NEW YORK — A federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of more than $5 million owed to E. Jean Carroll by Donald Trump despite the president’s eleventh-hour bid to the U.S. Supreme Court to try to delay the payout once again.

Judge Lewis Kaplan’s order directing that the money be disbursed from a court-...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Rod Joseph, a Republican congressional candidate in a Broward district that’s home to communities with large numbers of LGBTQ residents, believes that everyone is “born straight” and some people become LGBTQ by choice.

“You cannot be born gay. That’s impossible biologically,” he said.

Joseph said sexuality...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump is trying to fight a demand for the release of more than $5 million he owes E. Jean Carroll, the woman he was found liable for sexually assaulting, claiming he still has a Hail Mary move in his pocket even though the nation’s highest court unanimously rejected his appeal.

In papers filed in Manhattan Federal Court ...Read more

Florida Sen. Shevrin Jones received endorsements from at least a dozen Black clergymen Monday for his bid for Congress — a key approval ahead of a contentious race to replace outgoing Congresswoman Frederica Wilson.

The support comes after Jones lost out on the coveted endorsement from Wilson, which went to former Miami-Dade County ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices are scheduled to appear before both Senate and House appropriators next week, marking the first time since 2019 that justices will face lawmakers.

Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan are slated to testify before the Senate and House Financial Services Appropriations subcommittees on July 14 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Three Democratic senators are investigating a U.S. government agreement barring past tax probes of President Donald Trump and his businesses, saying they want to determine whether the deal also protects companies affiliated with his family.

“Under the guise of a so-called legal settlement, the Trump administration has ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Somali and Muslim communities in Minnesota are once again condemning a social media post by President Donald Trump, alleging it communicates “anti-Muslim bigotry” toward children.

On Monday, Trump posted a 14-second video clip showing children singing in graduation outfits, with girls also wearing hijabs. The children had ...Read more

Cuba succeeded Tuesday in a push to debate U.S. sanctions at the United Nations at a time of unprecedented pressure from the Trump administration on the communist regime in Havana.

But the high-stakes maneuver also revealed how the Trump administration has succeeded in eroding the diplomatic support Cuba once had on this issue from its ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge rejected an effort by the U.S. Justice Department to obtain information on election workers in Fulton County, Georgia, related to the 2020 vote.

U.S. District Judge William Ray II quashed a grand jury subpoena for the names, addresses and phone numbers of people who were involved in administering the 2020 election...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday pardoned a series of western Michigan businesses and individuals for violations of the Clean Air Act in connection with an emissions manipulation scheme.

"It is my Great Honor to have just signed Pardons for six people who were persecuted by the Biden Administration, and were in, or being sent to,...Read more

PARIS — Marine Le Pen, France’s far-right leader for two decades, intends to make her fourth presidential run even after an appellate panel ordered her to wear an electronic-monitoring device when it upheld her conviction for misusing public funds.

The head of the populist National Rally, which leads in opinion polls, will launch her 2027 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s midterms campaign schedule has been lighter this year than his pace of hitting the road for Republican candidates during a 2018 midterm elections cycle that saw big Democratic gains.

The GOP campaigner in chief had, between Jan. 1, 2018, and July 7, 2018, held nine road shows to boost Republican ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump’s income from his South Florida holdings have soared since he returned to the White House, a Miami Herald review of his latest financial disclosure shows.

The four properties — Mar-a-Lago resort, the Trump National Hotel in Doral and his golf clubs in Jupiter and West Palm Beach — brought him roughly $265 ...Read more

The next time you fill up your gas tank, you may be paying for President Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

Just days into the new 60-day agreement, Iranian officials began discussing new charges on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz. The Trump administration says they are not tolls. Iran calls them fees. American families will pay either ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sweeping moves to address sexual misconduct at the Capitol may not be coming anytime soon, given the slow pace of change in Congress. But even “low-hanging fruit” could make a difference, some staffers say.

The Congressional Progressive Staff Association laid out some ideas in a letter sent to lawmakers on Tuesday.

“Staff ...Read more

Marine Le Pen was cleared by appeal judges to enter the 2027 French presidential race if she drops a vow never to stand for office wearing an electronic bracelet.

Le Pen was handed a significant reprieve on an election ban but also given a one-year jail term and told by the Paris court of appeal that she likely must wear the device for a ...Read more

A number of recent high-profile congressional primaries in the Democratic Party have resulted in the nomination of unexpected candidates. Many of these winning candidates have unseated entrenched incumbents, as 29-year-old Colorado attorney Melat Kiros did to U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, who has been serving in the House for three decades.

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Young women are moving away from exclusive heterosexuality faster than young men.

In a recent poll, Gallup found that LGBTQ+ identification has more than doubled since 2012, with especially high rates among Gen Z women, or those born between 1997 and 2012. In 2023, 28.5% of Gen Z women identified as LGBTQ+, compared with 10.6% of Gen ...Read more

To test whether our nation’s founding principles remain strong enough to make it another 250 years, PBS surprised a group of nine prominent Americans with a hypothetical worst-case scenario for the midterm elections.

We started by assembling notables who were willing to go on national TV to game out a gripping story in which our democracy is ...Read more

The final battle phase is now set in Colorado’s 8th Congressional District, where over the next 120 days, two men of the same generation will fight for a seat that could well determine control of Congress.

The state’s newest district — covering a Front Range area spanning from Greeley down to the northern suburbs of Denver — has seen ...Read more