WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Monday it would hear arguments in a case challenging a Mississippi state law allowing the state to count ballots in federal elections that arrive after Election Day.

Monday’s order came after Mississippi asked the justices to overturn a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit that found ...Read more

In a New York Times report on the air traffic control mess Thursday, much skepticism was struck over the flight-cutting actions of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who actually happens to be one of the few really competent members of the Trump administration.

The Times report suggested that Duffy’s motivations were political and that he ...Read more

ATLANTA — President Donald Trump signed a sweeping set of preemptive pardons that includes all 18 of his co-defendants in the Fulton County, Georgia, election interference case, a senior Justice Department aide said Monday.

The pardons are largely symbolic, because none of the people named is currently charged in federal court. And they have ...Read more

President Donald Trump has issued federal pardons to Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows and a long list of allies who sought to overturn his loss of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The late-night announcement clears in advance virtually all the prominent engineers of the so-called Stop the Steal plot to keep Trump in power ...Read more

LONDON — The BBC apologized for a misleading edit of remarks by President Donald Trump that featured in a documentary last year, the latest scandal to raise questions about the future of Britain’s national broadcaster.

British Broadcasting Corp. Chairman Samir Shah acknowledged on Monday that the edited footage of Trump’s speech near the...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — One of the most influential voices on the American political left, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, endorsed Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan in the race for Minnesota’s open Senate seat, Flanagan’s campaign announced Monday.

Sanders, of Vermont, runs as an independent but caucuses with Senate Democrats and is a magnet for liberal voters in...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump has pardoned more than 20 people who contributed to the push to overturn his loss in Michigan's 2020 election.

Late Sunday night, Ed Martin, who's working as the Republican president's pardon attorney, posted a list of dozens of names on X with the words, "Important pardon of alternate electors of 2020....Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed without comment a long-shot challenge to the constitutional right to marry for same-sex couples.

The justices turned away an appeal petition from Kim Davis, a former Kentucky county clerk who defied the court's landmark decision in 2015 and repeatedly refused to issue marriage licenses to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators reached a deal Sunday night that will lead to reopening the government — assuming the House goes along with the plan.

The House, however, will first have to dust off the cobwebs that may have accumulated while not meeting for legislative business in almost two months.

House members were notified Sunday night that they...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate appropriators Sunday unveiled a roughly $7.3 billion draft fiscal 2026 Legislative Branch appropriations bill, part of a three-bill package that could be paired with a stopgap spending measure in a bid to reopen the government.

The bill would maintain funding for both the Government Accountability Office and the Library of...Read more

WASHINGTON —Democrats entered the shutdown seeking to renew tax credits to stave off insurance premium price hikes and to show voters they have the stomach for hardball negotiations in President Donald Trump’s Washington.

As the record-long shutdown neared its end more than a month later, they failed to achieve either goal.

A group of ...Read more

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.

The BBC on Monday apologized for the editing of the program, which aired in October 2024 and spliced together sections of a ...Read more

President Donald Trump is testing the limits of law. Federal judges issue orders restraining him — on deportations, the use of military force or retaliatory lawsuits against political enemies such as James Comey and the press such as The New York Times— and he simply defies them. Lower courts continue to push back, but the pattern of ...Read more

One thing you can say about the president is that he likes to change things.

He wanted the Gulf of Mexico renamed the Gulf of America, signing an executive order making it the official name for the federal government. He also signed an executive order changing the highest peak in the nation back to Mount McKinley from Denali. He renamed the ...Read more

The days may be officially numbered for the longest partial government shutdown in history.

On Day 40 of the funding impasse, enough Senate Democrats now plan to vote for cloture on the newly introduced spending package unveiled Sunday to get over the 60-vote hurdle and finally break the logjam.

An initial test vote Sunday night on the revised...Read more

California’s senators said Sunday they will oppose a new Senate plan to reopen the government — a plan that does not extend Obamacare-inspired health care premium subsidies right away.

“This does nothing to stop the Republican-made health care crisis. It does nothing to stop premiums from doubling for millions of Americans,” said Sen. ...Read more

President Trump said Sunday that most Americans would receive a $2,000 dividend payment as a result of his administration's tariffs levied against foreign countries.

Trump announced the potential payments on his Truth Social platform, calling opponents of his tariffs "FOOLS" in a post.

"We are taking in Trillions of Dollars and will soon begin...Read more

The record-breaking U.S. government shutdown is nearing an end after a group of moderate Senate Democrats agreed to support a deal to reopen the government and fund some departments and agencies for the next year, people familiar with the talks said.

Under the agreement, Congress would pass full-year funding for the departments of Agriculture, ...Read more

British Broadcasting Corp. Director-General Tim Davie is resigning from the U.K. national broadcaster amid allegations it misled viewers by editing President Donald Trump’s remarks in a Panorama documentary last year.

The program, aired in October 2024, spliced together sections of a speech Trump gave in Washington on January 6 2021, the day ...Read more

Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.

A group of Senate Democrats is leaning toward voting to advance the package provided final details can be worked out, including provisions protecting government ...Read more