President Donald Trump is maintaining a slightly positive approval rating, according to the latest polling, though his numbers have continued to slide as consumers come to grips with the reality of lingering inflation colliding with the president’s massive tariff rollout.

According to a poll of 2,286 registered voters released Monday by ...Read more

The Bernie supporters were outside the rally hours before it began.

They flocked to Nampa’s Ford Idaho Center on Monday afternoon wearing gear from U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ past presidential campaigns, T-shirts that read “resist,” “Hands off!” and “We the People.”

Attending Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour stop, they ...Read more

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent praised President Javier Milei’s policies in Argentina as a model for other market-friendly governments in Latin America, in a symbolic show of support for the libertarian leader.

“Today was what I would call a fulcrum day,” Bessent said in an interview Monday after meetings with both Milei and his ...Read more

A federal judge stopped the Trump administration on Monday from rescinding deportation protections and work permits for more than a half-million Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who were granted entrance into the United States under a humanitarian parole program during the Biden presidency.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani ruled,...Read more

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier threatened “there will be consequences” for Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer if the city continues to carry out its policy of barring employees and cops from inquiring about a law-abiding person’s immigration status.

In a letter to Dyer, posted to X, formerly Twitter, Monday evening, Uthmeier cited the so-...Read more

The Trump administration has canceled the visas of dozens of international students across Florida as part of a sweeping crackdown on college campuses across the country.

Florida State University is the latest university in the state to confirm that several international students’ visas have been revoked. The university told the Miami Herald ...Read more

The official government residence of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in Harrisburg faced a fiery attack that forced the governor and his family to flee their home early Sunday morning.

The fire, allegedly ignited by Pennsylvania resident Cody Balmer, who admitted to “harboring hatred” toward the Democratic governor and told police he would ...Read more

RIO DE JANEIRO — Donald Trump is pulling his nation’s closest neighbors into the center of his trade war with China as he seeks to elbow the Asian giant out of a region the U.S. has long considered its own backyard.

The president last week dispatched Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to Panama as part of his ongoing effort to reassert American...Read more

BOSTON — The Trump administration is freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard after the university said it was rejecting a list of demands from the feds.

The Trump admin has been pressuring the Cambridge school to end DEI programs and “audit” the viewpoints of its student body, faculty, and staff. This comes as the feds threaten...Read more

Thousands of Cambodian and ethnic Khmer people from the Bay Area and beyond made their way to Stockton’s Wat Dhammararam Buddhist Temple, the largest in the state, for a three-day New Year celebration over the weekend. This year, a certain gravity accompanied the joy in one of the state’s biggest Cambodian communities.

Amid the Chaul Chnam ...Read more

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a new law on Monday that allocates $180 million for wildfire prevention projects, such as prescribed burns and vegetation management, throughout the state.

It’s the latest funding for fire prevention after the Los Angeles firestorm in January, and just a sliver of the billions of dollars allocated in ...Read more

Nevada canceled more than 162,000 voter registrations and inactivated almost 38,000 others in a post-general election voter roll cleanup, the Secretary of State’s office reported Monday.

“The Secretary of State’s Office takes the transparency, security and accessibility of our elections very seriously, and is focused on supporting the ...Read more

FRESNO, Calif. — Asian food sellers were notified last week they can no longer sell at River Park’s two farmers markets.

The vendors — selling everything from Lao sticky rice with steak to Filipino chicken adobo — were told they could no longer do business at the Fresno shopping center’s farmers markets on Tuesday evenings and ...Read more

HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Harrisburg man charged with the attempted homicide of Gov. Josh Shapiro and his family arrived at the governor’s mansion early Sunday armed with a hammer and gasoline-filled beer bottles. After walking for more than an hour in the middle of the night from his home to the estate in downtown Harrisburg, he was able to ...Read more

OAKLAND, Calif. — A mistrial was declared Monday in the trial of an FCI Dublin women’s prison guard accused of sexually preying on inmates at the now-shuttered facility, after jurors couldn’t agree on a verdict.

Deliberations were called off a week after the jurors began deliberating the fate of Darrell Smith, who faced 15 counts of ...Read more

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer said Monday that she temporarily hid her face from photographers in President Donald Trump's Oval Office last week simply because she didn't want her picture taken.

Whitmer, a second-term Democrat, made the comment at a meeting of the Detroit Economic Club after The New York Times published a photo Saturday of her...Read more

President Donald Trump’s tariff exclusions for smartphones and other tech products have added to a growing set of confusing signals for companies and trading partners digesting how to engage a White House still promising to negotiate dozens of new deals in America’s favor.

The dizzying weekend saw Trump exclude popular consumer electronics ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho teenager with autism who was hospitalized for a week after being shot by police died over the weekend.

The Bannock County Coroner’s Office confirmed to the Idaho Statesman that Victor Perez, who was physically impaired, died after four officers from the Pocatello Police Department shot him several times outside his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will ask lawmakers to cut more than $9 billion in funding for the Public Broadcasting Service, National Public Radio and foreign aid in the current fiscal year, an attempt to employ a little-used legislative tactic for reducing spending already approved by Congress.

The proposal — known as a rescission ...Read more

Monday’s magnitude 5.2 temblor marked another success for California’s earthquake early warning system, with users in some areas saying they received alerts on their phones before they felt shaking.

The alerts in some cases provided pivotal seconds of lead time — a heads-up that could be critical in the event of a major earthquake.

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