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As the Trump administration seeks sweeping changes to the controversial H-1B visa for skilled foreign workers, bipartisan scrutiny is falling on Bay Area tech giants Meta, Apple and Google, which are among the companies ...Read more

Given the long history of cooperation between Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, it’s tempting to dismiss their recent announcement of a mutual security pact as mere paperwork, formalizing a relationship that already exists.

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WASHINGTON — The top four congressional leaders will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, according to two people familiar with the matter, as the threat of an Oct. 1 government shutdown looms. ...Read more

When Colombia’s outspoken President Gustavo Petro took up a megaphone at a pro-Palestininan rally on the streets of New York to call on U.S. troops to disobey President Donald Trump, he must have anticipated a backlash. ...Read more

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — On the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Helene’s deadly strike in Western North Carolina, U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley stood before a crowded hall at the Salt & Light Conference in Marion ...Read more

President Donald Trump ordered the military to be deployed to Portland, Oregon, to quell protests over his immigration policy, escalating his campaign against demonstrators opposing his policies.

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LOS ANGELES — The Trump administration has launched an investigation into allegations of antisemitism across all 22 campuses of the California State University system, prompting concerns about the chilling of free speech...Read more

U.S. government shutdowns have become so common in recent decades that every federal agency has a playbook for how to implement them.

But the Trump administration is quickly rewriting those plans in advance of the end of ...Read more

The U.S. government plans to continue collecting tariff revenues and pursuing its immigration crackdown in the event of a shutdown, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

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At a tense political moment in the wake of conservative lightning rod Charlie Kirk's killing, President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum focusing federal law enforcement on disrupting "domestic terrorism."

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Like that one friend who repeatedly promises to quit drinking after just one last round, the American government is staggering toward another shutdown. It’s starting to seem inevitable — because it looks as though ...Read more

When Walt Disney Co. announced it would end the suspension of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!," after several days of protest, subscription cancellations and boycotts, defenders of the First Amendment (on all points of the political ...Read more

During this week's White House press conference in which President Donald Trump named the over-the-counter drug Tylenol as a possible cause of rising autism rates, he did not mince words, urging pregnant women to "fight ...Read more

The Trump administration has been routinely targeting legal pathways to citizenship, including giving officials broader discretion to deny naturalization on vague grounds such as “anti-American” views and attempting to...Read more

President Donald Trump wants revenge. He has made getting even the centerpiece of his administration, as if vengeance is a popular or attractive response. It isn't.

Over the weekend, Trump asked Attorney General Pam ...Read more

For principled critics of James Comey, the fraudulent and politicized indictment of him issued by a federal grand jury in Virginia yesterday is wrapped in layers of bitter irony. It would be entirely fair to suggest that...Read more

President Donald Trump said Friday that Microsoft should fire Lisa Monaco, the company's president of global affairs who served as deputy attorney general under the Biden administration.

The statement, which the president...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is telling agencies to consider mass layoffs for positions that aren’t protected from a partial government shutdown, which is set to begin Oct. 1 if the two parties can’t come to a swift ...Read more