In June, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) finally released the long-awaited homelessness numbers for 2025, revealing a 3.3 percent decrease in overall homelessness between January 2024 and January 2025.

To be clear, this modest decline is not cause for celebration – 745,652 people remain homeless on a given night in ...Read more

DETROIT — Dotted and undotted i's, and loops in r's are among the evidence to be scrutinized by jurors who will decide whether a Hamtramck City Council member forged a signature on a woman's absentee ballot in 2023.

The Wayne County Circuit Court jury began deliberations Wednesday following three days of testimony, in which they heard from ...Read more

Donald Trump, who reversed his early skepticism of crypto to become one of the industry’s biggest boosters, reported more crypto-related income last year than any publicly traded U.S. digital-asset company earned.

The 927-page financial disclosure released Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics showed Trump generated at least $1.4 ...Read more

Ethics experts sounded the alarm Wednesday after new financial disclosure reports revealed that President Donald Trump’s income ballooned to $2.2 billion in 2025, with $1.4 billion coming from various new cryptocurrency-related businesses.

“It’s bribery. It’s graft. It’s exploitation of public power for private financial gain,” said...Read more

WASHINGTON — Victories in some Democratic primaries by far-left candidates have given President Donald Trump a new campaign-trail boogeyman amid his low poll numbers: communism.

“It’s becoming a communist party. These are not social ‘Dumocrats,’ these are hardcore, godless communists,” Trump said Friday, using a relatively new ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Colorado Democrat Diana DeGette was counting on her decades of experience in Congress to sweep her to victory over her insurgent rival in her deep-blue district.

The 15-term House incumbent pitched herself as the type of “strong, bold, hardened leader” who would hold President Donald Trump accountable. “Now is not the time...Read more

WASHINGTON — While Republicans and Democrats battle for control of Washington this year, Washington has become a scarlet letter for members of both parties vying to be their state’s next governor.

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet was just the latest member of Congress to fail in a gubernatorial attempt when he lost the Democratic primary ...Read more

MIAMI — The candidates for Florida's Congressional District 24 have big shoes to fill and residents have a big decision to make.

That was apparent at a town hall debate Tuesday evening at Florida Memorial University, which some attendees said may have swayed them from one particular candidate to being open to hearing what the others had to ...Read more

DENVER — Denver awoke to a new normal on Wednesday morning after first-time-candidate and democratic socialist Melat Kiros soundly defeated longtime progressive incumbent U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary race to represent Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.

Kiros carried a lead of nearly 10 percentage points as of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court capped its term Tuesday with one decision overturning a long-standing campaign finance limit and another turning aside President Donald Trump’s attempt to unilaterally change birthright citizenship — a day, experts said, that exemplified this year at the court.

Throughout the term, they said the ...Read more

Twenty-five years ago, I attended a Fourth of July parade in Boston that has stuck with me.

The head drummer of the colonial fife and drum band was a Black man in a Revolutionary War costume, his dreadlocks peeking from under a powdered wig. As the parade stopped to lay a wreath at the Granary Burying Ground where founding fathers ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his first trip on his new luxe Air Force One, a retrofitted Boeing 747 worth an estimated $400 million transferred for free from the oil-rich Middle East nation of Qatar.

“I’m excited about the first flight,” he told reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota, where he planned to tour the new ...Read more

The Supreme Court wrapped its term on Tuesday. The progressive notion that the justices would be a rubber-stamp for the Trump administration was a notable casualty.

In a blow to the White House, for instance, the justices overturned President Donald Trump’s executive order ending automatic citizenship for anyone born on U.S. soil. Writing for...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his first trip on his new luxe Air Force One, a retrofitted Boeing 747 worth an estimated $400 million transferred for free from the oil-rich Middle East nation of Qatar.

“I’m excited about the first flight,” he told reporters ahead of his flight to North Dakota, where he planned to tour the new ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump — having failed to convince the Supreme Court to let him fight a verdict holding him responsible for sexual assault — continues to drag his heels in coughing up the $5 million he owes E. Jean Carroll, according to new court filings.

Writing late Tuesday to Manhattan Federal Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, who ...Read more

France will hold the first round of its upcoming presidential election on April 18, 2027, with a potential run-off set for May 2 if no candidate secures a majority.

Government spokeswoman Maud Bregeon announced the dates following a cabinet meeting Wednesday in Paris.

President Emmanuel Macron, who was first elected in 2017 and re-elected in ...Read more

America has much to celebrate this July 4, but also much to do. Even after 250 years, the task of conserving the Republic given to us by our Founding Fathers is a never-ending struggle.

Fortunately, we have a wellspring of wisdom from those Founders we can tap. Thomas Jefferson, the author of our Declaration of Independence, outlined the ...Read more

The flow of money into U.S. politics is already harming democracy, and now, it’s about to get worse.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down limits on campaign expenditures by political parties in coordination with candidates in a 6-3 decision that only continues the problematic trend started by Citizen’s United v. FEC. Without these ...Read more

It’s settled now. States can count mail-in ballots after Election Day if postmarked by that day.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s opinion for the majority in Monday’s 5-4 ruling on vote-by-mail was straightforward. In interpreting federal law, the opinion read, “The electorate’s choice is made when voting is complete, not when ballots are ...Read more

The Supreme Court on June 30, 2026, declared that universal birthright citizenship is protected by the citizenship clause of the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, meaning that nearly all babies born in the United States automatically become American citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

The ruling rejects...Read more