Congressional Republicans have revived plans to sell public lands as part of ongoing negotiations on the federal budget reconciliation bill.

A draft released Wednesday by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee detailed plans for “mandatory disposal” of Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service Land for housing. It lists ...Read more

Two Georgia state senators admitted to violating campaign finance laws under agreements approved Thursday by the State Ethics Commission.

The commission approved consent orders with state Sen. Colton Moore, R-Trenton, and Sen. Freddie Powell Sims, D-Dawson. Each admitted to failing to file various campaign contribution disclosure reports and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House-passed reconciliation bill would most benefit high earners and reduce financial resources available to the lowest-income households, the Congressional Budget Office said in a distributional analysis of the measure Thursday.

The nonpartisan agency said it estimates that over the fiscal 2026 through 2034 period, after-tax...Read more

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has a message for President Donald Trump: keep your hands off the state National Guard.

In an interview Wednesday with The Washington Post, Shapiro said local and state law enforcement will keep any protests in the Keystone State peaceful without federal or U.S. military meddling.

He accused Trump of sparking "...Read more

President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted his immigration crackdown is hurting farms and hotels that rely heavily on undocumented immigrants for low-wage labor.

As immigration protests spread from Los Angeles to other cities, Trump said he would consider tweaking his harsh mass deportation policy to spare the crucial agriculture and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democrats just can’t seem to catch a break these days, especially on the baseball diamond.

For the fifth year in a row, Republicans won the annual Congressional Baseball Game. They beat the Democrats 13-2 — a relatively low score as far as these games go.

Heading on to the field, Democrats knew they had their work cut out ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In his first term, one of President Donald Trump’s most embarrassing legislative setbacks centered on the Confederate names of U.S. military bases. This week, Trump used his executive powers to reverse that defeat.

In late 2020 — while he was making false claims of election fraud in a desperate attempt to stay in power — ...Read more

For Venezuelan travelers the past few days have been filled with uncertainty, fear and confusion — not to mention the financial toll.

Since the Trump administration issued a travel ban barring nationals from 12 countries including Venezuela, Venezuelans both in and outside the U.S. have scrambled to reschedule flights — some moved them ...Read more

Usually when people announce, “Here’s the thing,” I want to ask, really? Did God stop by today with a cheese danish for the both of you, to tell you what the thing was?

But here’s the thing: We’re going to need you this Saturday.

What is happening in Los Angeles with the National Guard is not simply President Donald Trump’s ...Read more

Starting today, the Trump administration will impose a long-expected revamp of the cruel policy that made it very clear during the early days of his first term that the president was not bluffing on his desire to indiscriminately target entire classes of immigrants in his promised crackdown: the travel ban.

This time, President Donald Trump has...Read more

The race to develop artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will play a decisive role in the “New Cold War” with China.

America currently enjoys a multi-year lead in cutting-edge AI technologies. This lead is protected by export controls that prevent China from obtaining America’s best technology and slow its progress in developing AI ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Former Republican Ryan Crosswell, who resigned his post as a federal prosecutor in the Department of Justice in February in a break with the Trump administration, has announced that he is running for Congress in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley — as a Democrat.

Crosswell, a 44-year-old Marine veteran who was born in Pottsville, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he intended to send letters to trading partners in the next one to two weeks setting unilateral tariff rates, ahead of a July 9 deadline to reimpose higher duties on dozens of economies.

“We’re going to be sending letters out in about a week and a half, two weeks, to countries, telling them what ...Read more

NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s lawyers were back in court Wednesday to renew their push to dismiss the New York jury verdict that makes him the only person convicted of a felony to serve as president.

Trump was convicted last year in Manhattan state court of 34 counts of falsifying business records to cover up hush money payments to an adult ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans rescued their “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill from an early death in the Senate Wednesday by passing a measure deleting various provisions that would have violated Senate budget rules.

To avoid a stand-alone vote on the fixes, automatic adoption of the resolution correcting the engrossment of the House ...Read more

The League of United Latin American Citizens is planning counterprotests across Texas in response to Gov. Greg Abbott’s announcement that he mobilized the Texas National Guard ahead of demonstrations against the Trump administration this week.

“We have 277 councils in the state of Texas, and so you’re going to see a lot of folks out there...Read more

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk issued his strongest sign of contrition yet over his handling of the dramatic break with President Donald Trump, days after a call with two of the president’s top allies.

Vice President JD Vance and White House chief of staff Susie Wiles called Musk last Friday to urge him to end his conflict with Trump, said people ...Read more

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced late Tuesday he deployed Texas National Guard troops to San Antonio in advance of protests planned for Wednesday night against a Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants.

He also said he plans to send guardsmen elsewhere in the state to “uphold law and order,” days ahead of planned ...Read more

The Republican-led House of Representatives was poised Wednesday to hold a do-over vote on President Donald Trump’s sprawling budget bill to tweak some provisions that ran afoul of the complicated rules allowing the GOP to pass the bill using the arcane reconciliation process.

The amended Big, Beautiful Bill would nix a measure cracking down ...Read more

DENVER — Hundreds of Coloradans in Douglas County will mobilize Saturday for an anti-Trump rally, even after the town of Parker tried to shut them down, organizers say.

The Parker-led group will join thousands of people in cities across the country hosting “No Kings” rallies on Saturday, President Donald Trump’s birthday, “in response...Read more