LOS ANGELES — President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden plan this weekend to attend a fundraiser hosted by Hollywood elites that is likely to make L.A.'s notoriously bad traffic even worse but authorities have yet to offer advanced warning to help motorists avoid the expected road closures.

The first couple plans to address prominent ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was indicted Thursday in Los Angeles on several federal tax charges, marking the start of a second criminal case that will proceed during his father’s reelection campaign.

Biden, who resides in Malibu, was accused of failing to timely pay his taxes from 2016 to 2019, one count of tax ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Hunter Biden, the president’s son, was indicted Thursday in Los Angeles on several federal tax charges, marking the start of a second criminal case that will proceed during his father’s reelection campaign.

Biden, who resides in Malibu, was accused of failing to pay his taxes from 2016 to 2019, one count of tax evasion, and ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump was back at his Manhattan Supreme Court fraud trial Thursday to see his legal team wind down their defense case.

The former president told reporters he’d returned after a weeks-long hiatus for NYU accounting professor Eli Bartov’s testimony, lauding him as “one of the great experts in the country.”

Bartov was ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s name should be excluded from New York’s ballot in next year’s presidential primary and general election for his alleged incitement of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a group of state senators urged election officials on Thursday.

In a letter to the state Board of Elections shared exclusively with the New ...Read more

The majority of federal judges appointed by President Joe Biden have been women and minorities, making him first president to select mostly nonwhite and nonmale judges, according to a report.

During his first 1,019 days as president, Biden had appointed 145 judges to district courts, appeals courts and the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has asked to halt the federal election obstruction case against him while he appeals a judge’s ruling denying him sweeping immunity from criminal charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

The appeal notice filed in court on Thursday escalates a fight that the former president’s legal ...Read more

NEW YORK — Democrats were poised Thursday to unveil ex-Rep. Tom Suozzi as their candidate for the Long Island seat held by disgraced ex-Rep. George Santos, who was ousted from Congress last week.

The moderate Democrat who previously represented most of the district is set to be selected by party bosses to run in a Feb. 13 special election to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s name should be excluded from New York’s ballot in next year’s presidential primary and general election for his alleged incitement of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a group of state senators urged election officials on Thursday.

In a letter to the state Board of Elections shared exclusively with the Daily...Read more

House Republicans on Thursday released an impeachment resolution that would formalize their inquiry into the business dealings of President Joe Biden and his family.

Three of the chamber’s committees — Oversight and Accountability, Judiciary, and Ways and Means — have been conducting an informal impeachment investigation since then-...Read more

Nikki Haley weathered biting attacks from Ron DeSantis in the fourth Republican presidential primary debate while the trailing pair largely disregarded front-runner Donald Trump, who again ducked a fight with his rivals in order to preserve his extensive lead in the homestretch before 2024 voting commences.

The final primary debate of the year ...Read more

DETROIT — Although abortion remains legal in Michigan, access to surgical procedures is declining and forcing patients to drive farther to get one — in some cases to neighboring states.

When Michigan voters approved Proposal 3 last year in response to the U.S. Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, reproductive rights activists ...Read more

Veteran Russian pro-democracy politician Grigory Yavlinsky is mounting what may be his last political challenge to Vladimir Putin to try to campaign for peace with Ukraine.

The three-time candidate is weighing another presidential election run against Putin. After receiving around 1% of the vote in the last election in 2018, he’s under no ...Read more

While 18 U.S. states have essentially banned abortion for pregnant people facing a mental health crisis, Ireland, which had one of the strictest abortion laws in the European Union until 2018, has taken a different approach.

Ireland has protected the right to seek an abortion because of the risk of suicide since 1992. While more than two-thirds...Read more

The House passed a measure Thursday to block implementation of a new Biden administration student loan repayment option tied to income.

The joint resolution under the Congressional Review Act would disapprove of an Education Department rule that includes family size and income in calculating the amount borrowers must repay. The option would ...Read more

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley emerged as the top target of her rivals during the fourth Republican presidential debate, defending her growing base of Wall Street donors and her foreign policy stances.

Haley, who has been surging in polls and attracted new interest from big-dollar donors in recent weeks, drew pointed attacks straight out ...Read more

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — With the start of primary elections looming, the four Republicans fighting to emerge as Donald Trump’s top alternative scrapped Wednesday in the most combative debate yet.

Some of the sharpest clashes took place between Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who traded barbs throughout a two-...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy will not seek another term in Congress, ending a tumultuous two-decade career in public office that was marked by a swift ascent and descent in Washington GOP leadership. He said he would leave the House by the end of the year.

McCarthy announced his decision days before the state's deadline to...Read more