The Trump administration has begun dismantling the nation’s defenses against foreign interference in voting, a sweeping retreat that has alarmed state and local election officials.

The administration is shuttering the FBI’s Foreign Influence Task Force and last week cut more than 100 positions at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure ...Read more

ATLANTA — One month into his return to the White House, President Donald Trump’s shock and awe campaign has reshaped the federal government at breakneck speed with sweeping implications for Georgia.

His administration has orchestrated the firings of thousands of federal workers, pushed to eliminate entire government agencies and picked ...Read more

Monitoring shipping traffic in Puget Sound. Maintaining the Navy's submarine force. Preventing power outages throughout the Pacific Northwest.

These imperatives rely on highly trained professionals based in Washington state. And, as federal government employees, all have been thrown into chaos and uncertainty, thanks to President Donald Trump's...Read more

Grimes took to X Thursday to publicly plead with Elon Musk to stop ignoring their child’s “medical crisis.”

In a series of since-deleted posts, the Canadian musician, whose legal name is Claire Boucher, tried to get a response from Musk about a seemingly serious issue.

“Plz respond about our child’s medical crisis,” she wrote in a ...Read more

The California Legislative Black Caucus on Thursday proposed a package of reparations for the descendants of African Americans who were enslaved in the United States, proposals that include preferences for public university admissions and financial assistance for first-time home buyers.

The package contains 15 bills in what caucus members said ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Mitch McConnell will end his Senate career with his most indelible mark on the nation’s federal courts and the chamber’s judicial confirmation process, a priority that changed the chamber’s rules and solidified a conservative Supreme Court for the foreseeable future.

As majority leader during the last two years of President...Read more

Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines released limited information about the piloting crew aboard Flight 4819 Thursday evening, saying the company wished to correct disinformation circulating online about Monday’s plane crash.

The captain and first officer, both employed by Delta’s Minneapolis-based and wholly owned subsidiary Endeavor Air, have ...Read more

President Donald Trump endorsed Meshawn Maddock, one of his outspoken allies in Michigan, on Thursday to be the next chairwoman of the state Republican Party.

A former co-chairwoman of the Michigan GOP, Maddock is in a three-candidate race to lead the party. Republican delegates will pick the next chair during a state convention Saturday inside...Read more

Donald Trump has temporarily replaced the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office after Elon Musk’s son seemingly wiped a booger on it during their viral visit to the White House last week.

The self-described “germaphobe” announced on Wednesday that he’d sent the desk to be “lightly refinished” and brought another desk in for the time ...Read more

California state Sen. Scott Wiener on Thursday announced a new bill that would protect the state’s transgender community and strengthen a preexisting law that declared California a transgender “state of refuge.”

Wiener, D-San Francisco, said in a press release that the bill is a direct result of President Donald Trump’s “disgusting ...Read more

Following a loud public outcry about job cuts at the National Park Service — and a relentless media campaign from outdoors enthusiasts across the country — it looks like the Trump administration has reconsidered.

A plan to eliminate thousands of seasonal workers at the beloved federal agency appears to have been reversed.

Last month, ...Read more

Washington's K-12 schools chief is advising the state's school districts not to change their diversity, equity and inclusion programs and policies in response to the Trump administration's recent directive to schools to eliminate "race-based decision-making" from their campuses by the end of the month or jeopardize their federal funding.

A ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — A coalition of environmental groups sued the Trump administration this week to try to thwart the approval of the Stibnite Gold Project, a planned gold and antimony mine in Central Idaho.

Owned by Perpetua Resources, a Canadian mining company with offices in Idaho, the open-pit mine project received U.S. Forest Service approval ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Thom Tillis took to the Senate floor Thursday afternoon and denounced Russian President Vladimir Putin while alluding to comments by President Donald Trump that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is “a dictator” and that Zelenskyy’s actions have “led Millions unnecessarily” to die.

Trump’s comments were made...Read more

WASHINGTON — The staffer with billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency who resigned after a report that linked him to racism and eugenics has been reinstated at the Social Security Administration, according to people familiar with the move.

Marko Elez, who reportedly advocated for a “eugenic immigration policy” and ...Read more

For President Xi Jinping, an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine brings many opportunities and one major threat: China would suddenly become the main focus of the U.S. military.

U.S. and Russian officials have started talks in Saudi Arabia to negotiate an end to the three-year war, prompting deep concern in Europe and Ukraine itself over whether ...Read more

Thousands of IRS employees around the country reported to work Thursday prepared for an email announcement that they were being placed on leave.

For many, the email never arrived. Not because they weren’t being terminated — they were — but because of a technical glitch that prevented officials from notifying them via email, according to ...Read more

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court opinion defining a “public place” on Wednesday was specifically targeted, relating only to a statute concerning rifles and shotguns in public places.

But legal experts and gun rights advocates believe the opinion’s language will have a deeper effect.

The case dealt with a BB gun stuffed under ...Read more

Two former Navy captains who went to prison for taking bribes as part of the “Fat Leonard” corruption scandal have asked federal prosecutors to dismiss their felony convictions and instead allow them to plead guilty to misdemeanor crimes.

Retired Navy Capt. David Williams Haas and former Navy Capt. Jesús Vasquez Cantú, both of whom have ...Read more