The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a bid from former Las Vegas casino mogul Steve Wynn to consider hearing arguments against a long-standing legal precedent that affords media organizations broad protections from libel lawsuits.

On Monday, the court denied Wynn’s petition to revisit New York Times v. Sullivan, a landmark 1964 ruling that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative justices expressed concerns Monday about the future of race in redistricting, part of oral arguments in the yearslong fight over a second Black-majority congressional district in Louisiana.

The state and a group of voting rights plaintiffs asked the justices to preserve the state’s current ...Read more

The United States will impose a 25% tariff on imports from any country that purchases oil products from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Monday, saying the move seeks to penalize Caracas’ socialist regime for deliberately sending tens of thousands of criminals to the United States.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Monday to block a judge's order requiring the government to "immediately" rehire 16,000 federal employees.

In an emergency appeal, they argued that U.S. District Judge William Alsup in San Francisco had no legal authority to second-guess the administration's personnel ...Read more

Tiger Woods and Vanessa Trump confirmed their relationship together in a Sunday night social media post.

“Love is in the air and life is better with you by my side! We look forward to our journey through life together. At this time we would appreciate privacy for all those close to our hearts,” Woods wrote in an Instagram post.

Woods and ...Read more

The United States will impose a 25% tariff on imports from any country that purchases oil products from Venezuela, President Donald Trump announced Monday, saying that move seeks to penalize Caracas’ socialist regime for deliberately sending tens of thousands of criminals to the U.S.

Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Rep. Mia Love of Utah, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, died Sunday at age 49.

“She was in her home surrounded by family,” family members announced in a social media post. ”In the midst of a celebration of her life and an avalanche of happy memories, Mia quietly slipped the bands of mortality and...Read more

WASHINGTON — Both the House and Senate come back from recess this week to begin a busy three-week period that’s expected to focus on Republicans’ budget reconciliation agenda, including extending and expanding tax cuts and tightening immigration policy.

The top items on the House agenda this week, meanwhile, will include more measures to ...Read more

With Trump’s return to the White House, we once again bear daily witness to a spectacle that could be described as entertaining, were it only a TV series. But Trump’s unprecedented assault on our democratic norms and institutions is not only very real but represents the gravest peril our democratic republic has confronted in the last 80 ...Read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell has a message in response to threats from within the Trump administration to bring “hell” to Boston in pursuit of the president’s mass deportation plans.

“Bring it on,” she said.

Campbell, speaking during an interview aired Sunday by WCVB, said that while the country is facing a ...Read more

President Donald Trump did something unusual this weekend: he didn’t visit his Mar-a-Lago Club, something he’s done most weekends since returning to the presidency.

That gave a break to local law enforcement, which plays a major role in presidential security when he’s in Palm Beach County — and especially as he moves among his Mar-a-...Read more

In a sit-down interview with Fox News last month, President Trump and his billionaire "efficiency" adviser Elon Musk framed new tariffs on foreign trading partners as a simple matter of fairness.

"I said, 'Here's what we're going to do: reciprocal. Whatever you charge, I'm charging,'" Trump said of a conversation he'd had with Indian Prime ...Read more

President Donald Trump has ramped up his fight with the judiciary as he racks up losses in court over his administration’s efforts to reshape the U.S. government and its approach on everything from immigration to federal spending.

Two months into his term, Trump is already fighting more than 150 lawsuits challenging his executive actions, ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28, with polls showing a close contest between his Liberal Party and the Conservatives as the country faces a trade war and taunts about its sovereignty from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney requested the dissolution of Parliament on Sunday in a meeting with Governor General ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to plunge Canada into an election campaign on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war sharpens the focus on fixing long-standing problems that have hindered the Canadian economy.

Carney and his chief rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, each will seek to persuade Canadians he’s the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Jesse Ugalde, who served in the Vietnam War, entered a Department of Veterans Affairs building Friday, he noticed a difference.

“Already, people are leaving,” Ugalde, 74, who relies on the VA for his health care, said of VA employees. “I was told that they’re going to try to provide services, but it’s going to ...Read more

Before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, European officials thought they had him figured out. He was transactional, they said, a man motivated by a good deal.

Some bragged they knew how to do business with him based on their interactions with the self-proclaimed deal maker in his first term.

They were in for a rude ...Read more

President Donald Trump has revoked security clearances and access to classified information from a slew of his political opponents, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information,” ...Read more