Politics

President Donald Trump added to his list of pardoned celebrities this week, including reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley and rapper NBA Young Boy. Trump’s pardons and commutations over the course of his first and current terms in office feature a number of public figures, including several rappers and an actor who participated in…

A celebration of life featuring a who’s who of Los Angeles and California political figures was held Thursday for former state senator and longtime Los Angeles City Council member Nate Holden in the community where he left a legacy. The service for Holden, who died May 7 at 95, was at West Angeles Church of…

Louisiana rap artist NBA YoungBoy, who was sentenced to just under two years in prison on gun-related charges, was pardoned by President Donald Trump on Wednesday. The rapper is among a number of high-profile people Trump pardoned this week, including a former New York congressman, a labor union leader and a reality TV star couple. “I want to thank…

A U.S. trade court ruled that Trump had overstepped his authority by invoking an emergency law to impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every country. Economists at Goldman Sachs said the White House likely has a few tools at its disposal to ensure it is only a temporary problem. Lawyer James Ransdell said the ruling marks…

The United States will start “aggressively” revoking the visas of Chinese students, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields. The announcement is the latest move in the Trump administration’s campaign against U.S. universities and international students in particular, after it revoked thousands of…

Elon Musk is leaving his government role as a top adviser to President Donald Trump after spearheading efforts to reduce and overhaul the federal bureaucracy. His departure, announced Wednesday evening, marks the end of a turbulent chapter that included thousands of layoffs, the evisceration of government agencies and reams of litigation. Despite the upheaval, the…

A federal trade court struck down President Donald Trump’s worldwide reciprocal tariffs and ordered the administration to stop collecting them. A three-judge panel on the Court of International Trade said Trump exceeded “any authority granted” by the International Emergency Economic Powers Act in imposing the import levies. In halting tariffs Trump ordered on Canada, Mexico,…

Disgraced reality TV stars Todd and Julie Chrisley were preparing for their release from prison Wednesday, a day after President Donald Trump personally told two of their adult children he was planning to pardon them. The “Trumps of the South,” who were convicted in 2022 of fraud, tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the United States, will…

President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of former Chicago gang kingpin Larry Hoover. Hoover was convicted of operating a criminal enterprise in the late 1990s while imprisoned on a murder conviction, and had been housed at a federal supermax facility in Colorado to serve out that sentence. On Wednesday, Hoover’s federal sentence was commuted,…

Dressed in a pink pullover, the 17-year-old girl rested her head in her hands, weighing her bleak options from the empty room of a shelter in Poughkeepsie, New York. During a video call into an immigration courtroom in Manhattan, she listened as a lawyer explained to a judge how new regulations imposed by President Donald…