LANSING, Michigan — President Donald Trump's administration has waded into the future of Enbridge Inc.'s controversial Line 5 oil pipeline, arguing the state of Michigan should not be able to undermine the federal government's authority over pipelines and energy supplies.

The Department of Justice filed a statement of interest last week in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House narrowly passed a seven-week extension of federal spending authority Friday morning, setting the stage for dueling Senate votes later Friday before a weeklong recess ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown.

The final tally in the House was 217-212, with GOP Reps. Thomas Massie of Kentucky and...Read more

President Donald Trump has been making anti-democratic moves since returning to the White House eight months ago, from attacking universities to law firms. Now, the president is using the horrible murder of right-wing political commentator Charlie Kirk as a pretext to ramp up his authoritarian efforts, openly boasting of the coming crackdown.

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It appears that President Donald Trump has signaled a total disdain for the Latino community, the country’s largest minority group at 68 million, or 1 of every 5 residents.

This observation is not based totally on Trump’s remarks a decade ago that Mexico “does not send its best” and that immigrants from our southern border are “...Read more

The war against Black women is heating up.

President Donald Trump says he wants to keep the United States out of the wars raging overseas. So, he has humiliated Ukraine, catered to Russia and kowtowed to Israel, while eschewing U.S. involvement in their brutal conflicts.

Yet, Trump is waging his own homegrown wars. In addition to targeting ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — A federal judge Thursday said she was “inclined to extend” an earlier ruling and order the Trump administration to restore an additional $500 million in UCLA medical research grants that were frozen in response to the university’s alleged campus antisemitism violations.

Although she did not issue a formal ruling late ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers have yet to vote on a government funding bill. But they’re not letting that interrupt blame-casting for a potential shutdown.

Members of both parties have spent weeks depicting their colleagues across the aisle as intent on shutting down the federal government. From Democrats, the message has been about Republican ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “really let me down” after meeting with UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss efforts to heighten pressure on Russia to enter negotiations that could help bring the Kremlin’s three-year war in Ukraine to an end.

“War is a different thing,” Trump said during a joint ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — The University of Pennsylvania did not have any interest in hosting former President Joe Biden’s post-presidential center as the 46th president had previously claimed, The Wall Street Journal reported this week.

Earlier this month, Biden embarked on establishing his presidential library in his home state of Delaware, ending ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic and Republican congressional leaders were engaging in a game of shutdown chicken Thursday, the day before the House’s expected vote on a seven-week stopgap bill due Sept. 30 to prevent a lapse in federal agency funding.

House GOP leaders were feeling good about their odds of getting the bill through their chamber ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested that U.S. broadcast networks should face scrutiny over their licenses if their content is overwhelmingly critical of him, and defended ABC’s decision to suspend late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show indefinitely over remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

“That’s ...Read more

A 49-year-old woman claiming to be the wife of President Trump showed up at Mar-a-Lago while the real first lady and her husband were headed to London for a visit with British Royalty.

Police responded to the Trump’s Florida estate Tuesday upon being told an “unwanted guest” was trying to deliver a letter to the President, according to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — At a banquet table fit for a king, but set specially for him, U.S. President Donald Trump called his state visit to the United Kingdom this week “one of the highest honors of my life.”

He then proceeded to tell guests at the white tie event that the United States was “a very sick country” last year before becoming “the...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday added three Texas districts to its list of targets for 2026, following changes to the state’s House map that make those seats much tougher for Democrats to hold.

The districts are the Houston-area 9th District; the 32nd District, which includes parts of Dallas; and the...Read more

President Donald Trump said Thursday that Charlie Kirk could’ve become president one day.

Speaking at a joint press conference with United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump heaped praise on the slain conservative activist and disclosed that he told Kirk he had what it takes to win the White House.

“He was a great young man with an...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Republican Congressional Committee on Thursday added three Texas districts to its list of targets for 2026, following changes to the state’s House map that make those seats much tougher for Democrats to hold.

The districts are the Houston-area 9th District; the 32nd District, which includes parts of Dallas; and the...Read more

WASHINGTON — Instead of voting on President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, U.S. House Republicans resorted this week to another arcane rules maneuver — all to prevent what could be politically uncomfortable votes for GOP lawmakers.

But in the process of basically putting the calendar on hold, we saw the first cracks in GOP support for ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump and U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled a new technology partnership at a business roundtable Thursday, where they were joined by executives highlighting efforts to deepen ties on artificial intelligence and digital assets.

The agreement will create “billions of dollars in opportunities for American farmers ...Read more

The assassination of Charlie Kirk has become a flashpoint in the deep divide between red and blue America.

The normal and obvious reaction of responsible leaders would be to call for calm and try to unite the country. At least that is what has happened in the past and enabled the Great Experiment to soldier on.

When the country was torn apart ...Read more