WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump dug in deeper Monday over his sweeping worldwide tariffs, issuing a warning to China and sending stock markets on a roller coaster ride as he huddled with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House.

Long a student of American politics, Netanyahu — whose country was hit with a 17% duty �...Read more

WASHINGTON — Mixed messages on trade from the Trump administration threw markets into further turbulence Monday, leaving investors, foreign governments and the president’s own allies desperate for an off-ramp from a dramatic increase in global tariffs scheduled to go into effect Tuesday night.

Yet President Donald Trump, posting on social ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As the fallout over President Donald Trump’s tariffs continues to roil the world economy, a few Republicans in Congress have begun discussing how to curb the president’s ability to levy tariffs — taking a rare step to rein in the party leader.

Republican leaders have largely struck a “wait-and-see” attitude toward the ...Read more

President Donald Trump said the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran and the next round will take place this Saturday “at almost the highest level,” provoking confusion after the leaders in Tehran rejected the idea and proposed negotiations with Oman as mediator.

“We have a very big meeting on Saturday, and we’re dealing with them ...Read more

WASHINGTON — An agreement between Speaker Mike Johnson and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to rely on vote “pairing” for recent and expecting mothers falls short of making Congress a more welcoming place for young parents, Rep. Brittany Pettersen said Monday.

Pettersen, a Colorado Democrat, partnered with the Florida Republican this Congress to ...Read more

President Donald Trump urged his supporters Monday to stand firm and back his plan for sweeping tariffs amid a full-blown market meltdown and fears they could spark a recession.

As some of his backers and Republican lawmakers called for an urgent rethink, Trump signaled he has no intention of softening his stance.

“Don’t be weak! Don’t ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs plan could inflict outsized economic pain on New York City, with a recession and a possible loss of up to 260,000 jobs on the table if the import taxes are not eased, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Monday.

The Democratic Senate leader said New York is particularly reliant on industries like finance,...Read more

U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, supports legislation that would restrict President Donald Trump’s power over tariffs amid plunging stocks and rising fears of a recession.

Moran signed on as a co-sponsor of a bipartisan bill introduced last week that would require Trump to notify Congress when he imposes a new tariff. Congress ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court in Washington on Monday reinstated members of the Merit Systems Protection Board and National Labor Relations Board who had been fired by President Donald Trump, escalating fights over Congress’ ability to protect federal officials from removal.

The 7-4 order from the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrat Christina Hines, a former special victims prosecutor in Wayne County, will launch her congressional campaign Monday for a suburban Detroit U.S. House seat held by two-term Republican U.S. Rep. John James.

Hines, 35, of Warren, is the second Democrat to join the race for Michigan's 10th Congressional District, which ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate’s newly adopted budget blueprint has triggered a fight over the merits of wiping away the cost of tax-cut extensions in a bid to make them permanent — a dispute that could bog down work on a GOP reconciliation package in coming months.

Democrats have attacked Republicans’ decision to use a “current policy” ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday urged his supporters to stand firm and back his plan for sweeping tariffs amid a full-blown market meltdown and fears they could spark a recession.

As some of his backers and Republican lawmakers called for an urgent rethink, Trump signaled he has no intention of softening his stance.

“Don’t be weak! Don’t ...Read more

President Donald Trump Monday urged his supporters to stand firm and back his plan for sweeping tariffs amid a full-blown market meltdown and fears they could spark a recession.

As some of his backers and Republican lawmakers called for an urgent rethink, Trump signaled he has no intention of softening his stance.

“Don’t be weak! Don’t ...Read more

When American soldiers liberated the Mauthausen Nazi concentration camp in Austria 80 years ago this May, Spanish prisoners welcomed them with a message of antifascist solidarity.

The Spaniards hung a banner made from stolen bed sheets over one of Mauthausen’s gates. In English, Spanish and Russian, it read: “The Spanish ...Read more

Iran has sent a “generous and wise” proposal for indirect talks with the U.S. about its nuclear program that could involve Oman as a mediator, officials said.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he wants direct discussions with the Islamic Republic over a new nuclear deal to replace the one that he abandoned during his first term. Iran ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Republican budget debate shifts back to the House this week ahead of a two-week recess.

The House plans to take up the budget resolution amended by the Senate following last week’s vote-a-rama — that is, assuming the House floor is operational after last week’s standoff that led to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., sending ...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- Michael Newman, head of the civil rights enforcement section in California Attorney General Rob Bonta’s office, was exhausted.

Newman and his legal team had just worked all weekend, straight through that Monday and overnight into Tuesday on a growing pile of legal challenges to the Trump administration, and were overdue for ...Read more

Margaret Mitchell was born in 1900, a quarter century after the beginning and subsequently abrupt end of Reconstruction.

She was a privileged daughter in a wealthy and politically prominent Atlanta family at the height of The Lost Cause myth, which argued that the South’s involvement in the Civil War was about states’ rights and heroism, ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s top economic officials dismissed investors’ fears of inflation and recession, offering no apologies for the market turmoil sparked by sweeping global tariffs and defiantly insisting a boom is on the horizon.

On the heels of huge global stock market falls, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard ...Read more