DENVER — Attorneys for discredited Colorado elections clerk Tina Peters will challenge her criminal convictions before the Colorado Court of Appeals on Wednesday, her latest attempt to escape a nine-year sentence after state officials dismissed a would-be pardon from President Donald Trump.

Mesa County jurors convicted Peters, 70, of four ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The fatal shooting of Renee Good by a federal immigration enforcement agent in Minneapolis has pushed immigration policy to the forefront in the races for Minnesota governor and U.S. Senate.

For Democrats, the issue has become a flash point in the race for Minnesota’s open U.S. Senate seat, with Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan ...Read more

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will call a snap election early in the parliamentary session starting later this month, in a bid to shore up her leadership and secure a mandate for the new ruling coalition.

Takaichi told officials from the ruling bloc that she will give more details of the dissolution on Jan. 19, according to Liberal ...Read more

President Donald Trump expressed indifference toward the North American trade agreement with Canada and Mexico, portending a lengthy renegotiation of the U.S.’s largest free-trade pact.

Trump on Tuesday said there’s “no real advantage” to the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, which he signed in 2020 and is subject to a review this year. He ...Read more

Donald Trump was elected twice on a slogan to make America great, but nearly everything he does makes the country worse.

Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill increased U.S. debt and boosted health care costs. His tariffs have raised prices, while cuts to regulations have left workplaces more dangerous. Trump has also weakened higher education, slashed ...Read more

Democrats have to bring more to the table in 2028 than a robust hatred for Donald Trump and animosity for Republicans in general if they want to regain substantial power in D.C.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a new-ish plan for that, which she outlined Monday in a speech at the National Press Club.

Think “big tent.”

“There are two visions ...Read more

There’s a time-honored tradition of U.S. presidents, whose electoral fortunes tend to rise or fall with the state of the economy, grumbling about chairmen of the Federal Reserve Board.

Famously, Paul Volcker, who as Fed chair dramatically raised interest rates in the early 1980s to combat inflation rates considerably higher than those that ...Read more

Thailand is gearing up for a general election Feb. 8, which could usher in the fourth prime minister in three years. The snap vote is expected to produce a coalition government, heightening the risk of continued political instability.

Political upheaval has become the norm over the last two decades. A series of short-lived administrations have...Read more

DENVER — President Donald Trump’s ongoing pressure campaign against Colorado has left the state’s mostly Democratic leaders on the back foot as they’ve tried to fend off threats to nearly $1 billion in federal funding, financing for a drinking water pipeline, the future of a celebrated research center and more over the past month alone. ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments in a case challenging an Idaho law that bars transgender women and girls from participating in sports that align with their gender identity.

The case began in 2020, when Idaho became the first state in the nation to pass such a sweeping law targeting trans athletes. Shortly after Gov. Brad ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As House Republicans’ narrow margin becomes even narrower, leaders are banking on near-perfect floor vote attendance during the final sprint to pass government funding bills and advance their agenda before the midterms.

But even that might not be enough, as they discovered Tuesday night.

“They better be here. I mean, I’ve ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would cut off federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities at the end of the month in the latest escalation over immigration policy with Democratic jurisdictions.

Trump said his administration had also given “90-day notices” to states like California who would bill the federal government to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sounded ready Tuesday to uphold conservative state laws that forbid transgender athletes to compete on school sports teams for girls.

But the ruling may not directly affect California and the liberal-leaning states, at least for now.

Idaho, West Virginia and 25 other Republican-led states say a student’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a “Trump economic boom” was underway, again giving short shrift to indicators of a still-sluggish economy as Republicans gear up to defend their House and Senate majorities this year.

Trump visited the Detroit Economic Club a few hours after new government data showed mixed signals ...Read more

Rep. James Comer and former President Bill Clinton are locked in an intense war of words after Clinton defied a congressional subpoena and accused the Kentucky lawmaker of playing partisan politics in his House Oversight Committee investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Because the Clintons did not appear for subpoenaed ...Read more

Bill and Hillary Clinton seem to be gearing up for a potentially contentious legal battle with Kentucky Rep. James Comer.

The 42nd president and his wife, herself a former secretary of state, defied the GOP lawmaker’s efforts to depose them in his investigation of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The Clintons declined to show up for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican Rep. Neal Dunn announced Tuesday that he would not seek a sixth term this year, opening up a red-leaning North Florida seat based in Tallahassee.

Dunn, a urologist and former Army surgeon, is the eighth House Republican to announce retirement plans in 2026, while 18 others are departing to seek other offices.

“The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority sounded ready to uphold bans on transgender girls competing in girls’ sports, during oral arguments Tuesday in challenges to state laws in Idaho and West Virginia.

Across more than three hours of arguments in the two cases, the justices probed arguments from the states, the Trump ...Read more