Month: November 2025

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. House is back in session after a multi-week hiatus, but its agenda has been quickly overtaken by a sudden flurry of censures, reprimands and the investigation of members, leaving little bandwidth for legislating. With few bills to consider — and no quick fix for

By MEG KINNARD Associated Press President Donald Trump said late Wednesday that the long-awaited meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani would happen in Washington later this week, setting up an in-person clash between the political polar opposites who for months have antagonized each other from afar. The sit-down, which Trump said on social

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Larry Summers was once so powerful that he was dubbed a member of the Committee to Save the World. Now, he’s increasingly a man in exile. Summers took leave from his teaching post at Harvard University on Wednesday following the release of emails last week that showed

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has escalated its attempt to seize Chinese government-owned property across the United States, asking the Trump administration for help collecting on a roughly $25 billion court judgment related to the COVID-19 pandemic that Beijing has flatly rejected. Missouri is asking the U.S. State

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has signed a bill to compel the Justice Department to make public its case files on the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, a potentially far-reaching development in a yearslong push by survivors of Epstein’s abuse for a public reckoning. Both the House and Senate

By SEUNG MIN KIM The Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed legislation Wednesday that compels his administration to release files on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, bowing to political pressure from his own party after initially resisting those efforts. Trump could have chosen to release many of the files on his own