Last week, President Donald Trump and Elon Musk staged a lengthy ad for Tesla, showcasing a fleet of the company’s vehicles on the White House lawn. “It’s a great product, as good as it gets,” Trump said after saying he purchased one himself.

But, new polling indicates Americans are far from convinced. In fact, most are opposed to ...Read more

As fresh rounds of U.S. sanctions begin to affect Venezuela’s economy, the government in Caracas has been trying to reassure citizens that the country remains resilient against Washington’s pressure. President Nicolás Maduro and his officials insist that Venezuela can withstand any economic measures imposed by the United States, dismissing ...Read more

BOSTON — Karen Read’s federal appeal was denied and her state retrial can proceed with all three charges, including murder, intact.

“The district court’s decision is affirmed,” Judge Lara E. Montecalvo wrote in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit’s decision issued Thursday afternoon. “Read’s motion to stay the state ...Read more

NEW YORK — Tens of thousands of New York families are at risk of losing access to child care within the next year because of a shortfall in the state budget — a prospect lawmakers and advocates are scrambling to avert.

Between 4,000 and 7,000 children each month could be kicked off the Child Care Assistance Program when their parents go to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lobbyists are pushing Capitol Hill and the White House to elevate pregnancy resource centers and to fulfill promises to slash funding for Planned Parenthood ahead of Supreme Court arguments next week that will examine if states can choose to exclude Planned Parenthood from Medicaid reimbursements.

Domestic health organizations ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — A man police said set multiple Tesla vehicles on fire using Molotov cocktails has been arrested, authorities said Thursday.

Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was booked into the Clark County Detention Center a day earlier on a total of 15 counts, including suspicion of arson, destroying or injure real or personal property of another, value $5,...Read more

Emphasizing the global reach of the U.S. Navy, Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a stark warning Thursday to Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro, cautioning against any military aggression toward Guyana. Speaking alongside Guyanese President Irfaan Ali at a press conference in the capital of Georgetown, Rubio made it clear that Washington ...Read more

Minnesota senators debated Thursday whether to condemn President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 rioters and pushed off a possible vote on the resolution until next week.

Upon taking office in January, Trump issued a blanket pardon of the 1,500-plus people who were charged or convicted in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the ...Read more

The bodies of Gene Hackman and Betsy Arakawa have still not been claimed, a month after the couple was found dead at their home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

As of Thursday, two individuals — identified as Hackman, G. and Hackman, B. — are still noted on the New Mexico medical investigator’s list of unclaimed decedents. The list is updated ...Read more

With its familiar theme, a century-old song honoring Cuban independence hero José Martí, playing once again, Radio Martí resumed broadcasting to Cuba on Wednesday, reversing a controversial decision following President Donald Trump’s order to reduce its parent agency to the minimum.

The U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees Radio ...Read more

Rep. Elise Stefanik’s nomination as United Nations ambassador was abruptly withdrawn by President Donald Trump on Thursday as Republicans worry over their narrow majority in the House of Representatives.

Trump admitted he was pulling the switcheroo to avoid the risk of losing the upstate New York Republican’s pivotal seat as the GOP seeks ...Read more

A Republican-led Senate committee Thursday ordered the first independent investigation into top national security officials’ sharing of plans for an impending military attack via an unsecure group chat on the Signal messaging app.

Sen. Roger Wicker, R-Mississippi, chair of the Armed Forces Committee, and a top Democrat asked the Pentagon ...Read more

U.S. Reps. Byron Donalds and Jared Moskowitz of Florida have a plan to reform federal emergency management and improve the efficiency of federal emergency response efforts.

They would remove the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a unit of the Department of Homeland Security, and make it an independent agency with Cabinet rank reporting ...Read more

Former two-time Washington congressional candidate Joe Kent was among the handful of people included in a Trump administration Signal group chat discussing sensitive information about U.S. plans for a military strike in Yemen.

The Signal texts exploded into a scandal this week after Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, revealed he...Read more

The North Carolina Senate passed a comprehensive bill Thursday aimed at increasing transparency in healthcare billing, lowering costs, and speeding up the process of prior authorization for medical services.

Senators gave the Republican proposal overwhelmingly bipartisan approval in a 44-2 vote, sending it to the House.

Republicans in both ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — An obscure Minnesota lending institution has found itself caught up in one of the nastiest fights over the Trump administration’s funding freeze for climate projects.

In March, Lee Zeldin, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, declared that the agency had unearthed a “gold bar scheme” — billions of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Senate panel voted Thursday to advance the nomination of former Michigan U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra to become the United States' ambassador to Canada.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations voted 14-8 to move forward the nomination for consideration before the full chamber. All 12 Republicans on the committee voted for ...Read more

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday on a Republican-backed measure to overturn a Biden-era rule that would cap bank overdraft fees at $5 later this year.

Banking advocates laud the effort, saying it could keep some consumers from turning to payday lenders. But consumer groups and U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., who pushed hard for the fee cap, ...Read more

MIAMI — The feds have uncovered another fake South Florida voter who pretended to be a U.S. citizen.

His real name is Ashley R. Rivers.

But the Margate man created the fictitious name of “Ashley Rad Hilliard” and lied about being a U.S. citizen when he applied for an American passport in 2016, according to an indictment. He then used ...Read more