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The San Francisco mayor’s quiet diplomacy helped defuse a federal surge in a city bracing for confrontation. SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Lurie still won’t say Donald Trump’s name. But on Thursday, that deliberate omission — a strategy ridiculed by progressives in his liberal city — appeared to spare San Francisco from the president’s wrath. Trump’s … Read more
A leading kids’ online safety advocate and the former U.S. surgeon general are pushing for voters to decide on AI chatbots, after Gavin Newsom vetoed a similar bill. SAN FRANCISCO — Former Biden administration U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and a leading kids online safety advocate announced they are filing a ballot initiative in California … Read more
The discussions surround how to structure and advance an extension of key insurance subsidies before the end of the year. Republican leaders on Capitol Hill are quietly ramping up talks within their senior ranks and with White House officials over how to structure and advance a potential extension of key Affordable Care Act insurance subsidies … Read more
The Trump administration is seeking to overturn a district judge who ordered Khalil released. A panel of federal appeals court judges appeared deeply skeptical Tuesday of the Trump administration’s effort to detain and deport pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil using an obscure provision of immigration law. A three-judge panel from the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of … Read more
“Constitutional rights cannot be used as a bargaining chip,” Kris Mayes wrote. Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes filed a lawsuit against House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday for failing to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva. In the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Washington, Mayes asks the court to compel Johnson to swear in Grijalva or … Read more
The one-time national security adviser is among several senior officials who have been investigated for improperly storing or sharing the government’s secrets. Toggle menu How John Bolton’s criminal case stacks up to other high-profile classified docs probes The one-time national security adviser is among several senior officials who have been investigated for improperly storing or … Read more
Once again the United States is using its economic might to pressure other countries to back down from an effort to limit greenhouse gas pollution. The Trump administration is ramping up the pressure on the European Union to repeal or overhaul a regulation on corporations’ greenhouse gas pollution — in the latest example of the … Read more
The move would reignite a fight with coastal state governors — particularly California’s Gavin Newsom — who forced the president to back down in his first term. The Trump administration plans to propose opening federal waters in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans to offshore drilling, two people familiar with the plan said Wednesday, a move … Read more
The White House has tried to blunt the shutdown’s impacts on Americans. But that may not last much longer. The White House has tried to tune the ongoing government shutdown so that everyday Americans barely notice. That’s harder to do every day the government’s doors stay shut. Though air traffic controllers are working, it wouldn’t … Read more
The top Democrats’ entreaty came ahead of the president’s weeklong Asia journey. The top congressional Democrats contacted President Donald Trump on Tuesday to request a meeting as the shutdown drags into a fourth week. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in comments to reporters after a closed-door caucus lunch that he and House Minority Leader … Read more