Donald Trump once decried the idea of taking vacations as president.

The new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling tracker shows that overall views of President Donald Trump’s job performance have been steady over the past few months.

President Donald Trump faces ongoing questions about the Jeffrey Epstein case, overshadowing his administration's achievements.

Donald Trump is in Scotland to inaugurate a new golf course in Aberdeenshire.

The White House is focusing on redistricting efforts beyond Texas to help Republicans maintain control of the U.S. House in 2026.

A replica Oval Office on display near the White House has been made over to look exactly like President Donald Trump’s Oval Office.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has made a surprise appearance in the White House briefing room and targeted President Donald Trump’s political enemies.

History, it has been said, is written by the winners.

President Donald Trump is rehashing longstanding grievances over the Russia investigation that shadowed much of his first term.

Hunter Biden has criticized prominent Democrats and party advisers in a recent interview.

Nonprofits in McDowell County, West Virginia, face severe challenges due to federal funding cuts.

The U.S. Department of Labor is aiming to rewrite or repeal more than 60 “obsolete” workplace regulations adopted under previous presidential administrations.

President Donald Trump’s social media posts about the NFL’s Washington Commanders and Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians going back to their old names has revived the conversation about Native American imagery in sports.

Darren Walker, outgoing president of the Ford Foundation, will join The Obama Foundation’s board of directors on Nov. 1.

A new welcome center at the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine tells the story of the land from the perspective of its original inhabitants — the Native Americans who comprise the Wabanaki Confederacy.

Moving at the “speed of Trump” is one of the White House’s favorite phrases, but when it comes to presidential travel, Donald Trump’s pace is about the same as that of his Democratic predecessor, Joe Biden.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says military bases in Indiana and New Jersey could house detained immigrants without affecting their military operations.

Maurene Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey who as a federal prosecutor in Manhattan worked on cases against Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jeffrey Epstein, has told colleagues in a note that “fear is the tool of a tyrant” and that her firing without reason should fuel “a fire of righteous indignation at abuses of power.”.

Just 1 in 4 U.S. adults say President Donald Trump’s policies have helped them.

When Jeffrey Epstein died in prison, then-President Donald Trump speculated that authorities might be wrong in ruling it a suicide.

President Donald Trump is countering criticism of the Justice Department’s failure to release much-hyped records around the Jeffrey Epstein sex trafficking case, accusing former government officials including Barack Obama, Joe Biden and James Comey of tampering with related documents.

Democrats are latching on to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.

President Donald Trump is downplaying the possibility of sending Ukraine long-range weapons as Kyiv awaits an injection of U.S. weaponry that it hopes will help it beat back an intensifying Russian air offensive.

Mike Waltz, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday for his confirmation hearing.

The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial pick of his second term, voting along party lines to approve Whitney Hermandorfer as a judge for the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

U.S. President Donald Trump will make an unprecedented second state visit to the U.K. between Sept. 17 and 19 when he will be hosted by King Charles III and Queen Camilla at Windsor Castle.

President Donald Trump prides himself on being a dealmaker, but his negotiating style is more ultimatum than compromise.

Leaders, lawmakers and others are using a new strategy to stay on President Donald Trump’s good side: Nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize and let him know it.

Larry David will bring his grumbly sensibility to U.S. history in a team-up with Barack and Michelle Obama for an HBO sketch show.

Democrats are using a Louisiana town hall to preview one of their main strategies for attempting to retake the U.S. House next year, ripping into the health care changes in the just-passed Republican tax and spending bill.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. and Russia have exchanged new ideas for Ukraine peace talks after he met with his Russian counterpart in Malaysia on Thursday.

Sweeping tariffs set to be imposed by President Donald Trump next month may overshadow his top diplomat's first official trip to Asia.

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”.

President Donald Trump has shared his unique takes on past presidents and their portraits while discussing his White House redecorating efforts.

U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Donald Trump has made tax cuts a central part of his political legacy.

President Donald Trump has signed his signature bill of tax and spending cuts at the White House Fourth of July picnic.

The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.

Republicans in Congress have muscled President Donald Trump’s tax and spending bill to passage.

House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage.

Massachusetts once served as a model for what became the Obama-era health overhaul.

A newly released report from the CIA challenges the work intelligence agencies did to investigate Russia's support for Donald Trump ahead of the 2016 election.

The Justice Department is ramping up efforts to revoke the citizenship of immigrants who commit crimes or pose a national security risk.

At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

Websites displaying legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared.

President Donald Trump has instructed his top Cabinet officers to review U.S. policy toward Cuba, ordering them to examine current sanctions and come up with ways to toughen them within 30 days.

