WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court said Wednesday that only the Government Accountability Office can sue over the Trump administration’s funding freezes — not people impacted by the funding cuts.

The 2-1 decision from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit undid a lower court ruling requiring the Trump ...Read more

President Donald Trump rewrote the script on how Sylvester Stallone came to play “Rocky” when he told a Kennedy Center crowd on Wednesday that film executives insisted the aspiring actor play the title character in the 1976 film.

For nearly 50 years, its been known that Stallone campaigned to play Rocky Balboa as producers did everything in...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he would meet with House and Senate Democratic leaders ahead of a government funding deadline but cast doubt on a deal to avoid a federal shutdown.

Trump has not met with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries or Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, both of New York, since returning ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced he would host the Kennedy Center Honors, which will go to actor Sylvester Stallone, rock band Kiss and singer Gloria Gaynor among others during the first year of his chairmanship of Washington, DC’s main performing arts center.

The president also vowed to “fully renovate” the John F. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration can cut billions of dollars in foreign assistance funds approved by Congress for this year, a U.S. appeals court ruled.

In a 2-1 decision on Wednesday, the appellate panel reversed a Washington federal judge who found that U.S. officials were violating the Constitution’s separation of powers principles ...Read more

Bucking tradition once again, President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced his picks for Kennedy Center Honors and said he will host the ceremony himself — a first for any president. Actor and filmmaker Sylvester Stallone, glam rock band Kiss, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country music star George Strait and English actor and comedian Michael ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. — If you travel along Interstate 91 during rush hour in Hartford on any given weekday you may notice a smiling face waving to you above on the pedestrian overpass bridge along with American flags, signs and messages to alert motorists below that “things are not normal.”

The Hartford Visibility Brigade, a group of area ...Read more

Not caring about the U.S. Constitution is a regular refrain for President Donald Trump, who now wants to exclude undocumented people from the 2030 census count — a nonstarter as much else is in this bizarro world we now inhabit, promulgated via a screed on his Truth Social platform — is both a terrible idea and certainly a rehash.

Trump ...Read more

Remember “I alone can fix it”? President Donald Trump, who made that laughable statement in his 2016 convention acceptance speech, is now testing the theory in Washington.

Trump and his party have been threatening a D.C. takeover for years and made it part of the Republican platform last year. But it was all just empty talk and random ...Read more

President Donald Trump using an obscure emergency provision in federal law pertaining to Washington, D.C. to attempt to take full control over the capital’s local police force is not responding to any “emergency,” but just a pure power grab.

Coming a day after he’d sent federal agents to patrol the streets and moved to deploy the ...Read more

President Trump struck an unusual deal with Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices that allows the companies to sell certain chips to China in exchange for giving the U.S. government a 15% cut of those sales.

But the unprecedented agreement also has raised concerns from politicians and legal experts over whether the deal is legal and would pose a ...Read more

Americans are divided over President Donald Trump’s decision to take control of local law enforcement and activate the military in the nation’s capital, according to new polling.

On Aug. 11, Trump announced that his administration would federalize the Metropolitan Police Department under the Home Rule Act, a 1973 law that grants the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he is weighing a lawsuit against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the renovation of the central bank’s headquarters, a project whose cost overruns have drawn scrutiny.

Trump in a social media post on Tuesday resumed his criticism of the Fed chair over the central bank’s decision to hold ...Read more

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and city religious leaders on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s plan to effectively take over local law enforcement in Washington, D.C., as rooted in racism and fearmongering. And although Trump has not expressed interest in taking a similar approach to combating crime in Philadelphia, any ...Read more

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and city religious leaders on Tuesday decried President Donald Trump’s plan to effectively take over local law enforcement in Washington, D.C., as rooted in racism and fearmongering. And although Trump has not expressed interest in taking a similar approach to combating crime in Philadelphia, any ...Read more

Harvard University has signaled it’s willing to pay $500 million for workforce training programs as part of a settlement with the White House to restore more than $2 billion in frozen federal funds, according to a person familiar with the negotiations.

The administration is open to Harvard and other colleges paying penalties in the form of ...Read more

WASHINGTON — As Gov. Gavin Newsom and the University of California consider whether to sue the Trump administration to restore more than half a billion dollars in federal grants to UCLA, the White House on Tuesday had a terse response.

“Bring it on, Gavin,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt when asked about Newsom’s ...Read more

The tariffs President Donald Trump has imposed and threatened have not sent most prices up wildly — at least not yet — according to a new report from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“The effects of U.S. tariffs continue to filter through the economy, but not as fast as expected earlier,” said Sung Won Sohn, president of SS ...Read more

EJ Antoni, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has suggested suspending the agency’s monthly jobs reports and publishing only quarterly numbers until issues with data collection are corrected.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Aug. 4, before Trump nominated him for the position, Antoni said ...Read more