Super-wealthy tech titans are lining up to make outsized donations to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund.

Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Sam Altman of Open AI are the latest moguls to each pony up identical $1 million gifts to the fund bankrolling the glitzy Jan. 20 return to power for Trump.

Amazon will ...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump said Republicans will seek to eliminate daylight saving time, calling the semiannual time changes “inconvenient” and “costly.”

“The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t!” wrote Trump in a post Friday on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump says renewing tax cuts would turbo-charge investment and boost U.S. economic growth — a pledge that helped propel him to election victory in November.

But new analysis from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan fiscal watchdog group, warns that extending tax cuts set to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court opened the door Friday for a potential challenge to California's long-standing authority to set stricter emissions limits for new vehicles, including its "zero emissions" goal for 2035.

The justices voted to hear an appeal from oil and bio-fuel producers who sued the Environmental Protection Agency, arguing it ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Lawyers representing Idaho and the state Legislature stood before a panel of 11 federal judges this week to defend the state’s abortion restrictions as part of a case that went before the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this year.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Idaho in August 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned ...Read more

BLUE LAKE, Calif. — The city official held a box aloft and the packed room fell silent under the fluorescent lights of Blue Lake's community resource center.

A longtime resident reached inside and rooted around for a manila envelope.

"Are you as nervous as I am?" the official had asked the two City Council candidates moments earlier.

While...Read more

Mention the FBI, and many older Americans will likely think of a time when the agency was run by J. Edgar Hoover, who spent much of his nearly half-century tenure at the agency harassing political dissidents and abusing his power. But as former FBI counterterrorism expert Javed Ali explains, the role of both the FBI and its leader have ...Read more

Much Sturm und Drang has surrounded some of Donald Trump’s picks for national security and foreign policy positions, but the president-elect has made clear that all matters of war and diplomacy will run through him.

President Joe Biden, who huddled with other G7 leaders Friday morning, has had a message for Trump since he won a second term ...Read more

Sources close to Donald Trump Jr. and fiancée Kimberly Guilfoyle confirm they have split days after his President-elect father nominated Guilfoyle to serve as ambassador to Greece and on the heels Jr. getting cozy with a Florida socialite.

The Trumps remain “enamored” with the 55-year-old former Fox News host, the ex-wife of California Gov...Read more

BLUE LAKE, Calif. — The city official held a box aloft and the packed room fell silent under the fluorescent lights of Blue Lake's community resource center.

A longtime resident reached inside and rooted around for a manila envelope.

"Are you as nervous as I am?" the official had asked the two City Council candidates moments earlier.

While...Read more

If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his pledge to deport millions of immigrants, it could upend the economies of states where farming and other food-related industries are crucial — and where labor shortages abound.

Immigrants make up about two-thirds of the nation’s crop farmworkers, according to the U.S. Department of Labor...Read more

When’s the last time you saw a pundit pause?

When President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, who was convicted of three felony charges, the pardon was startling because Biden repeatedly pledged before the election that he would respect the federal jury’s conviction.

As the news broke of the president’s decision, ...Read more

Two days after the election, California Gov. Gavin Newsom called for a special legislative session focused on “Trump-proofing” the state from the onslaught of expected attacks on a host of issues including reproductive rights, the environment, and immigrants.

“We won’t sit idle,” said Newsom, as lawmakers have proposed funding for ...Read more

Missouri’s voters have spoken on abortion rights. They declared on Nov. 5, by an unambiguous margin, that the state’s constitution now guarantees women complete control over their own reproductive decisions prior to fetal viability. Period, end, full stop.

Yet it comes as no surprise that some Republican lawmakers are already filing ...Read more

Just days after a former Proud Boy from Miami was sentenced to a year in prison for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, President-elect Donald Trump vowed to pardon people involved in the attack meant to overturn his 2020 defeat.

Trump for years has recast the people convicted of crimes related to Jan. 6 as “hostages” of...Read more

President-elect Donald Trump met with the leaders of the International Longshoremen’s Association on Thursday and voiced support for the dockworkers union that shut East and Gulf coast ports in October and may strike again in just over a month.

“I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it. The amount ...Read more

William Boyland Jr., a former Brooklyn Assemblyman whose influential family has been dubbed “the Kennedys of Brownsville,” was one of 1,583 people granted clemency by the outgoing Biden administration Thursday.

Boyland Jr., was convicted on 21 bribery and corruption charges in 2014 and sentenced to a 14-year prison term. But in February ...Read more