LEXINGTON, Ky. — Kentucky’s highest court ruled Monday that state lawmakers cannot proceed with upcoming impeachment proceedings against Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman.

The opinion and order, issued Monday by the Kentucky Supreme Court and written by Chief Justice Debra Hembree Lambert, voided Goodman’s articles of impeachment,...Read more

President Donald Trump on Monday celebrated the rescue of two downed American airmen as his latest deadline looms for Iran to agree to a ceasefire deal or get blown “back to the Stone Ages” by a new wave of attacks.

Trump hailed the high-stakes operation that plucked the two Air Force pilots out of a remote mountainous area of Iran where ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court sent Stephen Bannon’s contempt of Congress conviction back to lower courts Monday to address the Trump administration’s attempt to wipe out the case against the president’s former adviser.

Bannon had appealed his conviction to the justices after both a federal trial judge and the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — CNN will host a California gubernatorial primary debate May 5.

The two-hour debate will take place at 6 p.m Pacific time at a venue in the Los Angeles area that is yet to be determined. CNN anchors Elex Michaelson and Kaitlan Collins will serve as moderators.

The debate will air live across CNN, CNN International, CNN en Españ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s desire to make the nation’s capital “beautiful again” is a central focus of the White House’s fiscal 2027 budget request for the Interior Department.

The budget, released Friday, calls for $15.9 billion for the department, a $2.3 billion decrease from the fiscal 2026 enacted level. The White ...Read more

When the Trump administration launched the war in Iran a month ago, higher oil and energy prices were surely expected, yet there was a positive feeling that the U.S. economy was strong and vibrant enough to keep running smoothly. Like a family planning a long road trip in a sturdy seven-seat SUV, it believed the economic engine was serviced, ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday evening offered the nation a defense of America’s offensive against Iran, assuring the country the mission will end “very shortly.” Had he opted for inaction like all his predecessors, he said, the “most violent and thuggish regime on Earth would be free to carry out their campaigns of terror, coercion...Read more

With U.S. bombs raining down on Iran and Tehran’s leaders responding by hitting targets across the Persian Gulf and restricting transit through the Strait of Hormuz, it is fair to suggest that the present moment represents a low in relations between the two countries.

But the bad blood isn’t new: The U.S. and Iran have been in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration announced on Saturday the arrests of two Los Angeles-based relatives of a high-ranking member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2020.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that federal authorities detained Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter Friday. Soleimani is the...Read more

LOS ANGELES — House Democrats will hold a pair of "shadow hearings" in California next week on the upcoming midterm elections — part of a broader party effort to defend state voting systems against mounting critiques and threats of intervention from the Trump administration.

Such hearings, similar to those recently held in Los Angeles on ...Read more

Satellite startup Impulse Space is working with Anduril Industries Inc. to develop space-based interceptor technology for President Donald Trump’s planned Golden Dome missile defense shield, according to people familiar with the matter.

The companies have been selected by the Pentagon to develop prototypes of space-based interceptors ...Read more

The downing of a U.S. aircraft and the dayslong search for a missing crew member has pierced the aura of invincibility that President Donald Trump has sought to project as he tries to stave off the increasing political risks of the Iran war he started five weeks ago alongside Israel.

Trump has repeatedly claimed dominance over Iranian airspace ...Read more

Don Lemon sees no reason he can’t someday be elected to serve as the President of the United States.

The former CNN host told “Pod Save America” host Alex Wagner he’d consider seeking public office — maybe even the nation’s highest office — in the right situation. Lemon said that’s a question he often encounters.

On the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday issued a memo ordering that the remaining Department of Homeland Security employees be paid during a record-long partial government shutdown affecting the agency.

“I hereby direct the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to use...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is singling out the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority as a cautionary tale about Democratic mismanagement of publicly funded programs, using it to justify proposed cuts to homeless assistance services across the country.

Trump’s proposed budget for the next fiscal year, released Friday, asks ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled a nearly $2.2 trillion spending request for fiscal 2027 on Friday that features an enormous defense boost, posing a major challenge to GOP leaders as they seek an election-year spending deal with Democrats.

National security spending would soar to $1.5 trillion in the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1...Read more