WASHINGTON — The fate of the Big Beautiful Bill rests with a handful of Republicans such as David Valadao whose political future could well be determined by how it affects his Central Valley constituents’ healthcare, food assistance and tax bills.

The Hanford Republican visited the White House Wednesday as President Donald Trump pushed hard...Read more

Critics blasted Paramount Global's decision to pay $16 million to settle President Donald Trump's lawsuit over "60 Minutes" edits, calling the move a "spineless capitulation" that erodes U.S. press freedoms.

Paramount late Tuesday agreed to a landmark settlement with Trump to end his $20-billion broadside against CBS News. The president will ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and House Republican leaders hope the president can be the party’s closer Wednesday as he tries to personally convince enough conservative and moderate holdouts to push his domestic policy agenda across the finish line.

Trump was slated to meet separately at the White House with members of the hard-line House ...Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — As Republicans now face an open race for their party’s nomination for U.S. Senate next year, the one name that has shot to the top of the list is Lara Trump.

The president’s daughter-in-law co-chaired the Republican National Committee during Donald Trump’s successful bid for the White House last year and currently hosts ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump and House Republican leaders hope the president can be the party’s closer Wednesday as he tries to personally convince enough conservative and moderate holdouts to push his domestic policy agenda across the finish line.

Trump was slated to meet separately at the White House with members of the hard-line House ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Paramount Global has agreed to pay $16 million to end President Donald Trump’s lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview — a legal tussle that roiled CBS News, spurred high-level departures and threatened to derail the company’s hoped-for sale.

The money will be allocated to Trump’s future presidential library. ...Read more

The Republican-led House of Representatives on Wednesday started considering the Senate’s version of President Donald Trump’s controversial budget bill in hopes of passing it ahead of a self-proclaimed July 4 deadline.

With just a narrow edge, GOP leaders hope to jam the retooled Big Beautiful Bill including even bigger tax and spending ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Scott Singer, the term-limited mayor of Boca Raton, may run for Congress.

Singer said he hasn’t made a decision, despite speculation among some Republicans this week that he was on the verge of entering the race in the Broward-Palm Beach County 23rd Congressional District.

He didn’t foreclose the possibility. “I...Read more

U.S. Senate Republicans navigated sharp internal rifts to narrowly pass a massive tax and spending package that implements much of President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda. But Georgia Republicans aren’t nearly as divided over the high-stakes legislation.

Mainstream conservatives and MAGA politicians alike in Georgia have quickly united ...Read more

Politics and intellectual consistency go together like banana on pizza. But the reaction from Democrats to last week’s Supreme Court ruling on judicial authority deserves special attention.

In a 6-3 ruling Friday, the justices limited the ability of lone federal judges to issue nationwide injunctions that restrict the ability of the executive...Read more

WASHINGTON — The looming departures of North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis and Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon represent the latest retreat by members of the Republican mainstream and another sign of President Donald Trump’s firm grip on his party.

Tillis, especially, surprised political observers over the weekend when he announced his retirement after...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate handed President Donald Trump a major political victory with its Tuesday passage of a sweeping domestic policy bill, bringing him one step closer to a signature legislative achievement in an administration that has largely governed through executive power.

The Senate’s narrow approval of the $3.3 trillion ...Read more

Both of Alaska's U.S. senators voted Tuesday in favor of a budget reconciliation bill that includes many of President Donald Trump's domestic priorities, including extending tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the wealthy and cutting Medicaid and food assistance for millions of Americans.

Most Republican senators — including Alaska Sen. ...Read more

California on Tuesday led a coalition of states in filing a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration over its alleged sharing of Medicaid recipients’ health data with immigration enforcement agencies, Attorney General Rob Bonta said.

Bonta cited news reports that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services granted what it ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s multitrillion-dollar tax bill is running into Republican resistance in the House as moderate and ultraconservative GOP lawmakers threaten to defy the president and sink his domestic agenda.

House lawmakers are returning to Washington from a holiday week to vote Wednesday on the Senate version of the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Mayor Karen Bass fired back at the Department of Justice on Tuesday, calling its lawsuit against her city part of an “all-out assault on Los Angeles” by President Trump.

Bass said she and other city leaders would not be intimidated by the lawsuit, which seeks to invalidate sanctuary policies that prohibit city resources from...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is not considering delaying his July 9 deadline for higher tariffs to resume and renewed his threat to cut off talks and impose duty rates on several nations, including Japan.

“No, I’m not thinking about the pause,” Trump said Tuesday when asked whether he would extend the negotiating period with trading ...Read more

MIAMI — During an hourslong visit on Tuesday, President Donald Trump and top state and federal officials celebrated the opening of the new Florida-run immigration detention center in the Everglades as a major milestone in a joint mass deportation campaign.

Trump depicted the new facility as a harsh solution to deter undocumented immigrants ...Read more

Following a surge in arrests by armed, masked federal immigration agents in unmarked cars, some California Democrats are backing a new bill in Congress that would bar officials from covering their faces while conducting raids.

The No Masks for ICE Act, introduced by Rep. Nydia Velázquez, D-N.Y., and co-sponsored by more than a dozen Democrats,...Read more