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A bipartisan group of U.S. senators sharply condemned President Donald Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace proposal on Saturday, arguing that the administration crafted a plan that mirrors the Kremlin’s demands and risks legitimizing Moscow’s territorial aggression. Their attacks came as Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to refute allegations that he privately …

A new U.S. Department of Education regulation to narrow eligibility for a key student debt relief program for public service workers has drawn strong opposition from advocates who argue the regulation is an attempt to target organizations whose missions do not align with President Donald Trump’s agenda. Under a final …

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state’s request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021. The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use …

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the firebrand Republican from Georgia and once one of Donald Trump’s fiercest loyalists in Congress, announced Friday that she will resign from the House early next year after weeks of escalating clashes with the president. Greene said her final day in office will be Jan. 5, …

The Trump administration has drafted a sweeping 28-point peace framework that would end the war in Ukraine by requiring Kyiv to surrender the eastern Donbas region and Crimea, abandon its bid to join NATO and accept long-term security guarantees enforced jointly by the United States and Russia, according to a …

In a remarkable display of political detente, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met face-to-face at the White House on Friday, setting aside months of bitter campaign-trail attacks to discuss affordability, crime and the future of the nation’s largest city. Trump, who had spent months warning …

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to halt its ongoing deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, ruling that President Donald Trump’s months-long military mission unlawfully encroaches on Washington, D.C.’s authority to direct its own law-enforcement operations. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded …

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday night issued a sharply worded policy banning the display of hate symbols at all of its installations, hours after public revelations that an earlier draft had described swastikas, nooses and other extremist imagery as merely “potentially divisive.” The wording prompted swift criticism from lawmakers, …

Top Democrats in Congress on Thursday sharply rebuked President Donald Trump after he posted on social media that Democratic lawmakers who urged military service members to reject illegal orders should be arrested and face trial for “seditious behavior,” language the president later escalated by reposting comments calling for their execution. …

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida was indicted Wednesday on allegations that she helped steal millions of dollars in federal emergency funds and covertly routed some of that money into her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said. According to federal prosecutors, the alleged scheme dates back to 2021, when Trinity …

The U.S. House Ethics Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills for numerous allegations, including violations of campaign finance laws and sexual misconduct or dating violence. The investigative subcommittee will look into six different possible rule violations, including that Mills: Didn’t disclose required information to the …

The federal shutdown has erased the government’s October jobs report and delayed the November release, eliminating a major data point just as sluggish hiring and persistent inflation have stoked fears of a broader economic slowdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed Wednesday that October’s employment report — one of the …

President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he shared a well-documented friendship, though Trump denies any involvement in the financier’s crimes. Epstein, who surrounded himself with the rich and …

Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate voted Tuesday to adjourn until January, defying mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and Gov. Mike Braun to redraw the state’s congressional districts before the 2026 session begins. The 29–19 vote on “organization day,” the ceremonial kickoff of the legislative year, amounted to an explicit rejection of …

Democrats on Capitol Hill are renewing a long-stalled push to let Americans sue federal law enforcement officers for violating their constitutional rights, seizing on recent allegations of excessive force and unlawful conduct by agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration crackdown. The legislation — reintroduced Tuesday by Rep. Hank …