
US Treasury secretary says trade war with China is not 'sustainable'
Read full article: US Treasury secretary says trade war with China is not 'sustainable'U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Tuesday speech that the ongoing tariffs showdown with China is unsustainable and expects a โde-escalationโ in the trade war between the worldโs two largest economies.

George Santos defends social media tirade to federal judge set to sentence him for fraud
Read full article: George Santos defends social media tirade to federal judge set to sentence him for fraudGeorge Santos is defending his recent social media tirade to a federal judge who will sentencing the disgraced former congressman later this week on fraud charges.

Hegseth pulled airstrike info from secure military channel for Signal posts
Read full article: Hegseth pulled airstrike info from secure military channel for Signal postsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending himself against a second assertion that he shared classified material through an unapproved and unsecured network.

DC weighs layoffs and other cuts as House Republicans leave the city budget in limbo
Read full article: DC weighs layoffs and other cuts as House Republicans leave the city budget in limboWashington Mayor Muriel Bowser and the District of Columbia Council are scrambling to address a financial crisis created when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives recessed without voting to fix a hole in the city budget.

Vance calls for greater ties with India, hails progress on trade talks
Read full article: Vance calls for greater ties with India, hails progress on trade talksU.S. Vice President JD Vance has called for greater collaboration with India in sectors such as defense, energy and technology.

The Latest: Trump allies turn on one another as controversies accumulate
Read full article: The Latest: Trump allies turn on one another as controversies accumulateThe infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trumpโs first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national security and questions of personal loyalty.

Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schools
Read full article: Supreme Court signals support for Maryland parents who object to LGBTQ books in public schoolsThe Supreme Courtโs conservative majority is signaling support for the religious rights of Maryland parents who want to remove their children from elementary school classes using storybooks with LGBTQ characters.

Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens joins Mallory McMorrow and Abdul El-Sayed in primary
Read full article: Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens joins Mallory McMorrow and Abdul El-Sayed in primaryU.S. Rep. Haley Stevens has launched her U.S. Senate campaign in Michigan in what will undoubtedly be an expensive and competitive race.

Immigrants in the US unlawfully can drive legally in 19 states. Now some states want to stop them
Read full article: Immigrants in the US unlawfully can drive legally in 19 states. Now some states want to stop themA growing number of Republican-led states are taking aim at driver's licenses issued by other states to people in the U.S. illegally.

Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grants
Read full article: Harvard sues Trump administration to stop the freeze of more than $2 billion in grantsHarvard University has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after recently announcing it would defy the Trump administrationโs demands to limit activism on campus.

Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department says
Read full article: Student loans in default to be referred to debt collection, Education Department saysThe Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

Wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez convicted in bribery scheme
Read full article: Wife of former US Sen. Bob Menendez convicted in bribery schemeThe wife of former U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has been convicted of charges that she teamed up with the New Jersey Democrat to accept bribes of cash, gold bars and a luxury car.

US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Obamacare's preventive care coverage mandate
Read full article: US Supreme Court appears likely to uphold Obamacare's preventive care coverage mandateThe Supreme Court seems likely to uphold a key preventive care provision of the Affordable Care Act.

White House voices support for Hegseth as a new Signal chat revelation stirs fresh Pentagon turmoil
Read full article: White House voices support for Hegseth as a new Signal chat revelation stirs fresh Pentagon turmoilThe White House has expressed support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following media reports that he shared sensitive military details in another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother.

Trump renews attack on Federal Reserve Chair Powell, Dow Jones tumbles 1,000 points
Read full article: Trump renews attack on Federal Reserve Chair Powell, Dow Jones tumbles 1,000 pointsPresident Donald Trump is repeating his attacks against the chair of the Federal Reserve, demanding that the central bank lower its key interest rate to boost the economy.

US Supreme Court won't revive a Minnesota ban on gun-carry permits for young adults
Read full article: US Supreme Court won't revive a Minnesota ban on gun-carry permits for young adultsThe Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from Minnesota asking to revive the stateโs ban on gun-carry permits for young adults.

The Latest: Harvard sues Trump administration to stop its grants freeze
Read full article: The Latest: Harvard sues Trump administration to stop its grants freezeHarvard University announced Monday that it was suing to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administrationโs demands to limit activism on campus.

Trump says gray skies for the White House Easter egg roll mean no worries about sunburn
Read full article: Trump says gray skies for the White House Easter egg roll mean no worries about sunburnPresident Donald Trump says overcast weather for the annual White House Easter egg roll means no one has to worry about getting sunburned.

More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Abrego Garcia's behalf
Read full article: More Democratic lawmakers are visiting El Salvador on Abrego Garcia's behalfFour House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.

China to retaliate with sanctions on US officials, NGO leaders over Hong Kong issues
Read full article: China to retaliate with sanctions on US officials, NGO leaders over Hong Kong issuesChina will sanction U.S. officials, lawmakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations who Chinese officials say have performed poorly on Hong Kong issues in a retaliatory move against Washington.

Trump's transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using 'road diets' to slow speeders
Read full article: Trump's transportation officials buck a long-held practice of using 'road diets' to slow speedersRemoving lanes to slow down speeding drivers is a long-embraced strategy for improving safety on city streets.

