Columbia University has suspended dozens of students and barred alums and others who participated in a pro-Palestinian demonstration inside the school’s main library earlier this week.

President Donald Trump’s administration changed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s acting administrator tasked with disaster response.

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene won't challenge Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff of Georgia in next year’s midterms.

Federal agents investigating New York City Mayor Eric Adams were still seizing phones and applying for search warrants days before Justice Department leaders ordered prosecutors to drop the corruption case.

President Donald Trump used social media to announce Friday that he was considering lowering tariffs on Chinese imports to 80%.

The U.S. is on track to run out of money to pay its bills as early as August without congressional action.

The former North Carolina elections director who was ousted this week after a politically motivated move by Republicans said Friday she hopes the new leadership will approach elections in a nonpartisan way and called for an end to verbal attacks against those who oversee the voting process.

President Donald Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Casey Means, has appeared on numerous wellness and right-wing podcasts over the past year.

The military services are scrambling to nail down details and put together new guidance to start removing transgender troops from the force.

A coalition of 15 states is suing over President Donald Trump’s efforts to fast-track energy-related projects, saying the administration is bypassing environmental protection laws and threatening endangered species, critical habitat and cultural resources.

The Trump administration will welcome more than two dozen white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week.

Travel technology company Expedia Group says reduced travel demand in the United States led to its weaker-than-expected revenue in the first quarter.

A top Federal Reserve official said Friday that massive uncertainty created by President Donald Trump’s tariffs has caused some businesses to cut back on hiring and spending, threatening to slow the economy, but he added that it’s not yet clear whether the central bank should cut its key interest rate.

Three recent U.S. poet laureates are condemning President Donald Trump's firing of Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden.

The new head of the federal agency tasked with responding to disasters across the country is warning staff not to try to impede upcoming changes.

Before high-level U.S. and Chinese officials hold talks in Switzerland this weekend to discuss high tariffs, Washington and Beijing have been in a rhetorical duel over which side reached out first.

Toy dolls have become the latest rhetorical poster child for President Donald Trump's tariffs crusade.

Leading aid organizations are triaging aid after countries led by the U.S. funnel less money to foreign assistance.

After flirting with raising the tax rate for the wealthiest earners, President Donald Trump is backing off that call — sort of.

Iran and the United States will meet again this weekend for talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

A former CEO of the nation’s largest waste management company who currently serves on the FedEx board of directors will take over control of the U.S. Postal Service.

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks.

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” and for his biographies of George Washington and Ulysses Grant.

President Donald Trump on Friday floated cutting tariffs on China to 80% ahead of a weekend meeting as he looks to de-escalate the trade war.

The way President Donald Trump sees it, beating China in a trade war should be easy.

A new poll shows a majority of U.S. adults disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of issues related to colleges and universities, as his Republican administration ramps up threats to cut federal funding unless schools comply with his political agenda.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told the Associated Press “you cannot spy against an ally” after reports that the United States has stepped up intelligence gathering on Greenland, a semi-autonomous Danish territory coveted by U.S. President Donald Trump.

In contrast to Russia’s celebrations marking 80 years since the surrender of the Nazis, European leaders agreed to set up a tribunal to try Russian leaders for Moscow’s war on Ukraine.

Details have begun to emerge of how votes swiftly coalesced to make Pope Leo XIV history’s first American pope.

U.S. stocks drifted to a mixed finish as Wall Street and other financial markets wait for a highly anticipated meeting on Saturday between China and the United States on trade.

A Palestinian student arrested as he was about to finalize his U.S. citizenship is accusing Columbia University of eroding democracy with its handling of protests against the Israel-Hamas war.

Commercial fishermen are eager to see if President Donald Trump's command to shed federal fishing regulations will boost one of the nation's oldest industries.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says lawyers should stand up and fight in battles faced by the nation's legal system.

China has reported that its exports rose 8% in April from the year before, much faster than most economists had been expecting.

President Donald Trump has abruptly fired Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as the White House continues to purge the federal government of those perceived to oppose the president and his agenda.

Francis’s 69-year-old successor is the first U.S.-born pope in the 2,000-year history of the Roman Catholic Church, which has grown to 1.4 billion strong.

The verbal gloves are off when it comes to the buildup to UFC 315, with the tension between the U.S. and Canada even spilling into this card.

President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.

In the White House’s East Room, first lady Melania Trump and members of the Bush family gathered to unveil a U.

Experts, human rights workers and lawyers criticized reports of plans to deport migrants from the U.S. to Libya.

Americans in St. Peter’s square were stunned and joyous when they learned that an American cardinal, Robert Provost, was elected pope and had taken the name Leo XIV.

FBI Director Kash Patel is pledging to make the bureau’s mission “work on whatever budget we’re given."

A group of American security contractors, ex-military officers and humanitarian aid officials is proposing to take over the distribution of food and other supplies in Gaza based on plans similar to ones designed by Israel.

Senate Democrats have blocked legislation to regulate a form of cryptocurrency after arguing that the bill needed stronger protections.

A flurry of rumors and unconfirmed media reports has fueled fears that agents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement would be descending on schools in Washington, D.

President Donald Trump's administration has replaced the acting administrator of the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency even as its continuing existence remains up in the air.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more.

The Trump administration is halting some hiring at the federal Bureau of Prisons, the crisis-plagued agency where chronic understaffing has led to long overtime shifts and the use of prison nurses, teachers, cooks and other workers to guard inmates.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.

