Thailand is gearing up for a general election Feb. 8, which could usher in the fourth prime minister in three years. The snap vote is expected to produce a coalition government, heightening the risk of continued political instability.

Political upheaval has become the norm over the last two decades. A series of short-lived administrations have...Read more

DENVER — President Donald Trump’s ongoing pressure campaign against Colorado has left the state’s mostly Democratic leaders on the back foot as they’ve tried to fend off threats to nearly $1 billion in federal funding, financing for a drinking water pipeline, the future of a celebrated research center and more over the past month alone. ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case challenging an Idaho law that bars transgender women and girls from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.

The case began in 2020, when Idaho became the first state in the nation to pass such a sweeping law targeting trans athletes. Shortly after Gov. Brad ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As House Republicans’ narrow margin becomes even narrower, leaders are banking on near-perfect floor vote attendance during the final sprint to pass government funding bills and advance their agenda before the midterms.

But even that might not be enough, as they discovered Tuesday night.

“They better be here. I mean, I’ve ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would cut off federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities at the end of the month in the latest escalation over immigration policy with Democratic jurisdictions.

Trump said his administration had also given “90-day notices” to states like California who would bill the federal government to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounded ready Tuesday to uphold conservative state laws that forbid transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams for girls.

But the ruling may not directly affect California and the liberal-leaning states, at least for now.

Idaho, West Virginia and 25 other Republican-led states say a student’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a “Trump economic boom” was underway, again giving short shrift to indicators of a still-sluggish economy as Republicans gear up to defend their House and Senate majorities this year.

Trump visited the Detroit Economic Club a few hours after new government data showed mixed signals ...Read more

Rep. James Comer and former President Bill Clinton are locked in an intense war of words after Clinton defied a congressional subpoena and accused the Kentucky lawmaker of playing partisan politics in his House Oversight Committee investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Because the Clintons did not appear for subpoenaed ...Read more

Bill and Hillary Clinton seem to be gearing up for a potentially contentious legal battle with Kentucky Rep. James Comer.

The 42nd president and his wife, herself a former secretary of state, defied the GOP lawmaker’s efforts to depose them in his investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons declined to show up for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Neal Dunn announced Tuesday that he would not seek a sixth term this year, opening up a red-leaning North Florida seat based in Tallahassee.

Dunn, a urologist and former Army surgeon, is the eighth House Republican to announce retirement plans in 2026, while 18 others are departing to seek other offices.

“The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded ready to uphold bans on transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, during oral arguments Tuesday in challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia.

Across more than three hours of arguments in the two cases, the justices probed arguments from the states, the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Kevin Kiley’s congressional district has been sliced into six pieces, and he’s ruled out running in one of them, the district now represented by Rep. Mike Thompson.

Thompson is a veteran Democrat from St. Helena and senior member of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee.

Kiley said Monday night in a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate passed bipartisan legislation Tuesday that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions of them that were generated by artificial intelligence.

The bill’s passage comes in the wake of intense criticism of Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, for allowing the Grok AI chatbot to generate ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump contended his policies had already spurred what he described as a "Trump economic boom" during a speech Tuesday in Michigan's largest city, as concerns about rising prices and tariffs loom over the midterm election year.

Trump's address before the Detroit Economic Club featured him claiming that affordability ...Read more

Current high prices for groceries, housing and other goods are largely not the fault of President Donald Trump. That blame still rests with the inflationary policies of former President Joe Biden, whose tenure brought a 21.5% rise in consumer prices.

Most of the Democrats who are now castigating Trump and Republicans for the continued stress ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices sounded ready Tuesday to uphold state laws that forbid transgender athletes from competing on school sports teams for girls.

Idaho, West Virginia and 25 other Republican-led states say a student's biological sex at birth should determine who can play on the girls' or boys' teams.

They say it is unfair ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Chairman James R. Comer said Tuesday the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee would take up a contempt of Congress measure against Bill Clinton next week, after the former president did not show up for a deposition tied to the panel’s investigation of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Committee approval of a ...Read more

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case that seeks to overturn state bans on transgender women competing in high school and college sports, with some conservative judges hinting they may side with the red states.

The conservative justices, who have been mostly skeptical of trans rights, will decide whether bans on trans women ...Read more

DETROIT — President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday in Michigan, where he is expected to promote his approach to the nation's economy and jump-start the midterm election year in the battleground state.

After Air Force One landed at Detroit Metro Airport at about 11:45 a.m., Trump is expected to visit Ford Motor Co.'s Dearborn Truck Plant before ...Read more