LOS ANGELES — Over the weekend, President Donald Trump shared a doctored AI image of himself as Lt. Col. Bill Kilgore, the crazed cavalry commander in the 1979 Vietnam War film, "Apocalypse Now," crouched in a black Stetson hat in front of a flaming Chicago skyline abuzz with black helicopters.

"'I love the smell of deportations in the ...Read more

The Trump administration believes — correctly — that the existing prescription drug supply chain endangers our national security, especially when global demand surges as it did during the COVID-19 pandemic.

China, a military adversary under a communist regime, plays a key role in 90% of generic antibiotics and 8% of all active ...Read more

Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is asking the US Supreme Court to review a Connecticut court’s nearly $1.4 billion judgment against him and Infowars stemming from his false claims that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was a hoax.

The default judgment entered against Jones and his Infowars parent company in 2022 after “...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed U.S. immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally based on little more than their working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

In a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal and lifted a Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Voters in Virginia’s 11th District will pick their next member of Congress on Tuesday, and the seat appears poised to remain in Democratic hands.

Fairfax County Supervisor James Walkinshaw faces off against Republican Stewart Whitson, an Army veteran and former FBI official, in the special election to succeed the late ...Read more

BOSTON — Voters will head to the polls in Boston Tuesday to cast their ballots in a closely watched preliminary election, which features mayoral and city council races and is the first test for the city after last fall’s disastrous ballot shortage.

The City of Boston will manage the preliminary election, but with increased oversight from ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court on Monday upheld the $83.3 million judgment against President Trump for defaming writer E. Jean Carroll after she accused him of rape during his first term based on the “extraordinary and egregious” facts of the case.

In a 70-page, unsigned decision, three justices for the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ...Read more

Congressional Democrats Monday released a copy of a sexually suggestive letter ostensibly written by President Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein to mark the pedophile’s 50th birthday, a missive Trump claimed he never wrote when it was first revealed by the Wall Street Journal.

The chummy letter, which was included in a batch of documents handed...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts let President Donald Trump temporarily oust a Democratic member of the Federal Trade Commission, signaling that the Supreme Court is likely to back Trump’s bid to assert control over the independent agency.

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the FTC’s only Democrat, had briefly returned to her job after ...Read more

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee on Monday released the image of a note addressed from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein in a book for the late-financier’s 50th birthday — the subject of a lawsuit the president filed in July against the Wall Street Journal.

The note, which Democrats posted on X, includes a drawing in the shape of a ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — California’s top law enforcement official has weighed in on Monday‘s controversial U.S. Supreme Court ruling on immigration enforcement.

Attorney General Rob Bonta condemned the decision, which clears the way for immigration agents to stop and question people they suspect of being in the U.S. illegally based solely on ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump weighed in Monday on the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Iryna Zarutska, 23, died Aug. 22 after being stabbed in the throat by a stranger who was riding behind her on the Lynx Blue Line in Charlotte. Police identified the suspect in her death as 35-year-old Decarlos Brown...Read more

DENVER — Denver Public Schools has not complied with the Trump administration’s request that the district convert all multi-stall, all-gender bathrooms in its schools into separate facilities for female and male students by the agency’s Monday deadline.

In a five-page response dated Sunday, DPS general counsel Kristin Bailey accused the U...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow the government to not make about $4 billion in foreign aid payments, which the administration has told Congress it will unilaterally cancel under a 1974 budget law.

The U.S. asked the justices to temporarily halt a portion of a lower court ruling in a court ...Read more

NEW YORK — A New York appeals court on Monday ruled that the $83.3 million awarded to E. Jean Carroll for Donald Trump’s defamatory comments about her after she accused him of rape was warranted, given the “extraordinary and egregious” facts of the case.

In a 70-page, unsigned decision upholding the massive judgment, three justices for ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday for the Trump administration and agreed U.S. immigration agents may stop and detain anyone they suspect is in the U.S. illegally based on little more than working at a car wash, speaking Spanish or having brown skin.

In a 6-3 vote, the justices granted an emergency appeal and lifted a Los Angeles ...Read more

GAINESVILLE, Ga. — When voters elected U.S. Rep. Andrew Clyde in 2020 it was in part because his anti-establishment message resonated in his deeply conservative district.

But now some Republicans in northeast Georgia’s 9th Congressional District say Clyde is too much of an outsider, openly challenging GOP leaders like President Donald Trump...Read more

WASHINGTON — The annual defense policy bills dominate the House and Senate floor agenda this week, with Senate Republicans also looking to speed up the confirmation of President Donald Trump’s nominees.

The Senate’s goal is to finish up its version of the fiscal 2026 defense authorization bill by the end of the week. Senate Armed Services...Read more

With tariffs fueling uncertainty in the wine industry, winemakers across California are scrambling to figure out how to pay for abrupt increases in costs.

“It’s just a challenge, because obviously the grapes are all grown here in California and processed here and made in California, but everything around it is not,” said Joel Peterson, ...Read more