House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.

The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat has conceded last November’s election to the Democratic incumbent.

Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland in the first major talks between the two nations since President Donald Trump sparked a trade war with stiff tariffs on imports.

Citizen activists could find it harder to get initiatives on next year's ballot in some states.

It may feel like you have to attend law school to understand the American legal system.

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program.

The White House says the vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been removed from his position, a rare move that comes as the federal agency charged with investigating aviation disasters juggles more than 1,000 cases.

Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

A federal judge has temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from dramatically shrinking three agencies that fund libraries, settle labor disputes and support state business contracting programs.

President Donald Trump says he’s ordering a halt to nearly two months of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis.

News4JAX political analyst and head of the Jacksonville University Public Policy Institute Rick Mullaney joins me for this week’s episode of “Politics & Power” to break down all the issues in the president’s first 100 days.

Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to a Drug Enforcement Administration lab to meet with chemists who are tasked with identifying the ever-evolving tactics employed by cartels to manufacture drugs flowing across the southern border.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he’s informed the White House that he won’t support Donald Trump’s pick for top federal prosecutor in Washington, stalling the nomination in the Senate weeks before the temporary appointment expires.

The head of Homeland Security says travelers who aren’t REAL ID compliant by the upcoming deadline this week will still be able to fly but should be prepared for extra scrutiny.

The U.S. Justice Department is doubling down on its attempt to break up Google by asking it to give up the underlying technology powering the company’s digital ad network.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.

A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.

A judge has ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.

Among all U.S. allies being wooed by Beijing in its tariff stare-down with Washington, Japan stands out as a peculiar case.

President Donald Trump's administration has asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three Republican-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to the abortion medication mifepristone.

A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest after editors killed her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President Donald Trump, has won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary.

A prominent Washington attorney has sued the Trump administration over the revocation of his security clearance, calling it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardizes his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases.

President Donald Trump is threatening to levy all films made outside the U.S. at a steep rate of 100%.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.

There has been significant discussion recently regarding the future of Head Start, the early education program that supports hundreds of thousands of children from low-income families. While the Trump administration claims it will not cut funding, a leaked document has raised concerns among educators and families.

President Donald Trump on Monday promoted a dinner he’s set to attend later this month that’s open to almost anyone who buys enough of his meme coin.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he met President Donald Trump over the weekend in Florida.

Georgia Republican Gov. Brian Kemp won’t run for Senate in 2026 against Democratic incumbent Jon Ossoff.

The president of the nation’s largest union for federal workers says the organization’s ongoing staff downsizing will devastate the services it provides members and threatens the group’s survival.

A Wisconsin prosecutor has cleared police officers from Ohio of criminal liability in a fatal shooting near the Republican National Convention last summer.

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, an early supporter of President Donald Trump’s first successful White House bid and a polarizing figure in state politics, says he is running for Congress in a competitive district.

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.

The Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 plus travel costs if they leave voluntarily as it accelerates its mass deportation agenda.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is among many Democrats looking to find the right path to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans after the GOP won the White House and congressional majorities in 2024.

President Donald Trump's trade war isn't just about tariffs.

Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to deliver the commencement speech May 10.

For six years, Gov. Ron DeSantis had a firm grasp on Florida’s legislature. In his second-to-last legislative session, that is not the case.

President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

It felt much longer, but the U_S_ stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.”.

Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.

There is a lot of talk about what is going to happen to the Seahorse Oceanfront Inn and the old Kmart.

International students in the U.S. are reconsidering their travel plans this summer after a wave of student status terminations and visa revocations.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1 billion voucher program into law.

President Donald Trump is once more calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts.

A new mission statement for the Justice Department unit that upholds voting rights shows it's being redirected toward prioritizing President Donald Trump's executive order on elections.

The Department of Justice is suing Colorado and Denver for allegedly interfering with federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.

The White House plans to cut staffing at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency.

President Donald Trump's administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start.

A federal judge has blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution against the legal profession.

Lawyers say the Trump administration has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot.

Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The White House is unveiling President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget, a sweeping framework proposing steep reductions in non-defense domestic spending while increasing expenditures on national security.

