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WASHINGTON — A divided Supreme Court on Monday allowed Border Patrol agents to resume cutting for now razor wire that Texas installed along a stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border that is at the center of an escalating standoff between the Biden administration and the state over immigration enforcement. The 5-4 vote clears the way for […]

WASHINGTON — Presidential contender Ron DeSantis, who was once viewed as Republicans’ best shot at moving past Donald Trump, dropped out of the primary race on Sunday, a relatively early exit that underlines the iron grip the former president retains on the party. DeSantis, 45, endorsed Trump in a video posted to the X social […]

NEW YORK — Months before Donald Trump’s defiant turn as a witness at his New York civil fraud trial, the former president came face-to-face with the state attorney general who is suing him when he sat for a deposition last year at her Manhattan office. Video made public Friday of the seven-hour, closed-door session last […]

This weekend, temperatures will be below freezing with wind chills as low as minus 20 to minus 30 degrees across the Northern Plains, the National Weather Service said. Frigid air was expected to drift into the Midwest from Canada, and millions were under wind chill advisories. Meanwhile, heavy rain was set to hit the West […]

Earlier this week, 11 senators voted for a bill by Sen. Bernie Sanders aimed at forcing the Biden administration to examine potential human rights abuses by Israel. After weeks of unquestioning support, the Senate is emerging as a center of resistance to Biden’s unwavering embrace of Israel — at least in modest ways — as […]

ROCHESTER, N.H.—This state’s independent voters tired of extreme partisanship look like Nikki Haley’s last hope for breaking Donald Trump’s iron grip on the Republican presidential nomination. Fed up with the former president and unmoved by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the majority of unaffiliated voters here are planning to back the former South Carolina governor in […]

NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York on Wednesday threatened to expel former U.S. President Donald Trump from a civil trial after he repeatedly made side comments disparaging the testimony of his accuser, writer E. Jean Carroll. Carroll is seeking damages from Trump, whom she accuses of defaming her after she accused him of […]

A woman and two children drowned in the Rio Grande as they tried to the enter the U.S. from Mexico on Friday night after Texas military officers prevented federal border officials from going to their aid, according to local media and U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar. The deaths come as a dispute over immigration intensifies between […]

Former President Donald Trump will win the Iowa caucuses, CNN projects, solidifying his place as the front-runner for the 2024 Republican nomination as he attempts a historic political comeback nearly three years after leaving the White House in disgrace. Trump’s victory in this, his first election since losing to Joe Biden in 2020, put to bed […]

The first voting in the 2024 U.S. presidential campaign starts Monday night in the snowbound farm state of Iowa, with polling showing that former President Donald Trump is positioned for a substantial victory in the Republican caucuses as he tries to eventually reclaim the White House in next November’s national election. A final Iowa poll […]