WASHINGTON (AP) — The law that could ban TikTok is coming before the Supreme Court on Friday, with the justices largely holding the app’s fate in their hands. The popular social media platform says the law violates the First Amendment and should be struck down.

Congressional Republicans were hoping to quickly approve Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda and confirm his Cabinet nominees within days of him taking office, helping to fulfill his many campaign promises and lay the foundation for an ambitious second term.

Will Donald Trump even have an opposition party? John Fetterman, Chuck Schumer, and many more Democrats signal a new era of subservience.

The punishment-free judgment marks a quiet end to an extraordinary case that for the first time put a former president and major presidential candidate in a courtroom as a criminal defendant.

President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York, Jan. 10, 2025. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters via AP, Pool) AP

A defiant President-elect Donald Trump received his no-jail sentence Friday in a surreal and historic hearing just days before his return to Washington as the leader of the free world.

President-elect Donald Trump was sentenced Friday in his hush money case, but the judge declined to impose any punishment, an outcome that cements his conviction while freeing him to return to the White House unencumbered by the threat of a jail term or a fine.

The dominant view within the Senate GOP is that committees can operate as though a border bill will move first and change course if House negotiations are promising.

Thune sat down for an interview with the Washington Examiner that marked his first with a print outlet since assuming his new role as Senate majority leader.

At the very top of Republicans’ 100-day agenda with President-elect Donald Trump in the White House is the plan to renew some $4 trillion in expiring tax cuts. The U.S.

With days to go before President-elect Trump officially enters office, congressional Democrats are announcing how they are coming to terms with Republican leadership.

The US president-elect was convicted for falsifying business records relating to a payment made to adult-film star Stormy Daniels.