Donald Trump’s ongoing use of the Justice Department to settle scores became highly personal this week, with the federal government’s vast investigative resources turned on an old grievance stemming from the sexual assault and defamation cases he lost to E. Jean Carroll.

Following CNN’s bombshell report on Wednesday that the feds were ...Read more

Former Vice President Mike Pence said it’s “deeply offensive” that a new $1.8 billion settlement fund created by the Trump administration to resolve the president’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service could be used to pay participants of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

The Justice Department said the fund would be used to ...Read more

TALLAHASSEE — City and county governments across Florida are sounding the alarm on the proposal by Gov. Ron DeSantis to drastically cut homeowners’ property taxes, force them to follow a state-approved formula for future tax assessments and dictate how those dollars are spent.

“It is a complete takeover by the state government,” House ...Read more

The Supreme Court heads into the final month of its yearly term facing decisions on birthright citizenship, gun rights, transgender athletes and President Trump's power over independent agencies.

Unlike in years past, the term's most significant rulings were not left for the last week in June.

The court dealt Trump a major defeat in February ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s expanding the scope of his special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, to include Iraq.

Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, became Trump’s Syria envoy in 2025, soon after President Ahmed al-Sharaa took power. His now-renewed appointment to that post had expired on Friday.

“As we advance our strategic ...Read more

Colombians are voting in presidential elections in which the economic model, counter-narcotics policies and relations with Washington are all at stake.

Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of leftist President Gustavo Petro, has pledged to tax the rich, boost social spending, seek peace deals with cocaine-trafficking militias.

His main opponents, ...Read more

After being released from nine months in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention, Jesus Ramirez Ramos needed help.

The clothes he wore when he was arrested stank from spending the better part of a year in storage, unwashed. ICE lost his cellphone at the Michigan jail where he was held, cutting off important contacts. He was arrested and ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Education wants to grease the wheels for college mergers and acquisitions, a rare Trump administration proposal with broad support from university leaders who see the policy helping the sector withstand a wave of financial distress.

The agency aims to expedite and simplify M&A reviews within the next year, according to ...Read more

A surge in voluntary departure agreements in immigration courts is raising concerns that Trump administration tactics are unfairly pressuring immigrants into leaving the United States, even if they have a legal right to stay.

Voluntary departures during the second Trump administration reached 89,494 cases as of May 1, according to a Stateline ...Read more

COSTILLA COUNTY, Colo. — Kim Wisdom and her husband packed up a trailer and their belongings from the Western Slope, plopping down on a 10-acre plot of arid land in the San Luis Valley with views of the towering 14,000-foot Blanca Peak.

The couple dreamed of filling the property with animals and building their retirement home alongside their ...Read more