Thousands of protests are scheduled across the United States on Saturday as part of the “No Kings” movement opposing President Donald Trump’s administration.

Organizers expect millions of people to turn out for this third round of No Kings demonstrations, with more than 3,000 local-level events mapped on the movement’s official website....Read more

Small counties in the coastal Southeast had some of the largest population gains between mid-2024 and mid-2025 in estimates being released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, mostly because of people moving from larger areas.

Jasper County, South Carolina, where there’s a building boom taking advantage of the popularity of nearby Hilton Head,...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Thursday night he would immediately begin paying Transportation Security Administration workers through an emergency executive order.

The order promised to end long delays at the nation’s airports and allow TSA workers to get paychecks they have been denied during a partial shutdown of the ...Read more

TAMPA. Fla. — As voter turnout numbers in the special election for Florida Senate District 14 came in Tuesday evening, Democrat Brian Nathan’s prospects looked dim.

Thousands more Republicans turned out compared to Democrats, according to unofficial figures released by Hillsborough County‘s elections office. One hour before the polls ...Read more

Anthropic PBC won a court order blocking a Trump administration ban on government use of the company’s artificial intelligence technology, after the Claude chatbot maker argued the move could cost it billions in lost revenue.

US District Judge Rita F. Lin issued a preliminary injunction on Thursday, pausing the administration’s plan to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he will sign an order to pay Transportation Security Administration officers in a bid to alleviate disruptions at U.S. airports with lawmakers in Congress deadlocked on how to end a partial government shutdown.

“I am going to sign an Order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Markwayne ...Read more

There is a pall over the Make America Great Again, or MAGA, movement. Donald Trump overpromised. His public support has fallen. Some “America First” die-hards now openly criticize him.

Amid war, economic challenges, democratic backsliding, the Epstein files and Americans shot dead in the street by government agents, Trump’s ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A sharply divided House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill Thursday that would greatly expand an administration’s ability to install hand-picked officials for top prosecutor roles.

The panel, in a 12-11 party-line vote, approved legislation that would strip district court judges of their power to appoint temporary U.S. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s signature will appear on future U.S. paper currency to mark the 250th anniversary of the country, a first for a sitting president, according to the Treasury Department.

“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S dollar bills ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When President Trump ordered immigration raids in Los Angeles last June, only a handful of those arrested were violent criminals. The sweeps split families, cost businesses millions of dollars and drove many undocumented residents into hiding.

Activists protested the Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions, prompting the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Two House committees voted unanimously on Thursday to approve a new version of aviation safety legislation intended to respond to the January 2025 fatal midair collision between a commercial airliner and a military helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee ...Read more

Evangelist Franklin Graham said conservatives nationwide must unite ahead of the 2026 midterm elections to elect candidates who share the same values as President Donald Trump.

During a speech Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, Graham noted that Trump will not be on the ballot in November, “but his policies are...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump held his first wartime Cabinet meeting Thursday, one month into his Iran conflict, as he continued toggling between talk of diplomacy and rattling his military saber.

The president has spent much of the week striking a new tone on the war and signaling interest in peace talks, even as the administration ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A portion of Interstate 77 in Richland County could be named for former President Barack Obama under a resolution passed in the South Carolina Senate on Wednesday afternoon.

“President Obama’s leadership inspired a generation and broke barriers that once seemed impossible,” said state Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Richland, ...Read more

President Donald Trump trashed Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, on Thursday and predicted Democrats would soon cave and make a deal to end the partial government shutdown that has caused chaos at airports, even though the two parties remain far apart in talks.

With airport security lines stretching for hours and Congress set to leave town for a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — With 100 days to go until the nation’s 250th birthday, a commission set up by Congress to organize the celebrations is reasserting itself after several months in the shadows of a separate White House planning group.

The commission, known as America250, this week unveiled plans for a series of nationwide events intended to bring...Read more

Whatever modest help is provided by the Trump administration’s decision to deploy Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to help reduce lines at airport security this week, it’s time Congress approved at least a stopgap measure to fund the Transportation Security Administration, if not the entirety of the U.S. Department of Homeland ...Read more

On Monday, a majority of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared poised to threaten voting by mail, as Washington and other states do it, during oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee.

This troubling development comes at the same time the RNC, with President Donald Trump’s backing, is pressing Congress to pass the Safeguard ...Read more

REDDING, Calif. — At a Board of Supervisors meeting in rural Shasta County last month, Clint Curtis dropped a bombshell: A sheriff way down in Riverside was going to confiscate all the ballots from a recent election.

Curtis, the county registrar of voters, was the first to announce the planned ballot seizure. Even the sheriff himself, Chad ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s disastrous war on Iran is weakening the United States, while presenting America’s principal adversaries, China and Russia, with a strategic opportunity to expand their global influence.

The war in Iran is already diverting U.S. attention and resources from Ukraine and East Asia at an alarming level, giving China and...Read more