The MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell believes he's on to a scandal — the U.S. president who held a snap summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and then immediately after, hosted a spontaneous meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky and major European leaders at the White House, is so ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's administration is taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak in the latest example of the federal government exerting its power over the nation's capital. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the takeover Wednesday alongside Amtrak ...

Today is Thursday, Aug. 28, the 240th day of 2025. There are 125 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1963, during the March on Washington, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech before an estimated 250,000 people in front of the Lincoln Memorial in ...

Democrats have lost another issue. They had hoped to tie President Donald Trump to “ungentlemanly behavior” at the late Jeffrey Epstein’s “Love Island,” but no less a character witness than Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s procurer of underage girls and young women, has told Justice ...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday threw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against Maryland's entire federal bench in an emphatic ruling that underscored the extraordinary nature of the suit, slamming it as "potentially calamitous." U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was ...

Today is Wednesday, Aug. 27, the 239th day of 2025. There are 126 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1883, the island volcano Krakatoa erupted with a series of cataclysmic explosions. The explosions (which could be heard 3,000 miles away) and resulting tsunamis in Indonesia's Sunda ...