Tens of millions of dollars promised to Detroit, Grand Rapids and the Michigan Department of Transportation for electric vehicle charging programs are among the federal grants in peril since President Donald Trump ordered agencies to "immediately pause" payments stemming from two laws passed during his predecessor's term.

Trump on Monday issued...Read more

Florida International University may be on the list for what could be President Donald Trump’s most high-profile real estate deal: his presidential library.

Trump’s local real estate lobbyist recently toured the state school’s main campus in the Miami suburbs as part of an early effort to scout potential library sites. And multiple ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's executive order rejecting liberal "gender ideology" and restoring the "biological truth" of two sexes sets the stage for a legal battle in blue states over transgender students and adults.

Trump says his administration will only recognize "two sexes, male and female" in federal policy, and not "gender ...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal judge in Washington state on Thursday temporarily blocked, nationwide, President Donald Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, the first legal roadblock in a flurry of high-profile initiatives in his first days back in the White House.

The ruling came after a hearing in a challenge from Washington...Read more

CHICAGO — As political division and mistrust surfaced again this inauguration week for Americans, some suburbs and Illinois towns are looking to put into action a system that proponents hope can boost fairness and increase trust in the election process: ranked choice voting.

Evanston, Skokie, Oak Park, Naperville, Berwyn and downstate Peoria ...Read more

DILWORTH, Minnesota – Glen Hjelle’s farm outside Elbow Lake in western Minnesota sits a long way from the White House.

But as a young man, he remembers how then-President Jimmy Carter’s embargo of the Soviet Union rattled wheat markets like nothing he’d see for the coming decades.

That is, until the presidency of Donald Trump.

“I’...Read more

BOSTON — ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push, including the Boston area where one Haitian gang member told agents “(expletive) Trump, Biden forever!,” according to a Fox News report set to air today.

The Herald reported...Read more

During his first term, Donald Trump pledged to kill two federal regulations for each new one imposed. In the spirit of the president’s hyperbolic manner, he now proposes during his second term to eliminate 10 federal rules for each new regulation.

“Already, preparations are underway to slash massive numbers of job-killing regulations — ...Read more

President Donald Trump, who ignored the sound advice of his strongest and closest allies not to pardon the cop-assaulting felons of Jan. 6, should have his wild instincts curbed by the Republican Senate in saying no to the worst of his Cabinet nominees.

We are looking at you, Pete Hegetsh for defense and Bobby Kennedy Jr. for health and human ...Read more

BOSTON — ICE has already begun rounding up hundreds of illegal immigrant criminals across the country just two days into the Trump administration’s aggressive push, including the Boston area where one Haitian gang member told agents “(expletive) Trump, Biden forever!,” according to a Fox News report set to air today.

The Herald reported...Read more

American prisons are rapidly graying.

Following decades of mass incarceration, exacerbated by the U.S. war on drugs, the proportion of older people in prison has increased since the early 1990s. Nearly a quarter of people behind bars in federal and state prisons are over age 50. That’s five times the proportion of the prison ...Read more

Artificial intelligence is rapidly disrupting America’s job market. Within the next decade, positions such as administrative assistants, cashiers, postal clerks, and data entry workers could be fully automated.

Although the World Economic Forum expects a net increase of 78 million jobs, significant policy efforts will be required to support ...Read more

The New York Times called it “A Grim Picture of America.”

Politico labeled it “American Carnage, Part 2.”

However, for most Americans, President Donald Trump’s second inaugural address was a positive, hopeful vision of his America First politics. And the days when negative media coverage could convince them otherwise are long gone.

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As Donald J. Trump returns to the role of U.S. president, many Americans ask themselves a simple question: Will his administration protect their pocketbooks, their way of life and their health?

While we want our government to do just that, Trump focused his first speech as the 47th president of the United States on fear-mongering and culture ...Read more