Nevada Democrats are outraged at an executive order that Donald Trump issued to regulate elections. But while the president’s authority in this area is limited, he’s more aligned with voter sentiment than his critics.

The order promotes proof of citizenship requirements and seeks to ensure all mail ballots are returned by Election Day. It ...Read more

In a rare rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump said this week he was “very angry” with the dictator for thwarting a Ukraine peace deal and that he’d consider new sanctions on Russia’s oil exports and its biggest international consumers. “If I think it was Russia’s fault, I am going to put secondary tariffs on oil,...Read more

Here’s the thing about Donald Trump 2.0: The slapdash chaos of his first term has solidified into something more deliberate. He’s no longer just winging it like an insult comic. Now, he’s got a plan, and the theme is callousness.

Take, for example, the Venezuelan immigrants he sent to an El Salvador “detention center.” One of the “...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet on Wednesday to consider a proposal for divesting TikTok’s U.S. operations from Chinese parent company ByteDance Ltd., just days ahead of a deadline for a sale of the popular social media app, according to people familiar with the matter.

The administration is considering a deal that would include Oracle Corp....Read more

LOS ANGELES — A Eureka woman who nearly bled to death while miscarrying twins last year is suing the Catholic hospital chain that she claims refused her life-saving abortion care.

Anna Nusslock, a chiropractor who sued Providence St. Joseph Hospital Eureka and its parent companies in Humbolt Superior Court on Tuesday, said she hopes the ...Read more

GOP firebrand Randy Fine is bringing his heated rhetoric to the halls of Congress, after defeating Democrat Josh Weil in Tuesday’s special election for a Central Florida district.

But Weil’s closer-than-expected margin in an overwhelmingly Republican seat could buoy his party’s overall hopes for 2026.

The special election in ...Read more

GOP firebrand Randy Fine is bringing his heated rhetoric to the halls of Congress, after defeating Democrat Josh Weil in Tuesday’s special election for a Central Florida district.

But Weil’s closer-than-expected margin in an overwhelmingly Republican seat could buoy his party’s overall hopes for 2026.

The special election in ...Read more

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — For a few days, Democrats got to dream.

In two Florida congressional special elections, one south of Jacksonville and one in the Panhandle, the Democrats’ candidates, Josh Weil and Gay Valimont, were running stronger than expected in ruby-red districts. Fueled by liberal outrage around the country at the policies ...Read more

While the 2026 midterms are more than a year and a half away, three special elections happening Tuesday night should give voters in Pennsylvania and across the country a sense of which way the political breeze is blowing.

If Democrats overperform, it would be the latest sign Trump has already alienated some of his supporters a little more than ...Read more

A Nevada law that has gone unenforced since it was enacted 40 years ago will go into effect at the end of the month, requiring parents to be notified if their minor daughter seeks an abortion.

A federal judge ruled Monday that since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which protected a woman’s right to an abortion, there is no longer a legal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared open to upholding a federal law that allows lawsuits against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization seeking damages from terror attacks.

During oral arguments in two cases, justices repeatedly suggested that they owed deference to Congress’ decision in 2019 to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a rebuke of House leadership, a small group of Republicans on Tuesday joined Rep. Anna Paulina Luna to reject a rule on the House floor and clear the way for a renewed effort to allow recent parents to vote by proxy.

“Today is a pretty historical day for the entire conference,” the Florida Republican said immediately ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union argued to the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday that the Trump administration had not satisfied an “exceedingly high burden” required to override a judge’s temporary order to stop migrant deportations to a notorious Salvadoran mega prison.

In a 42-page filing to the justices, the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When the White House fired a federal prosecutor last week in Los Angeles, it could’ve been dismissed as an isolated case, with the administration targeting a one-time Democratic congressional candidate who had slammed President Donald Trump on the campaign trail.

But in the days since, it’s become clear the dismissal is part...Read more

President Donald Trump sowed confusion Tuesday as he continued to threaten hefty tariffs on imported goods even as White House advisers admitted they don’t know the details.

With what Trump has branded “Liberation Day” looming, the Republican president still had not released details of the potentially extensive new taxes on foriegn-made ...Read more

An Indiana abortion patient has accused a Champaign, Illinois, physician of perforating her uterus during the procedure and leaving half of a fetus inside her body, requiring emergency surgery afterward, according to a recent lawsuit.

The medical negligence lawsuit was filed March 21 in the Circuit Court of Champaign County against abortion ...Read more

Only one person, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has ever served more than two terms as president of the United States. This is for two reasons.

First, prior to Roosevelt’s election to a third term in 1940 there was a longstanding American tradition that presidents not serve more than two terms.

This tradition was established by ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Wednesday over South Carolina’s effort to keep Planned Parenthood facilities from receiving Medicaid funding if they perform abortions, part of a dispute that could impact Congress’ ability to mandate coverage in the program.

Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit to challenge the state�...Read more

WASHINGTON — A bitter intraparty dispute came to a head Tuesday as Republican members of the House Rules Committee, with the support of Speaker Mike Johnson, worked to shut down an effort to allow proxy voting for new parents in the House.

Tension had been building for weeks, as Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., led a push to circumvent ...Read more