Yes, he talks like a Brooklyn tough guy, but Sen. Bernie Sanders is a resident of Vermont, America's most rural and most white state. That he fled New York City nearly 60 years ago seems lost on the current Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his fellow socialists. Then again, Mamdani hasn't been around ...

NEW YORK (AP) — This is not the run-up to the midterm elections that Republicans wanted. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, Donald Trump is a wartime president overseeing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict. The war ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Pam Bondi is out of her job after failing to deliver criminal cases against President Donald Trump's political enemies. But there's no guarantee her successor will have any better success at placating the president. Over the last year, Bondi's Justice Department has ...

Today is Saturday, April 4, the 94th day of 2026. There are 271 days left in the year. Today in history: In 1968, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot and killed while standing on a balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. King's death triggered a wave of ...

Politicians tax what we earn, regulate what we build and often decide what we can do with our bodies and our money. I like to think I own myself. But politicians increasingly act as if they do. "People should not have power over other people's lives," says Timothy Sandefur, author of the book ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's White House ballroom won final approval from a key agency on Thursday, despite a federal judge recently ordering a halt to construction unless Congress allows what would be the biggest structural change to the American landmark in more than 70 ...