A federal government shutdown was looming larger Monday as Senate Democrats vowed to block a sprawling spending package that includes new funding for President Donald Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown.

Democratic senators say they will not allow passage of one of six funding bills that bankrolls the Department of Homeland Security, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Capitol Hill digs out from the weekend snow this week, the Senate is setting up for another standoff over government funding after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident on Saturday.

The bipartisan path forward for a package of six appropriation bills, including funding for the Department of Homeland Security, ...Read more

A long-shot effort to restore the full federal tax deduction for gambling losses fell short on Capitol Hill this week.

The House Rules Committee declined to advance an amendment to a larger spending bill that would restore a gambler’s ability to deduct 100 percent of losses on annual tax filings.

U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev., whose ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s approval ratings saw a slight dip in several polls conducted over the weekend, pointing to the riskiness of her decision to call a snap election in early February.

The polls paint an early picture of how voters are viewing the election that Takaichi announced last week as she seeks a mandate backing ...Read more

PALM SPRINGS — At an upscale bistro in Palm Springs, Rita Aikey had just written a $500 check for a congressional candidate who hails from more than a hundred miles away from the Coachella Valley.

For more than an hour, Aikey and her spouse, Jim Fitzjames, had listened to San Diego City Councilmember Marni von Wilpert make her stump speech to...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s approval ratings saw a slight dip in several polls conducted over the weekend, indicating the riskiness of her decision to call a snap election in early February.

The polls paint an early picture of how voters are viewing the election that Takaichi announced last week as she seeks a mandate backing her...Read more

Senate Republican leaders plan to reject Democratic demands to split off funding for the Department of Homeland Security and pass the rest of a giant funding package needed to avert a partial government shutdown this week, a Senate GOP aide said.

While some Senate Republicans have insisted on a full investigation after Border Patrol agents ...Read more

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton has filed to end her reelection campaign following months of scrutiny over her age and her ability to continue in her role as the capital’s nonvoting House member.

Citizens for Eleanor Holmes Norton, the campaign committee for the 88-year-old Democrat, filed a termination report Sunday with the Federal Election ...Read more

Gov. Josh Shapiro revealed new details of what he described as childhood trauma, weighed in on President Donald Trump’s “facade of strength” in U.S. and foreign policy, and promised to work to “bring down the temperature” of political violence in a wide-ranging interview with CBS Sunday Morning .

Shapiro told CBS News’ Norah O’...Read more

The Trump administration has blamed the death of an American citizen at the hands of immigration agents in Minnesota on the victim within hours of their killing for the second time this month, calling the late Alex Jeffrey Pretti an "assassin" and "domestic terrorist" without opening an independent investigation.

The crisis response from ...Read more

The risk of another partial government shutdown escalated quickly Saturday after federal agents shot and killed a Minneapolis resident who was protesting a Trump administration immigration crackdown.

Within hours of the shooting, Senate Democrats pledged to oppose a roughly $1.33 trillion spending package needed by Friday to avert a shutdown if...Read more

The notion that Denmark alone, or Europe together, could defend Greenland against an American force had become the source of relentless mockery within the White House. The Danish were dismissed as "irrelevant," while Europe was portrayed as a shadow of its former self. If President Trump chose to take control of this Arctic island, the ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — President Donald Trump entered office last January thanks in part to a wave of Hispanic voters, enough in one solidly-Democratic Central Florida County to turn it GOP red. But the tide may be changing.

A year into his presidency, the driving factor for many Hispanics — Trump’s campaign promise to improve the economy — is...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said U.S. military forces used a weapon that he referred to as “the discombobulator” during the U.S. operation in Caracas to remove former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro from power earlier this month.

“The discombobulator. I’m not allowed to talk about it,” Trump said in an interview with ...Read more

MIAMI — Soon after Susie Wiles ran Donald Trump’s successful 2016 presidential campaign in Florida, she moved to Washington to join Brian Ballard’s lobbying firm, which was mainly known for its political clout and connections to Florida’s GOP governors.

With her ties to Trump, Wiles brought an instant cachet to Ballard Partners. Among ...Read more

President Donald Trump appeared to hope that last week would amount to an extended victory lap marking the first anniversary of his return to the White House, starting with a celebratory press conference capped by a demonstration of his global muscle at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

Things didn’t turn out as planned, either at home or ...Read more

Donald Trump lauded the U.K.’s military after Prime Minister Keir Starmer urged the U.S. president to apologize for downplaying the role of NATO troops in the war in Afghanistan.

The president in a Saturday social media post stopped short of making a full apology, but said that British forces are “second to none” and that their “GREAT ...Read more

Sure, President Donald Trump’s erratic foreign policy has alienated allies, shredded the U.S.-led rules-based global order, nudged Canada closer to China and turned NATO into something resembling your uncle’s Facebook page after someone brings up politics.

Other than that? Everything’s terrific.

Just kidding. It might be even worse than ...Read more

As Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, agents continued to use aggressive and sometimes violent methods to make arrests in its mass deportation campaign, including breaking down doors in Minneapolis homes, a bombshell report from the Associated Press on Jan. 21, 2026, said that an internal ICE memo – acquired via a whistleblower �...Read more

Over the past year, images of masked, heavily armed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arresting men, women and children – outside of courts, at schools and homes – have become common across the United States.

The video of an ICE agent shooting and killing Renee Nicole Good – a U.S. citizen – in Minnesota on Jan. 7, ...Read more