Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who has served nearly 40 years in Congress to become one of its most influential power brokers, on Monday announced who she will take on when she leaves office in January: University of California, Berkeley students.

The Nancy Pelosi Institute for Representative Democracy, to be launched with tens of millions of dollars in ...Read more

DENVER — The Colorado Supreme Court rejected multiple proposed ballot measures Monday that would have asked voters to redraw the state’s electoral maps for the 2028 election to give Democrats an advantage in seven of eight congressional districts.

For now, the two unanimous rulings knock Colorado out of the nationwide partisan redistricting...Read more

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s claims that they were suddenly told, “at the eleventh hour,” that they wouldn’t get the police protection they want while they and their children visit the United Kingdom has been challenged by journalists who say their team revealed Friday that the couple already knew this protection wouldn’t be ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned away Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz's defamation suit against CNN, refusing to reconsider the high bar for press freedom set in the New York Times vs. Sullivan case.

Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil M. Gorsuch dissented.

The no-comment decision may signal the justices are not anxious to...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday gave President Donald Trump new power to fire the heads of most independent agencies created by Congress — but not the Federal Reserve.

Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. announced two opinions, one of which bolstered the president's power as the chief executive and a second which said this authority ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump’s effort to remove Federal Reserve Board member Lisa Cook on Monday, even as the justices expanded presidential power to remove members of the Federal Trade Commission and other independent agencies.

The two decisions written by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr — a 5-4 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday upheld state laws that allow for counting mail ballots that are postmarked by election day but arrive later.

The 5-4 decision rejects a Republican challenge to laws in California and 13 other mostly Democratic states which permit the counting of these late-arriving ballots.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett ...Read more

Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a $117.6 billion budget Monday after vetoing $800 million from the spending plan approved by the Florida Legislature.

“The reality is we paid down the government debt, we maxed out our rainy day fund…and we really set up for what happens in the future,” DeSantis said of the trimmed down budget.

He signed the ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume on Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran has requested a meeting,” Trump said Monday in a post on Truth Social. “It will take place tomorrow in Doha.”

Shortly after, White House Press ...Read more

DENVER — Three wildfires burning in western Colorado have consumed roughly 44,000 acres, killed three firefighters and injured two, according to the responding agencies.

“Critical fire weather conditions” forecast each day this week could spur the wildfires’ growth across the state’s Western Slope and mountains, according to the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down without comment President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million jury verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan nearly 30 years ago.

None of the justices registered a dissent.

When Carroll reported the incident in a book, ...Read more

CHICAGO — Cook County residents will experience at least three days of dangerously hot conditions this week, officials have warned, as a heat dome builds over the Midwest and eastern U.S. and as Illinois is hit with its first heat wave of the summer. While chances for thunderstorms later in the week could cool off the area in time for the July...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday turned down without comment President Donald Trump's appeal of a $5-million jury verdict for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan nearly 30 years ago.

None of the justices registered a dissent.

When Carroll reported the incident in a book, ...Read more

Debates over what visitors will see and experience in the nation’s capital city have taken center stage as Americans prepare to mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

For President Donald J. Trump, the event inspired a massive redevelopment project. Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has argued ...Read more

U.S. President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.

“Iran has requested a meeting,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “It will take place tomorrow in Doha.”

The details of a fresh round of negotiations ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’s ready to continue talks with U.S. envoys on ending the war in Ukraine, while rejecting a proposal to halt long-range strikes that have proven damaging for both sides.

The Kremlin expects U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to travel to Moscow to continue talks on ending the war in ...Read more

They arrived with rescue dogs, sophisticated listening devices and cutting tools that can rip through concrete.

On Sunday, the Los Angeles County Fire Department's international urban search and rescue team descended on a collapsed 10-story high-rise in Caraballeda, a coastal town devastated by Venezuela's back-to-back earthquakes, as part of ...Read more

Andy Burnham will pledge the biggest devolution of power in England in modern times in his first major speech since confirming his intention to succeed Keir Starmer as the U.K.’s prime minister.

The former Greater Manchester mayor will set out on Monday how he would “lift Britain back up” by handing more decision-making powers to local ...Read more

HARRISBURG — Three years after a bitter budget standoff over allowing state funding to be used for private school tuition, top Democrats in Harrisburg are ready to engage on school choice.

Legislative action and comments from a top House Democrat this week expressing openness to a federal school-choice program marked a notable change from ...Read more