Vice President JD Vance told Face the Nation the administration is confident a 72‑hour hostage release will proceed, with the President likely traveling to the Middle East to greet freed captives. He credited a nontraditional diplomatic team and said Muslim‑majority countries would provide ground troops for Gaza as the U.S....
The Trump administration is intensifying a broad campaign to force Democratic-led cities to adopt conservative policies by tying billions in federal grants to conditions on immigration, diversity, transgender rights and more, while also deploying the National Guard and ramping ICE enforcement. Dozens of cities have sued, and lower courts have...
With no end to the federal shutdown, an estimated 750,000 workers are furloughed and hundreds of thousands more are working without pay. In the Oval Office, President Donald Trump questioned whether furloughed staff would receive back pay despite a legal guarantee, while his administration threatened mass firings. OMB director Russell...
At 89, former Justice Anthony Kennedy reflects on a life in law as his memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, arrives Tuesday from Simon & Schuster. The onetime Supreme Court swing vote recounts his Western roots, a fast rise from Sacramento practice to the 9th Circuit at 38, and cases that...
ABC’s This Week captured a stark split-screen: in Gaza, a Trump-announced ceasefire quieted the fighting, with 200 U.S. troops set to monitor and 48 hostages—20 believed alive—expected back within a day as Trump heads to Israel and Egypt. At home, DOJ indictments of Letitia James and James Comey fueled charges...
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said Jonathan Powell had no role in the substance or evidence behind the collapsed spying case against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry, who deny the claims. The Crown Prosecution Service said the trial failed because the government did not provide evidence describing China as a national...
Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina said Sunday an attempted coup is underway, a day after members of the elite CAPSAT unit joined youth-led protests urging him to step down. His office condemned an “illegal” bid to seize power and urged unity to defend constitutional order. Demonstrations by “Gen Z Madagascar” over...
Vice President JD Vance said on NBC's Meet the Press that President Donald Trump is weighing, but has not yet used, the Insurrection Act, as the White House pursues blocked efforts to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Chicago and Portland. Vance defended exploring all options and criticized media and...
New Orleans city councilmember Helena Moreno won the mayor’s race Saturday, taking 55% of the vote and avoiding a runoff, preliminary results show. The Democrat will succeed LaToya Cantrell, who is term-limited after a turbulent second term marked by clashes with the council and a 2022 recall effort. Cantrell was...
Madagascar’s presidency says an illegal bid to seize power is under way, after the army unit CAPSAT declared it had taken command of the military and named Gen Demosthene Pikulas as chief of staff. The claim comes amid protests that began on 25 September over water and power cuts and...
