Once again, President Donald Trump threatens to break the law by trying to withhold appropriated funds to states with sanctuary cities. This time he is insisting on his Truth Social account that as of the start of next month, “NO MORE PAYMENTS WILL BE MADE BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO STATES FOR THEIR CORRUPT CRIMINAL PROTECTION CENTERS KNOWN ...Read more

The Trump administration and more than a dozen states are pushing for big tech companies to effectively fund construction of new power plants as a way to prevent data centers from driving up residential utility bills.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum joined 13 governors in outlining a plan urging the nation�...Read more

SAN DIEGO — For the second time in five years, President Donald Trump has granted clemency to twice-convicted San Diego businesswoman Adriana Isabel Camberos, this time issuing her and her brother full and unconditional pardons of their fraud convictions after commuting her previous fraud sentence in 2021.

Camberos, 55, was first convicted in...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Congress appears poised to avoid another government shutdown later this month by passing compromise bills that would soften spending cuts sought by the Trump administration, according to Republicans and Democrats involved in the process.

That would prevent a repeat of the 2025 government shutdown that disrupted ...Read more

A top Immigration Customs Enforcement official has stepped down from her post to launch a pro-Trump Republican campaign for a swingy Ohio congressional district in the midterm elections.

In what could turn into a referendum on President Donald Trump’s aggressive mass deportation push, ICE Deputy Director Madison Sheahan says she enter a ...Read more

MIAMI — Former Congressman David Rivera and a political associate face trial next month in Miami on charges of working as unregistered foreign agents for the Venezuelan government of Nicolás Maduro, the vilified president who was seized by the U.S. military in early January on charges of trafficking cocaine to the United States.

Defense ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Federal officials have launched an investigation into the California Community Colleges Athletic Assn. and four other state colleges and school districts, alleging that their policies allowing sports participation based on gender identity violate the civil rights of female athletes, U.S. Education Department officials announced ...Read more

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