WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a major political victory with its Tuesday passage of a sweeping domestic policy bill, bringing him one step closer to a signature legislative achievement in an administration that has largely governed through executive power.

The Senate’s narrow approval of the $3.3 trillion ...Read more

Both of Alaska's U.S. senators voted Tuesday in favor of a budget reconciliation bill that includes many of President Donald Trump's domestic priorities, including extending tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of Americans.

Most Republican senators — including Alaska Sen. ...Read more

California on Tuesday led a coalition of states in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

Bonta cited news reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted what it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax bill is running into Republican resistance in the House as moderate and ultraconservative GOP lawmakers threaten to defy the president and sink his domestic agenda.

House lawmakers are returning to Washington from a holiday week to vote Wednesday on the Senate version of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass fired back at the Department of Justice on Tuesday, calling its lawsuit against her city part of an “all-out assault on Los Angeles” by President Trump.

Bass said she and other city leaders would not be intimidated by the lawsuit, which seeks to invalidate sanctuary policies that prohibit city resources from...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is not considering delaying his July 9 deadline for higher tariffs to resume and renewed his threat to cut off talks and impose duty rates on several nations, including Japan.

“No, I’m not thinking about the pause,” Trump said Tuesday when asked whether he would extend the negotiating period with trading ...Read more

MIAMI — During an hourslong visit on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top state and federal officials celebrated the opening of the new Florida-run immigration detention center in the Everglades as a major milestone in a joint mass deportation campaign.

Trump depicted the new facility as a harsh solution to deter undocumented immigrants ...Read more

Following a surge in arrests by armed, masked federal immigration agents in unmarked cars, some California Democrats are backing a new bill in Congress that would bar officials from covering their faces while conducting raids.

The No Masks for ICE Act, introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., and co-sponsored by more than a dozen Democrats,...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — State Sen. Sharif Street, Pennsylvania’s Democratic Party chairman, launched his campaign for Congress on Tuesday, pitching himself as the son of a hot dog vendor-turned-mayor who could bring his experience from North Philadelphia to Washington.

U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, 71, who has represented Philadelphia’s Third ...Read more

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday publicly asked President Donald Trump to commit more resources to managing California’s federal lands, accusing the administration of engaging in “political theater” by diverting California National Guard members away from firefighting duties as the state heads into wildfire season.

Newsom has repeatedly ...Read more

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to arrest Zohran Mamdani if he gets in the way of federal immigration enforcement efforts — and also falsely implied that the New York City Democratic mayoral nominee is not in the country legally.

Asked during a press conference in Florida on Tuesday what his response was to Mamdani�...Read more

WASHINGTON — By a single, tiebreaking vote, Senate Republicans on Tuesday approved President Trump’s signature legislation, a major step toward passage of a bill that would expand tax cuts while cutting health care access to millions.

Just 50 Republicans supported the legislation, forcing Vice President JD Vance to cast the deciding vote. ...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California on Tuesday led a coalition of states in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

Bonta cited news reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday pivoted — once again — to illegal immigration by touring a new Florida detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” as his poll numbers on his signature issue have sunk and congressional Democrats continue slamming his mass deportation program.

Asked if the soon-to-open Everglades facility — so ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s conservative majority continued to march American law toward the right during its term that ended last week, in a steady stream of 6-3 decisions in major cases along with a flood of emergency appeals sparked by the Trump administration.

The two dynamics played out over the past months in decisions such as ...Read more

MIAMI — President Donald Trump told reporters before leaving the White House Tuesday for his visit to the new ICE detention center in the Everglades, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” by state officials, that if immigrants housed there find themselves near an aggressive gator, they should run away in a zigzag pattern.

But whether the president ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a final push to prevent passage of President Donald Trump’s signature legislation into law, Elon Musk, once his largest benefactor and later his top White House aide, threw the kitchen sink at his former boss.

The world’s richest man threatened to fund primary challenges against supporters of the bill “if it is the last...Read more

BALTIMORE — It takes a certain kind of warped sensibility to find the light side of cannibalism. But the late musical theater composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim was up to the task.

Some of the pioneering theater maker’s papers are going on view to the public at the Library of Congress starting Tuesday — and among the gems are 40 pages...Read more

President Donald Trump lashed out at billionaire Elon Musk on Tuesday, threatening to investigate his companies and even his immigration status amid their feud over the "Big Beautiful Bill."

With Musk slamming the bill as a debt-exploding “abomination,” Trump warned that the world’s richest man has “a lot to lose” if the feds ...Read more