Skepticism was running high ahead of the 2023 summit of the Group of 20, or G20, held in New Delhi in early September. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping announced that they would not attend. At one moment, it was touch and go whether U.S. President Joe Biden – whose wife, Jill, was ill with COVID-19 – would...Read more

When city governments spend more money than they take in, officials often search for ways to generate revenue. One increasingly common source of money is traffic tickets. And research shows police officers issue more traffic tickets when cities are financially in a deficit.

But police represent only one aspect of this revenue-...Read more

What do you get when you combine a tiny legislative majority, a former president itching for influence and a rogue group of lawmakers who like making headlines? House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s hellish life these days. The pressure has been fierce on McCarthy to fashion an agreement with his caucus to stave off a government shutdown. But ...Read more

Former President Donald Trump plans to skip the third Republican presidential debate, according to a senior adviser who spoke on condition of anonymity, extending his strategy of avoiding forums that include his lower-polling rivals.

Trump didn’t show up for the first debate, held last month in Milwaukee, opting instead to prerecord an ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Conservative Republicans are already laying the groundwork for Donald Trump’s return to the White House, identifying key Cabinet and other possible top officials months before the first nominating contest next year.

The America First Policy Institute, created to promote Trump’s agenda, and the conservative Heritage Foundation...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is creating a White House office dedicated to gun violence prevention, according to people familiar with the matter, amid calls from activists to do more to address the issue in lieu of congressional action.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are expected to announce the establishment of the new office at...Read more

UNITED NATIONS — Ending a prolonged snub, President Joe Biden held a “very candid” meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, welcoming possible rapprochement between Israel and Saudi Arabia and cautioning him to preserve democracy at home.

The meeting pointedly did not take place at the White House, as Netanyahu...Read more

NEW YORK — Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday that she had a “brief” but “very productive” migrant-focused conversation with President Joe Biden one night earlier, and that the White House had requested the meeting.

But the governor, who has been publicly pushing the president for more support for migrants, declined to say if Biden had ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County District Attorney’s office claims six defense attorneys involved in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others have conflicts of interest because some of their former clients may be called as witnesses for the prosecution.

In a notice filed with the court Wednesday, Fulton ...Read more

U.S. President Joe Biden offered Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a long-awaited invitation to the White House when the two men met for the first time since the Israeli leader returned to power nine months ago.

The sit-down on Wednesday in New York marked a step toward easing tensions between the two leaders, whose relationship has ...Read more

ATLANTA — Former Atlanta attorney Lin Wood pushed back Wednesday on the notion that he would testify against Donald Trump in Fulton County’s racketeering case.

Wood’s name turned up in a new filing by Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis naming him as a potential witness in the case, leading to speculation he would testify against...Read more

No, former President Donald Trump is not dead. The 77 year old is very much alive and currently in Michigan meeting with striking autoworkers.

But if you checked his eldest son’s X, formerly Twitter, account, on Wednesday morning, you may have believed otherwise. Because DTJ Jr. was reportedly hacked.

That certain someone sent out a handful ...Read more

Donald Trump and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly joked about the ex-president having COVID-19 during his 2020 presidential debate with Joe Biden.

An upcoming memoir by Meadows’ aid Cassidy Hutchinson alleges her former boss and Trump made light of the fact Trump tested positive for the deadly virus days before he and Biden ...Read more

Rudy Giuliani allegedly molested White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson shortly before the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol, Hutchinson writes in a new book.

The book, titled “Enough,” describes Giuliani as acting “like a wolf closing in on its prey,” according to the Guardian, which obtained an advance copy.

“I feel his frozen fingers ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County District Attorney’s office claims six defense attorneys involved in the racketeering case against former President Donald Trump and 18 others have conflicts of interest because some of their former clients may be called as witnesses for the prosecution.

In a notice filed with the court Wednesday, District ...Read more

ATLANTA -- Three Republican electors charged in Fulton County with conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election asked a judge Wednesday to transfer their cases to federal court.

Attorneys for former GOP Chairman David Shafer, state Sen. Shawn Still and former Coffee County GOP Chairwoman Cathy Latham argued in a hearing that their ...Read more

President Joe Biden met Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York for the first time since the Israeli leader returned to power nine months ago, a modest step toward easing tension between the two leaders.

Biden suggested he would relent on his refusal so far to invite Netanyahu to the White House, a meeting the Israeli leader has ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- With official Washington bracing for a potential lapse in appropriations at the end of next week, a group of House Republicans who represent districts that Joe Biden won in 2020 say they will work to avoid a government shutdown.

Speaking on the House steps on Tuesday, members of the group sought to push back at colleagues who have...Read more

The damage from the earthquake that struck Morocco on Sept. 8, 2023, is still being assessed. Moroccans are grappling not just with the loss of thousands of lives, but also with the widespread destruction of their cultural heritage and historical sites.

Among them is a 12th-century mosque in the village of Tinmel, about 4 miles from ...Read more