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By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press New Mexico lawmakers are to open a special session Wednesday to boost funding for food assistance and rural health care — actions the Democratic governor contends are needed to “minimize the damage from President Trump’s disastrous bill” cutting federal taxes and spending. The special session follows one in Colorado,

By The Associated Press Democratic and Republican congressional leaders met at the White House on Monday with President Donald Trump in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides thus far have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions. If government funding legislation isn’t passed by Congress and signed

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia state House member who advocated for Palestinians at the 2024 Democratic National Convention is entering the state’s race for governor. Ruwa Romman announced her 2026 bid for governor on Monday, saying Democrats need a clearer progressive vision and greater focus on organizing voters. She’s at

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The former state economic development director for Wisconsin, who previously worked as an executive at a dairy cooperative, announced Monday that she is running for governor as a Democrat, promising to reject “divisive politics.” Missy Hughes took a less combative approach toward Republican President Donald Trump

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ended his struggling reelection campaign Sunday, an acknowledgment that he was no longer a credible contender after a year of scandal and political turmoil. In a video released on social media, Adams spoke proudly of his tenure

By JEFF AMY Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — Fallout from the 2020 presidential election feels like it may never end in Georgia. Maybe more any other state, the decisions made after Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow win — and Donald Trump’s false claims of victory — still define politics in the Peach State. In Georgia, 2020

By STEPHEN GROVES and MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A government shutdown fast approaching, Democratic and Republican congressional leaders left a White House meeting with President Donald Trump Monday afternoon showing no sign of compromising from their entrenched positions in order to avoid a lapse in funding. If government funding legislation isn’t

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Two hundred members of the Oregon National Guard are being placed under federal control and deployed to protect immigration enforcement officers and government facilities, according to a Defense Department memo received by state leaders on Sunday. The deployment is being made over the objections

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed a new U.S. House map into law Sunday as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to try to hold on to a narrow Republican majority in next year’s congressional election. Kehoe’s signature puts the revised districts into state law

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Eric Adams ends his reelection campaign.

By LAURA UNGAR AP Science Writer An Indiana woman with an autistic son says President Donald Trump was blaming moms when he made unfounded claims that taking Tylenol while pregnant causes autism. A Kentucky woman diagnosed with the condition as an adult thought Trump was villainizing autism by describing it as a “horrible, horrible crisis.”

By SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has had one refrain in recent days when asked about the looming government shutdown. Will there be a shutdown? Yes, Trump says, “because the Democrats are crazed.” Why is the White House pursuing mass firings, not just furloughs, of federal workers? Trump responds,

By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press In 2007, eight years after becoming Venezuela’s president, Hugo Chávez revoked the license of the country’s oldest private television station. Eight months into his second term, President Donald Trump suggested revoking the licenses of U.S. television stations he believes are overly critical of him. Since he returned to office in

By ISABELLA VOLMERT Associated Press Kimberly Pope Adams was an auditor working in Virginia when she got a call from a Democratic state Senator who had heard Adams was interested in running for office. Sen. Danica Roem encouraged Adams to attend a six-month training program with the state’s chapter of Emerge, a national group focusing

By SEUNG MIN KIM and LISA MASCARO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump plans to meet with the top four congressional leaders at the White House on Monday, one day before the deadline to fund the federal government or face a shutdown. The meeting involving House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader

By SCOTT McFETRIDGE Associated Press DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Officials put the leader of Iowa’s largest school district on administrative leave Saturday, a day after federal immigration agents arrested him because they said he was in the country illegally. The Des Moines school board voted unanimously to place Superintendent Ian Roberts on paid leave

By BYRON TAU Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is only two pages and alleges he falsely testified to Congress in 2020 about authorizing someone to be an anonymous source in news stories. That brevity belies a convoluted and contentious backstory. The events at the heart of the

The Associated Press James Comey is indicted Former FBI director James Comey was charged with lying to Congress on Thursday as the Trump administration escalated its campaign against the president’s perceived enemies. Here is a summary of what happened, the backstory on the Trump-Comey relationship, and here is our analysis of Trump’s campaign of retribution.

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — The money started drying up quickly, almost as soon as President Donald Trump began issuing his executive orders. Head Start funds for early childhood programs. National Institutes of Health grants. Funding for the nation’s public libraries and museums. Money from a landmark bipartisan infrastructure law to

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown over their refusal to meet with Democrats and strike a deal to save health care funding from cuts. Jeffries told the Associated Press in an

By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired 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, three people familiar with the matter said Friday. The bureau last spring had reassigned the agents

By CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Sixteen states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday, alleging that its threats to pull sexual education funding over curricula mentioning diverse gender identities were a violation of federal law. The complaint filed in federal court in

By JAIMIE DING Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 79-year-old man in Southern California filed a claim against the federal government Thursday for $50 million in damages, saying federal agents violated his civil rights when they tackled him during a Sept. 9 immigration raid at a car wash business. Rafie Ollah Shouhed, the owner

By STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — MyPillow founder Mike Lindell defamed the election technology company Smartmatic with false statements that its voting machines helped rig the 2020 presidential election, a federal judge in Minnesota ruled Friday. But U.S. District Judge Jeffrey Bryan deferred until future proceedings the question of whether Lindell — one

By KIM CHANDLER Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey said Friday that she will not call a special session to draw new Alabama Senate districts after a federal judge ruled the current map violates the Voting Rights Act. Ivey said the state faces uncertainty on how to comply with both the

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has fired agents photographed kneeling during 2020 racial justice protest, AP sources say.

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The Democratic candidate for governor of New Jersey in this year’s high-stakes race is defending her Navy service record amid questions surrounding a cheating scandal during her time at the Naval Academy, and pushing back against the Trump administration’s release of her mostly unredacted military records.

By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin business owner Bill Berrien, a supporter of President Donald Trump, ended his Republican campaign for governor on Friday, days after it was reported that he followed numerous sexually explicit accounts online, including a nonbinary pornography performer. Berrien, a former Navy SEAL and one of three

By LISA MASCARO AP Congressional Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) — Just back from a congressional delegation trip to Ukraine, a senior Republican said he’s more optimistic that the country can succeed in the war with the right support from the U.S. and other allies and he urged Congress to pass a long-stalled Russia sanctions bill as

By MICHAEL R. SISAK and CHRIS MEGERIAN Associated Press FARMINGDALE, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump started Friday by warning that more of his enemies will face prosecution, shaking the foundations of the American justice system by treating it as a tool of political retribution. And then he jetted off to the Ryder Cup to