A federal judge said the Trump administration can move ahead with a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, providing a setback for U.S. technology companies that rely on hiring skilled foreign workers.

U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell said in a ruling Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s move to radically increase the cost of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Chinese military is in the midst of a “historic military buildup” that has made the U.S. homeland “increasingly vulnerable,” according to the latest edition of a Pentagon report on the capabilities of the Chinese military, presenting a challenge to President Donald Trump’s plans for new limitations on U.S., Chinese ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tips provided to federal investigators about Donald Trump's alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's schemes with young women and girls are "sensationalist" and "untrue," the Justice Department said on Tuesday, after a new tranche of files released from the probe featured multiple references to the president.

The documents ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. — The city of Clearwater said it will abide with a Georgia appeals court, which struck down an ordinance that created distance between protesters and patients at a reproductive health care clinic.

In a Dec. 4 opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit said a vehicle buffer zone that the City Council unanimously ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Tuesday and said he did not have legal authority to deploy the National Guard in Chicago to protect federal immigration agents.

Acting on a 6-3 vote, the justices denied Trump's appeal and upheld orders from a federal district judge and the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of ...Read more

MONTEREY — A bipartisan piece of legislation that aims to crack down on people who steal packages from others’ homes has been reintroduced by Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Young Kim of California.

The Maximizing Agency Integration on Letter (MAIL) Theft Act addresses the nationwide increase in mail theft or “porch piracy,” by requiring cross-...Read more

Donald Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein were back in focus Tuesday following the latest document dump by the Justice Department, which included a host of references to the president and communications between prosecutors remarking he’d traveled on the serial sex offender’s plane “many more times” than believed.

The remark was made in ...Read more

CHICAGO — The conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday denied a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to allow the Republican president to deploy National Guard troops to Illinois while a lower court’s restraining order is appealed.

The high court’s order represents a victory so far for Gov. JB Pritzker and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tips provided to federal investigators about President Donald Trump’s alleged involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s schemes with young women and girls are “sensationalist” and “untrue,” the Justice Department said on Tuesday, after a new tranche of files released from the probe featured multiple references to the president...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled against President Donald Trump on Tuesday and said he did not have legal authority to deploy the National Guard in Chicago to protect federal immigration agents.

Acting on a 6-3 vote, the justices denied Trump's appeal and upheld orders from a federal district judge and the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ...Read more

The Republican-controlled Congress has been very good to most of corporate America this year. Foremost among the boons is a $4 trillion tax cut package that extended and added generous breaks for businesses large and small.

But it hasn’t been all good news for U.S. companies and some industries have benefited more than others. The legislative...Read more

There’s not enough time or space to react to every Donald Trump rant that’s so offensive coming from a president of the United States.

What he said about the Reiner murders demands discussion — and not just because it was so vile. It confirms much of what’s deplorable in Trump.

Without waiting to hear who might have killed Rob Reiner ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Since taking office, Gov. Ron DeSantis has taken two different approaches when a member of Congress or the Florida Legislature resigns or dies.

Sometimes he acts speedily to call a special election to fill the vacancy and get a replacement in office quickly, especially if it’s a district in which voters are likely to...Read more

California joined 20 other states and the District of Columbia on Monday in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau from being defunded and closed by the Trump administration.

The legal action filed in U.S. District Court in Eugene, Ore. by the Democratic attorneys general accuses Acting Director Russell...Read more

A U.S. House committee is expanding its investigation into fraud in Minnesota social services programs with new requests for testimony and briefings from state and federal officials.

Rep. James Comer, the Republican chair of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, announced earlier in December that the committee would be looking into “widespread ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he’ll meet next week with executives from major U.S. defense contractors in a bid to force them to spend more money on weapons development, not stock buybacks, executive pay and dividends.

“We make the best equipment in the world but they don’t make them fast enough,” Trump said. “We don...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is naming a new class of ships after himself as part of his so-called Golden Fleet vision for revamping the Navy.

In a speech at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida on Monday, Trump said the Navy will build two ships in a new class of what he described as “battleships” that he is calling the “Trump class...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced the Navy will build a new “Trump-class” battleship as part of the White House push to modernize a fleet that’s been hobbled by years of cost overruns and delays.

A poster displayed at the event at Trump’s gilded Mar-a-Lago estate featured an artist’s rendering of a sleek-looking warship ...Read more

Mike Lindell is thanking President Donald Trump for shouting out his bid for governor of Minnesota, but the businessman said on Dec. 22 that he didn’t view it as an endorsement in the state’s competitive Republican contest.

Lindell is just one in a crowded field of Republicans who are seeking to challenge DFL Gov. Tim Walz next year, and ...Read more