The Supreme Court on Friday said it will not fast-track consideration of Donald Trump’s claim that he is immune from prosecution for actions he took as president, a question crucial to whether he can be put on trial for plotting

D.C. residents may be able to clear their records of certain marijuana offenses after President Biden announced Friday that he will pardon those convicted of simple use and possession on certain federal lands and the nation’s capital. It was not immediately

LOS ANGELES — California state Sen. Steve Padilla (D-San Diego) has announced plans to introduce a bill aimed at protecting child influencers from financial exploitation, a move that could fuel efforts to regulate the sprawling and growing creator economy. The proposed

Federal employees will receive pay raises averaging 5.2 percent — more in some high-salary areas — under an order President Biden signed Thursday that delivers the biggest increase to U.S. government workers since the Carter administration. The salary hike for the

Republican polling leader Donald Trump, who launched his first successful presidential campaign by vilifying Mexican immigrants as “rapists,” is again making inflammatory attacks on foreigners a core campaign theme as he pledges militarized mass roundups and deportations on a scale

Never Back Down, the embattled super PAC supporting Republican presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis, has canceled all of its planned television advertising in Iowa and New Hampshire just weeks before voting begins in the first nominating states. The move, first reported by

Local and federal law enforcement officials say they are investigating a surge in threats that justices on Colorado’s Supreme Court are facing after their decision this week to bar Donald Trump from running in the state’s presidential primary. In a 4

Former president Donald Trump claimed Friday that he peacefully surrendered power at the end of his term in office, despite having urged a crowd of his supporters to converge on the U.S. Capitol, where some staged a deadly attack that

President Biden is commuting the sentences of 11 nonviolent drug offenders Friday, part of his continued efforts to use his clemency powers to rectify what he has said are unjustified disparities in drug sentencing, the White House announced Friday. Biden will