Tim Scott says Biden is 'willing to tank' economy by getting rid of Trump tax cuts

S.C., criticized President Biden for wanting to let tax cuts passed in 2017 under former President Trump to expire and increase taxes. Read More

Exclusive: Donald Trump mulls middle-class tax cut as he eyes return to office

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has indicated to advisers he is keen on a new middle-class tax cut should he return to the White House, two people familiar with the discussions ... Read More

Investigator says Trump, allies were uncharged co-conspirators in plot to overturn Michigan election

A state investigator in Michigan says he considers former President Donald Trump and some key allies to be uncharged co-conspirators in a scheme to claim that he had won Michigan ... Read More

US births fell last year, marking an end to the late pandemic rebound, experts say

Surveys suggest many U.S. couples would prefer to have two or more kids but see housing, job security and the cost of child care as significant obstacles to having more ... Read More

Protests roiling US colleges escalate with arrests, new encampments and closures

NEW YORK — The student protests of Israel’s war with Hamas that have been creating friction at U.S. universities escalated Tuesday as new encampments sprouted and some colleges encouraged students to ... Read More

Trump meets with a senior Japanese official after court session in his hush money trial

Former President Donald Trump is meeting with another foreign leader while he’s in New York for his criminal hush money trial. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee hosted former Japanese Pr ... Read More

US government agrees to $138.7M settlement over FBI's botching of Larry Nassar assault allegations

When combined with other settlements, roughly $1 billion now has been set aside by various organizations to compensate hundreds of women who said Nassar assaulted them under the guise of treatment for ... Read More

TikTok may be banned in the US. Here's what happened when India did it

The hugely popular Chinese app TikTok may be forced out of the U.S., where a measure to outlaw the video-sharing app has won congressional approval and is on its way ... Read More

Supreme Court will decide whether Trump is immune from federal prosecution. Here's what's next

The Supreme Court will consider a straightforward but legally untested question: whether a former president is immune from federal prosecution for official acts. Read More

Meadows, Giuliani among Trump allies indicted in Arizona 2020 election probe

Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows and lawyer Rudy Giuliani are among 11 Republicans indicted on criminal charges as Arizona becomes the fourth state to bring charges against “fake electors.” ... Read More

Scientists say USDA is sharing too little data too slowly on H5N1 flu

When the US Department of Agriculture announced late Sunday that it had publicly posted new data from its investigation into a bird flu outbreak in cattle, scientists eagerly ... Read More

Senate overwhelmingly passes aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, ties bill to TikTok ban

The Senate tonight passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden along with a bill that could ban TikTok in the U.S. Read More