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Walt Disney Co.’s ABC is forcefully resisting Federal Communications Commission efforts to soften the network’s programming, accusing the federal agency of an overreach that violates 1st Amendment freedoms. Last week, the FCC took the unusual step of calling in the licenses of eight Disney-owned television stations for early review. The move — widely interpreted as an effort to chill the ...

PITTSBURGH — A potential 2028 presidential contender launched a Rust Belt tour in Pittsburgh on Thursday to pitch his vision for a massive, New Deal-style expansion of the federal workforce. To counter the coming social upheaval caused by the spread of artificial intelligence into a growing number of industries, U.S. Rep. Ro Khanna said the government should gear up to hire 1 million people as ...

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats are preparing to challenge on procedural grounds a $1 billion provision in a GOP reconciliation bill that is connected to plans for a White House ballroom. Democrats say the provision is a “glaring” violation of the Senate’s Byrd rule, which restricts the type of material that can be considered in a reconciliation bill, according to sources familiar with their ...

The Trump administration on Friday appealed a court ruling that found a 10% global tariff imposed in February was not justified under a 1970s trade law.

RICHMOND, Va. — A divided Supreme Court of Virginia ruled Friday to overturn the results of April’s redistricting referendum, where Virginians voted to adopt a constitutional amendment that would allow the state legislature to redraw congressional maps mid-decade. The new maps would have favored Democrats in 10 out of Virginia’s 11 congressional districts. The ruling was a 4-3 split. In a ...

WASHINGTON – The White House signed off on a plan to fire U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary, according to sources familiar with the matter, in what could be the next leadership change within the federal health department.

Two press freedom groups that own shares in Paramount Skydance are demanding to see the company’s books and internal documents, citing allegations that the company’s leaders may have promised favors to the White House to win approval for Paramount’s deal to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery.

President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday released dozens of previously classified files on alleged UFO sightings and alien life to provide what they called "unprecedented transparency" to the American people.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that the U.S. DOGE Service did not have the authority to cancel National Endowment for the Humanities grants, which made up more than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds.

Tennessee's General Assembly approved a new congressional map on May 7 that splits Memphis and divides the city's majority Black voters into neighboring districts, intended to eliminate that state’s last Democratic congressional seat.

Support is growing for a rules change in the House that would bar members of Congress and their staff from trading on prediction markets.

Rudy Giuliani, who was hospitalized in Florida with pneumonia that his lawyer has attributed to toxic exposures after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is just now applying for coverage under the World Trade Center Health Program.

A U.S. federal appeals court at a hearing on Thursday appeared skeptical that the Trump administration’s could legally punish Democratic U.S. Senator Mark Kelly over public remarks he made urging service members to refuse unlawful orders.

 The U.S. government learned last week that it may have reached an unfortunate milestone: The size of its debt surpassed the nation's total economic output.

North Carolina lawmakers are advancing a bill to ban social media for minors under the age of 14, saying the platforms are too dangerous for children to have unfettered access.

A federal judge in New York unsealed a suicide note Wednesday purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein in July, 2019, before a failed suicide attempt soon after he had been taken into federal custody on sex trafficking charges.