ArticleTreas­ury designs a Trump $250 bill

ATLANTA — Treas­ury Sec­ret­ary Scott Bes­sent said Thursday that his depart­ment has pre­pared the design for a $250 bill fea­tur­ing Pres­id­ent Trump, anti­cip­at­ing the pas­sage of stalled legis­la­tion in Con­gress to put the pres­id­ent on a new...

Article‘Stroke’ of bad tim­ing

WASHINGTON — Demo­crats are shak­ing their heads in dis­be­lief at the tim­ing of Jill Biden’s mem­oir and her change in tone about Joe Biden’s dis­astrous debate per­form­ance. The party would rather talk about the high cost of liv­ing and increased...

ArticleCali­for­nia Demo­crats shrug at their choices in packed race to replace Gov. New­som

ArticleFormer judges ask court to look into Trump deal with IRS

WASHINGTON – A bipar­tisan group of 35 fed­eral judges asked a fed­eral court in Flor­ida to reopen the legal case between Pres­id­ent Don­ald Trump and the IRS and invest­ig­ate whether the two parties’ out-of-court set­tle­ment was an act of fraud...

ArticleVenezuela’s act­ing pres­id­ent is in the clear

MIAMI — The Trump admin­is­tra­tion has quietly instruc­ted fed­eral pro­sec­utors in Miami to avoid pur­su­ing crim­inal invest­ig­a­tions into Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­id­ent Delcy Rodríguez, a long­time tar­get of the U. S. Drug Enforce­ment...

ArticleNum­ber of the Week

$33m The House primary record price tag for the ad blitz in Ken­tucky’s 4th Dis­trict GOP primary, per Adim­pact. The flood of out­side money helped sink Rep. Thomas Massie to a Trump-backed chal­lenger, rein­for­cing polit­ical risk for Repub­lic­ans...

ArticleMeas­ure bans bal­lot seizures in state

River­side County Sher­iff Chad Bianco’s unpre­ced­en­ted seizure of 650,000 local voters’ bal­lots this year just inspired a new law to stop him from doing it again. Gov. Gavin New­som signed the Bianco-inspired legis­la­tion Wed­nes­day dur­ing a...

ArticleNewer sup­port­ers to Trump: “We didn’t vote for this”

Don­ald Trump’s reelec­tion in 2024 was built on a straight­for­ward trans­ac­tion with mil­lions of Amer­ic­ans who were unsure about whether to give him a second go in the White House: They could choose what mattered to them from his long list of...