President Donald Trump
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 […]
PERRY: Stop, you’re killing me — and thousands of other Colorado victims of the Big Beautiful Bill
Colorado healthcare and political leaders agreed last week that President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” has become the bloated catastrophe experts warned it would be. During a press call held by accessible healthcare proponents, Colorado Democratic members of Congress and top health officials across the state detailed the damage inflicted so far after Trump and […]
Supreme Court rules states can count late-arriving mailed ballots, rejecting Trump-led challenge
WASHINGTON | The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that states can count ballots that arrive after Election Day, a persistent target of President Donald Trump. The 5-4 decision rejected a Republican-led attack on laws in more than half the states and the District of Columbia that permit mailed ballots to arrive and be counted some […]
FACT CHECK: A look at the Trump administration’s challenge to birthright citizenship
When it comes to birthright citizenship, the Trump administration hasn’t been subtle about its views. The practice, which grants automatic citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil and which is soon to face Supreme Court judgment, is “a disgrace,” according to President Donald Trump. “The gravest and most preposterous of all constitutional abominations,” top […]
Trump says Iran has requested a meeting, but Iranian officials say nothing has been scheduled
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates | President Donald Trump said Monday on social media that Iran had requested a meeting with U.S. counterparts, though Iranian officials said no such meeting was scheduled. The U.S. president has tried to preserve an increasingly fragile interim deal as hostilities have mounted in the Strait of Hormuz in recent days, […]
America split from monarchy 250 years ago. Trump’s presidency is testing how far it’s come
The 250th anniversary of America’s liberation from a king kicked off with a campaign-style rally on the National Mall by President Donald Trump, whose face already stares down from banners fluttering from federal buildings across the nation’s capital. The images illustrate how the Republican president has dominated daily life since returning to power and, to […]