WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered an end to taxpayer subsidies for National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting Service, a long-standing goal of some Republicans who have accused the media outlets of bias.

In an executive order late Thursday, Trump said that government funding of news media is “not only outdated and ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Violating a school dress code. Using a cellphone in class. Mouthing off at a teacher.

There was a time when that kind of behavior, called "willfully defiant" conduct, would get a California public school student suspended.

But over the last decade, a sea change in state discipline policy — one born in part out of an ...Read more

Markets have stabilized somewhat as President Donald Trump’s team negotiates trade deals with various nations and the White House tempers its more extreme instincts on tariffs. The White House could also make additional headway on the economy by moving faster to extend Trump’s 2017 tax cuts.

Tax relief remains a winning issue for ...Read more

A federal judge in Texas ruled that President Donald Trump improperly invoked a 227-year-old wartime law to deport accused Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison, setting up what may become yet another high-stakes battle at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The decision Thursday marks the biggest setback yet for Trump’s effort to unilaterally...Read more

WASHINGTON — Key House Republicans on Thursday discussed ways to direct an expanded state and local tax deduction to those making less than $400,000 as they seek to balance the cost of the tax break with the political needs of several lawmakers from New York and other high-tax states.

The $10,000 cap on SALT, one of the most contentious ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Sen. Bernie Sanders made an appeal to Pennsylvania lawmakers at a May Day rally outside of City Hall on Thursday.

“I’m here in Pennsylvania to tell any member of the Pennsylvania delegation that if they vote for tax breaks for billionaires and cut Medicaid, nutrition, and education, we are going to throw them out of their ...Read more

After losing key legal battles, the Trump administration on Thursday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a federal judge’s decision protecting hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans in Florida and other states from being deported while they sue the government.

The high-stakes appeal by the administration’s solicitor general could have ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump recently suggested he’d rather his administration didn’t use the Signal messaging app. A recent photo suggests his team isn’t getting the message.

A photograph taken by Reuters shows National Security Adviser Mike Waltz — who was later removed from the job and nominated as U.S. ambassador to the U.N...Read more

The Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Thursday voted to block California from enforcing its landmark state rules that would prohibit the sale of new gasoline powered passenger vehicles starting in 2035.

The vote was 246 to 164, with 35 Democrats — many of them in competitive districts in states like Michigan, Ohio, Florida and...Read more

A federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday that the Trump administration cannot use an 18th Century law — meant to be deployed against members of a hostile foreign nation during a declared war or military invasion — as a basis to deport undocumented immigrants in the U.S. who supposedly belong to a violent Venezuelan gang known as Tren de ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives took a trio of votes this week targeting California’s decades-old authority to enforce its own environmental standards, setting the stage for a significant standoff in the U.S. Senate, where Democrats say Republican leaders would have to defy long-standing congressional order to get the measures ...Read more

Former President Joe Biden will appear on ABC morning show “The View” next Thursday.

The 46th President will be joined by former first lady Dr. Jill Biden at 11 a.m. for their first interviews since leaving the White House in January. Moderator Whoopi Goldberg gave viewers an idea of what to expect on Thursday’s show.

“We’ll ask ...Read more

A federal judge in Texas ruled that President Donald Trump improperly invoked a 227-year-old wartime law to deport accused Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison, setting up what may become yet another high-stakes battle at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The decision Thursday marks the biggest setback yet for Trump’s effort to unilaterally...Read more

Credit President Donald Trump with the stunning back-from-the-dead victory of the Canadian Liberal Party. Or put another way, Trump just lost a big election, with (North) Americans rejecting him after just 100 days in office.

Only months ago, it appeared that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s party was on the verge of a knockout by a resurgent ...Read more

As Donald Trump completes the first 100 days of his second term, the consequences of his early health care decisions are already coming into view. Through executive orders and agency directives, his administration has set a clear national agenda: cut costs, shrink government, and reduce federal oversight.

History shows that decisions made ...Read more

In the areas of Haiti controlled by gangs, nothing moves without their getting a cut: not food, not fuel, not even humanitarian aid.

Their extortion racket is so extensive that the country’s finance minister, Alfred Metellus, estimates that gangs, which charge $2,000 to allow passage for a shipping container, are pulling as much as $75 ...Read more

President Donald Trump acknowledged that his sweeping tariff program had risked imperiling him politically, but said he would not rush deals to appease nervous investors during a town hall on Wednesday.

“Yeah,” Trump said when asked by NewsNation host Bill O’Reilly if he agreed that his tariff proposals had a perception problem. “But I...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump on Wednesday wrapped up Day 101 of his second term by declaring the economy in “good shape,” but congressional Democrats have warned the president’s policies are causing “negative” ripple waves that could sink the economy.

“We finally have a president who wants to put our country first,” Trump said at a...Read more