WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump has looked to the marble finishes and hefty price tag of the Federal Reserve headquarters to claim grounds to fire Chair Jerome Powell, with whom he has tussled for years over interest rates. But the extensive use of marble in the building is, at least in part, the result […]
The House gave final approval to President Donald Trump鈥� s request to claw back about $9 billion for public broadcasting and foreign aid early Friday as Republicans intensified their efforts to target institutions and programs they view as bloated or out of step with their agenda. The vote marked the first time in decades that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� From crypto coins to bibles, overseas development deals to an upcoming line of cellphones, President Donald Trump’s family businesses have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars since his election. That flood of money 鈥� from billionaires, foreign governments and cryptocurrency tycoons, often with interests before the federal government 鈥� has permitted […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Republican elected officials are promoting their recently passed tax and spending bill as a win for working Americans, but a new survey shows that Americans broadly see it as a win for the wealthy. About two-thirds of U.S. adults expect the new tax law will help the rich, according to the poll […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� Former Missouri congressman Billy Long will be ceremonially sworn in as commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service on Friday, taking over a beleaguered agency that he once sought to abolish and that has since been beset with steep staffing cuts and leadership turnover. Long won confirmation in a 53-44 Senate vote last […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The Trump administration insists it hasn鈥檛 wavered in its duty to protect the civil rights of America鈥檚 children even as it dismantles the Education Department. Yet its own data shows the agency has resolved far fewer civil rights cases than in past years despite families filing more complaints. The Education Department鈥檚 civil […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� House Republicans were grasping late Thursday to formulate a response to the Trump administration’s handling of records in the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, ultimately putting forward a resolution that carries no legal weight but nodded to the growing demand for greater transparency. The House resolution, which could potentially be voted on […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� The United Nations chief said Thursday that he would have liked more results from his meetings with the rival leaders of divided Cyprus, while the Turkish Cypriot leader said he was 鈥渧ery, very upset鈥� that there was no agreement on opening four new border crossings. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called the meetings […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump is granting two years of regulatory relief to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturers and other polluting industries as he seeks to reverse Biden-era regulations he considers overly burdensome. Trump issued a series of proclamations late Thursday exempting a range of industries that he calls vital to national security. The […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The State Department is pulling back from commenting on or criticizing elections overseas unless there is a clear and compelling U.S. foreign policy interest in doing so. In new guidance issued Thursday to all U.S. embassies and consulates abroad, the department said that those outposts should refrain from issuing statements that invoke […]
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) 鈥� The wife of a Louisiana police chief, who earlier this week was charged for his alleged role in a mass immigration visa fraud scheme, has also been arrested, state police said Thursday. Alison Doyle, a former employee of the small city of Oakdale, has been charged with two counts of […]
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥� A Republican candidate for Georgia governor asked a state ethics body Thursday to determine whether his GOP rival illegally lent $10 million to a campaign committee to evade restrictions under state campaign finance law. Attorney General Chris Carr鈥檚 campaign lawyer asked the Georgia Ethics Commission for a Lt. Gov. Burt Jones was […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The State Department says its destruction of 500 metric tons of emergency food aid that was stored in a warehouse in the Middle East was required because it had expired and that the move will not affect the distribution of similar assistance moving forward. The high energy biscuits 鈥� used primarily to […]
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) 鈥� Five immigrants deported by the United States to the small southern African nation of Eswatini under the Trump administration’s third-country program are in prison, where they will be held in solitary confinement for an undetermined time, a government spokesperson said. Thabile Mdluli, the spokesperson, declined to identify the correctional […]
Attorneys representing migrant children who were abused, neglected or abandoned by a parent asked a federal court on Thursday to restore their deportation protections after the Trump administration ended them. The lawsuit, filed in the Eastern District of New York, was filed on behalf of nine young people and their legal advocates who want a […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump will not recommend a special counsel in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, a White House spokeswoman said Thursday, turning aside calls for further action in an inquiry that has roiled the Justice Department and angered supporters who had been expecting a treasure trove of documents from the case. The rejection […]
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) 鈥� Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors and bypass laws and regulations. The […]
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥� In a matter of months, it has become a regular sight around the country 鈥� immigration enforcement agents detaining people and taking them into custody, often as public anger and outcry unfold around them. But in the process, something has disappeared: the agents’ faces, covered by caps, sunglasses, pulled-up neck gaiters […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� All solar and wind energy projects on federal lands and waters must be personally approved by Interior Secretary Doug Burgum under a new order that authorizes him to conduct 鈥渆levated review鈥� of activities ranging from leases to rights-of-way, construction and operational plans, grants and biological opinions. The enhanced oversight on clean-energy projects […]
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 鈥� North Carolina election officials on Thursday launched an online database of voter registration records for 103,000 people who need to add their driver鈥檚 license numbers or partial Social Security numbers to the state’s records, a move critics worry could disenfranchise some voters. The State Board of Elections began the process in […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) 鈥� Israel has refused to renew visas for the heads of at least three United Nations agencies in Gaza, which the U.N. humanitarian chief blames on their work trying to protect Palestinian civilians in the war-torn territory. Visas for the local leaders of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, known […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� President Donald Trump will head to Scotland next week, visiting areas where his family owns two golf courses and is opening a third, and will meet with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer to discuss trade ahead of an official state visit to Britain in September. Trump’s trip from July 25-29 will see […]
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 鈥� The U.S. Justice Department is recommending an ex-Kentucky police officer convicted of using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid should serve no prison time, an abrupt about-face after spending years prosecuting the former detective. Brett Hankison is the only officer who fired his weapon the night of the March […]
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥� The House is voting on a trio of bills Thursday intended to boost the legitimacy of the cryptocurrency industry with new regulations as President Donald Trump has pushed to make the U.S. the 鈥� crypto capital of the world.鈥� One of the bills, which would regulate a type of cryptocurrency called stablecoins, […]
