Former Representative Mike Rogers, Republican of Michigan, announced on Monday that he would run for his state’s open U.S. Senate seat, his second bid for the chamber after losing to Senator Elissa Slotkin, a Democrat, by fewer than 20,000 votes last fall. The seat opened after Michigan’s senior senator, Gary Peters, a Democrat, said that…
Only three days after President Trump announced sweeping tariffs, including a 20 percent tariff on goods from the European Union, Elon Musk said on Saturday that he hoped that Europe and the United States moved “to a zero-tariff situation, effectively creating a free-trade zone.” Mr. Musk made the remarks during a videoconference appearance with Italy’s…
In his drive to seek higher office, the prosecutors’ filing said, Mr. Santos fabricated his past and engaged in deceitful schemes, including inflating his fund-raising numbers and stealing from donors. “He lied to his campaign staff, his supporters, his putative employer and congressional colleagues, and the American public,” the prosecutors wrote. “Santos’s conduct has made…
President Trump has criticized a portrait painted during his first term that is hanging in the Colorado State Capitol, and demanded that the state’s governor take it down. The portrait, painted in oil by the Colorado-based artist Sarah Boardman and unveiled in 2019, features the president in a dark suit and red tie. It hangs…
Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, who served from 2015 to 2019, died on Sunday at her home in Utah. She was 49. Her family confirmed the death in a post on one of Ms. Love’s social media pages. She had been diagnosed in 2022 with a glioblastoma, an aggressive type…
Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, remained defiant in the face of continuing criticism and growing calls to resign more than a week after he cleared the way for a Republican spending bill without negotiating any major concessions. “I’m not stepping down,” he said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press.”…
The Internal Revenue Service is preparing to help homeland security officials locate immigrants they are trying to deport, according to three officials familiar with the matter, in a shift toward using protected taxpayer information to help President Trump’s mass deportation push. Under a draft of an agreement between the I.R.S. and the Immigration and Customs…
The Trump administration moved early Friday to detain an international student at Cornell University who has led protests on its Ithaca, N.Y., campus, in what appeared to be the latest effort to kick pro-Palestinian activists out of the United States. A lawyer for Momodou Taal, a doctoral student in Africana studies, said in court papers…
President Trump’s revenge tour continues. Late Friday night, he issued a memo rescinding security clearances and access to classified information for a slew of erstwhile opponents including Kamala Harris, Hillary Clinton, Joseph R. Biden Jr. and “any other member of Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s family.” Mr. Trump had said back in February that he planned…
After weeks of appeals from Wisconsin Republicans, President Trump on Friday night endorsed Brad Schimel, the conservative candidate in a hard-fought contest that will decide control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court. “All Voters who believe in Common Sense should GET OUT TO VOTE EARLY for Brad Schimel,” Mr. Trump posted on his social media site….
