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Joe Raedle/Getty Images, FILE Miami elections could proceed this year as originally planned, after a judge ruled that city officials could not push elections back to 2026 without voter approval. The ruling comes after the [Read More…]

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump and the White House are already working behind the scenes on next year’s midterm elections, where Trump will play a heavy role in recruiting, fundraising [Read More…]

Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The federal judge now overseeing the Justice Department’s request to unseal grand jury records from Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s criminal case said in a new [Read More…]

Hulton Archive/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The daughter of Martin Luther King Jr. said the White House should make public the files on financier-turned-sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the Trump administration released thousands of files [Read More…]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) –Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sometime in the “coming days.” “President [Read More…]

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA). Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Another week, another stalemate in the House of Representatives over releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files. The GOP-led Rules Committee — which was working on [Read More…]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) –Attorney General Pam Bondi said Monday that Deputy Attorney Todd Blanche will meet with Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate of deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, sometime in the “coming [Read More…]

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A coalition of school districts — including Alaska’s largest school district — and advocacy groups has sued President Donald Trump’s administration over the $6 billion funding freeze to congressionally appropriated [Read More…]

Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Monday announced the release of 230,000 files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. “Today, after nearly 60 years of [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump has threatened the Washington Commanders football team, stating he will not facilitate a deal for the team’s new stadium to be built in Washington, D.C., if it [Read More…]

Julia Cherner/ABC News (LOS ANGELES) — As President Donald Trump marks six months into his second term, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass told ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz that the administration’s immigration crackdown [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Leading voices in President Donald Trump’s MAGA base who had been critical for days of the president and administration’s handling of the Epstein files are now rallying to Trump’s defense [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s tariffs tanked markets and unleashed recession forecasts when the president unveiled sweeping levies little more than 100 days ago. Now, as Trump continues to tout the policy, [Read More…]

Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Action memos on pro-Palestinian protesters sent by government officials to Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the authority he used to strip their visas had never before been [Read More…]

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department formally requested Friday the unsealing of grand jury records tied to federal investigations into Jeffrey Epstein, according to a court filing. President Donald Trump announced [Read More…]

Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump on Friday suggested there is no “smoking gun” in the Jeffrey Epstein files as he seeks to downplay a case that’s long animated his MAGA [Read More…]

William Campbell/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration has unfrozen over a billion dollars for critical after-school and summer education programming, a senior administration official told ABC News. “The programmatic review is over for 21st [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Facing uproar from his MAGA base over the Jeffrey Epstein files, President Donald Trump has called for Attorney General Pam Bondi “to produce any and all pertinent Grand Jury testimony, [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Annie Tomasini on Friday became the third Biden administration official to plead the Fifth Amendment in a House panel’s investigation into former President Joe Biden’s mental fitness and use of [Read More…]

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump is slated Friday to sign the first major federal law governing cryptocurrency, a business that Trump’s family have begun forging strong ties to and have promoted in [Read More…]