As Donald Trump prepared to return to the White House, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham encouraged him to send a message to drug cartels.

President Donald Trump had dinner at a seafood restaurant near the White House as part of his effort to promote deploying the National Guard and federalizing the police force in the nation's capital.

The United States has long relied on the Coast Guard and allies to interdict drug vessels through arrests and prosecutions at sea.

European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions.

National conservatism is reshaping the Republican Party in President Donald Trump’s second term.

Lawmakers in Missouri are the latest to try to draw a new U.S. House map for the 2026 election that could enhance the Republican Party’s numbers in Congress.

Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy’s support was crucial to Robert F.

Vice President JD Vance has visited Minneapolis to meet with families affected by a deadly church shooting.

President Donald Trump is suggesting that New Orleans could be his next target for deploying the National Guard.

For decades, Europe has relied upon the U.S. for its security among the stars.

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Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital.

As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak.

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech.

President Donald Trump has marked the fourth anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal by signing a proclamation honoring them.

Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

President Donald Trump says that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will happen on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

Britain's top diplomat has been given a formal warning for fishing without a license during a recent outing with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.

Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice.

President Donald Trump has expanded his law-enforcement crackdown in Washington, D.

The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gushed with gratitude toward President Donald Trump during an Oval Office meeting.

Britain has dropped its demand for Apple to provide backdoor access to encrypted user data stored in the cloud.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting in the Oval Office was notably different from their last encounter in February.

Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown has launched his 2026 campaign to return to the U.S. Senate.

President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.

European leaders have praised President Donald Trump for agreeing to allow U.S. military support for a force they are mustering to police any future peace in Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful election campaign he could end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office.

U.S. President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to stop his war in Ukraine after their Friday summit in Alaska.

President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska.

President Donald Trump has been using diplomatic appointments as a soft landing for officials leaving his administration.

Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the Senate next year as Democrats wage an uphill fight to win control of the chamber.

The Trump administration's new human rights reports for countries worldwide eliminate mentions of discrimination faced by LGBTQ people and reduce a previous focus on reproductive rights.

U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration.

European nations have rallied behind Ukraine, emphasizing that peace cannot be achieved without Kyiv's involvement.

Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is meeting with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy.

Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday.

President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries.

President Donald Trump has hinted that Vice President JD Vance might be the favorite to succeed him as the leader of the MAGA movement.

Rwanda has agreed to accept up to 250 deportees from the United States under the Trump administration's third-country deportation program.

President Donald Trump has a pattern of dismissing or altering data that reflects poorly on him.

Dozens of Democratic lawmakers have left Texas in an attempt to block the adoption of redrawn U.S. House maps sought by President Donald Trump.

Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, has been fired after releasing a jobs report that angered President Donald Trump.

The Smithsonian Institution has removed a reference to President Donald Trump's impeachments from an exhibit.

President Donald Trump has reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children.

A bipartisan program in Michigan aims to address the high costs of parenting by giving mothers thousands of dollars in cash with no strings attached.

President Donald Trump has downplayed the influence of Laura Loomer, a right-wing provocateur known for her incendiary social media presence, in his administration’s decision-making.

Five people have been charged after a violent brawl in downtown Cincinnati over the weekend.

The Senate has confirmed former Trump lawyer Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge.

President Donald Trump says his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended after Epstein hired people who had worked for Trump.

Vice President JD Vance has hit his home state to continue promoting the GOP’s sweeping tax-and-border bill.

President Donald Trump has unveiled an “AI Action Plan” shaped by Silicon Valley tech leaders who supported his campaign.

The Senate has passed Donald Trump’s request to cancel about $9 billion in foreign aid and public broadcasting spending, moving forward on one of the president’s top priorities despite concerns from several Republican senators.

Two Republican senators and a broad coalition of funders made a big difference for private foundations during negotiations over President Donald Trump’s tax and spending legislation.

Vice President JD Vance made the Trump administration’s first big pitch to sell the public on President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package in the swing political turf of northeastern Pennsylvania.

Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

Debate over President Donald Trump’s sweeping budget-and-policy package is over on Capitol Hill.

The European Union has released a code of practice on general purpose artificial intelligence to help thousands of businesses in the 27-nation bloc using the technology comply with the bloc’s landmark AI rule book.

A new poll shows most Americans see child care costs as a major issue, and majorities support the federal government offering free or low-cost day care and requiring employers to provide paid family leave.

A new AP-NORC poll finds most Americans do not want the government to focus on increasing birth rates, despite efforts by the Trump administration to make this a priority.

Less than a month after extending a deadline to ban TikTok for the third time, President Donald Trump told reporters late Friday night that, “We pretty much have a deal,” on TikTok.

President Donald Trump has signed his signature bill of tax and spending cuts at the White House Fourth of July picnic.

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

Republican leaders in the House are sprinting toward a vote on President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package, determined to seize momentum from a hard-fought vote in the Senate while essentially daring members to defy their party’s leader and vote against it.

House Republicans strained through a day of starts and stops trying to advance President Donald Trump’s tax and spending cuts package.

At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

The sprawling Republican budget bill approved by the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on solar and wind energy projects but quickly phases out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy.

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Senate Majority Leader John Thune says Republicans “got the job done” in passing President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

The Supreme Court will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

The Senate’s long day of voting has churned toward evening, as Republican leaders grasp for ways to shore up support for President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts.

The changes made to President Donald Trump’s big tax bill in the Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in health care coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.

Debate has been underway late into the night in the Senate on President Donald Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts package.

Senate Republicans voted in a dramatic Saturday session, clearing a key procedural step as they race to pass President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and bolstered deportation funds by his July Fourth deadline.

A deal signed in Washington has been touted as a major step toward peace in Congo following decades of conflict that has killed millions, including thousands this year.

Interviews with supporters of President Donald Trump and a review of early polling suggest that his decision to order military strikes against Iran has been welcomed by his political base.

This week’s whipsaw chain of events involving Iran, Israel and the United States that culminated in a surprise ceasefire has raised many questions about how the Trump administration will approach the Middle East going forward.

In a 48-hour whirlwind, President Donald Trump went from elated to indignant to triumphant as the fragile Israel-Iran ceasefire agreement came together, teetered toward collapse and ultimately coalesced.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

President Donald Trump took office in January pledging to “make America the crypto capital of the world” and has since harnessed wide swaths of the federal government to bolster the industry.

President Donald Trump has declared the “12 day war” between Israel and Iran is set to end in a ceasefire.

President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a military strike on Iran’s nuclear sites without fully consulting the U.S. Congress is layering a partisan approach onto a risky action.

The White House published a series of photos from inside the Situation Room on its X account as President Donald Trump authorized strikes that hit nuclear sites in Iran.

A transcript of President Donald Trump’s speech on U.S. airstrikes on Iran, which he delivered at the White House on Saturday night.

President Donald Trump has expressed certainty that his big gamble to directly assist the Israelis delivered a knockout blow to Iran’s nuclear program — even as many of his supporters and detractors are warning that U.S. military action could lead the United States into an expansive regional conflict.

With the Trump administration aggressively trying to increase the number of immigration arrests, raids are now being conducted at all hours and more Americans are witnessing people being hauled off.

Vice President JD Vance is accusing California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass of encouraging violent immigration protests.

A northeast Ohio man was arrested and charged with threatening Republican U.S. Rep. Max Miller while the two were traveling along Interstate 90 near Cleveland on Thursday.

A federal judge held a brief hearing over whether the Trump administration should continue its deployment of troops to Los Angeles.

A federal judge has granted a preliminary injunction blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students.

Vice President JD Vance has made a brief trip to Montana to meet with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, his son Lachlan and a group of other Fox News executives.

The audience at the Kennedy Center's opening-night performance of “Les Misérables” greeted President Donald Trump's arrival with a mix of cheers and boos.