NEW YORK — New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said Monday he wants to meet face to face with President Donald Trump to discuss ways the two leaders can work together for the good of the city.

The incoming mayor confirmed that his staff has reached out to the White House to open lines of communication with Trump’s team and that he hopes to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide whether the Trump administration can revive a policy from the president’s first term of denying asylum claims by preventing migrants from crossing the border from Mexico.

The Trump administration asked the justices to review a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a Trump administration appeal that argues migrants have no right to seek asylum at the southern border.

Rather, the government says border agents may block asylum seekers from stepping on to U.S. soil and turn away their claims without a hearing.

The new case seeks to clarify the ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump has endorsed Emilio González for Miami mayor, adding to the roster of major GOP politicians throwing their support behind the former city manager and deepening the partisan divide that has shaped the officially nonpartisan race ahead of the Dec. 9 runoff election.

“It is my Great Honor to endorse Emilio T. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made clear late Sunday that he wants the House to pass legislation this week that would direct the Justice Department to release files related to Jeffrey Epstein, the late sex offender, in a bid to get the issue off the table.

“House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have ...Read more

Great government houses are never still. They grow, age and change with their nations, each alteration leaving a trace of the ideals and anxieties of its time. Architecture is the archive that never stops recording. To tear down a part of it is to edit the story of who we are as a nation.

The recent demolition of the White House’s East Wing �...Read more

President Donald Trump said proposed Senate legislation to sanction countries conducting business with Russia would be “okay with me,” his strongest indication yet that he would support a monthslong push to strangle Moscow’s funding.

“The Republicans are putting in legislation that is very tough sanctioning, etcetera, on any country ...Read more

Chilean communist Jeannette Jara and arch-conservative José Antonio Kast appear to be headed to next month’s presidential runoff that will spotlight starkly divergent views on how to lead one of Latin America’s richest economies.

With 27% of ballots counted in Sunday’s first round, Jara had 26.3% of the vote followed by Kast with 24.7%, ...Read more

Federal officials said Dana Williamson, the Sacramento political powerbroker who was indicted earlier this week, used her position while she was Gov. Gavin Newsom’s chief of staff to pressure state attorneys to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit with one of her former clients, gaming company Activision Blizzard.

According to the 23-count ...Read more

Chileans are voting on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the center-right and ...Read more

Chileans are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the ...Read more

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has drawn headlines with bruising exchanges at the U.S. Capitol and town halls. She has a history of transphobic, racist and xenophobic comments. She has even indicated support for executing prominent Democrats.

But Sunday, the Georgia Republican said she regrets that sort of rhetoric and wants to change course....Read more

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said President Donald Trump is putting her life in danger with a social post calling her a traitor to the Republican Party amid a falling-out centering on government files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

An escalating clash between Trump and Greene — previously a fervent ...Read more

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said President Donald Trump’s proposal to send $2,000 “dividend” payments from tariffs to U.S. citizens would require congressional approval.

“We will see,” Bessent said on Fox News’ "Sunday Morning Futures." “We need legislation for that.”

Trump, who has touted the billions raised in U.S. ...Read more

Chileans are heading to the polls on Sunday to elect a president as one of Latin America’s wealthiest nations faces the unfamiliar challenges of high crime, clandestine migration and a torpid economy.

Voters will choose between eight candidates, with top contenders including ultra-conservative José Antonio Kast, Evelyn Matthei from the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has continued his purchases of municipal and corporate debt this fall, including bonds of companies affected by his administration’s policies.

New disclosures posted Saturday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show that Trump’s purchases of at least $82 million include bonds from Netflix Inc., ...Read more

This January, the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments in the Idaho case to decide whether transgender women and girls should be able to participate in sports that align with their gender identity.

Attorneys in the Little v. Hecox case, filed in 2020 by a transgender student at Boise State University after the Idaho Legislature ...Read more

NEW YORK — Exiled by the elite after his conviction for sexually soliciting a teenage girl and failing to rehabilitate his image as a sexual predator, an embittered Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 believed his old friend Donald Trump had escaped scrutiny.

“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is trump,” Epstein wrote to his ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced he’s withdrawing his support of Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling his former ally a “ranting lunatic” and a “disgrace to our great Republican party” for publicly blasting his handling of various issues, including the Epstein files.

In a wild post shared on his social media platform Friday ...Read more

ATLANTA — The messy public breakup between President Donald Trump and U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene marks the collapse of an alliance that has helped define MAGA politics and could have consequences for Georgia Republicans headed to a volatile midterm.

Once synonymous with Trump’s political movement, the president late Friday broke ties ...Read more