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

Are the United States and Iran, adversaries for more than 45 years, on the cusp of striking a new nuclear agreement?

After two rounds of indirect diplomacy between high-ranking officials of the two powers, it’s still too early to answer that question with confidence. What is abundantly clear is that Washington and Tehran are at least trying ...Read more

For now, hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans living legally in the U.S. and South Florida have gotten a reprieve after the courts put on hold the decision by the Department of Homeland Security to revoke their Temporary Protected Status.

More importantly, the courts so far have rebuked the Trump administration’s claims that allowing those ...Read more

If the government shouldn’t be in your bedroom, why is it spying on your bathroom?

This month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing the federal government’s definition of “showerhead.” That definition was 13,000 words long. The White House argues that this move will make “America’s showers great again.”

If ...Read more