Shock, dismay and angst swept across India as businesses, policymakers and citizens digested U.S. President Donald Trump’s sharp remarks and a surprise 25% tariff rate earlier this week.

While Indian government officials weighed a response and business groups tallied the cost of the trade barrier, the local social media flared up with users ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Voters are increasingly souring on President Donald Trump’s handling of the U.S. economy, according to a raft of new polling, but that disapproval still isn’t translating into a political windfall for Democrats.

Just 37% of voters approve of Trump’s approach to the economy as of July, according to Gallup polling, down from...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Jerome Powell should follow in the footsteps of Federal Reserve Gov. Adriana Kugler and resign from the central bank, ratcheting up his feud with the central bank chair.

“‘Too Late’ Powell should resign, just like Adriana Kugler, a Biden Appointee, resigned. She knew he was doing the wrong thing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court indicated it will consider outlawing the use of race in drawing voting maps, setting up a blockbuster showdown with implications for dozens of congressional districts with predominantly minority populations.

Expanding a Louisiana case already on their docket, the justices on Friday said they will consider ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is doubling down on its trade war against much of the world despite increasingly harrowing economic numbers emerging at home, with stock markets and Treasury yields tumbling Friday on news of the most significant slowdown in job growth since the pandemic.

Government data showed the U.S. economy added 73,...Read more

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to repeal its own 2009 finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health marks a major U-turn for the nation’s climate progress. While it’s impact will be felt nationwide, the plan takes direct aim at California.

In supporting documents released in the wake of Tuesday�...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell should be put “out to pasture” and called on the central bank’s board to “assume control” if interest rates were not lowered, escalating an ongoing feud.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, a stubborn MORON, must substantially lower interest rates, NOW. IF HE ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” tour on Friday was kicking off its latest swing in West Virginia, where the Vermont independent and former presidential contender pledges to target “deep red districts” and rural communities.

The first stop by the progressive leader was in Wheeling, West Virginia, a little more ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s varying explanations about his fallout with Jeffrey Epstein have raised more questions than answers as he struggles to move on from his days of partying in Palm Beach with the late financier.

A variety of reasons have been given as to why the two men stopped being friends: Epstein “stole” his female...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Federal Bureau of Investigation redacted President Donald Trump’s name and those of other high-profile individuals from government files related to Jeffrey Epstein, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The redactions were made by a team of FBI employees tasked with reviewing the Epstein files for potential ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trade deals and a luxury ballroom and Triple H in the Roosevelt Room. Oh my.

President Donald Trump began the week trying to play down his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, but he wrapped it up announcing more trade deals, revised tariff rates for dozens of countries and a major White House renovation project, as ...Read more

CHICAGO — Former President Joe Biden called on attorneys to lead the fight to uphold the Constitution during the Trump administration in a speech at a downtown Chicago hotel on Thursday in which he also reflected on his more than five-decade career in politics and beginnings as a young lawyer.

“It’s not enough to honor the heroes who came...Read more

LOS ANGELES – The Trump administration has frozen hundreds of science, medical and other federal grants to UCLA worth nearly $200 million, citing the university's alleged "discrimination" in admissions and failure to "promote a research environment free of antisemitism."

The decision to pull funding comes after Attorney General Pam Bondi and ...Read more

President Donald Trump called on the Federal Reserve board to “assume control” if Chair Jerome Powell does not lower interest rates, escalating his ongoing feud with the central bank’s head.

“Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell, a stubborn MORON, must substantially lower interest rates, NOW. IF HE CONTINUES TO REFUSE, THE BOARD SHOULD ASSUME ...Read more

WASHINGTON -- There are few regrets about leaving Congress among many of the 84 former members of the House and Senate who left during or at the end of the last Congress, either through retirement, lost elections, moves to new jobs or other reasons.

A CQ Roll Call review of the current status of former members of the 118th Congress found that ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Young Kim, an immigrant from South Korea and a former longtime aide to retired House Foreign Affairs Chairman Ed Royce, is a rare figure in the House Republican caucus these days.

Like her former boss, Kim has a visible platform to speak out on international developments from her position as chair of the House Foreign Affairs ...Read more

WASHINGTON— The White House views a payment of $500 million by Harvard University as a floor in negotiations for a settlement, and the cost of a deal could climb far higher if the school doesn’t submit to government oversight provisions, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

One of the Trump administration’s key demands is ...Read more

ST. PAUL, Minn. — At least three candidates have now entered the race for the Woodbury-area Senate seat left vacant by the resignation of Nicole Mitchell last week after her felony burglary conviction.

Republican Dwight Dorau on Wednesday announced his intention to run in Senate District 47 in an upcoming special election. He’d be the first...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced a slew of new tariffs, including a 10% global minimum and 15% or higher duties for countries with trade surpluses with the U.S., as he forged ahead with his effort to reshape international commerce.

The baseline rates for many trading partners remain unchanged from the duties Trump imposed in ...Read more

President Donald Trump escalated his campaign to pressure pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices, sending letters to 17 of the world’s largest drugmakers demanding they charge the U.S. what other countries pay for new medicines.

In the letters, sent to Eli Lilly & Co., Novo Nordisk A/S, Pfizer Inc. and others, Trump insisted companies ...Read more