President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow it to end humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of immigrants from four countries, setting them up for potential deportation.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman, the lawmaker known for his unconventional and irreverent brand of politics, is in the news again after a blowup at a closed-door meeting with union allies and former staff aides who aired concerns about his mental health.

The Trump administration has proposed a multibillion-dollar overhaul of the U.S. air traffic control system in the wake of recent deadly plane crashes and technical failures that have put a spotlight on the outdated network.

The Trump administration announced a trade deal with the United Kingdom Thursday in grandiose terms, but with only limited details about what it achieves.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.

Former President Joe Biden says he’s responsible for Donald Trump’s victory last fall.

President Donald Trump has pulled the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, after a key Republican senator said he could not support Martin for the job due to his defense of Jan. 6 rioters.

President Donald Trump’s push to eliminate diversity initiatives on college campuses didn’t stop minority students at the University of Kentucky from staging their own celebration.

The Republican-led House has passed a bill that would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America and direct federal agencies to update their documents and maps to incorporate the new name.

The Trump administration is invoking the “state secrets privilege” in an apparent attempt to avoid answering a judge’s questions about its mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador.

The United States will cut $50 million worth of medical aid a year to Zambia because of “systematic” theft of the aid in past years and the government’s failure to crack down on corruption.

Congressman Buddy Carter has become the first Republican to jump into the race to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff in 2026.

The European Union has published a list of U.S. imports to target with retaliatory duties if no solution is found to end President Donald Trump’s tariff war.

India and Pakistan have fought three full-scale wars since they gained independence from Britain in 1947.

U.S. President Donald Trump said from the White House on Thursday that his government has reached a trade agreement with the United Kingdom.

In its first 25 years, the Gates Foundation became one of the world’s largest charitable foundations and one of the most powerful institutions in global health.

As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.

A poll finds that as the Social Security Administration undergoes massive changes and staffing cuts ushered in by the Trump administration, an increasing share of older Americans, particularly Democrats, aren’t confident the benefit will be available to them.

President Donald Trump has agreed to cut tariffs on British autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal.

Japan’s top automaker Toyota is reporting record sales for the fiscal year through March, but its profit for the latest quarter faltered partly because of a certification scandal.

The Bank of England is cutting its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 4.25% amid concerns over the potential shock to global growth emanating from the tariff policies of the Trump administration.

A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship has helped launch an initiative to help other immigrants facing deportation in Vermont.

Albania’s main opposition leader has hired Trump-linked campaign consultants and a lobbying firm to help him in the country's May 11 parliamentary election.

U.S. stocks rose after the United States and United Kingdom announced a deal on trade that would lower some tariffs between the two countries.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from imposing new transit and homelessness grant conditions.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday defended judicial independence as necessary to “check the excesses of the Congress or the executive," amid attacks on federal judges who have slowed President Donald Trump’s agenda.

President Donald Trump introduced David Perdue as the new U.S. ambassador to China on Wednesday at the White House.

Pro-Palestinian protesters have clashed with campus security guards after staging a protest inside Columbia University’s main library.

FBI Director Kash Patel is breaking with the Trump administration over a budget proposal that would dramatically slash funding for the bureau.

The president of Haverford College was berated by Republican lawmakers in a congressional hearing on campus antisemitism, with some suggesting the school should lose federal funding because of her refusal to discuss student discipline in the wake of pro-Palestinian protests.

U.S. authorities have informed some migrants of plans to deport them to Libya, a country they are not from and that has a history of human rights violations.

The Trump administration has sought to dismantle government-run news outlets like the Voice of America, in part because it believes the services that provide news to other countries operate with a liberal bias.

President Donald Trump is tapping Dr. Casey Means, a wellness influencer with close ties to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

President Donald Trump says he will make a decision about how the U.S. government will refer to the body of water now commonly known as the Persian Gulf when he visits Arab states next week.

North Carolina's elections board has ousted the agency’s executive director after Republicans gained control.

Missouri is poised to become the first state to repeal a common tax on profits from stocks and real estate sales.

A federal judge says that a Georgetown scholar’s petition challenging the constitutionality of his arrest will stay in a Virginia court, where it was initially filed.

Consumer and environmental groups are criticizing the Environmental Protection Agency's plan to eliminate its Energy Star offices.

House Republicans appear to be backing off some, but not all, of the steep reductions to the Medicaid program as part of their big tax breaks bill.

The U.S. Health and Human Services department will start a research project to examine medical data and records of Medicaid and Medicare enrollees who have been diagnosed with autism, health secretary Robert F.

Families of hostages held in Gaza were surprised and angered to hear U.S. President Donald Trump say that three of the hostages who Israel had said were alive had died.

Vice President JD Vance says Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States looks to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine.

The more President Donald Trump talks about his efforts to reach deals with America’s trading partners, the more confusing the tariff picture gets.

President Donald Trump has issued a proclamation designating Thursday as a day for the United States to celebrate victory during World War II.

House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.

The Republican challenger for a North Carolina Supreme Court seat has conceded last November’s election to the Democratic incumbent.

A federal judge has found the Trump administration can’t deport migrants to Libya unless they have a meaningful chance to challenge their removal in court.

Disney posted solid profits and revenue in the second quarter as its domestic theme parks thrived and the company added well over a million subscribers to its streaming service.

Officials say Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 92 people, including women, children and two journalists, one the father of a newborn.

Friedrich Merz has plunged straight into international crises on his first full day as Germany’s new chancellor.