Kentucky bourbon makers caught up in Donald Trump’s trade war
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — With a new distillery set to open soon, the makers of Brough Brothers bourbon…
Meet the federal worker who went rogue: ‘I hope that it lights a fire under people’
NEW YORK — To billionaire Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the Department of Government Efficiency, Karen…
Musk eyes Social Security and benefit programs for cuts
WASHINGTON (AP) — Elon Musk pushed debunked theories about Social Security on Monday while describing federal benefit programs…
Education Department focused on Trump’s politics, less on special ed, racial discrimination
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is known best for enforcing the right to…
ICE arrests Palestinian activist who led Columbia protests, lawyer says
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal immigration authorities arrested a Palestinian graduate student who played a prominent role in…
Air Force intercepts aircraft in a restricted zone near Trump’s Mar-a-Lago
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Air Force fighter jets intercepted a civilian aircraft flying in the temporarily…
Rural voters in Illinois and Oregon push to leave their states
As President Donald Trump floats grand ideas like reacquiring the Panama Canal and taking over Greenland, some rural…
DOGE tries to slash government by cutting those who answer to voters
DENVER (AP) — For decades, conservatives in Congress have talked about the need to cut government deeply, but…
Stock market today: Wall Street ends its wild week with what else but more swings
NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street rose on Friday, but only after careening through another wild day. It…
Trump’s interior and energy secretaries cheer on natural gas export industry in Gulf Coast
PORT SULPHUR, La. (AP) — The planned expansion of a massive liquefied natural gas facility in southeast Louisiana…
Expert tells judge to drop charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams without letting them be refiled
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge has no choice but to grant the Justice Department’s unusual and divisive…
Unions ask court to stop DOGE from accessing Social Security data of millions of Americans
WASHINGTON (AP) — A group of labor unions are asking a federal court for an emergency order to…