WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says Trump Accounts could hoist children out of poverty and give more Americans the chance to benefit from investments in the stock market. Some parents say th...

Only 22% of 18-yearold Pennsylvanians are registered to vote, but advocates say there are ways to boost that number. Pennsylvania has seen healthy turnout in recent elections, but one important segmen...

WHEN A JUDGE GIVES A DEADLINE, it’s not a suggestion. It’s a brick wall — hard hitting and difficult to blow past. If a lawyer misses a filing date, a case can get tossed out of court. If evidence isn...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court has rejected a request by Joe Biden to block the release of audio recordings and transcripts of his interviews with a memoir ghostwriter before he was elected...

She was sworn in by Sen. Charles Grassley, who is about to turn 93 and whose grandson, the speaker of the Iowa House of Representatives, is a good bet to succeed him eventually. She took her brother’s...

NEW YORK (AP) — How many women hold executive-level positions at top U.S. companies? What is the racial and ethnic breakdown of those roles? What is the gender and racial breakdown of the lowest- paid...

NEW YORK (AP) — The progressive movement may already have hit its high point in the 2026 midterms. Or this may be the beginning of a much more powerful shift as voters, eager for change, decide to emb...

With a whimper rather than a bang, the world has become a different place than it was in January 2021, when Donald Trump left office. Almost everything we are now told about the global status quo is m...

WE WERE GLAD TO SEE THE PHOTO of a smiling U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., alongside his wife, Elaine Chao. The 84-year-old McConnell revealed he had been hospitalized following a rough June 14 fall...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump ‘s favorite political targets, a catchall foil for feckless Democrats that he could jeer at to make himself look strong and deci...

SOUTH HAVEN, Mich. (AP) — Senate candidate Haley Stevens talks often about manufacturing, taking on President Donald Trump and why she’s the Democrat best positioned to win Michigan. The congresswoman...

To the Editor: The blame game has been around forever. From the child accused of wrong-doing and placing the blame on someone else to the President of the United States Donald J. Trump. He has accumul...

PAWLEYS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA — Sen. Lindsey Graham once called Joe Biden “as good a man as God ever created.” Years later, he described Donald Trump — who derided and demeaned Biden — as “not far be...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump used a primetime address to the nation Thursday to once again raise doubts about the results of past elections, reviving a subject he’s long used to make unpro...

One of the colder aspects of life in Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in a frenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortu...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will deliver a primetime address this week that he says will include a focus on elections, suggesting he could revisit long-debunked conspiracy theories about ...

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s unexpected death on Saturday night fueled baseless speculation on social media that his passing was the result of a criminal action. Among the onslaught were posts that falsely a...

By David Shribman Last month, the Supreme Court permitted Donald Trump to remove members of regulatory agencies and to curtail efforts of migrants to win asylum in the United States. In the last sever...

Zohran Mamdani, New York’s self-described socialist mayor, could not resist using the nation’s 250th anniversary celebration to trash the very country that he and his parents voluntarily sought out. A...

To the Editor: A lot of people don’t believe our country has a future. A guy picks up his AR-15 and shoots people. Used to be that guy would offer a ringing defense of his actions at his trial, like A...