WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would pull Ed Martin’s nomination to be U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia and would soon announce a replacement for the embattled pick.

The shift comes after a monthslong fight in the Senate to confirm Martin, who currently serves in the role on a temporary basis. Earlier this ...Read more

DETROIT — A Democratic state senator from Southfield is the first to jump into the race for U.S. House to succeed Rep. Haley Stevens, who is leaving behind her Oakland County seat to run for U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jeremy Moss, 38, launched his campaign for Congress on Thursday, pitching himself as a disruptor of the status quo from the Southfield ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Legislation that would rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America is “embarrassing,” “unserious” and a waste of time and taxpayer money, according to its Democratic detractors. But it sailed through the House on Thursday, passing on a mostly party-line vote.

Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska was the lone Republican to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Days after Judge James E. Boasberg ruled against President Donald Trump’s plans to quickly deport alleged members of a Venezuelan criminal gang, the president called for Congress to remove the judge from the bench.

“HE DIDN’T WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE,” Trump wrote in a social media ...Read more

The Trump administration wants to sharply reduce funding for federal rental assistance that helps hundreds of thousands of California households afford a home.

The plan, part of the president's 2026 budget proposal, calls for a 43% reduction in funding available for a variety of programs it labels "dysfunctional," including public housing and ...Read more

Congress is forging ahead with its budget for next year, but the most controversial program on the chopping block — Medicaid — is causing a rift within the Republican Party.

Earlier this year, Congress passed a budget blueprint that contains billions of dollars in cuts to federal spending, which House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., promised ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When Rep. Linda T. Sánchez had her son in 2009, she planned to spend a month with her baby before returning to Congress. It didn’t work out that way. Still recovering from a cesarean section, the California Democrat was needed for votes on the House floor two weeks after giving birth.

And when the House Ways and Means ...Read more

PARIS — Au revoir, America. Bonjour, tristesse, France. If that's overstated, it's not by over-much.

Here in April, in the month and the place of falling rain and falling in love, I found that the rain had not changed much — but the "love" part had.

If my random and unscientific survey of some French opinion at all represents the nation as...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump spent much of the last four years decrying Justice Department prosecutions against him and his supporters, and one of his first executive orders in January said it sought to end the “weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process.”

But since then, Trump has used the power of his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that Sen. Thom Tillis’ decision not to support Trump’s nomination of Ed Martin as Washington’s top prosecutor is “disappointing.”

“It’s disappointing, because I know Ed,” Trump said. “He’s very talented. Crime is down in Washington, D.C.”

Trump was asked about Tillis’ stance ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republican leadership’s decision to step back from two pathways to major Medicaid cost savings has fueled contempt among hard-line conservatives, raising questions about the future of a reconciliation package that faces a key markup next week.

The proposals would have cut federal Medicaid spending by billions of dollars, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Congressional Republicans are coming to the 60-day deadline Thursday in their rush to roll back Biden administration environmental regulations, but they might be resetting the clock in some cases.

The 1996 Congressional Review Act typically gives lawmakers 60 days to enact joint resolutions of disapproval nullifying rules. The ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The controversy over President Donald Trump’s crypto profits is threatening to derail a quick deal on bipartisan stablecoin legislation backed by both the crypto industry and the White House.

Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, is leading the effort to use the stablecoin bill to bar a sitting U....Read more

WASHINGTON — In a last-minute shakeup ahead of a nomination hearing planned for Thursday, President Donald Trump dropped his original pick for surgeon general and selected Casey Means, a health influencer, author and key player in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement.

The announcement comes after Bloomberg reported earlier Wednesday ...Read more

President Donald Trump has called for Harvard University — an elite institution that has clashed with the White House — to lose its tax-exempt status. But what do voters think?

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” Trump wrote in a May 2 post on Truth Social. “It’s what they deserve!”

The president’s ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s considering trying to change the name of the Persian Gulf to the Gulf of Arabia or the Arabian Gulf.

Trump said he’s going to make a final decision on the issue after a briefing by advisers and before leaving on a three-day trip to the Middle East next week.

“They’re going to ask me about that...Read more

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — President Donald Trump says the U.S. government will not pay for California’s high-speed rail project, fueling growing concerns that the bullet train will not have stable federal funding for the foreseeable future.

“That train is the worst cost overrun I’ve ever seen,” Trump said during a Tuesday news conference ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The chairman of a House Appropriations panel told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday that he would welcome more justification for the Trump administration’s proposed spending decisions, such as cuts to cybersecurity and transportation security.

Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev. concluded the House Homeland Security ...Read more

NEW YORK — Liquor is still allowed at President Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf courses, despite a state law barring felons from serving and profiting from the sale of alcohol.

The state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control, or ABC, initially opted against renewing liquor licenses for the Trump National Golf Clubs — in Bedminster and ...Read more

President Donald Trump has said his tariffs on countries around the world will bring “jobs and factories roaring back” to the U.S.

Keith Maskus, professor of economics emeritus at the University of Colorado-Boulder, is among the economists and business representatives who don’t think that will happen. The sweeping tariffs have been ...Read more