U.S. Reps. Ben Cline and Jen Kiggans introduced legislation that would require state and local law enforcement to enter into cooperative agreements with Immigration and Customs Enforcement in order to receive certain federal grant funding.

The Virginia Republicans’ bill would effectively mandate that state and local police perform some ...Read more

NEW YORK — Assemblywoman Claire Valdez Thursday picked up the endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary for the 7th Congressional District seat held by Rep. Nydia Velazquez.

The progressive lawmaker joined Mayor Zohran Mamdani in backing Valdez, a former union organizer and low-wage worker, over Brooklyn Borough President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s effort to curtail mail voting through executive order will likely be ruled illegal in at least one of several lawsuits filed this week, experts said, the latest in the president’s long-running effort to assert federal control of elections.

Democratic party groups and civil rights organizations have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down, according to Pentagon officials, a move that comes after President Donald Trump warned of military escalation against Iran.

The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed an earlier report from CBS News, which cited people ...Read more

The Trump administration will impose tariffs of as much as 100% on certain imported medicines, albeit with several key exemptions, a maneuver to pressure drugmakers to manufacture more in the U.S.

The new levy, which President Donald Trump authorized on Thursday, applies to patented drugs made in countries that lack tariff deals with the U.S. ...Read more

Don Lemon appeared on ABC’s “The View” Thursday where he attempted to turn the tables on President Donald Trump.

The former CNN host told the talk show’s panels that he feels he’s being targeted by the Trump administration as evidenced by the president having called him “the dumbest man on television.”

Moderator Whoopi Goldberg ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation that seeks to simplify tariffs on metal imports and address efforts by producers of metals outside of the United States to circumvent the import taxes, according to seniors administration officials.

The 50% duties on aluminum, steel and copper imports that Trump imposed last year have ...Read more

President Donald Trump attacked Bruce Springsteen on social media April 2, days after the singer appeared at an anti-Trump rally in St. Paul and kicked off his tour in Minneapolis by calling out “corruption in the White House.”

“Bad, and very boring singer, Bruce Springsteen, who looks like a dried up prune who has suffered greatly from ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for immigration enforcement.

In an early-morning pro forma session, the Senate agreed, by voice vote, to table a House measure that would have ...Read more

BALTIMORE — The Maryland General Assembly has passed legislation requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortion care when needed to stabilize a patient. The House of Delegates passed the bill Thursday, 96-37, after the state Senate passed the bill in February.

“We have re-instituted a basic protection for women who, regardless of ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s meandering speech on the Iran war late Wednesday — in which he paired promises of a swift exit with new threats of escalated bombing and denied responsibility for the Strait of Hormuz — did little to assuage U.S. allies and world markets concerned about the conflict’s ongoing disruptions to the global oil supply....Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate took the first step Thursday in a GOP-backed plan to reopen the Department of Homeland Security, sending the House for a second time its bill to fund the department except for immigration enforcement.

In an early-morning pro forma session, the Senate agreed, by voice vote, to table a House measure that would have ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Court of Appeals threw out the nine-year sentence for discredited elections clerk Tina Peters on Thursday and ordered that she be re-sentenced by a district court judge.

The panel of three judges found that Mesa County District Court Judge Matthew Barrett wrongly based part of the original sentence on Peters’ exercise ...Read more

President Donald Trump Thursday posted “Kangaroo Court!!!” in an apparent jab at the Supreme Court after it heard oral arguments in a case over birthright citizenship.

Although he didn’t elaborate, Trump’s two-word early morning outburst on his social media site seemed a reference to the conservative justices who sounded very skeptical ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to pay all federal Department of Homeland Security workers as congressional Republicans struggled to end the record-setting partial goverment shutdown that is set to extend through Easter weekend.

“I will soon sign an order to pay ALL of the incredible employees at the Department of Homeland Security,” ...Read more

On April Fools’ Day, the American president addressed the nation and the world to send not one message about the war that the United States and Israel launched against Iran a month ago, but all possible messages at once.

The conflict is “nearing completion,” Donald Trump said, before repeating that the U.S. might also escalate by hitting ...Read more

WASHINGTON — One year ago, Donald Trump stood in a sun-kissed, unpaved Rose Garden and defiantly announced a new era of global trade, raising tariffs on countries worldwide and sending shock waves through the global economy.

The president promised short-term pain rippling through American households would make way for a U.S. economy that ...Read more

The 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence isn’t the only important anniversary in 2026. This year also marks the 75th anniversary of an extraordinary case of student activism that helped lead to the Supreme Court’s decision outlawing segregated schools.

In April 1951, 16-year-old Barbara Rose Johns organized a ...Read more

The first parents convicted of involuntary manslaughter for a mass school shooting committed by their child were Jennifer and James Crumbley. The Crumbleys were convicted in 2024, after their 15-year-old son Ethan killed four students at Oxford High School in Michigan in 2021.

In March 2026, Colin Gray became the first parent ...Read more