When Black women rapidly disappear from the workforce, we are faced with more than a concerning statistic; their loss is a warning for where the country is headed.

Black women are the only population to experience a rise in unemployment in the last three months with rates spiking above 6%, twice the rate for white workers. Additionally, this ...Read more

Six months into Donald Trump’s second term, a lawless president is solidifying his law enforcement powers to create something most Americans didn’t vote for and don’t want: a police state increasingly robbing residents of their rights and due process.

Unaccountable, masked immigration agents, many in plainclothes, are arresting farm ...Read more

Recently, my living room transformed into a Broadway stage. With my wife, kids, and I singing along to the Hamilton soundtrack, conversations inevitably spiraled from lyrics about revolution and ambition into discussions about today’s news.

My daughter, home from summer camp and sporting a growing curiosity about history, became my sounding ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2023, a most unlikely friendship took root after a House Oversight Committee hearing ended and members chatted before hurrying off for a two-week congressional recess.

Colorado Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert, a conservative firebrand and one of President Donald Trump’s top supporters, told Montgomery County ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Vice President JD Vance was “most likely” the heir-apparent to his Make America Great Again movement, but added there were also other potential candidates and that it was too early to make that call.

Trump during a White House event on Tuesday was asked about comments from Secretary of State Marco ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In past Olympic Games held on American soil, sitting presidents have served in passive, ceremonial roles. President Donald Trump may have other plans.

An executive order signed by Trump on Tuesday names him chair of a White House task force on the 2028 Games in Los Angeles, viewed by the president as “a premier opportunity to ...Read more

ATLANTA — The Fulton County Board of Commissioners must appoint election critics nominated by the Fulton County Republican Party to the county election board, a superior court judge has ruled.

In an order handed down Sunday, Fulton Superior Court Judge David Emerson said there is nothing in the law that supports the idea that commissioners ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The National Institutes of Health will be able to fund fewer research grants in fiscal 2026, even if Congress provides increased funding for the agency, due to Trump administration budget maneuvers.

The administration’s moves to front-load new grants, while possibly clawing back unspent funds and limiting facility and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer met privately with President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to discuss the impact of tariffs on Michigan's automotive-heavy economy, recovery efforts from a devastating March ice storm, holes in the state's Medicaid budget caused by federal changes and more.

"I’ve always said that I’ll work ...Read more

On Monday, leaders from across the Peach State celebrated the launch of a new program offering hundreds of low-income Georgia homeowners the chance to lease rooftop solar systems for free and slash their power bills.

A day later, President Donald Trump’s administration appeared poised to try to kill the initiative by clawing back the funding....Read more

President Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a plan to grant legal status to undocumented immigrant farmworkers, claiming that foreign-born migrants are “naturally” better suited than “inner city” Americans to menial agricultural jobs.

In what would be a controversial partial break from his hard-line mass deportation plan, Trump said he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — “Give me a break.”

That was the response of a combative President Donald Trump when asked Tuesday morning on CNBC about former federal officials — including his onetime Transportation secretary, Elaine Chao — saying that a Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner would essentially be unable to doctor data to make him look ...Read more

A California Republican is pushing a bill in Congress that would ban virtually all redistricting before 2030, a move that would kill President Donald Trump’s effort to flip up to five Democratic seats in Texas and also efforts to retaliate by blue states like New York and California.

Rep. Kevin Kiley, R-Calif., says he plans to introduce ...Read more

President Donald Trump has dropped his demand that Rupert Murdoch immediately testify in the president's libel lawsuit over a Jeffrey Epstein story in the Wall Street Journal, but the 94-year-old media mogul has agreed to provide his health information.

Trump initially demanded Murdoch sit for a deposition within 15 days to answer questions ...Read more

On Friday, Donald Trump followed up a concerning jobs report with massive new global tariffs, driving markets down and once more raising prices on consumers for no reason after weeks of supposed trade negotiations. Like with his first round of import duties, announced in the Rose Garden on his ludicrous April 2 “Liberation Day,” these ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Watermelon head. Sleazebag. Scam artist. Belongs in prison. Enemy from within.

President Donald Trump has used all those insults and more to describe the man he calls Adam “Shifty” Schiff over the past year.

Schiff is now a U.S. senator, and his term will outlast Trump’s since it ends in January 2031, two years after the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation into claims that national security officials participated in a conspiracy in late 2016 and early 2017 to link President Donald Trump to Russia’s election interference and undermine his legitimacy, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Attorney General Pam...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s expanded reciprocal tariffs will not apply to any products loaded onto a vessel for transport into the United States before 12:01 a.m. Eastern time on Thursday, according to guidance issued by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

The notice, posted by the federal government Monday, outlines ...Read more

California Attorney General Rob Bonta said Monday that his office has spent more than $5 million fighting the Trump administration in court over the last six months, but saved the state nearly $170 billion.

"That means that for every one dollar we've been given by the legislature and the governor from special session funding to do this work —...Read more