Trump administration officials vowed to keep U.S. coal power plants operating, casting it as an imperative to meet surging electricity demand and drive a revival of the nation’s industrial base.

“The goal is 100% open,” said Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. “That’s the standard we’re operating against.”

Burgum’s comment came ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers left Washington Thursday with a few more government funding bills under their belts but face a rush after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to avert another partial government shutdown and respond to developments abroad.

Particularly challenging for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate cleared a roughly $180 billion, three-bill spending package for President Donald Trump’s signature Thursday, marking a halfway point in completing long-delayed fiscal 2026 appropriations.

Before leaving town for a weeklong recess, the Senate voted 82-15 to send legislation combining compromise Commerce-Justice-...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held a rare meeting with Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer Thursday at the White House where the two men aired differences on health care and funding for a key New York infrastructure project that the president has halted.

Trump requested the meeting to discuss his decision to hold up funding for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Kentucky Rep. James R. Comer said Thursday he is pushing to use a government funding deadline this month to secure a delay in the implementation of an intoxicating hemp ban enacted in November that critics say puts some farmers at financial risk.

Comer, along with House Agriculture Committee ranking member Angie Craig, D-Minn., ...Read more

President Donald Trump and U.S. Northeast governors will direct the nation’s largest grid operator to hold an emergency power auction that would force technology giants to pay for the construction of a fleet of new plants.

The unprecedented move, set to come Friday, aims to quell concerns about data centers driving up energy costs.

Under ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators hoping to rein in President Donald Trump’s military adventurism are vowing not to give up despite a legislative defeat, as House Democrats press ahead with their own Venezuela war powers resolution.

Under procedures outlined in the 1973 War Powers Resolution, a concurrent resolution filed by Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass.,...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops on the streets of Minneapolis amid escalating clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out his mass deportation push.

The White House threat, which came after ICE agents shot and wounded a suspect ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to tamp down unrest and the pushback against ICE agents working in the state.

Trump gave the warning early Thursday, Jan. 15, in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, after a federal agent shot a man in the leg Wednesday night in north ...Read more

Republican Rep. Don Bacon indicated there could be bipartisan support to impeach President Donald Trump for a third time if he invades Greenland.

Days after the Trump administration attacked Venezuela and took its leader into custody, the president began expressing renewed interest in acquiring Greenland. Polls overwhelmingly show Greenland ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy military troops on the streets of Minneapolis amid escalating clashes between protesters and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents carrying out his mass deportation push.

The White House threat, which came after ICE agents shot and wounded a suspect ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — President Donald Trump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act in Minnesota to tamp down unrest and the pushback against ICE agents working in the state.

Trump gave the warning early Thursday in a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, after a federal agent shot a man in the leg Wednesday night in north Minneapolis ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Primary season for Senate and House elections kicks off on March 3, with contests in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas. It concludes, 196 days later, in Delaware.

In between, millions of dollars will be spent as candidates hustle for votes. Hanging in the balance is control of both the House and Senate, as well as governors’ ...Read more

One of the most telling aspects of President Donald Trump’s political style isn’t a specific policy but how he talks about the world.

His speeches and social media posts overflow with superlatives: “The likes of which nobody’s ever seen before,” “Numbers we’ve never seen,” and “Like nobody ever thought possible.” This ...Read more

In just 12 months since President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, the difference in the country is unmistakable. Americans can feel the change in the tone of public debate. They can see it in the renewed confidence of people who spent four years wondering whether anyone in Washington still spoke their language. They can also hear it ...Read more

President Donald Trump returned to the White House with a signature promise: to be a “champion for the American worker” and launch a “golden age” for domestic manufacturing. By the end of year one of his second term, Trump’s rhetoric hasn’t matched economic reality. As working-class families increasingly struggle to make ends meet, ...Read more

The dispute between Sen. Mark Kelly and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is being told as a simple morality play. On one side, the claim that Kelly crossed a line and deserves punishment. On the other, the insistence that Kelly is a hero beyond reproach and that the administration’s response is villainy. Both frames are comforting. Both are ...Read more

Donald Trump’s henchmen (in this case, henchwoman) are at it again, this time ginning up a phony criminal investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell in much the same way that they’ve tried against Trump antagonists Jim Comey and Tish James. Those persecutions were horrible precedent in their own right, but this, signed off on by the...Read more

One of the most insidious aspects of the Trump era is how quickly the public gets used to what should be unacceptable scenarios — such as the use of federal criminal prosecutions for political retribution.

Having already watched as Trump’s Justice Department launched baseless, vengeful criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey ...Read more