As the Justice Department presses charges against some of Donald Trump’s perceived political enemies amid his retribution push, the former prosecutor who built two criminal cases against the president is back on his radar.

Jack Smith, the one-time U.S. special counsel, recently reemerged in public to denounce the Trump administration’s ...Read more

LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivia’s presidential election Sunday will bring an end to two decades of rule by a socialist government that ran the economy into the ground. But the giddiness of voters and investors over the prospects of change will soon give way to the reality of a difficult turnaround.

The Andean nation’s sovereign bonds have ...Read more

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has terminated a consent order that prohibited Citibank from discriminating against its Armenian American customers.

The agency, led by President Trump's Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, ended the consent order on Thursday, three years earlier than when it was set to expire.

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who is one of California’s fiercest critics of President Donald Trump, will run for the congressional seat held by former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

A longtime associate of Wiener’s told the Los Angeles Times that the state legislator recently told him he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to quickly lift a lower court order that blocked the deployment of federalized National Guard troops to assist immigration officials in the Chicago area.

The application argues the decision from Judge April Perry of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of ...Read more

The right wing‘s war on Netflix wages on.

The Pentagon issued a statement blasting the streamer’s programming and leadership Friday following an inquiry about the new series “Boots” from Entertainment Weekly. While the response from Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson did not directly address the gay coming-of-age military show, it...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration in court filings submitted Friday said that it was holding off firing thousands of federal workers in order to comply with a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge in California.

The filings came ahead of a 6 p.m. Eastern time Friday hearing on the status of the TRO preventing the Trump ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Friday to uphold his deployment of National Guard troops to Chicago.

His lawyers filed an emergency appeal urging the court to set aside rulings of judges in Chicago and hold that National Guard troops are needed to protect U.S. immigration agents from hostile protesters.

The ...Read more

Pop star Reneé Rapp took shots at President Donald Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with a blistering rant during her concert in Portland, Oregon this week.

The “Mean Girls” actress used her “Bite Me” tour stop at Rip City‘s Moda Center Monday to rip the MAGA leader about his controversial immigration policies.

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DENVER — Democrats again put big dollars behind candidates looking to unseat U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, new quarterly fundraising reports show, even as she now represents one of Colorado’s reddest districts.

The three Democrats vying to challenge Boebert in 2026 for the 4th Congressional District reported raising more than $3 million this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s been a year full of money grabs by an executive branch that puts less weight on Congress’ “power of the purse” than any since the Nixon administration.

But President Donald Trump’s latest budget maneuver — paying military salaries out of unrelated research funding — has so openly flouted federal law as to make ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — State Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat who has emerged as one of California’s most vocal critics of President Donald Trump, will run next year for the congressional seat held by former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

A formal announcement from Wiener is expected next week, the San Francisco Standard ...Read more

In the early days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the U.S. appeared keen to cooperate with Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s authoritarian leader. Special envoy Ric Grenell met Maduro, working with him to coordinate deportation flights to Caracas, a prisoner exchange deal and an agreement allowing Chevron to drill Venezuelan oil.

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President Donald Trump’s executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization” was never really about antifa. It was about building a template for repression. Now, with his latest order on “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” the blueprint is clear: free expression, political dissent ...Read more

President Donald Trump deserves credit for the current ceasefire in the bloody war in Gaza and freeing the remaining hostages.

But the military and human cost of the war was steep, and big questions remain.

Such as: How long will the ceasefire last? Will an Arab-Muslim peace force be sufficient to disarm Hamas and police the strip so Israel’...Read more

WASHINGTON — Nearly a year out from the 2026 midterms, the latest federal fundraising reports show challengers outraising several vulnerable House and Senate members in key races.

Candidates continued to build up their campaign resources between the months of June and September, the filings show. In some cases, high-profile challengers, ...Read more

It’s ironic that some of America’s worst presidents in terms of domestic leadership have succeeded spectacularly on the world stage.

Both before and after his disastrous presidency, Herbert Hoover was a leading architect of European reconstruction following both world wars. Richard Nixon was indeed a crook, but he also broke through decades...Read more

NEW YORK — Andrew Cuomo was the main punching bag at Thursday’s first general election mayoral debate, with Democratic front-runner Zohran Mamdani and Republican candidate Curtis Sliwa repeatedly ganging up on the former governor, knocking him on everything from his reliance on billionaire donors to what Mamdani is spinning as a collegial ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California on Thursday rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools, saying it would undermine “values of free inquiry and academic excellence.”

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. ...Read more