NEW YORK — KISS has apparently had a change of heart about Donald Trump amid the president’s announcement of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, which include the induction of the beloved ’70s glam-rock band.

Founding members of the Grammy-nominated group, who have previously called the MAGA leader “abhorrent” and referred to his ...Read more

NEW YORK – Pete Davidson’s committed to removing his tattoos, but his Hillary Clinton ink isn’t going anywhere.

Though the comedian is in the process of removing upwards of 200 tattoos from his body, he revealed on The Breakfast Club that the image of Clinton on his leg is here to stay.

“I love Hillary. I got Hillary after she lost,”...Read more

WASHINGTON — As tensions escalate around President Donald Trump’s moves to federalize D.C.’s police force, Democrats in Congress are attempting to push back legislatively.

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia — the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and the Oversight and Government Reform committees, respectively — joined D.C. ...Read more

It’s been a little over six months since President Donald Trump assumed office for his second term. In that time, the economic landscape has shifted quite drastically: The new administration has implemented broad tariffs on U.S. trade partners, the stock market has both plummeted and soared to historic heights, hiring is down, fears of a ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act this summer, but the legislation’s staggered nature means its full impact will not be seen for several years.

Trump and his Republican allies have championed the law because most Americans will continue to pay less in federal income taxes. Democrats have argued these tax cuts ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s demand for a whopping $1 billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the announcement elicited a range of responses. Some faculty and staff reacted with horror, others voiced increasing fear about the ongoing assault on academic freedom, and some merely muttered in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hartzell Gray has built a reputation around Kansas City as a well-known media personality and progressive activist, drawing in listeners through podcast episodes, radio segments and speeches at local protests.

Now, the former radio host and tenants rights advocate is running to represent Kansas City in Congress.

Gray, late...Read more

Costco Wholesale Corp. has decided not to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacy locations, a decision hailed by a group of faith-based activists who urged the retailer to avoid selling the drug.

Costco said in a statement that it hasn’t seen consumer demand for the pill, and had no comment on whether the ...Read more

President Trump Thursday said he has high hopes of making progress to a Ukraine peace deal at a Friday afternoon summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but admitted there is a 1 in 4 chance of a “bad meeting.”

“There is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting, in which case I’ll return to run the ...Read more

Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028.

In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign against homeless people is not limited to the District of Columbia. On July 24, Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” How exactly is that to be accomplished?

“Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment ...Read more

If you want someone to blame for the recent crisis caused by President Trump’s rush to force a gerrymander of Texas’ congressional districts, and the harried responses from governors in California, Illinois and New York, you can start with the Supreme Court.

In 2019, in Rucho vs. Common Cause, the group held, 5 to 4, that challenges to ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday to ease regulations for the commercial space industry, including steps to speed the licensing process for rocket launches in a win for the growing sector and onetime ally Elon Musk’s SpaceX.

The executive order directs the secretary of Transportation to review regulatory requirements ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders ahead of a government funding deadline but cast doubt on a deal to avoid a federal shutdown.

Trump has not met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both of New York, since returning ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court said Wednesday that only the Government Accountability Office can sue over the Trump administration’s funding freezes — not people impacted by the funding cuts.

The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit undid a lower court ruling requiring the Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump rewrote the script on how Sylvester Stallone came to play “Rocky” when he told a Kennedy Center crowd on Wednesday that film executives insisted the aspiring actor play the title character in the 1976 film.

For nearly 50 years, its been known that Stallone campaigned to play Rocky Balboa as producers did everything in...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders ahead of a government funding deadline but cast doubt on a deal to avoid a federal shutdown.

Trump has not met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both of New York, since returning ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he would host the Kennedy Center Honors, which will go to actor Sylvester Stallone, rock band Kiss and singer Gloria Gaynor among others during the first year of his chairmanship of Washington, DC’s main performing arts center.

The president also vowed to “fully renovate” the John F. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can cut billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds approved by Congress for this year, a U.S. appeals court ruled.

In a 2-1 decision on Wednesday, the appellate panel reversed a Washington federal judge who found that U.S. officials were violating the Constitution’s separation of powers principles ...Read more

Bucking tradition once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself — a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, glam rock band Kiss, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country music star George Strait and English actor and comedian Michael ...Read more