Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling five New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas late Friday compelling four New York Times journalists to reveal their sources for two stories about security shortcomings on the new Qatari-gifted presidential jet, the news organization said.

The Times reported earlier this week that the Secret Service advised Trump to take the older jet used as Air Force ...Read more

A sweeping housing bill became law on Saturday without Donald Trump’s signature, or any White House fanfare, after the president soured on a package of dozens of affordability provisions that he derided as “a yawn.”

Trump’s scuttled support and the dead-of-night enactment are setbacks for his allies on Capitol Hill, who’d been looking...Read more

The Trump administration is continuing its pushback against state artificial intelligence laws that it views as ideologically biased, proposing a new Federal Trade Commission policy.

The proposed policy statement, which is open for public comment through July 31, would affect how the FTC regulates AI companies. The agency said it’s meant to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump warned Iran that the U.S. military would “completely decimate and destroy all areas” of the Islamic Republic if its leaders attempted or carried out his assassination.

The president’s message, in a Truth Social post late Friday, came at the end of a week in which clashes between Iran and the U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A group of high-ranking Senate Democrats Friday called on their Republican counterparts to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s crypto ventures pose national security risks.

Democrats sharply criticized Trump’s financial disclosure last week showing he generated at least $1.4 billion from crypto ventures, and accused ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dismissed all remaining members of the bipartisan U.S. Elections Assistance Commission this week, his latest move to assert control over national elections in the final months before midterm voting.

The White House defended the move as justified by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision handing the president...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday put to rest any lingering hopes he would sign into law major housing legislation Congress recently cleared with overwhelming bipartisan majorities.

The legislation, which is designed to increase the supply and lower the costs of housing, would become law at midnight Friday if Trump doesn’t veto ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on democratic socialists who have won Democratic Party primaries could clash with his idea of creating investment accounts for American adults.

The administration this week already formally launched its Trump Accounts initiative for children, which includes a one-time government ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday night removed the remaining members of a federal commission intended to assist with federal elections, amid his broader effort to control voting procedures and election administration.

Trump fired Chair Thomas Hicks and Benjamin Hovland from the Election Assistance Commission, while Republican ...Read more

The 2026 midterms are here, and negative campaign messaging is flooding screens across the U.S. In Texas’ Senate race, Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton’s comments about Democratic Texas Rep. James Talarico have gone viral.

Rather than simply suggesting Talarico is weak on border security or inflation economics, Paxton’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House version of this year’s mega surface transportation reauthorization bill could increase the deficit anticipated in the Highway Trust Fund over the next five years despite the inclusion of new fees on electric vehicles and hybrids, according to the Congressional Budget Office

The CBO analysis, released Thursday, found ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the White House accuses the Smithsonian Institution of “ideological capture,” it’s put members of Congress in a tough spot as they weigh what, if anything, they can do.

A 162-page White House report released last weekend singled out the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, saying it “no longer treats the ...Read more

It often feels like the only predictable thing about President Donald Trump’s foreign policy is that he’s unpredictable.

At a NATO summit on Wednesday, Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It went quite differently than their public disagreement at the Oval Office last year.

“We’ve actually developed a good ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump fired two Democratic members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an agency charged with helping states facilitate accurate elections, and the Republican member resigned, a White House official said Thursday night.

The departures mark the latest move by the president to put his stamp on how U.S. ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have enacted new campaign contribution limits in Alaska ahead of the November election.

Lawmakers had narrowly passed the bill in the final hours of the legislative session that ended in May, looking to preempt a ballot measure that seeks to reinstate limits on ...Read more

DENVER — Melat Kiros, who earned the Democratic nomination to run for the seat long occupied by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, may soon face a new opponent in the run-up to November.

Shimon Blau, a pain management physician and Israel supporter, on Thursday turned in signatures required to get on the ballot as an unaffiliated candidate — and he ...Read more

ORLANDO, Fla. — One of U.S. Rep. Cory Mills’ GOP opponents is seeking to oust the embattled Central Florida congressman from the primary ballot, arguing that he didn’t sign a key election document and that a judge should declare his candidacy invalid.

Mills had a required candidate’s document notarized while he was in Washington D.C. ...Read more

American Bitcoin Corp. was built around a simple idea: that owning and mining Bitcoin would be enough to mint money.

Instead, the company co-founded by Eric Trump is mired in a deep downturn. As Bitcoin sank into a bear market and demand for artificial intelligence surged, investors increasingly favored miners that could repurpose their ...Read more