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

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday announced a new approach by the administration to boost in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments, as well as a deal to lower the price of a common fertility drug.

Trump said EMD Serono, which manufactures the widely used fertility drug Gonal-F, has entered into a “most favored ...Read more

NEW YORK — New York City’s public schools are suing the Trump administration after it slashed tens of millions of federal dollars from local magnet programs, as part of a campaign against policies for transgender students, officials announced Thursday.

The lawsuit, filed the day before in Manhattan Federal Court, marked a major escalation ...Read more

MIAMI — Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier’s office is jumping in to defend Miami Dade College in what he’s calling a “bogus lawsuit,” after a judge temporarily blocked the school from transferring the deed for prime downtown land the state plans to give Donald Trump’s presidential library foundation.

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WASHINGTON — An independent senator who caucuses with Democrats said Senate Democrats are giving the White House too much power in the fight to reopen the federal government — particularly given President Donald Trump’s admitted lack of urgency about ending the shutdown.

Asked Tuesday whether he feels any urgency to strike a deal with ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The University of Southern California had rejected the controversial education compact the Trump administration offered it and eight other schools.

USC interim President Beong-Soo Kim said in a statement that he had sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Education turning down the Trump offer, which would give priority funding ...Read more

President Donald Trump has unveiled proposals for a new arch to be built across the Potomac River from the Lincoln Memorial as he continues to burnish his legacy as a master builder.

The ceremonial project, which some have dubbed the Arc de Trump because it resembles the famed Arc de Triomphe in Paris, would rise at the foot of the bridge that ...Read more

Back-to-school season looked starkly different for my family this year. Instead of joyfully stuffing backpacks, dressing up for school days to come and taking toothy front-porch photos, my spouse and I found ourselves having a serious discussion: How would we get our kids to school safely as federal agents and the National Guard roamed the ...Read more