60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress acts
Read full article: 60,000 Americans to lose their rental assistance and risk eviction unless Congress actsThe U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says that rental assistance for some 60,000 Americans fleeing homelessness or domestic violence will run out of money by the end of next year.

Google faces off with US government in attempt to break up company in search monopoly case
Read full article: Google faces off with US government in attempt to break up company in search monopoly caseGoogle on Monday began confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into a ruthless monopoly.

Hegseth had a second Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reports
Read full article: Hegseth had a second Signal chat where he shared details of Yemen strike, New York Times reportsDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth created another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother where he shared similar details of a March military airstrike against Yemenโs Houthi militants that were sent in another chain with top Trump administration leaders.

Anti-Trump resistance sees another leader in Van Hollen as Democrats' leadership carousel turns
Read full article: Anti-Trump resistance sees another leader in Van Hollen as Democrats' leadership carousel turnsChris Van Hollen has emerged, for now, as a leading figure in the resistance to President Donald Trump.

Toll on Manhattan drivers remains in effect, despite Trumpโs Easter Sunday deadline
Read full article: Toll on Manhattan drivers remains in effect, despite Trumpโs Easter Sunday deadlineManhattanโs congestion toll remains in effect, despite an Easter deadline from President Donald Trumpโs administration to halt the first-in-the-nation fee.

Alito's dissent in deportation case says court rushed to block Trump with middle-of-the night order
Read full article: Alito's dissent in deportation case says court rushed to block Trump with middle-of-the night orderJustice Samuel Alito has written a sharp dissent that castigates the seven-member majority for blocking the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law.

This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGEโs cuts is everywhere
Read full article: This Midwestern city has long been a federal hub. The pain from DOGEโs cuts is everywhereThe Kansas City, Missouri, metropolitan area has long been a regional hub for the federal government, and the pain from the Trump administration's cuts can be seen everywhere.

Countries shore up their digital defenses as global tensions raise the threat of cyberwarfare
Read full article: Countries shore up their digital defenses as global tensions raise the threat of cyberwarfareCountries around the world are tightening their cyberdefenses as global tensions rise.

Marijuana holiday 4/20 coincides with Easter and Passover this year. Here's what to know
Read full article: Marijuana holiday 4/20 coincides with Easter and Passover this year. Here's what to knowMarijuana cultureโs high holiday known as 4/20 fell this year on Easter, as well as the last day of Passover.

Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry 'baseless attacks'
Read full article: Three Hegseth aides ousted in leak investigation decry 'baseless attacks'Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are decrying what they called โbaseless attacksโ after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks.

Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the country
Read full article: Anti-Trump protesters rally in New York, Washington and elsewhere across the countryProtests against President Donald Trumpโs administration are once again taking place in communities across the U.S. Organizers of Saturdayโs events say theyโre protesting against what they view as the Republican administrationโs constitutional and civil rights violations.

Takeaways from APโs report on pardoned Jan. 6 rioters being embraced in Republican politics
Read full article: Takeaways from APโs report on pardoned Jan. 6 rioters being embraced in Republican politicsPresident Donald Trump pardoned about 1,500 Capitol rioters on his first day in office, and now some of those involved in the Jan. 6 attack are getting a platform to tell their version of events.

Some Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump are now embraced as heroes and candidates for office
Read full article: Some Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump are now embraced as heroes and candidates for officeSome of the rioters who tried to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are now considering running for office after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to intervene
Read full article: A prince and knight fall in love and the Supreme Court is asked to interveneSome parents in a suburban Maryland county want to pull their children from elementary school classes that use books featuring LGBTQ characters.

250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacy
Read full article: 250 years after America went to war for independence, a divided nation battles over its legacyTens of thousands of people flocked to Lexington, Massachusetts, to witness a reenactment of how the American Revolution began 250 years ago.

How Trump backed away from promising to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours
Read full article: How Trump backed away from promising to end the Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hoursDuring his campaign, Donald Trump said repeatedly that he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine โin 24 hoursโ upon taking office.

Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performance
Read full article: Judge orders Trump administration to tell fired workers they were not let go for poor performanceA U.S. district judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to provide probationary workers fired en masse a written statement saying they were not terminated for poor performance.

Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting some transgender Americans
Read full article: Judge blocks Trump administration from passport changes affecting some transgender AmericansA federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of โXโ marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to Vermont
Read full article: Judge says detained Tufts student must be transferred from Louisiana to VermontA federal judge has ordered that a Tufts University student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities in March be brought to Vermont.

Trump official urges criminal probe of New York attorney general, who calls request 'retaliation'
Read full article: Trump official urges criminal probe of New York attorney general, who calls request 'retaliation'A top housing official in the Trump administration has asked the U.S. Justice Department to investigate New York Attorney General Letitia James over a real estate transaction.

IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the job
Read full article: IRS whistleblower on Hunter Biden is out as acting commissioner just days after getting the jobAn IRS agent who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden's taxes and was promoted to be acting IRS commissioner is out of the job just days after he got it.