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“Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls,” the U.S. president shrugged last week. Now prices are indeed going up.

He’s not Justin Trudeau. But Canada’s new leader still has his work cut out for him.

Federal judges throughout the country are losing patience with the administration. Will it be an issue for the Supreme Court?

The front-runner in the New York City mayoral primary snubbed LGBTQ+ political clubs, who shunned him in turn.

The Illinois Democrat is entering a contested primary.

Port officials say they've yet to hear from the administration as their shipping volumes plunge.

Court documents, news reports and pleas from his family reveal new details about the 20-year-old Venezuelan man a judge ordered returned from El Salvador.

California officials and film industry groups agree Hollywood is in trouble. They’re not sure the president’s latest idea would help.

On a Monday morning visit to Alcatraz, foreign tourists were only slightly less critical of the president's plan to make it a federal penitentiary again than the Democratic pols who run San Francisco.

In order to reinstate its eligibility, the official said, the university "would have to enter into a negotiation with the government to satisfy the government that it's in compliance with all federal laws."

Top administration officials have been in close touch with the Hill about the funding needed to ramp up removals.

The filing over the regulation of mifepristone indicates an emerging pattern: An effort to preserve executive power.

The president has dismissed concerns amid declining trips to the United States.

President Donald Trump touted the Jordanian monarch’s “beautiful gesture” to accept 2,000 sick children from Gaza. But now leaders across the spectrum say Jordan is slow-walking its pledge.

An ousted museum director from Poland explains why museums are on the “front lines” when populists take power.

Western governments should be weighing foreigners' values before granting visas, not deporting them afterward.

The Trump-allied prosecutor has threatened Wikipedia, medical journals and Congressional Democrats. Now he’s putting a medical-marijuana dispensary on notice, too.

Elon Musk gave it a shot in Washington. Now he’s aiming to be the de-facto mayor of a small Texas town.

One of the Democratic Party’s leading economic populists has gone from scorching Powell and the Fed to defending them against Trump’s pressure campaign.

Ashley Etienne says Hakeem Jeffries is failing to tap a powerful resource in his predecessor — and it shows.

A typical national security adviser is first among equals, but not in this administration.

Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker

Bruce Fanjoy opens up about his upset victory against Pierre Poilievre.

Two big Trump court battles are about to collide.

House Republicans are relying on deep cuts to the safety-net health program to finance their megabill. But the president is deeply wary.

POLITICO’s newsroom experts make sense of the whirlwind we’re all still trying to process.

From banker to ballot box, the rookie politician's rise in Canada was made possible by Trump and a nation weary of chaos.

Even on their own terms, Trump’s economic promises defy logic.

Canada is holding its most consequential election on Monday. Here’s how Ontario Premier Doug Ford thinks it will go.

Before she was Trump’s press secretary, she was a 23-year-old MAGA diehard staging a longshot congressional campaign.