United Nations officials have circulated proposals for a consolidation of its operations and other reforms to root out inefficiencies, overlaps and cost overruns.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has again ordered the USS Harry S.

The head of PBS says President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR is unlawful.

As new tariffs continue to strain global supply chains, some gamers are already feeling price hikes.

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President Donald Trump is re-upping his threat to strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status.

The White House is unveiling President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget, a sweeping framework proposing steep reductions in non-defense domestic spending while increasing expenditures on national security.

President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget plan would slash non-defense domestic spending by $163 billion, while increasing expenditures on national security.

A Lutheran church in Minneapolis is taking practical steps to help its mostly Latino immigrant congregation deal with the uncertainty and stress of a Trump administration crackdown.

Transgender women are to be banned outright from women’s and girls’ cricket in England and Wales.

Cincinnati’s mayor faces a primary challenge Tuesday from two first-time candidates, including the half brother of Vice President JD Vance.

A new poll shows Americans are more likely to believe the president is the one overstepping his power, rather than the courts.

What’s emerged from the Washington-led effort to end the war in Ukraine suggests a deal that seems likely to be favorable to Russia.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been on a campaign against Iran's nuclear program and his opposition helped convince President Trump to withdraw from an Obama era deal meant to rein it in.

A Department of Health and Human Services employee has emailed dozens of people this week, mistakenly including plans to slash research related to child safety net programs.

Stocks are rising on Wall Street following a stronger-than-expected report on the U.S. job market.

A prominent pastor and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement says he was told items he had loaned to the Smithsonian Institution would be under review for whether they should remain on display at the institution.

Most of President Donald Trump’s top nominees have sailed through the Senate with little resistance.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been thrown into two top national security roles at once after President Donald Trump appointed him to temporarily replace Mike Waltz as national security adviser.

President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order aiming to slash public subsidies to PBS and NPR as he alleged “bias” in the broadcasters’ reporting.

South Korea’s former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo says he will run in next month’s presidential election and would seek to lessen the powers of the office and ease strife-ridden domestic politics if he wins.

China's Commerce Ministry says Beijing is evaluating multiple approaches by the Trump administration for trade talks.

The Defense Department says it has designated a second stretch on the U.S. border with Mexico as a military zone to enforce immigration laws.

Singaporeans will vote Saturday in a general election that is set to return to power the city-state’s long ruling party.

A federal judge has agreed to temporarily block the Trump administration from taking any more steps to dismantle an agency that funds and promotes libraries across the nation.

Detailed Army plans for a potential military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June call for more than 6,600 soldiers, at least 150 vehicles, 50 helicopters, seven bands and potentially a couple thousand civilians.

Vice President JD Vance has visited a steel plant in South Carolina, where he heralded the launch of an “industrial renaissance” in the U.S., in part due to President Donald Trump’s moves to boost domestic industry.

A new memo and U.S. officials say the Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 Pentagon headquarters staff and shift personnel to units in the field.

When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to strip temporary legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to being deported.

Amazon posted higher first-quarter profit and sales, but the online juggernaut issued a tempered sales outlook for the current quarter amid uncertainty about President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

The U.S. House has voted to block California's vehicle emission standards.

Last fall's “60 Minutes” story on Kamala Harris — the subject of a $20 billion lawsuit by President Donald Trump — was nominated for an Emmy Award for “outstanding edited interview.”.

A soldier present at an after-hours nightclub where more than 100 immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally were taken into custody has been charged with distributing cocaine.

President Donald Trump's remark to Terry Moran in an ABC News interview — that it was his choice to whom he would grant an interview — exposes a delicate question for journalists.

Tariffs weren’t on the official agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit in Boston.

The Justice Department is suing four states over climate action.

Eli Lilly’s stock wobbled Thursday after a looming coverage hit was detailed for its blockbuster weight-loss drug Zepbound.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial results and forecasts for companies both big and small as they try to navigate a global trade system severely shaken by a stark shift in U.S. policy.

American employers added a better-than-expected 177,000 jobs in April as the job market showed resilience in the face of President Donald Trump’s trade wars.

A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law and says President Donald Trump’s invocation of it was “unlawful.”.

President Donald Trump says he is nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz as United Nations ambassador while Secretary of State Marco Rubio would take over Waltz’s duties on an interim role.

The Trump administration has imposed economic sanctions on three Mexican nationals and two Mexico-based entities involved in a drug trafficking and fuel theft network that's linked to Mexico’s Jalisco New Generation Cartel.

The final season of “The Righteous Gemstones” is rife with the show’s trademark depravity.

President Donald Trump is threatening sanctions on anyone who buys Iranian oil.

President Donald Trump has offered some encouraging words and advice for graduating students at the University of Alabama.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is holding a news conference in Miramar on Thursday morning.

A flurry of immigration enforcement activity at courthouses around the country in the past month has renewed a legal battle from President Donald Trump’s first term.

The Trump administration is calling for more reliance on psychotherapy for transgender youth instead of broader gender-affirming medical care.

