Politics

WATCH: The 2025 Hutchins Forum

By News Desk

Charlayne Hunter-Gault and Henry Louis Gates Jr. will host the 2025 Hutchins Forum titled 'What Went Wrong... and What's Next?'…

Trump warns of 'harsh measures' if Colorado clerk convicted of election data-breach scheme isn't freed

By Associated Press

Tina Peters was sentenced to nine years behind bars for a data-breach scheme spawned from the rampant false claims about voting machine fraud in the 2020 presidential race.

WATCH: California legislature approves special election on new congressional map favoring Democrats

By Sophie Austin, Trân Nguyễn, Associated Press

Lawmakers voted mostly along party lines after hours of debate. Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who pushed for the high-stakes effort to counter Texas, is expected to sign the legislation later Thursday.

The U.S. and EU release a bare-bones account of their trade deal, but it's a work in progress

By Sam McNeil, David McHugh, Fatima Hussein, Associated Press

Officials have left blank key areas such as wine and spirits as well as steel. And they've indicated that talks will continue on those and a slew of other important sectors.

Is empathy a sin? Some conservative Christians argue it can be

By Tiffany Stanley, Associated Press

Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights.

Trump's massive civil fraud penalty for exaggerating financial statements is thrown out by appeals court

By Jennifer Peltz, Michael R. Sisak, Associated Press

A panel of five judges in New York’s mid-level Appellate Division said the verdict, which stood to cost Trump over $515 million and rock his real estate empire, was “excessive.”…

James Dobson, influential founder of conservative Christian group Focus on the Family, has died

By Mike Catalini, Associated Press

Dobson was a child psychologist who started Focus on the Family in 1977.

WATCH: Texas Senate considers redistricting measure that will likely add five GOP seats

By David A. Lieb, Associated Press, Jesse Bedayn, Associated Press/ Report for America

Texas Republicans passed a map creating five new winnable seats for the GOP in that state's House of Representatives on Wednesday.

California set to pass a new congressional map after Texas' move to boost Republicans

By Jim Vertuno, Nicholas Riccardi, Associated Press

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has engineered the high-risk strategy in response to President Donald Trump's own brinkmanship.

Appeals court allows DHS to end protected status for migrants from Central America and Nepal

By Janie Har, Associated Press

A federal appeals court on Wednesday sided with the Trump administration and halted for now a lower court’s order that had kept in place temporary protections for 60,000 migrants from Central America and Nepal.