National Politics

The House of Representatives approved on Friday a $4.7 billion disaster relief package for Puerto Rico, an effort to help recovery efforts after a series of earthquakes hit the US territory in recent months. President Donald Trump has threatened to veto the bill, and it is unlikely to advance in the Republican-held Senate. The legislation

President Donald Trump painted a bleak view of American cities defying his immigration authority in his annual State of the Union address on Tuesday. The next day, his acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf announced on Fox News that New Yorkers, specifically, would no longer be able to apply for or renew their membership

A bill that would ban conversion therapy for minors is making its way through Virginia’s state Senate after the House of Delegates approved the measure earlier this week. The law, which is currently before the Senate’s education and health committee but is ultimately expected to pass the Democratically controlled chamber, would add the commonwealth to

Michael Bloomberg‘s campaign sees an opening in the Iowa chaos. Bloomberg’s campaign now has more than 2,100 people on staff, including 1,700 people in 40 states and 400 people in the campaign’s New York headquarters, aides tell CNN. And Bloomberg met with his senior leadership team on Tuesday morning to discuss the results — or

The Trump administration and Republican-led states told the Supreme Court on Monday that it should not step in at this time to consider the fate of the Affordable Care Act. Instead, they are asking the high court to allow the case to return to a district judge for further proceedings. In December, a federal appeals

Amid the intense focus on the Senate impeachment trial and Monday’s Iowa caucuses in the presidential race, you likely missed this announcement from the Congressional Budget Office: The budget deficit is projected to top $1 trillion in 2020 — and to stay at or above that 13-figure mark for the remainder of the decade. Why