The price tag for President Trump's new White House ballroom has increased from $200 million to $300 million, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed Thursday.
A federal food aid program that helps about one-eighth of Americans buy groceries stands to be paused Nov. 1 because of the government shutdown, and even some states that want to step in to fill the gap have found they can't.
Hoan Huynh was going door-to-door informing businesses of ramped up immigration enforcement on Chicago's North Side when the Democratic state lawmaker got an activist notification of federal agents nearby.
New York Mayor Eric Adams endorsed former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the mayor's race Thursday, trying to help the Democratic Party establishment derail the runaway campaign of socialist Zohran Mamdani.
Senate Republicans have introduced legislation to increase the reporting thresholds for currency transaction reports and suspicious activity reports under the Bank Secrecy Act.
After decades of gradual growth, the number of Black students enrolling at many elite colleges has dropped in the two years since the Supreme Court banned affirmative action in admissions, leaving some campuses with Black populations as small as 2% of their freshman class, according to an Associated Press analysis.
A few weeks before his stunning loss to Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic mayoral primary, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo put forth a political calculus long accepted as fact in New York: "Being a Democrat," he said, "it's synonymous that you support Israel."
New satellite images taken Thursday show the scale of the demolition of the White House East Wing as President Donald Trump moves forward with the construction of a new ballroom at the White House.
Many Americans have grown numb to headlines about trillion-dollar deficits and a national debt that will destroy the U.S. economy. It has become routine to hear that Washington has added yet another trillion dollars to the tab. The public has no belief that there is a problem. After all, we have heard it all before, […]