WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court said Tuesday it would decide the legality of the majority of President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariff regime, a signature policy priority of the president.

The justices announced they will hear oral arguments in November on the Trump administration request to overturn lower court rulings that found the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday temporarily allowed the Trump administration to hold on to billions in foreign aid funds that it wants to cancel, setting up a high-stakes battle over the president’s power to unilaterally cancel funds mandated by Congress.

The one-page order, signed by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., paused the ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sea Grape Drive could soon sound less idyllic if Lauderdale-by-the-Sea town commissioners approve a proposal to add a second name to the road: “President Donald J. Trump Drive.”

The proposal has generated a furious debate and opened a divide in the oceanfront community, where residents and business owners extol the...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump called a birthday note he allegedly sent to Jeffrey Epstein a “dead issue,” seeking to tamp down mounting questions over his past interactions with the late disgraced financier.

“I don’t comment on something that’s a dead issue,” Trump said in an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, a day after ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Dylan Borland was stationed at Langley Air Force Base in summer 2012 when in the middle of the night he observed a triangular craft shrouded in light in the sky above his barracks, he told members of Congress. The craft approached him noiselessly, hovered above where he stood, and then quickly ascended tens of thousands of feet ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Some Republican lawmakers say Donald Trump still deserves the Nobel Peace Prize despite his recent drug cartel-targeting military operation in the Caribbean and a revival of the Department of War, another sign of their enduring loyalty to the commander in chief.

The president has raised eyebrows, even among some allies, with the ...Read more

A “Happy 50th” letter from former President Bill Clinton to Jeffrey Epstein has been released by congressional investigators along with the one apparently written by President Donald Trump in a birthday album for the late notorious pedophile.

“It’s reassuring isn’t it, to have lasted as long, across all the years of learning and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Over the weekend, President Donald Trump shared a doctored AI image of himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," crouched in a black Stetson hat in front of a flaming Chicago skyline abuzz with black helicopters.

"'I love the smell of deportations in the ...Read more

The Trump administration believes — correctly — that the existing prescription drug supply chain endangers our national security, especially when global demand surges as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

China, a military adversary under a communist regime, plays a key role in 90% of generic antibiotics and 8% of all active ...Read more

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is asking the US Supreme Court to review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars stemming from his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax.

The default judgment entered against Jones and his Infowars parent company in 2022 after “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed U.S. immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally based on little more than their working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

In a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal and lifted a Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Voters in Virginia’s 11th District will pick their next member of Congress on Tuesday, and the seat appears poised to remain in Democratic hands.

Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw faces off against Republican Stewart Whitson, an Army veteran and former FBI official, in the special election to succeed the late ...Read more

BOSTON — Voters will head to the polls in Boston Tuesday to cast their ballots in a closely watched preliminary election, which features mayoral and city council races and is the first test for the city after last fall’s disastrous ballot shortage.

The City of Boston will manage the preliminary election, but with increased oversight from ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court on Monday upheld the $83.3 million judgment against President Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape during his first term based on the “extraordinary and egregious” facts of the case.

In a 70-page, unsigned decision, three justices for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ...Read more

Congressional Democrats Monday released a copy of a sexually suggestive letter ostensibly written by President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein to mark the pedophile’s 50th birthday, a missive Trump claimed he never wrote when it was first revealed by the Wall Street Journal.

The chummy letter, which was included in a batch of documents handed...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts let President Donald Trump temporarily oust a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling that the Supreme Court is likely to back Trump’s bid to assert control over the independent agency.

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the FTC’s only Democrat, had briefly returned to her job after ...Read more

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released the image of a note addressed from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in a book for the late-financier’s 50th birthday — the subject of a lawsuit the president filed in July against the Wall Street Journal.

The note, which Democrats posted on X, includes a drawing in the shape of a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s top law enforcement official has weighed in on Monday‘s controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling on immigration enforcement.

Attorney General Rob Bonta condemned the decision, which clears the way for immigration agents to stop and question people they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally based solely on ...Read more