WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in negotiations over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin shutdown procedures as its funding from Congress expires at midnight — the third time parts of the U.S. government will have shut down in the last six months.

The shutdown will affect DHS functions other than immigration and border enforcement, which are ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump had himself a week, just not the kind political observers have become accustomed to, spending much of it behind closed doors while unable to broker a deal with Senate Democrats.

He dissed a Republican icon over trade policy. He backed down on plans to exclude Democratic governors from an annual gathering of...Read more

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis of New York and Republican state officials asked the Supreme Court on Friday to stop a state court order to redraw her Staten Island district ahead of the midterms.

The emergency applications, one from several Republican state officials and another from Malliotakis and a group of voters, argued that the last-minute ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said regime change would be the best outcome for Iran, ratcheting up pressure on the Islamic Republic in talks over its nuclear program as he builds up the U.S. military presence in the region.

“It seems like that would be the best thing that could happen,” Trump told reporters Friday following an event...Read more

After a year of refusing to choose between Washington and Brussels, Keir Starmer will shift tone in Munich by edging Britain closer to the European Union and calling for an end to over-reliance on American military support.

In a speech he’s scheduled to make to the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, the U.K. prime minister will urge ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Mark Kelly doesn’t expect President Donald Trump administration’s failure to convince a grand jury to indict him and other Democratic lawmakers for a video that told federal troops they can refuse “illegal orders” to at all lower tensions or prevent further actions.

“Sure — the grand jury didn’t indict me a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans have used a slim majority to push through some of President Donald Trump’s biggest priorities — and shield him from political and legal trouble — since Trump returned to the White House last year.

But as Trump’s approval ratings slide and the federal government faces a partial shutdown this weekend, ...Read more

The recent FBI search of the Fulton County, Georgia, elections facility and the seizure of election-related materials pursuant to a warrant has attracted concern for what it might mean for future elections.

What if a determined executive branch used federal law enforcement to seize election materials to sow distrust in the results of ...Read more

The Trump administration says it’s revoking more federal grant dollars in Illinois — this time for electric vehicle charging stations.

On the chopping block in Illinois is a $100 million grant to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency for electric vehicle charging stations and a $3.6 million grant to the Secretary of State’s office...Read more

A shutdown of the federal Department of Homeland Security looked almost certain to start this weekend as talks to rein in President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown faltered.

The partial government shutdown was expected to kick in early Saturday morning as Congress left Washington, D.C. without making much progress towards a deal on ...Read more

On Feb. 7, 2026, Chasity Verret Martinez won a special election to fill a vacant seat in the Louisiana House. That’s an outcome that might not mean very much to people outside of the state or even outside her Baton Rouge-area district.

But Martinez is a Democrat who took 62% of the vote in a district that had given Donald Trump a 13...Read more