Cincinnati’s mayor faces a primary challenge Tuesday from two first-time candidates, including the half brother of Vice President JD Vance.

Florida lawmakers are still nowhere close to agreeing on a budget for the next fiscal year. That means the legislative session that was supposed to wrap up Friday will not end on time.

A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.

Most of President Donald Trump’s top nominees have sailed through the Senate with little resistance.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

Vice President JD Vance has visited a steel plant in South Carolina, where he heralded the launch of an “industrial renaissance” in the U.S., in part due to President Donald Trump’s moves to boost domestic industry.

A new memo and U.S. officials say the Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 Pentagon headquarters staff and shift personnel to units in the field.

When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.

Last fall's “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of a $20 billion lawsuit by President Donald Trump — was nominated for an Emmy Award for “outstanding edited interview.”.

President Donald Trump's remark to Terry Moran in an ABC News interview — that it was his choice to whom he would grant an interview — exposes a delicate question for journalists.

The Justice Department is suing four states over climate action.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

A flurry of immigration enforcement activity at courthouses around the country in the past month has renewed a legal battle from President Donald Trump’s first term.

President Donald Trump says he is naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating as United Nations ambassador.

Elon Musk is defending the work of the Department of Government Efficiency as he prepares to scale back from his government role and spend more time at his businesses.

The U.S. Forest Service is evicting dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years so that it can start a wildfire prevention project.

Activists around the globe are kicking off May Day demonstrations with workers rights rallies and marches for social justice causes.

Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups.

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

The Trump family company has struck a deal for a luxury golf resort in Qatar.

Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office have been an assault of Americans’ very way of life.

The North Carolina House advanced its own restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion practices for state agencies.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.

A Republican state lawmaker from Maine appealed to the Supreme Court after she was censured by the state House for a social media post about a transgender athlete, a move that comes amid sparring over the issue between the Democratically controlled state and the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump says “I could” bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted.

The first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term moved at a dizzying pace. News4JAX political analyst Rick Mullaney joined us on The Morning Show to look at promises made, promises kept and promises that remain unfulfilled.

The U.S. and Ukraine have announced an economic deal after a weekslong press by President Donald Trump.

It is a fight that has been brewing for years as people in the area say they want to protect wildlife and families.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has used a high-profile speech in San Francisco to criticize President Donald Trump, accusing him of abandoning American ideals.

A New York City suburb has become the latest flashpoint in the enduring debate over the place of Indigenous imagery in American sports.

As more women and young people run for public office, they’re bringing more than fresh policy ideas to statehouses.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Donald Trump have shared a hug as he arrived in her home state.

A federal judge expressed skepticism over the Trump administration’s assertions that its decision to declare an invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border and suspend asylum access was not something courts had the authority to review.

American businesses are cancelling orders from China, postponing expansion plans and hunkering down to see what trade policy surprises President Donald Trump plans to spring on them next.

Republicans in Congress are working to pump billions of dollars into President Donald Trump’s mass deportation and border security program.

President Donald Trump has announced a new fighter jet mission for an Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

A judge has ruled that the state of New Mexico must commission a remedial plan for K-12 education because the system hasn't adequately helped Native American students and others from low-income households.

President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden’s nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.

The first major test of Donald Trump’s influence on the affairs of a longtime U.S. ally went badly.

About two dozen states have sued the Trump administration over the dismantling of AmeriCorps.

Harvard University is promising to review its academic offerings and admissions policies in response to a pair of internal reports on antisemitism and anti-Arab prejudice at the Ivy League campus following pro-Palestinian protests.

The Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online, is heading to President Donald Trump's signature after its bipartisan passage in congress.

Attorney General Pam Bondi traveled to a Drug Enforcement Administration lab to meet with chemists who are tasked with identifying the ever-evolving tactics employed by cartels to manufacture drugs flowing across the southern border.

A federal judge in California has barred Border Patrol agents from arresting someone suspected of living in the U.S. illegally unless they have a warrant or a reason to believe the person might flee before a warrant can be obtained.