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The federal government will provide $12 billion to U.S. farmers who have been hurt by “unfair market disruption,” President Donald Trump said at a White House roundtable event Monday. Trump said repeatedly the funding was available thanks to tariff revenues, framing his aggressive trade policy as a boon to farmers …

Rep. Jasmine Crockett, a two-term Democrat from Dallas known for her fast-rising national profile and combative style, launched a bid for U.S. Senate on Monday, abruptly reshaping the Democratic primary to challenge Republican Sen. John Cornyn next year. Crockett’s entrance comes just ahead of the state’s candidate filing deadline and …

More than one-third of the roughly 220,000 people arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in the first nine months of the Trump administration had no criminal history, according to newly released internal data that offers one of the clearest views yet of the government’s expanded immigration enforcement strategy. The …

Colin Allred is dropping out of the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate and pivoting to run instead for the Dallas-based 33rd Congressional District. Allred, a former Dallas congressman, was the party’s nominee for Senate in 2024, losing to Sen. Ted Cruz. In July, he launched a 2026 bid for Texas’ …

A federal judge on Saturday temporarily barred the Justice Department from accessing a set of computer files central to its effort to pursue a new indictment against former FBI Director James Comey, marking a significant procedural setback for prosecutors as they weigh whether to revive the case. U.S. District Judge …

President Donald Trump on Sunday sharply criticized Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, accusing him of showing “a lack of loyalty” by running for re-election as a Democrat just days after receiving a presidential pardon. In a post on Truth Social, Trump wrote that Texas voters — and Cuellar’s daughters — “will …

President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with newly redesigned medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, praising the group of artists he helped select while marking a significant shift in how the nation’s signature cultural awards are administered. This year’s honorees — actor Sylvester …

The Trump administration has overhauled the list of free-entry days at national parks for 2026, eliminating fee waivers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth while adding President Donald Trump’s birthday — June 14, which coincides with Flag Day — as one of several new “resident-only patriotic fee-free days.” …

A federal appeals court Thursday paused a lower court’s order to remove the National Guard from the streets of Washington, D.C., eight days after two members were attacked in broad daylight in the district. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the Trump …

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday sharply condemned President Donald Trump for denigrating Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage” and calling the state a “hellhole,” accusing the president of using inflammatory rhetoric that stigmatizes children and fuels fear among one of the nation’s largest immigrant communities. Walz said Trump “slandered all …

In a major win for President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted Texas’ emergency application to use a new congressional map drawn to increase GOP representation in next year’s midterm elections, pausing a lower-court ruling that had found the plan unlawfully relied on race. The …

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday the chamber will vote next week to extend enhanced tax credits for three years for people who purchase their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace, though the plan seems unlikely to get the bipartisan support needed to advance. While it …

The FBI has arrested a suspect in the long-running investigation into the pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021, ending a nearly five-year mystery that has frustrated lawmakers, fueled conspiracy theories and cast a shadow over the government’s handling of the Jan. …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information marked as classified on a personal Signal chat about a pending U.S. military operation in Yemen, according to a Defense Department inspector general report delivered to Congress this week, raising new questions about his handling of sensitive battlefield intelligence. The findings, described by two …

The Trump administration on Wednesday launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis, expanding a crackdown that has been accompanied by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric from the president and heightened fear in immigrant communities. The Department of Homeland Security said the New Orleans operation was aimed at “criminal aliens roaming …