Nation and World Politics
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Trump marks one-year anniversary of assassination attempt at the FIFA Club World Cup final
Jul 13, 2025 3:55 pm - EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J — President Donald Trump on Sunday marked the one-year anniversary of a failed attempt on his life, joining family and close advisers at the FIFA Clu...
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Justice Dept. fires more prosecutors, support staff involved in Trump prosecutions, AP sources say
Jul 12, 2025 8:54 pm - WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has fired additional lawyers and support staff who worked on special counsel Jack Smith's prosecutions of President Donald Trump, acco...
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Lawmakers visit ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ after being blocked
Jul 12, 2025 6:11 pm - OCHOPEE, Fla. — Democratic lawmakers condemned Florida's new Everglades immigration detention center after a state-arranged visit Saturday, describing a crowded, unsanita...
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Trump says he’s considering ‘taking away’ Rosie O’Donnell’s US citizenship
Jul 12, 2025 5:17 pm - WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says he is considering “taking away” the U.S. citizenship of a longtime rival, actor and comedian Rosie O’Donnell, despite a decades-o...
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Trump announces 30% tariffs against EU, Mexico to begin Aug. 1, rattling major US trading partners
Jul 12, 2025 2:44 pm - BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump on Saturday announced he's levying tariffs of 30% against the European Union and Mexico starting Aug. 1, a move that could...
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Trump says he wants to deport ‘the worst of the worst.’ Government data tells another story
Jul 12, 2025 2:27 pm - President Donald Trump has pledged to deport “the worst of the worst.” He frequently speaks at public appearances about the countless “dangerous criminals” — among them m...
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Trump’s tax law includes a $40,000 SALT cap. Here’s who qualifies.
Jul 12, 2025 1:23 pm - The new GOP tax law quadruples how much people can deduct in state and local taxes off their federal returns, offering significant relief to high earners in many Democratic-led states by partially undoing a big change in President Donald Trump’s 2017 law.
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He seeded clouds over Texas. Then came the conspiracy theories.
Jul 12, 2025 6:00 am - Augustus Doricko knew when he founded a cloud-seeding start-up in 2023 that he’d have to contend with misunderstandings and conspiracy theories surrounding the technology. Still, he wasn’t quite prepared for the sheer volume of online fury he has faced in the wake of the catastrophic Texas floods that have killed more than 100 people and nearly twice that many missing.
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David Gergen, consummate political insider, dies at 83Jul 11, 2025 9:51 pm - David R. Gergen, who helped craft and protect the image of four presidents as a senior White House communications adviser and who traveled the consummate political inside...
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Detained immigrants at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ say there are worms in food and wastewater on the floor
Jul 11, 2025 7:18 pm - MIAMI — At the new Everglades immigration detention center that officials have dubbed “ Alligator Alcatraz,” people held there say worms turn up in the food. Toilets don'...