WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he would not sign legislation that calls for cuts to Social Security or federal health coverage for older and low-income Americans.

“If it cuts it, I would not approve,” the president said in an interview with TIME magazine published Friday, where he was repeatedly asked about cuts to Medicare, ...Read more

The Trump administration accused the University of California, Berkeley of failing to disclose millions of dollars in foreign funding on Friday, touting muscular new enforcement of an obscure federal rule amid ongoing efforts to bridle America’s top research institutions.

The University of California flagship is the second top school to come ...Read more

A group of 19 states sued to block the Trump administration from freezing federal funds for states that refuse to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs in K-12 public schools, intensifying a legal battle over billions of dollars in assistance.

The lawsuit filed Friday in Boston federal court follows a warning this month from the U....Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump suggested another delay to his higher so-called “reciprocal” tariffs was unlikely, raising pressure on nations to negotiate trade deals with his administration.

Asked about the possibility of granting another 90-day pause, Trump cast that scenario as “unlikely,” while speaking to reporters aboard ...Read more

Bill Maher has opened up about Larry David’s satirical essay comparing his dinner with Donald Trump to breaking bread with Adolf Hitler.

The “Real Time” host, a vocal critic of the MAGA leader in the past, gave a glowing account of attending a March 31 dinner with the president alongside high profile supporters like Kid Rock.

He ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has pressed for quickly deporting hundreds of Venezuelan and Salvadoran men who are said to belong to a foreign crime gang.

Those deportations have been challenged as illegal — and last week, blocked by the Supreme Court — if the detained men are not given a hearing to argue they are not gang members.

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WASHINGTON — As a couple of key court cases against President Donald Trump's executive actions intensify, questions of how and whether the White House will follow judges' orders are mounting.

Already, some judges have issued orders reprimanding the Trump administration and demanding action. But who has the authority to enforce such orders?

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NEW YORK — Academy Award winner George Clooney is no Donald Trump fan, but he doesn’t seem too worried about the Queens native’s presidency.

“It’s funny because he’s just a New York beast,” Clooney said during a Variety “Actors on Actors” interview with fellow Broadway star Patti LuPone. “We’ve all known him for 30 years, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The role of secretary of state inevitably rests on the diplomatic skillset of being a strategic communicator and delicate negotiator.

Marco Rubio’s added another, less expected proficiency to his tenure at the State Department: student hunter.

In his three months as the country’s top diplomat, Rubio has wielded a seldom-used...Read more

I had been falling a lot. It was almost as if my small feet were suddenly too big. Then my symptoms took a darker turn.

“I can’t see!” I gasped one frigid January morning in 1997. Beside me, my boyfriend asked, “What do you mean you can’t see?”

I couldn’t catch enough breath to speak normally. My left eye hurt, and I could only ...Read more

LEXINGTON, Ky. — U.S. Rep. Andy Barr is seeking to move on to the upper chamber of Congress.

But what of Kentucky’s five other members of the U.S. House of Representatives?

The question of their futures, some of them seen as rising stars in their parties, has been buzzing since U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell announced in February he would not ...Read more

After President Donald Trump brought global economics to the brink of meltdown with his erratic unilateral tariff decrees, Tyler Page and Maggie Haberman reported in the New York Times that Trump told Republicans “I know what the hell I’m doing!” and, after reversing himself, his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said he was acting “...Read more

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis signed two abortion-rights bills Thursday that will permit the use of public funding to cover the procedure and provide more protection for doctors and patients from out-of-state interference.

“Colorado is making sure that we are completely protecting the right to choose,” Polis said before signing the ...Read more

NORFOLK, Va. — Virginia was among the states that saw a substantial increase last year in the number of abortions provided.

That’s according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that advocates for access to reproductive care including abortion. The increase is likely due to an influx in patients from states...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a memorandum targeting ActBlue, accusing Democrats’ online campaign donation platform of violating federal election laws and calling on the U.S. attorney general to take action.

The memorandum signed Thursday, according to a White House fact sheet, directs the attorney general to investigate and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington, D.C., paused on Thursday a portion of President Donald Trump’s executive order to overhaul elections nationwide that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote.

In lawsuits brought by Democrats and voting rights groups, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The parade of foreign leaders into the Oval Office seeking relief from President Donald Trump’s tariffs continued Thursday, with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store dropping by. But his meetings with the U.S. president gave no indication a revised trade arrangement is imminent.

Store’s visit came just over two weeks ...Read more

President Donald Trump agreed to sit for an interview with journalist Jeffrey Goldberg on Thursday despite his famous feud with the Atlantic editor who broke the story about top officials’ use of Signal chat to discuss U.S. attacks on the Houthis.

Conceding it’s a surprising choice to meet Goldberg, Trump said he wants to gauge whether the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — With the Trump administration slashing budgets and threatening to revoke tax-exempt status for nonprofits, some Southern California social justice organizations have gone into a defensive crouch, hoping to wait out the passing storm.

They are not openly fighting President Donald Trump's program cuts. Some have scrubbed their ...Read more