegations of fraud. U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick granted the …

The Trump administration proposed renaming Washington’s Dulles International Airport and New York’s Penn Station after President Donald Trump as part of discussions over releasing long-stalled federal funding for a critical rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. The request was conveyed …

The White House on Friday removed an election conspiracy video shared by President Donald Trump on social media that included racist imagery depicting former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama as apes, following swift condemnation from Democrats and Republicans alike. A White House official said a staffer …

The SAVE America Act, a Republican-backed election bill pending in Congress, would impose new federal requirements on voter registration and voting in federal elections. Supporters frame the measure as a way to prevent noncitizens from voting — something that has long been illegal under federal law. A closer look at …

A federal court hearing in Minneapolis on Tuesday laid bare the extraordinary strain that the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement push has placed on federal prosecutors, judges and the court system in Minnesota — and the growing frustration of judges who say their orders are repeatedly ignored. The hearing before …

Senate Republicans blocked a Democratic proposal Thursday to sue the Trump administration over allegations that it did not fully release the Epstein files, as mandated under a law unanimously approved by senators and signed by the president nearly three months ago. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., asked for unanimous …

Democrats are threatening to block funding for the Department of Homeland Security unless Republicans agree to sweeping changes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agencies carrying out President Donald Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign. With DHS funding set to expire next week, Democratic leaders say they will withhold …

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is considering expanding his administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement campaign into five additional U.S. cities, while also warning Iran’s supreme leader of possible renewed U.S. military action, questioning the independence of the Federal Reserve and declining to rule out attempting to remain in office …