Politics

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The State Bar of Texas is dropping efforts to discipline Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton over allegations that his failed efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election amounted to professional misconduc

WASHINGTON — Experts say U.S. President Donald Trump's push for the OPEC+ alliance of oil exporting countries to bring down the cost of oil conflicts with the Republican leader's own plans to make America energy-dominant.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly will press Canada's case against damaging tariffs with the new U.S.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over who should control the state House of Representatives.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Thursday confirmed John Ratcliffe as CIA director , President Donald Trump's nominee to lead America's premier spy agency and his second nominee to win Senate approval.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has pledged cheaper prices and lower interest rates, but an economy transformed by the pandemic will make those promises difficult to keep. Economic growth is solid , driven by healthy consumer spending .

DALLAS (AP) — President Donald Trump has ordered the release of thousands of classified governmental documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy , which has fueled conspiracy theories for decades.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump signed an executive order on artificial intelligence Thursday that will revoke past government policies his order says “act as barriers to American AI innovation.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Supreme Court heard arguments Thursday on how deeply it should intervene in a power struggle between Democrats and Republicans over who should control the state House of Representatives.

MONTREAL — The Supreme Court of Canada's decision to hear a challenge of Quebec's secularism law sets up a final legal battle between the provincial government and minority and civil rights groups — and possibly a showdown between Quebec and Ottawa.