INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rallied Democrats against redistricting in his home state of Indiana Thursday as pressure grows on Republican state lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional districts. Buttigieg — a contender to represent Democrats aiming to win back the presidency in 2028 — was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, […]
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Native American children and families in California could receive culturally appropriate support services aimed at preventing foster care placements under a bipartisan proposal. passed the California Legislature last week. Assembly Bill 1378, which was approved by the state’s legislature last week, would amend state law to let tribes and tribal organizations […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The State Department on Thursday announced it will refocus its foreign health assistance strategy around multiyear bilateral deals with recipient countries, making aid dependent on negotiations that officials say will help reduce waste and advance American priorities. “We must keep what is good about our health foreign assistance programs while rapidly […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Thursday suggested that he is working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, four years after America’s chaotic withdrawal from the country left the base in the Taliban’s hands. Trump floated the idea during a press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Three months after his Mahmoud Khalil is facing the growing threat of deportation for his role in campus protests against Israel. In court documents made public Wednesday, an immigration judge in Louisiana ruled that Khalil should be deported for failing to disclose information on his green card application. The decision marked […]
President Donald Trump’s contentious relationship with U.S. news organizations has led to a host of legal battles and disputes, the latest of which is ABC’s indefinite suspension of the “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” show Wednesday. Trump celebrated the suspension of Kimmel, a veteran late-night comic and frequent critic of the president and his policies. Kimmel’s monologue […]
ATLANTA (AP) — A federal watchdog reported Thursday on a Georgia Medicaid program that requires able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to be eligible for health care, a model the Trump administration is preparing to roll out nationwide. A key finding of the U.S. Government Accountability Office is that the Georgia Pathways program has spent […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser on Thursday defended her policies to Congress as President Donald Trump’s law enforcement surge is in its second month and lawmakers act to further limit the city’s authority. She was invited to the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to answer questions about crime in the nation’s […]
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The official who steered the U.N.’s diplomacy in Syria for nearly seven turbulent years announced Thursday that he is resigning. Geir Pedersen, who has held diplomatic posts for decades for the world body and his native Norway, told the U.N. Security Council that “I have informed the secretary-general of my intention […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A Texas man has been charged with making death threats against New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, prosecutors announced Thursday. Jeremy Fistel, 44, was arrested in Texas and brought to New York for an arraignment on charges that he sent a series of threatening voicemails and written messages to Mamdani’s […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — ABC took comic Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show off the air indefinitely Wednesday, just hours after Federal Communications Commission chairman Brendan Carr called his comments about Charlie Kirk’s assassination “truly sick.” Carr is a longtime FCC commissioner named as chairman by President Donald Trump in November. In the months since, he has launched […]
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday sanctioned members of a Sinaloa cartel faction known as Los Mayos, one of the groups that has tormented Sinaloa’s capital in an ongoing war for control. The move came on the same day that U.S. Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday asked the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors. The Republican administration turned to the high court after an appeals court refused to go along with ousting Cook, part of President Donald Trump’s effort to reshape the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has used threats, lawsuits and government pressure as he remakes the American media landscape, unleashing his long-standing grievances against an industry that has mocked, criticized and scorned him for years. He has extracted multimillion dollar settlements, forced companies into costly litigation and prompted changes to programming that he found […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Jimmy Kimmel’s television future hung in the balance Thursday after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s killing, which prompted dozens of stations to say they wouldn’t air the show, a move that was cheered on by a top federal regulator. The veteran late-night comic made […]
ABC’s suspension of Jimmy Kimmel’s show following comments he made about the killing of Charlie Kirk set off a flood of reactions, including from President Donald Trump and a fellow late-night host whose show was canceled after he criticized a deal between the Trump administration and his own network’s parent company. Stephen Colbert apparently got […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country. The Thursday decision by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly comes after the Republican administration’s Labor Day weekend attempt to remove Guatemalan migrant children who were living in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — Open Society Foundations, the family philanthropy of hedge fund billionaire George Soros, has consistently been one of the largest funders of human rights organizations around the world. But what that means has changed in recent years, with a new focus on addressing inequality. “It’s about paying attention to how inequality is […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — At a moment of growing international alarm about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, more U.S. adults view Israel’s military action in the Palestinian territory as excessive than at the beginning of the war, according to a new poll. About half of Americans say the military response from Israel in the Gaza Strip […]
A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee made up of scientific experts that was axed by the Trump administration earlier this year is resurrecting itself and meeting Thursday with no official blessing or formal ties to the statistical agency. The reconstitution of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee, rechristened with an “Independent” in front of its name, […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Kamala Harris says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing, according to an excerpt of her new book. Harris writes in an excerpt of “107 Days” published Wednesday in The Atlantic that former President Joe Biden’s transportation […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said early Thursday that he plans to designate antifa as a “major terrorist organization.” Antifa, short for short for “anti-fascists,” is an umbrella term for far-left-leaning militant groups and is not a singular entity. They consist of groups that resist fascists and neo-Nazis, especially at demonstrations. It’s unclear how […]
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland, Oregon, said Wednesday it will issue a land use violation notice to the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building, accusing the facility of detaining people beyond the limits of what its land use approval allows. The building’s conditional land use approval, in place since 2011, does not allow people […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve’s nearly unanimous decision Wednesday to reduce its key interest rate was seen by many observers as a quiet show of unity and independence amid President Donald Trump’s relentless pressure for steeper cuts and his unprecedented effort to fire a top Fed official. Many Fed-watchers expected a contentious two-day meeting […]
