CHICAGO — A coalition of Chicago faith leaders and activists wants the city to create a new top anti-violence office at City Hall with a community board shaping who the mayor picks as its top official.

The group called Monday for the City Council and Mayor Brandon Johnson to establish a Department of Gun Violence Prevention to solidify the ...Read more

The solstice this weekend marked the start of astronomical summer — and in Washington, D.C., that means the legislative clock is ticking.

Lawmakers are eager to head home and campaign on a housing bill that’s nearing passage, but progress on several other issues has stalled, and it’s unclear whether a visit from President Donald Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Bipartisan kids’ internet safety legislation is one step closer to reality as key House members announced an agreement including privacy and data broker provisions.

House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., and ranking member Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., said Monday they’d come to a deal on legislation that advanced...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump endorsed U.S. Rep. John James on Monday to be Michigan's next governor, providing a significant boost to the Shelby Township Republican's chances in the Aug. 4 primary election.

Trump announced his decisions to support James for governor, Republican Mike Bouchard for the 10th Congressional District and ...Read more

For many Colombians in South Florida, the outcome of Colombia’s presidential election felt deeply personal.

As preliminary results showed conservative candidate Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly defeating leftist rival Iván Cepeda, supporters across Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties poured into the streets waving Colombian flags, ...Read more

The Walt Disney Co. is rallying public support for ABC as it faces an early Federal Communications Commission review of its TV station licenses and the guest booking policy of its daytime talk show "The View."

ABC began running spots Monday asking viewers to comment on the FCC's recent actions that Disney sees as an effort to stifle speech seen...Read more

President Donald Trump is scheduled to speak Tuesday at a truck manufacturing facility in the Lehigh Valley, where a competitive race for Congress this year could determine which party controls the U.S. House for the second half of his term.

Trump will deliver remarks at Mack Trucks in Macungie in Lehigh County, according to the White House and...Read more

The Supreme Court will wrap up its term in a matter of days, offering rulings on a number of important cases. In the meantime, the justices issued a directive last week that continues their push to rein in executive branch overreach.

The case involved a Biden administration edict demanding that furnaces and water heaters meet higher efficiency ...Read more

Under the second Trump administration, the United States has seen mass deportations and a sharp escalation in immigration enforcement. The Department of Homeland Security says the crackdown pushed nearly 3 million people out of the country in Trump’s first year back in office.

For the first time since the 1960s, the number of ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday accused “vandals” of wrecking his botched $16 million paint job and rehab of the reflecting pool in Washington D.C, but there is scant evidence that any criminal activity is responsible for the unsightly green algae bloom and peeling paint.

He blamed tourists for allegedly grabbing pieces of peeling “American...Read more

President Donald Trump is rolling out new tools with the same protectionist goals after the Supreme Court ruled his sweeping global tariffs to be illegal. His administration wants the rebuilt wall of import taxes to mirror those Trump put on every major trading partner at the beginning of his second term.

But not all is as it was on April 2, ...Read more

NEW YORK — NYC’s unusually contentious Democratic congressional primary campaigns headed down to the wire ahead of election day Tuesday with some analysts suggesting relatively low turnout during early voting could be a red flag for Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s leftist allies in three races.

Candidates in hard-fought races in Manhattan and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court refused Monday to block an excessive force lawsuit against a former Los Angeles Police Department officer who shot and killed a knife-wielding man whose speeding truck had slammed into several cars near downtown Los Angeles.

The court turned down an appeal petition from the Los Angeles city attorney's office, ...Read more

The fast-spreading national debate over the effects of AI data centers on the environment has reached Southern Nevada, this time taking over Henderson City Hall.

At a meeting Tuesday, officials said they would explore a 180-day pause on data center permit approvals while city staff studies ways city codes could be changed to address concerns ...Read more

In congressional races across the country, a new crop of super PACs is taking to the air with millions of dollars worth of advertisements to sway voters.

"President Trump said it best, 'Celeste Maloy will never let you down,'" says one advertisement supporting the Utah Republican representative in her upcoming primary election.

"Standing up to...Read more

Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right populist backed by Donald Trump, will be Colombia’s next president after narrowly defeating leftist Iván Cepeda in a runoff election on Sunday.

The criminal defense lawyer who cast himself as a political “outsider” promised to take an “iron fist” to crime during elections in which security was a ...Read more

Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won the preliminary vote count in Colombia’s presidential election, likely sweeping aside Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement and realigning Bogota with the US.

De la Espriella received 49.7% of the vote with 99.8% of polling stations reporting on Sunday, according to the electoral ...Read more

Conservative attorney Abelardo de la Espriella led Colombia’s presidential runoff as early results came in Sunday, putting him in a strong position to sweep aside Gustavo Petro’s leftist movement and align Bogota with the Trump administration.

De la Espriella received 50.6% of the vote with 65% of polling stations reporting, according to ...Read more

Donald Trump has long avoided political damage for his own party from repeated allegations of graft and conflicts of interest. In this year’s midterm elections, Democrats are betting that they can finally exact a price.

Combined with the rising cost of living, corruption is shaping up to be a major campaign battlefront in races that will ...Read more

Colombians are voting in one of the most polarized elections in the nation’s history, with the economic model, the war on drugs and relations with the US all hanging in the balance.

Conservative lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella is seeking to extend his lead over leftist Senator Iván Cepeda, after unexpectedly beating him in the first round ...Read more