Count South Carolina among the states that is supporting President Donald Trump’s executive order to restore “law and order in the District of Columbia.”

On Saturday, S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster said that he approved of sending members of his state’s National Guard to Washington to enforce Trump’s order.

McMaster authorized the ...Read more

Tens of thousands of refugees, victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, and others who legally immigrated to Pennsylvania and New Jersey will lose Medicaid coverage next fall, when new eligibility rules established under President Donald Trump’s signature “big beautiful bill” take effect.

Currently, people with certain legal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — West Virginia is sending several hundred National Guard troops to Washington to bolster the federal deployment that President Donald Trump has ordered in his effort to reduce crime in the nation’s capital.

Gov. Patrick Morrisey was responding to a request from the Trump administration in sending 300 to 400 of the state’s ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: “I won’t be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire,” he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, emerging from their meeting in a diplomatic retreat, endorsing Russia’s territorial ambitions ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — In downtown Los Angeles, Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a news conference with Democratic leaders when the Border Patrol showed up nearby to conduct a showy immigration raid.

In Washington, D.C., hundreds of National Guard troops patrolled the streets, some in armored vehicles, as city officials battled with the White House over ...Read more

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — President Donald Trump made his expectations clear entering a summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday: "I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire," he said aboard Air Force One.

Yet he did, ending his meeting with the Russian leader with curt remarks, taking no questions from the press and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday appeared to back off of its attempt to install a new “emergency” head of the Washington police force after local officials challenged the move in federal court.

The Justice Department identified Terry Cole, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, as the new “emergency police ...Read more

Hillary Clinton said she would nominate President Donald Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize if he can end the war in Ukraine under certain conditions.

“I understand from everything I’ve read he very much would like to receive the Nobel Peace Prize,” the former secretary of state said in an interview on the “Raging Moderates” podcast ...Read more

NEW YORK — KISS has apparently had a change of heart about Donald Trump amid the president’s announcement of the 2025 Kennedy Center Honors, which include the induction of the beloved ’70s glam-rock band.

Founding members of the Grammy-nominated group, who have previously called the MAGA leader “abhorrent” and referred to his ...Read more

NEW YORK – Pete Davidson’s committed to removing his tattoos, but his Hillary Clinton ink isn’t going anywhere.

Though the comedian is in the process of removing upwards of 200 tattoos from his body, he revealed on The Breakfast Club that the image of Clinton on his leg is here to stay.

“I love Hillary. I got Hillary after she lost,”...Read more

WASHINGTON — As tensions escalate around President Donald Trump’s moves to federalize D.C.’s police force, Democrats in Congress are attempting to push back legislatively.

Reps. Jamie Raskin and Robert Garcia — the top Democrats on the House Judiciary and the Oversight and Government Reform committees, respectively — joined D.C. ...Read more

It’s been a little over six months since President Donald Trump assumed office for his second term. In that time, the economic landscape has shifted quite drastically: The new administration has implemented broad tariffs on U.S. trade partners, the stock market has both plummeted and soared to historic heights, hiring is down, fears of a ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed the One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act this summer, but the legislation’s staggered nature means its full impact will not be seen for several years.

Trump and his Republican allies have championed the law because most Americans will continue to pay less in federal income taxes. Democrats have argued these tax cuts ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s demand for a whopping $1 billion payment from UCLA sent shock waves through the UC system. For those of us on the inside, the announcement elicited a range of responses. Some faculty and staff reacted with horror, others voiced increasing fear about the ongoing assault on academic freedom, and some merely muttered in ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hartzell Gray has built a reputation around Kansas City as a well-known media personality and progressive activist, drawing in listeners through podcast episodes, radio segments and speeches at local protests.

Now, the former radio host and tenants rights advocate is running to represent Kansas City in Congress.

Gray, late...Read more

Costco Wholesale Corp. has decided not to dispense the abortion pill mifepristone at its more than 500 pharmacy locations, a decision hailed by a group of faith-based activists who urged the retailer to avoid selling the drug.

Costco said in a statement that it hasn’t seen consumer demand for the pill, and had no comment on whether the ...Read more

President Trump Thursday said he has high hopes of making progress to a Ukraine peace deal at a Friday afternoon summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Alaska, but admitted there is a 1 in 4 chance of a “bad meeting.”

“There is a 25% chance that this meeting will not be a successful meeting, in which case I’ll return to run the ...Read more

Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028.

In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign against homeless people is not limited to the District of Columbia. On July 24, Trump issued an executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” How exactly is that to be accomplished?

“Shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment ...Read more