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Washington will bid farewell to former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday with full military honors at the National Cathedral, in a bipartisan gathering expected to draw more than 1,000 guests. Former presidents Geor…
At the White House, President Trump warmly welcomed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, praising him as a defender of human rights and a frequent phone friend, and vehemently dismissing a U.S. intelligence report lin…
The House is rushing to repeal a new law that lets senators sue the federal government for $500,000 if investigators secretly obtain their phone records, with a two-thirds vote expected under suspension Wednesday. The me…
President Trump defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office when pressed about Jamal Khashoggi’s 2018 killing, while the crown prince expressed regret. The visit produced deals for U.S. tank and F-…
Brussels has unveiled a package that loosens parts of the GDPR and delays elements of the AI Act, aiming to cut red tape and jolt growth. The plan would ease sharing of anonymized and pseudonymized data, permit AI traini…
A government watchdog says most corporations donating to President Trump’s planned $300 million White House ballroom are represented by three lobbying firms, whose partners dined with the president and tech and crypto ex…
President Trump said the U.S. military is attacking boats in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific in response to fentanyl deaths, asserting the vessels come from Venezuela. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth described the missi…
James B. Comey’s lawyers will ask a federal judge in Alexandria, Va., to dismiss charges that he lied to and obstructed Congress, arguing the Justice Department bowed to President Trump’s push for political revenge. Led …
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday rejected U.S. military strikes on cartels, a day after President Donald Trump said he would do whatever we have to do to stop drugs. Her remarks followed a flap at Playa Bag…
Representative Clay Higgins of Louisiana cast the only no vote on a House bill to force the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, defying Speaker Mike Johnson’s expectation of unanimous Republican support. A s…
President Donald Trump hosted Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman at the White House with grand ceremony, brushing aside human rights questions and insulting a reporter. Trump formalized approval to sell F-35s to Saud…
Donald Trump called Bloomberg White House correspondent Catherine Lucey “piggy” during an Air Force One gaggle Friday, after she pressed him on the Jeffrey Epstein files and a likely House vote to release them. The slur …
Ten state election chiefs sent a letter Tuesday pressing Attorney General Pam Bondi and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for clarity on federal use of private voter data. Citing reports that the Justice Department…
Federal immigration enforcement in North Carolina is poised to expand to Raleigh as soon as Tuesday, Mayor Janet Cowell said, while Border Patrol operations continue in Charlotte after more than 130 arrests. DHS declined…
Mahmood Mamdani revisits the sting of his 1972 expulsion from Uganda and, in his book Slow Poison, reexamines Idi Amin and Yoweri Museveni through memoir, history and political theory. He argues Western portrayals obscur…
U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Jack Reed asked the Justice and Treasury departments to investigate World Liberty Financial, a crypto firm tied to President Donald Trump’s family, citing national security risks. In a …
President Donald Trump blasted several critics yet declined to rebuke Nick Fuentes or Tucker Carlson, praising the former Fox host after he interviewed the white nationalist without pushback. The stance widened intrapart…
Fed Governor Lisa Cook’s lawyer rejected mortgage fraud claims from FHFA director Bill Pulte, saying they hinge on an innocuous 2021 notation and that Cook accurately disclosed her Ann Arbor, Atlanta and Cambridge homes.…
The Justice Department sued California to block two new laws that ban officials from concealing their faces and require nonuniformed federal agents to display identification. The suit argues the measures violate the Cons…
The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear a Tampa Christian school’s challenge to the denial of a pregame prayer over a stadium loudspeaker, leaving intact a 2000 precedent against student-led prayer at football games.…
Federal agents launched Operation Charlotte's Web in Charlotte, arresting 81 people in five hours as part of a broader crackdown that has produced thousands of arrests and nearly 200,000 deportations by late August. Mart…
The Pentagon is pulling hundreds of federalized National Guard troops from Chicago and Portland weeks after President Trump sent them over objections from state and local leaders, officials said. About 200 California Gua…
President Donald Trump issued a full and unconditional pardon to Dan Wilson, a Kentucky man who pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack and to unrelated federal firearms charges, multiple reports…
Iran’s foreign minister said Tehran is no longer enriching uranium, blaming June strikes by Israel and the United States that hit enrichment sites. Answering an Associated Press reporter’s question, Abbas Araghchi said a…
Sen. John Fetterman said he’s back home in Pennsylvania after a hospital stay for what his office called a ventricular fibrillation flare-up that left him light-headed and caused a fall during an early Thursday walk. Pos…