The Trump administration has fired the nation’s top copyright official, Shira Perlmutter.

Congressional Republicans say their plan to sell or transfer 460,000 acres of public land will generate revenue and offer space to build houses in Western cities.

President Donald Trump reportedly is set to accept a luxury Boeing 747-8 jumbo jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar during his trip to the Middle East this coming week.

A global trade war is offering Puerto Rico hope as the island attempts to strengthen its fragile economy.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy plans to reduce the number of flights in and out of the Newark Liberty International Airport for the “next several weeks.”.

The United States is pulling back from its role in spreading democratic ideals abroad under President Donald Trump.

Democrats will pick their next presidential nominee in 2028, but before that happens, the party will have to decide which state gets to go first on the nominating calendar.

Iran and the United States have held a fourth round of talks over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Top White House aide Stephen Miller says the Trump administration is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally.

The Trump administration is bringing a small number of white South Africans to the United States as refugees next week in what it says is the start of a larger relocation effort.

President Donald Trump and Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry have discussed the possibility that Julia Letlow, a congresswoman elected in 2021 after her husband died of COVID, might challenge Sen. Bill Cassidy in next year's Republican primary.

The Republican Party is trying to figure out what it stands for in terms of economic policy during the second Trump administration.

Saudi Arabia wants U.S. help developing its own civil nuclear program, and the Trump administration says it’s “very excited” at the prospect.

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

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.

Liam and Olivia have, for a sixth year together, topped the list of names for babies born in the U.S. in 2024.

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

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

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

The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues by May 21.

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.

The FDA says it will allow three new color additives made from natural sources to be used in the nation's food supply.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

The Pentagon will immediately begin moving as many as 1,000 openly identifying transgender service members out of the military and give others 30 days to self-identify.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Venezuela’s government has acknowledged for the first time that members of the country’s opposition left the Argentine diplomatic compound where they had sheltered for over a year.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A deadly midair collision in January between a military helicopter and a commercial airliner, and several crashes since, have prompted officials to focus on fixing the nation’s outdated air traffic control system and hiring more controllers.

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.

It may feel like you have to attend law school to understand the American legal system.

When President Donald Trump returned to the White House, among the numerous immigration-related executive orders he signed was one suspending the country’s refugee program.

President Donald Trump plans to announce next week that the U.S. will refer to the Persian Gulf as the Arabian Gulf or the Gulf of Arabia.

Five members of Venezuela’s political opposition have left the Argentine diplomatic compound in their country’s capital, Caracas, where they had sheltered for more than a year to avoid arrest and were in the United States on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said.

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Top U.S. officials are set to meet with a high-level Chinese delegation this weekend in Switzerland.

A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a household name as the Trump administration wages an intense legal battle to keep him locked up in an El Salvador prison despite his mistaken deportation.

A federal judge says he sympathizes with thousands of federal employees who were suddenly fired by the Trump administration, but he also voiced skepticism about whether reinstating them to their jobs was a proper remedy and questioned what the courts could ultimately do.

President Donald Trump says three hostages held by Hamas in Gaza have died, leaving only 21 believed to be still living.

The nation’s air traffic controllers union says the flight cancellations plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport in new Jersey and spilling over to U.S. airports can be traced to a week ago when controllers temporarily lost contact with planes.

New federal statistics show a steep decrease in the number of times the FBI searched a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about Americans and others in the United States last year.

A newly declassified U.S. intelligence assessment finds no evidence of coordination between the Tren de Aragua gang and senior Venezuelan officials.

Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

A federal judge has temporarily barred President Donald Trump’s administration from dramatically shrinking three agencies that fund libraries, settle labor disputes and support state business contracting programs.

A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to enforce a ban on transgender people in the military, while legal challenges proceed.

The Food and Drug Administration says that a prominent medical contrarian and critic of the drug industry will head its vaccine center.

President Donald Trump says he’s ordering a halt to nearly two months of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis.

A tax on the endowments of America’s wealthiest colleges began during President Donald Trump’s first administration, collecting 1.4% of their investment earnings.

Rwanda's deal with Britain to take in rejected asylum-seekers collapsed last year after much criticism by human rights groups.

As Congress looks to slash spending and raise revenue for President Donald Trump’s tax bill, Republicans have turned attention to the huge endowments amassed by the country’s wealthiest colleges.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he’s informed the White House that he won’t support Donald Trump’s pick for top federal prosecutor in Washington, stalling the nomination in the Senate weeks before the temporary appointment expires.

The Trump administration has called journalists “despicable,” even questioned the patriotism of some, as part of its vigorous response to criticism in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly sent by immigration officials to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.

U.S. President Donald Trump and new Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.

Layoffs of disabled workers across the federal government are raising questions about its commitment to inclusion.

A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.