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By JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press PHOENIX (AP) — A former Republican lawmaker who questioned the integrity of Arizona’s elections and served as a leader for the conservative group Turning Point Action was sentenced Tuesday to probation and a five-year ban on running for public office for using nominating petitions that contained forged signatures in a

By SEUNG MIN KIM and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump insisted Tuesday that Republicans have “so many good nuggets” to campaign on this year as they try to hold onto their razor-thin margin in the House. But the president’s nearly 90-minute speech before House Republicans had little in the way

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A congressional ethics watchdog said in a report released Monday that there’s substantial reason to believe the former chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Mike Collins hired his girlfriend as an office intern and that she “did not perform duties commensurate with her compensation.” The former chief

By BRUCE SCHREINER Associated Press President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running Trump antagonist, and retired Navy SEAL officer Ed Gallrein, who has the president’s backing. Massie, showing his non-interventionist leanings, fired off a

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump may have his name on the building, but it’s still the Kennedy Center to Congress. A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through Sept.

By JONATHAN MATTISE Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A federal judge on Monday reduced a prison sentence to probation for a former Tennessee lawmaker whose testimony helped convict the former state House speaker and his onetime aide of public corruption. Although her cohorts were pardoned by President Donald Trump, Republican Rep. Robin Smith had

By MORIAH BALINGIT AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is telling Head Start providers to avoid dozens of terms in federal grant applications, including “race,” “belonging” and “pregnant people” — a directive that could reshape the early education program. A coalition of organizations representing Head Start providers and parents said in court

By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press As deposed Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro pleaded not guilty to federal drug trafficking charges in a U.S. courtroom Monday, an array of misrepresented and fabricated images that began circulating soon after his capture over the weekend continued to multiply on social media. President Donald Trump contributed to the deluge, sharing

By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Florida is awaiting approval from federal officials to open a third immigration detention center, following “Alligator Alcatraz” and “Deportation Depot,” and the state also is looking into a potential fourth detention facility, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Monday. Florida officials were waiting for the U.S. Department of

By FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. multinational corporations will be exempted from paying more corporate taxes overseas in a deal finalized by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The OECD announced Monday that nearly 150 countries have agreed on the plan, initially crafted in 2021, to stop large global companies from

By STEVE KARNOWSKI and BILL BARROW Associated Press ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Democrats’ 2024 candidate for vice president, is ending his bid for a third term amid President Donald Trump’s relentless focus on a fraud investigation into the state’s child care programs and its Somali community. Less than four months

By STEVEN SLOAN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela will pose a fresh test of his ability to hold together a restive Republican coalition during a challenging election year that could be defined by domestic concerns like health care and affordability. While most Republicans lined up behind the president

By JOSH FUNK AP Business Writer President Donald Trump’s plan to take control of Venezuela’s oil industry and ask American companies to revitalize it after capturing President Nicolás Maduro in a raid isn’t likely to have a significant immediate impact on oil prices. Venezuela’s oil industry is in disrepair after years of neglect and international

By BILL BARROW and EMILIE MEGNIEN Associated Press DALTON, Ga. (AP) — President Donald Trump says Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is a traitor. But for Jackie Harling, who chairs the local Republican Party in Greene’s northwestern corner of Georgia, she’s still “mama bear.” “Every thought that we had in our minds, she seemed to be

By MELISSA GOLDIN Associated Press President Donald Trump on Saturday held an extended news conference to explain the U.S. raid on Venezuela to extract President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, at times veering off topic and repeating false claims around his initiatives. In praising the military, Trump highlighted National Guard deployments into U.S. cities, making

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Less than 24 hours after throngs of ecstatic supporters poured into Manhattan for his history-making inauguration, Zohran Mamdani began his first full day of work with a routine familiar to many New Yorkers: trudging to the subway from a cramped apartment. Bundled against the frigid temperature

By MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump defended his energy and health in an interview with The Wall Street Journal and disclosed that he had a CT scan, not an MRI scan, during an October examination about which he and the White House delayed offering details. Trump, in the interview

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Zohran Mamdani became mayor of New York City on Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city’s striving, struggling working class. Mamdani, a Democrat, was sworn in at a decommissioned subway

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts said Wednesday that the Constitution remains a sturdy pillar for the country, a message that comes after a tumultuous year in the nation’s judicial system with pivotal Supreme Court decisions on the horizon. Roberts said the nation’s founding documents remain “firm and unshaken,”

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol “does not happen” without Donald Trump, former special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers earlier this month in characterizing the Republican president as the “most culpable and most responsible person” in the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of

By JOSH FUNK and DIDI TANG Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Farmers are now learning how much aid they can expect to receive from a $12 billion package that President Donald Trump announced earlier this month. The U.S. Department of Agriculture released the figures Wednesday for how much aid per acre farmers can plan

By STEPHEN GROVES Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has ended the lease agreement for three public golf courses in Washington, a move that offers President Donald Trump an additional opportunity to put his stamp on another piece of the nation’s capital. The National Links Trust, the nonprofit that has operated Washington’s three

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The Trump administration can continue to withhold Medicaid funding from Planned Parenthood and other health centers that provide abortions as a coalition of mostly Democratic states challenges the cuts, a federal appeals court ruled. The decision on Tuesday is one of multiple lawsuits filed after President

By STEPHEN GROVES and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also increases the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating release of the files, according to a