Donald Trump’s ongoing use of the Justice Department to settle scores became highly personal this week, with the federal government’s vast investigative resources turned on an old grievance stemming from the sexual assault and defamation cases he lost to E. Jean Carroll.

Following CNN’s bombshell report on Wednesday that the feds were ...Read more

The Supreme Court heads into the final month of its yearly term facing decisions on birthright citizenship, gun rights, transgender athletes and President Trump's power over independent agencies.

Unlike in years past, the term's most significant rulings were not left for the last week in June.

The court dealt Trump a major defeat in February ...Read more

President Donald Trump said he’s expanding the scope of his special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, to include Iraq.

Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, became Trump’s Syria envoy in 2025, soon after President Ahmed al-Sharaa took power. His now-renewed appointment to that post had expired on Friday.

“As we advance our strategic ...Read more

Democrats have spent nearly two years trying to move past the 2024 presidential election. Now, Jill Biden's new memoir is forcing them to relive it.

Her new book, "View from the East Wing," which comes out Tuesday, is already drawing sharp rebukes from top Democrats, some of whom say it is a poorly timed and misleading account of the events ...Read more

Colombians are voting in presidential elections in which the economic model, counter-narcotics policies and relations with Washington are all at stake.

Senator Iván Cepeda, an ally of leftist President Gustavo Petro, has pledged to tax the rich, boost social spending, seek peace deals with cocaine-trafficking militias.

His main opponents, ...Read more

President Donald Trump responded to a wave of cancellations by artists who were scheduled to perform in Washington for the U.S.’s 250th birthday by proposing himself as a better alternative.

“I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World,” Trump wrote in a social media post Saturday. The president said he ...Read more

Vanilla Ice is defending his participation in the “Great American State Fair,” insisting he’d perform for anyone — from President Donald Trump to former President Joe Biden to Russian President Vladimir Putin — if it meant showing his fans a good time.

As of Saturday, Ice is one of the few acts remaining on the roster for the event, a...Read more

A federal judge in Miami is looking into allegations that President Donald Trump defrauded her court by suing the IRS for the sole purpose of forcing a $1.8 billion settlement that would compensate victims of “government weaponization” and shut the door on the government’s pursuit of tax claims against the president, his family and their ...Read more

NEW YORK — Rep. Adriano Espaillat was already facing an unexpectedly tough Democratic primary fight against leftist insurgent Darializa Avila Chevalier in upper Manhattan’s NY-13 district.

Then, Mayor Mamdani lobbed a political grenade into the race late Thursday when he endorsed fellow DSA members Chevalier, instantly turning the June 23 ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump “remains in excellent health,” according to the White House doctor, after undergoing a physical earlier this week that included a cognitive test.

A memorandum by the physician, Capt. Sean Barbabella, concluded that Trump, who turns 80 next month, “is fully fit to carry out all duties of the commander ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said it will appeal a judge’s authority to order across-the-board refunds of all tariffs ruled illegal by the U.S. Supreme Court, potentially injecting legal chaos into a claims process that’s already underway.

The Justice Department filed notice on Friday that it will appeal a court order compelling ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a “fraud” on the court.

In an order on Friday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams gave the ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — In a Friday evening post, President Donald Trump backed Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette’s campaign, the highly sought after endorsement in the race for the Republican nomination for South Carolina governor.

The endorsement was shared on Truth Social.

“Pam Evette is a good friend, fighter and winner and will be a terrific governor...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — A Tarrant County Democratic election judge says she was assaulted by a Republican election judge while working at her polling place for the primary runoff election Tuesday morning.

When the Democratic election judge, who has run her polling location for 15 years, arrived at the polls Tuesday morning, she found that a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge ordered President Donald Trump to respond to “grievous allegations” that his deal with the government to create a $1.8 billion fund to resolve his lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service was the result of a “fraud” on the court.

In an order on Friday, U.S. District Judge Kathleen Williams gave the ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — The highest court in Nevada has ordered a lower court to grant a preliminary injunction against a decades-old abortion law that requires parents to be notified if their child seeks an abortion.

The Nevada Supreme Court issued the ruling Thursday in a 22-page opinion. The law has been on the books since 1985 but was not enforced ...Read more

DENVER — Tina Peters will walk out of a Colorado prison Monday, ending roughly 20 months of incarceration as her legal team renews its effort to overturn the seven criminal convictions that sent her there.

Her exit from the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo comes roughly 30 months earlier than originally scheduled, after Gov. Jared ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Rep. Frederica S. Wilson will not seek reelection this year, bringing to a close a decadeslong career in Florida politics and decreasing the number of colorful cowboy hats worn on Capitol Hill.

With her decision not to run for a ninth term, which she announced Friday at a ceremony in Miami Gardens to rename a street in her honor,...Read more