President Donald Trump says he is naming Secretary of State Marco Rubio as acting national security adviser to replace Mike Waltz, whom he is nominating as United Nations ambassador.

The Justice Department is struggling to represent President Donald Trump’s positions in court.

General Motors is lowering one of its full-year financial forecasts as the company braces for the potential impact of auto tariffs.

Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration about deportations to El Salvador.

After months of tense negotiations, the U.S. and Ukraine have signed a deal that is expected to give Washington access to the country’s critical minerals and other natural resources.

Elon Musk is defending the work of the Department of Government Efficiency as he prepares to scale back from his government role and spend more time at his businesses.

Moscow-appointed officials in Ukraine's Kherson region say a Ukrainian drone attack killed seven and wounded more than 20 people.

The International Monetary Fund says that countries across the Middle East and North Africa face significant challenges to economic growth as the region faces economic uncertainty due to tariff measures, lower-than-recent oil prices and cuts to financial aid.

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and around the globe for International Workers’ Day or May Day, with the focus this year on President Donald Trump’s agenda.

Microsoft and Meta Platforms drove Wall Street higher after delivering profits for the start of the year that were even bigger than analysts expected.

The U.S. Forest Service is evicting dozens of homeless people who have been living in a national forest in central Oregon for years so that it can start a wildfire prevention project.

Activists around the globe are kicking off May Day demonstrations with workers rights rallies and marches for social justice causes.

Some colleges are canceling graduation ceremonies that recognize individual cultures or groups.

A new Pentagon report says that the number of sexual assaults reported across the military fell by nearly 4% last year and there was a significant drop in the Army.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials are in Florida with Gov. Ron DeSantis to praise a week long operation that netted 1,120 arrests of people they say were in the country illegally.

Australians are voting Saturday in a general election that will be dominated by the soaring cost of living, the economy, energy and China.

Global Citizen is going even more global.

The FBI has reassigned several agents who were photographed kneeling during a racial justice protest in Washington that followed the 2020 death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.

A federal appeals court says it won’t lift restrictions on the access that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has to Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

The Trump family company has struck a deal for a luxury golf resort in Qatar.

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Contractors hired by the Trump administration have removed a memorial wall to fallen staffers from the now-closed headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Senate Republicans have narrowly voted down a Democratic resolution that would have blocked global tariffs announced by Donald Trump earlier this month, giving the president a modest win Wednesday as lawmakers in both parties have remained skeptical of his trade agenda.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump’s 100 days in office have been an assault of Americans’ very way of life.

The North Carolina House advanced its own restrictions on diversity, equity and inclusion practices for state agencies.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.

Belarus has released a U.S. citizen who had been jailed on allegations of plotting to assassinate the country’s authoritarian leader, charges his supporters and the U.S. government called bogus.

Microsoft on Wednesday said its profits rose 18% for the January-March quarter, driven by its growth in its cloud computing and artificial intelligence business in a turbulent time for the tech sector.

Ford's top executive is welcoming revisions to auto import rules but says more work is needed to craft trade policies that spur growth in the U.S. auto industry.

U.S. officials say Kuwait has released 10 more American detainees in an apparent goodwill gesture.

A federal judge has again directed the Trump administration to provide information about efforts to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.

A Republican state lawmaker from Maine appealed to the Supreme Court after she was censured by the state House for a social media post about a transgender athlete, a move that comes amid sparring over the issue between the Democratically controlled state and the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump says “I could” bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back from El Salvador if he wanted.

Elon Musk has for years made Texas his business home and playground as he launches rockets and builds cars in the Lone Star state.

The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying the award reflect the priorities of the previous administration.

American automaker Ford has extended its employee discount pricing to all customers through July 6, according to CNN.

President Donald Trump is acknowledging that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States.

Uncertainty continues to hang over the latest round of financial results and forecasts for companies both big and small as they try to navigate a global trade system severely shaken by a stark shift in U.S. policy.

A judge has released a Palestinian student activist who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview about finalizing his U.S. citizenship.

A closely watched inflation gauge cooled last month in a sign that prices were steadily easing before most of President Donald Trump’s tariffs were implemented.

Local elections in England this week are a key test for Nigel Farage.

Hulk Hogan is helping to launch Real American Freestyle wrestling.

Premium coffee roasters in the U.S. are reeling from the sharp price increases of coffee beans, which nearly doubled last year after record drought in Brazil.

The U.S. economy shrank 0.3% from January through March, first drop in three years.

The U.S. and Ukraine have announced an economic deal after a weekslong press by President Donald Trump.

Microsoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead to service disruptions.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris has used a high-profile speech in San Francisco to criticize President Donald Trump, accusing him of abandoning American ideals.

The U.S. and Ukraine have signed an agreement that will give the U.S. access to Ukraine's vast critical mineral resources.

Europe’s economy has grown more strongly in the first three months of the year only to see hopes for an ongoing recovery quickly squelched by U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.

Iran says the next round of negotiations over its rapidly advancing nuclear program it will have with the United States will be in Rome on Saturday.