WASHINGTON — While most presidential support votes are straightforward, determining a president’s views on legislation can occasionally be fraught, especially when the president is Donald Trump.

Each year, CQ Roll Call assigns a presidential position to votes based on whether the president expressed a clear stance before members of Congress...Read more

CHICAGO — After spending more than a decade in prison overseas, the former boyfriend of Heather Mack is set to appear in a Chicago courtroom on Thursday on conspiracy charges stemming from the infamous 2014 murder of Mack’s mother at a Bali resort.

Tommy Schaefer was released from prison in Indonesia last week and is scheduled to appear at ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Department of Justice appears to have withheld from disclosure files on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein related to a claim that President Donald Trump sexually abused a minor, a top Democratic lawmaker said Tuesday.

“Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this...Read more

SEATTLE — A sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a 32-year-old man suspected of stabbing and killing four people Tuesday on the Key Peninsula, according to authorities.

A caller reported around 8:45 a.m. that a man was violating a no-contact order, according to a joint statement by the Pierce County sheriff’s office and Key Peninsula Fire. ...Read more

Pennsylvania Republican gubernatorial candidate and state Treasurer Stacy Garrity is to be among the guests filling the U.S. House’s gallery Tuesday night when President Donald Trump delivers the first State of the Union address of his second term.

Her presence at the prime-time speech underlines her alignment with Trump on the national stage...Read more

NEW YORK — After nearly 2 feet of snow fell across New York City on Sunday and Monday, the tristate area’s three airports began to resume flights but still led the nation in cancellations on Tuesday, with major disruptions for ground-based transit as well.

More than 30% of flights into LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark airports were canceled on...Read more

NEW YORK — Work on the waylaid Hudson River tunnel resumed Tuesday.

Multiple sources familiar with the project confirmed to the New York Daily News that work began again on the project that has laid fallow for weeks amid funding interference from the Trump administration.

A spokesman for the Gateway Development Commission, the bistate body ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers continue their push for new gun control legislation in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, though without the support of rural DFLers and at least one Republican, the path forward remains unclear.

That hasn’t stopped the ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Eastern Shore residents continued digging out Tuesday, as thousands remained without power after what some were calling the worst blizzard in decades.

Most major roads were clear of snow and ice, but utility crews and municipal workers were still dealing with downed trees and limbs that fell under the weight of heavy, wet snow and...Read more

New Hampshire Gov. Kelly Ayotte says Department of Homeland Security (DHS) plans for a new ICE processing and detention center at a large warehouse in Merrimack have been called off.

“I’m pleased to announce that the Department of Homeland Security will not move forward with the proposed ICE facility in Merrimack,” Ayotte posted to X on ...Read more

BOSTON — Democratic U.S. Reps. Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Jim McGovern (MA-02) say they will not attend the State of the Union address Tuesday night, joining Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) in boycotting the event in protest against President Donald Trump.

A growing group of congressional Democrats have announced they will instead be attending “The ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration on Tuesday sued the University of California, alleging that UCLA administrators have “routinely ignored” and “failed to report” employee complaints of antisemitism since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s war in Gaza spurred a surge in pro-Palestinian campus activism.

In the ...Read more

Savannah Guthrie’s family is putting up its own $1 million reward that leads to the “recovery” of her elderly mother, Nancy Guthrie, who was nabbed from her home in the middle of the night early this month, and who the “Today” show host acknowledged may have died.

The 84-year-old matriarch was last seen at her Tucson home on Jan. 31, ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles Fire Chief Kristin Crowley is suing the city, claiming in a whistleblower lawsuit that Mayor Karen Bass “orchestrated a campaign of retaliation” to protect her own political future and paper over her failures during the most destructive fire in city history.

In the lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles ...Read more

The Pentagon warned Anthropic PBC that it would terminate the company’s military contracts on Friday if the artificial intelligence startup failed to meet government terms for use of its technology, according to people familiar with the matter.

During a meeting Tuesday between Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei and Defense Secretary Pete ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Democratic-Farmer-Labor lawmakers continue their push for new gun control legislation in the wake of the Annunciation Catholic School shooting in Minneapolis, though without the support of rural DFLers and at least one Republican, the path forward remains unclear.

That hasn’t stopped the ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis and members of the Florida Cabinet on Tuesday approved roughly $40 million to reimburse local law enforcement agencies — primarily in rural counties — for a rapid buildup of equipment and detention capacity as part of the state’s escalating immigration crackdown.

The total marked a sharp, last-minute reduction from the $...Read more

MIAMI — A family member of a teenage girl found dead on a Carnival Cruise ship as it headed back to Miami in November said federal prosecutors have charged the teen’s stepbrother with her homicide, according to a recently filed court document.

Cleaning staff aboard the Carnival Horizon found 18-year-old Anna Kepner’s body underneath a bed...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A woman charged in the 2023 drowning deaths of two toddlers at the Almaden daycare she ran with her mother pleaded guilty Monday as trial hearings got underway, while her mother’s case continues toward a jury trial.

Nina Fathizadeh, 43, of San Jose, entered the plea and has a sentencing hearing set for May 8, according to...Read more

DENVER — The state Senate approved a measure Tuesday that would allow Coloradans to sue federal agents if they believed their constitutional rights were violated during immigration enforcement.

The Democrat-backed measure, Senate Bill 5, passed the chamber 20-11 on a party-line vote. It still needs to pass the House before it goes to Gov. ...Read more