Politics

Meta’s moderation policy to allow more “free expression” was viewed as the latest effort to appease President-elect Donald Trump, which could help AI efforts.

An FBI background check for Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Defense, was transmitted late Friday to the leading members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the report.

California’s leaders say it should be a shining example of progressive governance, but critics say it’s become a cautionary tale instead.

In an interview with NBC News, Homan also acknowledged that people without criminal records may get caught up as “collateral arrests” in mass deportation raids.

The Department of Homeland Security says about 600,000 Venezuelans and more than 200,000 El Salvadorans already living in the United States can legally remain another 18 months.

A Manhattan judge chose a sentence that sidestepped thorny constitutional issues to end the case but assures Trump will become the first person convicted of a felony to assume the presidency.

The law that could ban TikTok is before the Supreme Court. The justices largely hold the app’s fate in their hands as they hear the case Friday.

In a singular moment in U.S. history, President-elect Donald Trump faces sentencing Friday for his New York hush money conviction after the nation’s highest court refused to intervene. Like so much else in the criminal case and the current American political landscape, the scenario set to unfold in an austere Manhattan courtroom was unimagina...

Judge Juan Merchan isn’t going to sentence Donald Trump to jail before he takes office.

A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the Justice Department can release a report on President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss but kept in place a judge’s order requiring a three-day delay to allow for further appeals.

President-elect Donald Trump inaccurately blamed water shortages in Los Angeles on policies meant to preserve an endangered fish called the Delta smelt.

A divided Supreme Court on Thursday rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s bid to delay his sentencing in his hush money case in New York.

The Biden administration’s Title IX rules expanding protections for LGBTQ+ students have been struck down nationwide after a federal judge in Kentucky found that they overstepped the president’s authority.