President Donald Trump
Retrofitted Qatari jet takes flight as Air Force One for Trump’s trip to North Dakota
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump on Wednesday took his maiden voyage on a new Air Force One — a retrofitted Boeing 747-800 worth $400 million gifted by Qatar that embeds his personality more deeply into the institution of the American presidency. Gone is the trademark light blue hull that helped Air Force One blend into […]
Takeaways from Supreme Court term: Trump’s power is enhanced, but he lost some high-profile cases
WASHINGTON | President Donald Trump didn’t get what he wanted in some of the biggest Supreme Court cases this year: tariffs, birthright citizenship and the attempted firing of Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook. But he also emerged from the term with even greater power. His immigration crackdown was largely upheld, his call to redistrict for […]
EDITORIAL: Primary is over. Voters need to know how candidates will stop, reverse damage by Trump
Now that the Colorado Primary Election is in the rear-view mirror and party candidates are reshaping their campaigns for November, Job One for almost every candidate is to explain to voters how they would right the U.S. government ship that President Donald Trump has run aground. Any candidate for Congress, governor or even county commissioner […]
Trump announces first-ever midterm convention for GOP in Dallas in September
President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that Republicans will hold their first-ever national convention ahead of November’s midterm elections, an unusual event aimed at boosting turnout in races that will decide whether the party maintains control of Congress. The convention will be held in Dallas on Sept. 9 and 10. Although both major parties traditionally hold […]
House GOP deadlocks over Trump’s demands, sending lawmakers home early
WASHINGTON | Whither the U.S. House? As the nation celebrates its 250th birthday this weekend, the legislative branch has momentarily called it quits. The House leadership on Tuesday abruptly canceled votes and sent lawmakers home early for the holiday recess, Speaker Mike Johnson ‘s majority once again ground to a standstill by a Republican revolt […]
The Supreme Court nears the end of its term with momentous cases about Trump’s power to be decided
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court is wrapping up a term that has focused on President Donald Trump’s expansive claims of presidential power. Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship, fire the heads of most independent agencies at will and remove a sitting Federal Reserve governor are among the remaining eight cases the justices are expected to […]
Colorado court rejects November ballot initiatives aimed at redrawing congressional districts
DENVER | Colorado voters will not get a say this November on whether to replace the state’s congressional districts with ones that could help Democrats win additional seats in future elections. The state Supreme Court on Monday struck down a series of proposed ballot initiatives that would have sidestepped the state’s independent redistricting commission and […]
Trump’s fixation on voting has had mixed results. He still has ways to affect November’s elections
ATLANTA | President Donald Trump has tried many ways to tighten his grip on U.S. elections, from signing executive orders to pushing restrictive legislation in Congress. Monday’s Supreme Court ruling siding with states that accept late-arriving mail ballots was the latest example showing the limits of his reach. It followed back-to-back rulings last week that […]
A new law could create a list of immigrants illegally living in Mississippi. Advocates are alarmed
A new Mississippi law will authorize the state’s top law enforcement agency to compile a list of all immigrants illegally living in the state. What’s to be done with that information is a bit open-ended. But the law set to take effect Wednesday is sparking alarm among immigrant advocates, who fear it could become a […]
Americans’ pride in US history and democracy drops, and fewer are proud to be American, polls find
WASHINGTON | Americans have grown less proud of their country’s history or the way its democracy works over the past decade, according to a new AP-NORC poll. Americans’ pride in the U.S. on several key attributes has dropped since 2017 — including the nation’s military and its political influence around the globe — according to […]