A battle between the Trump administration and federal courts over the deportation of more than 100 immigrants to a prison in El Salvador intensified on April 16, 2025. U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg released an opinion saying that he had “probable cause” to hold members of the administration in criminal contempt. That ...Read more

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In the days after Donald Trump’s reelection as president, Harvard political scientist Steven Levitsky was despondent.

“I was in the fetal position,” he said. “I just wanted to put on sweat pants, eat ice cream and watch hockey.”

Levitsky had spent two decades studying authoritarian regimes in other countries, ...Read more

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, once a stalwart champion of Venezuelan immigrants, supports President Donald Trump’s decision to end the deportation protections for hundreds of thousands of people already in the United States who fled dictatorship and humanitarian crises in their home country.

Newly released court documents show that Rubio, ...Read more

President Donald Trump and former President Joe Biden hurled a volley of haymakers at each other in an exchange that marks the first remarks from Biden since Trump has taken office.

Biden blasted Trump as the new administration approaches its first 100 days in office.

“In fewer than 100 days, this new administration has made... has done so ...Read more

Illinois Senate President Don Harmon filed notice Wednesday that he plans to appeal the State Board of Elections’ assertion he took millions of dollars more in campaign contributions than allowed under a law designed to reduce the impact of big money in Illinois politics.

The filing by Harmon, a Democrat who championed the law at the heart of...Read more

Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations with the U.S. over its ability to enrich uranium and warned that fledgling nuclear talks with Washington may fall apart if the Trump administration “moves the goalposts.”

In two statements on Wednesday, senior Iranian officials signaled that fresh diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving a years-...Read more

President Donald Trump slammed Harvard University on Wednesday as having “lost its way” for hiring former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, suggesting it was further evidence the school should no longer receive federal funds.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump abruptly attacked de Blasio and onetime Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot as “two of...Read more

For the first time in about a decade, senior U.S. and Iranian officials met face to face. Last Saturday, Steve Witkoff, the U.S. envoy to the Middle East, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi held a round of negotiations on a subject that has been a source of contention for the two archnemeses for more than two decades: Tehran’s nuclear...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday announced a lawsuit contesting President Donald Trump's executive authority to enact international tariffs without congressional support.

The legal action argues that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump cited to impose tariffs, does not grant him the ...Read more

MIAMI — In a scorching letter, Cuban American health care billionaire Mike Fernández is urging Cuban American Republican leaders from Miami to stand up to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown and speak up or “make room for others who can.”

“If you can’t find your voice at this moment, or tell the difference between one ...Read more

A San Diego small business owner sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over a new financial reporting requirement, arguing that an order the government says will help crack down on money laundering by Mexican cartels instead violates the Fourth Amendment and will financially ruin money services businesses like hers.

Money services businesses...Read more

ATLANTA — Frustrated with what he calls a lack of urgency in Washington, the former chair of Georgia’s largest school district jumped into the race Wednesday to unseat U.S. Rep. David Scott — mounting a generational challenge against one of the state’s longest-serving Democrats.

Everton Blair, the first Black and openly gay member of ...Read more

The Trump administration ruined what should have been a good spring in the Klamath River basin.

By abruptly laying off federal personnel and freezing payments for already authorized programs and projects, the administration replaced a budding sense of hopefulness in the basin with fear and uncertainty, and tore at fragile bonds years in the ...Read more

Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations with the U.S. over its ability to enrich uranium and warned that fledgling nuclear talks with Washington may fall apart if the Trump administration “moves the goalposts.”

In two separate statements on Wednesday, senior Iranian officials signaled that fresh diplomatic efforts aimed at resolving...Read more

Sen. Cory Booker’s record-breaking, 25-hour Senate floor speech, which began on March 31, 2025, and ended on April 1, momentarily snatched the national spotlight from President Donald Trump.

The ever-churning national news cycle has already moved on from the spectacle.

But as communication studies scholars, we believe Booker...Read more

WASHINGTON — When House Republicans united last month to back a full-year stopgap funding measure on a mostly party-line vote, 17 of them did something they’d never done before: vote for a spending bill that became law.

In the Senate, Republicans Mike Lee of Utah and Eric Schmitt of Missouri likewise voted for such a bill for the first time...Read more

NEW YORK — Mayoral candidate Scott Stringer is proposing a new zoning designation to block President Donald Trump from auctioning off federal buildings to luxury developers, the Daily News has learned.

The plan, dubbed Safeguarding Historic Infrastructure through Effective Land-use Defenses, or SHIELD, would create a new “federal use” ...Read more

Iran said it won’t be drawn into negotiations with the U.S. over its ability to enrich uranium, a sign the diplomatic effort to resolve a years-long nuclear standoff may have hit its first stumbling block.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said he’d heard contradictory positions from his U.S. counterpart, Steve Witkoff, since a first ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday is expected to announce a lawsuit contesting President Donald Trump's executive authority to enact international tariffs without congressional approval.

The governor's office said the legal action will argue that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which Trump cited to ...Read more