Marc Levy
@timelywriter
Covering politics and gov’t for @AP. @Colorado born. Honest as a Denver man can be. @CambodiaDaily & @PhillyInquirer alum. The wicked flee when none pursueth.
WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Friday against The Wall Street Journal and media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a day after the newspaper published a story reporting on ties to wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein. The lawsuit seeks at least $10 billion in damages.
WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Donald Trump is granting two years of regulatory relief to coal-fired power plants, chemical manufacturers and other polluting industries as he seeks to reverse Biden-era regulations he considers overly burdensome.
WASHINGTON (@AP) — The Justice Department has fired Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey and a veteran prosecutor who worked on the cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.
NEW YORK (@AP) _ Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says he will campaign for mayor of New York City as an independent candidate, staying in a crowded field running against surging left-wing Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) — Democrat Janelle Stelson, who lost to Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Perry by barely a percentage point in 2024, will run again in the right-leaning congressional district in Pennsylvania.
Nursing homes already struggling to recruit staff are now grappling with President Donald Trump’s attack on one of their few reliable sources of workers: immigration. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/immigr…
Trump has pledged to deport “the worst of the worst.” Government data tells a different story. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/fact-c…

DOGE sprouts in red states, as governors embrace the cost-cutter brand and make it their own via @timelywriter apnews.com/article/doge-t…
Trump ‘s Department of Government Efficiency has spawned state-level DOGE mimicry, raising the stakes for Republican governors to show they are in step with their party’s leader and burnish their cost-cutting credentials. Via @AP: apnews.com/article/doge-t…

KERRVILLE, Tex. (@AP) — Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before waters swept away children, The AP found.
WASHINGTON (@AP) — Senate Republicans on Thursday blocked an attempt to reverse a little-noticed provision from their tax and spending cuts law that professional gamblers warn could be the end of their industry.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (@AP) — Eight months after voters approved it, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law Thursday that had guaranteed paid sick leave to workers and inflationary adjustments to the minimum wage.
HARRISBURG, Pa. (@AP) _ U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser will not seek the Republican nomination for governor of Pennsylvania, despite having President Donald Trump's recent promise of support if he were to run.
PHILADELPHIA (@AP) _ A union representing thousands of city workers in Philadelphia and the city have reached a deal to end a more than weeklong strike that halted residential curbside trash pickup and affected other services, officials said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (@AP) — President Trump’s decision to send more defensive weapons to Ukraine came after he privately expressed frustration with Pentagon officials pausing some deliveries last week — a move that he felt wasn’t properly coordinated with the White House.
HUNT, Texas (@AP) — Texas inspectors signed off on Camp Mystic’s emergency planning just two days before catastrophic flooding killed more than two dozen people at the all-girls Christian summer camp, most of them children.