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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he was “withdrawing my support and Endorsement” of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, in an escalating feud with a once stalwart conservative ally.

“I understand that wonderful, Conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her District of Georgia, that they ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he had made “progress” on Venezuela in regard to halting the flow of drugs amid speculation that his administration is preparing to strike targets in the country.

Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One Friday he had “sort of made up my mind” when asked if he had come to a decision on next ...Read more

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin acknowledged Friday that his vote, along with a small number of Democrats, to back a Republican-led measure ending the nation’s longest government shutdown last week could exacerbate divisions between party progressives and moderates.

But the chamber’s No. 2 Democrat and Illinois retiring senior senator also said the ...Read more

DENVER — Federal officials have formally requested that former Colorado county clerk Tina Peters be transferred to federal custody, the latest in a monthslong effort by the Trump administration to free the election conspiracy theorist from a state prison cell.

Officials with the Federal Bureau of Prisons sent a letter about Peters to Colorado...Read more

WASHINGTON — A Senate plan to take up a major fiscal 2026 appropriations package on the floor next week is looking increasingly like a long shot.

After finally bringing a 43-day partial government shutdown to an end, Senate leaders were eager to get going on long-delayed appropriations work for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

Majority ...Read more