WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday shrugged off the threat of the first U.S. government shutdown in nearly seven years and moved to cast the blame for any disruption on Democrats.

“These people are crazy, the Democrats, so if it has to shut down, it’ll have to shut down,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House. “...Read more

LOS ANGELES — UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk says the university will address "valid" concerns of the Trump administration and be "fully compliant" with the law, but will defend the campus against federal civil rights investigations and funding suspensions.

In a wide-ranging online appearance Thursday evening hosted by a Los Angeles-based Jewish...Read more

Every episode of "South Park" opens with a disclaimer: "All characters and events in this show — even those based on real people — are entirely fictional. All celebrity voices are impersonated ... poorly. The following program contains coarse language and due to its content it should not be viewed by anyone."

While some of that language ...Read more

For months, the Trump administration has been waging a multi-front war on the working class: ending collective bargaining rights for more than 1 million federal workers, ripping up signed union contracts, muzzling the agency tasked with overseeing private sector bargaining laws, and strangling manufacturing jobs while driving up costs for ...Read more

President Donald Trump insists this isn’t his war — that it belongs to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and former President Joe Biden. “This is not my war; it is theirs,” he has said, all from a man who claims he alone can solve the world’s problems.

History, however, leaves little patience for such deflection. President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders are digging in on their demands for keeping the federal government open, even after a startling missive from the White House budget office putting agencies on notice to potentially shutter entire programs and conduct mass firings if a partial shutdown occurs.

Sources on both sides of the aisle and nonpartisan ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday he would use tariff revenue to provide aid to farmers, but his promise may be premature as the Supreme Court considers whether he has the constitutional authority to set the levies.

“We’re going to take some of that tariff money that we’ve made, we’re going to give it to our farmers, ...Read more

A partial government shutdown could be on the horizon if federal lawmakers fail to pass a funding resolution by Oct. 1. If the government shuts down, Nevadans can expect to see some impacts to services.

Last week, the U.S. Senate failed to pass a stopgap funding measure Friday before heading into a week-long recess. When Congress returns Monday...Read more

NEW YORK — Bruce Springsteen is disparaging President Donald Trump once more. This time, he’s doing it in Time magazine, which has meant a lot to both septuagenarian public figures throughout their lives.

In an interview published Thursday covering a wide range of topics, the Boss lamented that “a lot of people” believe lies told by the...Read more

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was due to receive just over $57 million in Federal Aviation Administration grant dollars before the end of the fiscal year this month.

The money was for restroom rehabilitation, taxiway pavement replacement, grants related to sustainability and lowering emissions, and other projects.

But after ...Read more

NEW YORK — Addressing the latest swirl of rumors that he may soon pull the plug on his longshot reelection bid, New York Mayor Eric Adams would only say Thursday his campaign has been playing “three dimensional chess” to figure out the best path forward as November’s contest looms.

“It takes a lot of strategy, this is three ...Read more

Democrats hit back Thursday at President Donald Trump’s threat to fire thousands of federal workers if the government shuts down as soon as next week.

After the White House budget chief warned of permanent layoffs, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, vowed Democrats won’t be bullied into supporting a Republican stopgap spending bill to fund ...Read more

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is vowing to carry out a new government study of abortion medication that could lead to further restrictions on the drug that is the main method of ending pregnancies nationwide.

The controversial Trump administration official told a group of Republican states that the Food and Drug Administration will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s budget office plans to advise federal program managers to fire employees whose paychecks are financed by annual appropriations if a partial government shutdown begins Oct. 1, rather than just furloughing them as is the usual practice.

An Office of Management and Budget memo, obtained Wednesday night ...Read more

Lost in all of the finger-pointing about which party would be to blame for a government shutdown is the bipartisan push in Congress to keep funding thousands of home state projects.

Georgia lawmakers in Congress are of three distinct flavors when it comes to budget “earmarks” — targeted federal spending, often on pet projects. Some fully ...Read more

In the months that Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been threatening America’s health with his pseudo-science nonsense, the nation could at least hope that he was freelancing. President Donald Trump, after all, has been focused lately on priorities such as militarizing America’s streets and policing late-night ...Read more

Donald Trump is practicing medicine without a license in declaring that pregnant women should not take acetaminophen (brand name Tylenol) because it will cause autism in their children. He went even further than his crank Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the HHS doctors who stood with them in the Roosevelt Room ...Read more

More than two years after the end of the public health emergency declared in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly 300 people a week still die from the disease in the United States.

Another 27,000 people tested positive for the virus in the most recent week of data available — though that number hit 168,000 during the first week of June....Read more

On the eve of the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Trump administration is rewriting history by wielding the tools of censorship and erasure.

At the National Park Service site honoring Charles Pickney, who wrote a draft of the Declaration of Independence, for example, references to the people enslaved at ...Read more