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  • President Donald Trump arrives on Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, in West Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)Politics

    Trump complains Epstein files are a distraction as flight logs reveal deeper ties and ‘unfounded and false’ claims emerge

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Seung Min Kim, and others
  • Gavin NewsomPolitics

    Trump is starving America, Democrats argue as government shutdown grinds on with SNAP benefits held hostage

    By Jill Colvin, Michelle L. Price, and others
  • Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett speaks at the Reagan Library on September 09, 2025 in Simi Valley, California. Barrett discussed and signed copies of her new book, "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"Economy

    The Supreme Court’s conservatives don’t seem to be buying Trump’s trillion-dollar tariff play

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • Hannah Bowerman, left, a technical designer for Terry Precision Cycling, measures a bike shirt worn by market designer Thea Sousa during a fit session at the company’s headquarters in Burlington, Vt., Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Amanda Swinhart)Politics

    Why this small business that sells cycling clothes for women decided to fight Trump’s tariffs — ‘our backs were up against the wall’

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The Supreme Court Building is seen in Washington on March 28, 2017. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)Law

    Trump asks Supreme Court to back his limits on birthright citizenship and upend how the 14th Amendment’s been interpreted for 125 years

    By Mark Sherman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others
  • FILE – Federal Reserve Board of Governors member Lisa Cook listens during an open meeting of the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve, June 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)Economy

    Fed Governor Lisa Cook claimed 2nd residence as ‘vacation home,’ undercutting fraud claims used by Trump to fire her

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Christopher Rugaber, and others
  • Rebecca Slaughter, commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), listens in a black suit and a necklace during a House Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, July 13, 2023.Law

    Courts once again bend to Trump’s will, upholding his power to fire a FTC commissioner because he thought she disagreed with his ‘administration’s priorities’

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, The Associated Press, and others
  • Donald TrumpEconomy

    Trump suddenly at risk of losing a ‘pillar’ of his trade strategy and having to refund a big chunk of $159 billion from tariff revenues

    By Paul Wiseman, Lindsay Whitehurst, and others
  • FBI agents search civilian cars at a checkpoint near the White House in Washington, D.C.Politics

    DC’s attorney general says Trump’s police takeover is illegal and will ‘wreak operational havoc’ in the capital

    By Lindsay Whitehurst, Ashraf Khalil, and others
  • FILE – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer listens during a briefing, Jan. 27, 2025, in Silver Spring, Md. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Politics

    Supreme Court conservative majority clears way for DHS to deport migrants to South Sudan who have no ties there

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • FILE – The U.S. Social Security Administration office is seen in Mount Prospect, Ill., Oct. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)Politics

    Supreme Court allows DOGE team to access Social Security systems with data on millions of Americans

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • Justice Elena Kagan greets President Donald TrumpPolitics

    Supreme Court tosses Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit accusing U.S. gunmakers of fueling cartel war

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • An oil pumpjack in UtahEnvironment

    The Supreme Court unanimously greenlights a $1.5 billion oil railroad expansion in Utah

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • Militia in South SudanEnvironment

    The Trump administration quietly deported migrants to South Sudan, one of the most violent countries in the world. A judge says he expects they ‘will be treated humanely’

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Jeanine Pirro arrives at Fox Nation’s Patriot Awards, Nov. 16, 2023, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV, File)Politics

    Trump names Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county judge, as interim top federal prosecutor in D.C.

    By Lindsay Whitehurst and The Associated Press