Nearly two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a special session to fund legal battles against the president-elect, the Democratic leader appeared to be trying to tone down and reframe the California-vs.-Trump narrative he set in motion.

"It's not a resistance brand," Newsom said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "It's around ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s federal courts played a crucial role during Donald Trump’s first presidency, both in the administration’s attempts to implement its border and immigration policies and the legal efforts to block those hard-line practices.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego ramped up criminal prosecutions of illegal border ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Canada is studying adding more resources and personnel to its U.S. border after a Mar-a-Lago dinner between President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aimed at heading off a tariff fight.

In a pair of social media posts, Trump and Trudeau struck upbeat tones, with Trump calling the meeting “very productive�...Read more

Donald Trump tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief U.S. law enforcement agency — which the president-elect has long derided as corrupt.

Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 ...Read more

Donald Trump tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief US law enforcement agency — which the president-elect has long derided as corrupt.

Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott says he won’t allow Baltimore’s law enforcement priorities to be influenced by President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers’ threats to cut federal funds to states or cities not cooperating with a mass deportation plan.

Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for “Border Czar,” said on Fox News Sunday that funds could...Read more

Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party and coalition partner Fianna Fail look set to return to government after the Irish election, but the prime minister could face a battle to keep his post after his popular support appeared to drop.

With counting still ongoing, early tallies and the official exit poll showed little to separate the two main ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warned the so-called BRICS nations that he would require commitments that they would not move to create a new currency as an alternative to using the U.S. dollar and repeated threats to levy a 100% tariff.

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to working to address the border and fentanyl smuggling, key issues that have led the incoming U.S. president to threaten massive tariffs.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday, called their dinner Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida a “very ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to working to address the border and fentanyl smuggling, key issues that have led the incoming U.S. president to threaten massive tariffs.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday, called their dinner Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida a “very ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — It would take years, if ever, for Mexico to accomplish what incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding to avoid tariffs: stemming the flow of migrants and drugs over the border.

That’s why Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to avoid a full-blown trade war might be more about doing enough for both sides to ...Read more

Russell Vought, one of the chief architects of Project 2025 — a conservative blueprint for the next presidency — is no fan of the federal government that President-elect Donald Trump will soon lead.

He believes "woke" civil servants and "so-called expert authorities" wield illegitimate power to block conservative White House directives ...Read more

In the final days before Romania’s parliamentary elections this weekend, the governing parties’ leaders both quit, pollsters gave up on projecting the results and the nation’s top court cast serious doubt on the integrity of the voting process.

And the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Sunday’s parliamentary contest pits the pro-European ...Read more

RIYADH, Saui Arabia — With its replica arches and columns from ancient Persepolis, the new “Iranian Corner” at one of Riyadh’s most popular outdoor venues has been doing decent business selling carpets, saffron and other products.

Saudi Arabia’s capital might seem an unlikely place to showcase the Islamic Republic. The rivalry ...Read more

Two days after the November election, Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey touted a court victory against a federal immigration rule to aid migrants married to U.S. citizens, a decision that came in a lawsuit filed by Bailey, Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach and 13 other Republican states.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala ...Read more

If U.S. economic growth is so good, then why does the Fed need to cut interest rates?

That was essentially the question put to Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell recently after a speech in Dallas. It would be more constructive to examine the premise — why is growth so good? — and ask what the Fed and others can do to keep it that way.

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with President-elect Donald Trump on Friday, according to people familiar with their plans, as the incoming U.S. leader threatens to implement fresh tariffs on neighboring countries unless they halt the flow of illegal drugs and undocumented migrants across borders.

Trudeau landed in West Palm Beach, ...Read more

Romanian authorities began recounting ballots after an election that shook the country’s political establishment with a victory for a little-known ultranationalist candidate as the country’s top court weighed accusations of outside meddling.

The Constitutional Court in Bucharest ordered the recount Thursday as security officials said the ...Read more