WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court backed a 2019 federal law Friday meant to allow lawsuits against the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority for damages from terror attacks.

Congress passed the law stating the two organizations could be subject to lawsuits in the United States for activities such as processing payments for ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City is facing intertwined housing and affordability crises, with record rents and historically low apartment vacancy rates. About half of households struggle to pay for the basics while a quarter live in poverty.

Within the debate over affordability, finding ways to create more affordable housing has become a major ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans say they are looking for ways to safeguard rural hospitals from proposed cuts to a key Medicaid funding method, amid concerns from the powerful hospital lobby and others that the budget reconciliation bill could force many facilities to close.

The draft text that the Senate Finance Committee released this week ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The day after immigration raids began in Los Angeles, Rep. Norma Torres, D-Calif., and three other members of Congress were denied entry to the immigrant detention facility inside the Roybal Federal Building.

The lawmakers were attempting an unannounced inspection, a common and long-standing practice under congressional oversight...Read more

NEW YORK — Hundreds of polling sites in the city that do not have air conditioning systems will be equipped with electric fans on Tuesday, when temperatures are projected to soar into the 100s as New Yorkers head out to vote in the local 2025 primary elections.

But the ramped-up heat precautions were criticized as inadequate by mayoral ...Read more

Maryland ties for fourth among 50 states in terms of the financial benefits average families would see if Congress passes President Donald Trump’s tax bill, according to a White House news release.

Citing a state-by-state analysis from the president’s Council of Economic Advisers, the Wednesday release lists the anticipated increases to ...Read more

President Donald Trump delayed his decision on whether attack Iran for two weeks following a Thursday sighting of Steve Bannon at the White House. The visit comes amid big divisions in his MAGA movement over U.S. involvement in foreign wars.

“There’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran,” Trump ...Read more

President Trump on Thursday signed an executive order giving TikTok a 90-day extension to work out a deal with the U.S. government that addresses security concerns over the app's ties to China.

Significant pressure has been placed on TikTok, known for its popular social video app, after a law was signed in 2024 that required TikTok's Chinese ...Read more

DETROIT — Bill Bachenberg, a supporter of President Donald Trump and a leader within the National Rifle Association, agreed to pay $500,000 to settle a Michigan lawsuit that alleged he refused to compensate a cybersecurity expert who failed to uncover fraud in the 2020 election, according to a court filing.

A dismissal motion submitted in ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration urged the U.S. Supreme Court to turn away a request for fast-track review of his sweeping tariffs, saying the justices should give lower courts more time to weigh in.

The filing comes a day after two family-owned businesses asked the court to hear their challenge on an unusually quick schedule, without ...Read more

Senior U.S. officials are preparing for the possibility of a strike on Iran in the coming days, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign that Washington is assembling the infrastructure to directly enter a conflict with Tehran.

The situation is still evolving and could change, said the people, who requested anonymity to discuss ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — Abortion providers spent the weekend in fear they could be targeted by the man charged in the assassination of Minnesota House DFL leader Melissa Hortman and shooting of Sen. John Hoffman.

The more than 40 hours police spent searching were “terrifying” as reports surfaced that the alleged killer had a list of potential ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee used a hearing Wednesday to air questions about the use of the autopen in the Biden administration, a topic the Trump administration has pursued this month.

Conservative lawmakers at the hearing, titled “Unfit to Serve: How the Biden Cover-Up Endangered America and Undermined the ...Read more

NEW YORK — Two U.S. House representatives concerned about the conditions detained migrants are facing inside a lower Manhattan courthouse were denied access by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, a day after agents arrested city comptroller Brad Lander inside the same building.

“The question is, why can’t we go in? What ...Read more

President Donald Trump plans to extend for a third time the deadline for Chinese company ByteDance Ltd. to divest the American operations of TikTok, allowing the social media app to keep running in the U.S. while negotiations proceed.

“We’re going to extend it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday. “We’re going to ...Read more

President Trump has endorsed David Ellison’s takeover of Paramount Global — an $8-billion merger that has been complicated by his $20-billion lawsuit over CBS’ “60 Minutes.”

On Wednesday, Trump was asked about the hold-up in the federal review of Skydance’s takeover of the storied entertainment company. The question came as ...Read more

As tensions boil over in the Middle East, a new poll finds most Americans doubt President Donald Trump’s ability to steer the nation through a global crisis.

The YouGov/Economist survey, conducted June 13 to 16, asked respondents “are you confident in Donald Trump’s ability to deal wisely with an international crisis, or are you uneasy ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House GOP leaders had a brief scare last week when they had to go back and fix several pages in their mammoth budget reconciliation bill that passed before Memorial Day.

That “privilege scrub” process, necessary to preserve a reconciliation bill’s filibuster-proof status in the Senate — is often confused with the “Byrd ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congress is on the verge of passing legislation that would require millions of Medicaid beneficiaries across the nation to prove they are working to receive benefits, posing a massive challenge for states that would be required to act quickly with limited resources.

The requirements, a prominent feature of Republicans’ budget ...Read more

The “No Kings Day” protests turned into a celebration of freedom and democracy, while President Donald Trump’s military-style dictator day parade was a costly flop with empty seats and a president who looked bored by the lack of goose-stepping and adulation.

Meanwhile, more than five million marched in events held in cities and towns ...Read more