WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met privately with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the impact of tariffs on Michigan's automotive-heavy economy, recovery efforts from a devastating March ice storm, holes in the state's Medicaid budget caused by federal changes and more.

"I’ve always said that I’ll work ...Read more

On Monday, leaders from across the Peach State celebrated the launch of a new program offering hundreds of low-income Georgia homeowners the chance to lease rooftop solar systems for free and slash their power bills.

A day later, President Donald Trump’s administration appeared poised to try to kill the initiative by clawing back the funding....Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a plan to grant legal status to undocumented immigrant farmworkers, claiming that foreign-born migrants are “naturally” better suited than “inner city” Americans to menial agricultural jobs.

In what would be a controversial partial break from his hard-line mass deportation plan, Trump said he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — “Give me a break.”

That was the response of a combative President Donald Trump when asked Tuesday morning on CNBC about former federal officials — including his onetime Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao — saying that a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner would essentially be unable to doctor data to make him look ...Read more

A California Republican is pushing a bill in Congress that would ban virtually all redistricting before 2030, a move that would kill President Donald Trump’s effort to flip up to five Democratic seats in Texas and also efforts to retaliate by blue states like New York and California.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., says he plans to introduce ...Read more

President Donald Trump has dropped his demand that Rupert Murdoch immediately testify in the president's libel lawsuit over a Jeffrey Epstein story in the Wall Street Journal, but the 94-year-old media mogul has agreed to provide his health information.

Trump initially demanded Murdoch sit for a deposition within 15 days to answer questions ...Read more

On Friday, Donald Trump followed up a concerning jobs report with massive new global tariffs, driving markets down and once more raising prices on consumers for no reason after weeks of supposed trade negotiations. Like with his first round of import duties, announced in the Rose Garden on his ludicrous April 2 “Liberation Day,” these ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Watermelon head. Sleazebag. Scam artist. Belongs in prison. Enemy from within.

President Donald Trump has used all those insults and more to describe the man he calls Adam “Shifty” Schiff over the past year.

Schiff is now a U.S. senator, and his term will outlast Trump’s since it ends in January 2031, two years after the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into claims that national security officials participated in a conspiracy in late 2016 and early 2017 to link President Donald Trump to Russia’s election interference and undermine his legitimacy, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Attorney General Pam...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s expanded reciprocal tariffs will not apply to any products loaded onto a vessel for transport into the United States before 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, according to guidance issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The notice, posted by the federal government Monday, outlines ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that his office has spent more than $5 million fighting the Trump administration in court over the last six months, but saved the state nearly $170 billion.

"That means that for every one dollar we've been given by the legislature and the governor from special session funding to do this work —...Read more

According to Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta, California has gotten a bang for its buck through the state’s torrent of litigation against the Trump administration.

The two Democrats appeared at a news conference Monday to tout and defend Bonta’s whopping 37 lawsuits against the Republican administration, a rate of more than...Read more

California’s notoriously high gas prices are cheaper than usual, but you wouldn’t know it by watching politicians criticize each other about pain at the pump.

Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom has sparred this summer with California Republicans and President Donald Trump over the issue. It’s a familiar fight in a state that regularly clocks ...Read more

COLUMBIA, S.C. — South Carolinians are still having abortions, despite the restrictive state ban, advocates and researchers say.

Shield laws, which allow doctors in other states to provide care virtually, and interstate travel, make it possible for people in the state to access abortions, even with a six-week ban in place. Bans just make it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court set the stage for a potential earthquake in redistricting across the country in its next term after setting new rules for a court fight over Louisiana’s congressional map.

The order Friday, which set the legal question for the state and map challengers to answer, comes after years of litigation around the ...Read more

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Sydney Sweeney has won the approval of Donald Trump, the leader of America’s MAGA movement, after he learned that she’s a registered Republican and facing backlash from the “woke” left for starring in a controversial blue jeans ad that’s been described as “Nazi propaganda.”

The president in fact doubled down ...Read more

WASHINGTON — After President Donald Trump abruptly fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner, his declaration that “we need people that we can trust” has left Democratic lawmakers shaken.

The president said those words as he left the White House on Friday shortly after he ordered the ouster of Erika McEntarfer. While he did not ...Read more

As a growing number of the wealthiest U.S. colleges capitulate in their battles with the Trump administration, the strain from lost and frozen federal funding is putting pressure on the remaining holdouts to cut a deal.

Universities targeted by Donald Trump’s crackdown on diversity programs and other policies he says show a liberal bias are ...Read more

Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Hakeem Jeffries Monday called on their Republican counterparts to meet immediately to avert a government shutdown looming as soon as the end of next month.

The Democratic congressional leaders, both of whom are from New York, called on Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, and Speaker Mike Johnson, R-...Read more