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

Former Presidents Barack Obama and George W.

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has announced he will not seek reelection next year.

Possible changes to President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts are being considered, though most of the amendments are expected to fail.

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that elected officials’ heated words about judges can lead to threats or acts of violence by others.

The U.S. and China have reached an agreement — again — to deescalate trade tensions.

The Supreme Court has preserved a key part of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive health care coverage requirements, rejecting a challenge from Christian employers to the provision that affects 150 million Americans.

The stunning success of Zohran Mamdani, a 33-year-old democratic socialist, in the race for New York City mayor has exposed the fiery divisions plaguing the Democratic Party as it struggles to repair its brand.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

JB Pritzker, who has spent years building a national profile, will seek a third term as Illinois’ governor.

President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu likes to remind people that in the disorienting first days after Hamas’ Oct_ 7, 2023, attack, he predicted Israel would “change the Middle East.”.

President Donald Trump wants a tidy end to the war between Israel and Iran.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

President Donald Trump is in Europe for a two-day NATO summit laden with uncertainty over Iran’s response to U.S. airstrikes, the fate of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the future of U.S. troops based in NATO countries.

Brushing up on English has taken on new urgency for truck drivers in the United States.

In the days after Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed a shellshocked shadow of himself.

The world is grappling with the enormous implications after the United States inserted itself into Israel’s war against Iran.

The White House published a series of photos from inside the Situation Room on its X account as President Donald Trump authorized strikes that hit nuclear sites in Iran.

President Donald Trump has expressed certainty that his big gamble to directly assist the Israelis delivered a knockout blow to Iran’s nuclear program — even as many of his supporters and detractors are warning that U.S. military action could lead the United States into an expansive regional conflict.

Democrats seem to be at odds once more when it comes to the Mideast.

Mother Emanuel AME church made an ecumenical gesture for the commemoration of a racist shooting that killed nine of its Black members 10 years ago on Tuesday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is on the mission of his lifetime.

President Donald Trump is urging Iran to make a nuclear deal now that Israel has launched strikes against the country.

President Donald Trump’s administration is moving to lift restrictions on copper-nickel mining that the Biden administration imposed near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota.

Top Democratic strategist David Plouffe is joining Coinbase as an adviser as the cryptocurrency exchange broadens its political reach.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom looked straight into the camera and offered a stark moment for his Democratic Party.

President Donald Trump’s plan to begin “phasing out” the federal agency that responds to disasters after the 2025 hurricane season is likely to put more responsibilities on states to provide services following increasingly frequent and expensive climate disasters, experts say.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump’s administration say he has the authority to abolish national monuments meant to protect historical and archaeological sites.

A top aide to Health Secretary Robert F.

Iran’s nuclear program remains a top focus for inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency, particularly as any possible deal between Tehran and the United States over the program would likely rely on the agency long known as the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.

A U.S. district judge in Arizona has opened the door for the next round of legal wrangling as environmentalists and some Native Americas seek to stop the federal government from transferring land in Arizona for a massive copper mining project.

Chiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act.

Call it the 911 presidency.

A three-judge appeals court panel ruled against The Associated Press in its continuing bid to restore full access to covering events involving President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is taking aim at dozens of rules aimed at protecting the environment, including one that requires big polluters to report greenhouse gas emissions.

A federal judge has ruled that two federal agencies cannot punish Catholic employers and health care providers if they refuse, for religious reasons, to provide gender-affirming care to transgender patients or won’t provide health insurance coverage for such care to their workers.

Members of Congress and a federal judge are questioning the Trump administration’s plan to shut down Job Corps centers nationwide.

Michelle Obama has a new book out this fall that offers a fresh take on her public life.

When the head of the Environmental Protection Agency earlier this year announced a massive rollback of environmental regulations, he said it would spark a “Golden Age” for the American economy.

Former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre has a book out this fall that promises a close look at President Biden’s decision not to run for reelection and calls for thinking beyond the two-party system.

British writer Bernardine Evaristo Evaristo has won the 100,000-pound Women’s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award.

Pittsburgh Steelers legend Rocky Bleier called an audible when he presented President Donald Trump with a Steelers jersey with the No. 47 during a recent rally in western Pennsylvania.

President Donald Trump has appeared to undercut a proposal that was offered by his special envoy to Iran.

Comic and actor Marc Maron says he’s ending his popular and influential podcast “WTF with Marc Maron” after nearly 16 years.

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the conservative legal activist who has worked to dramatically reshape the country’s courts.

President Donald Trump faces the challenge of convincing Republican senators, global investors, voters and even Elon Musk that he won’t bury the federal government in debt with his multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reassured allies in the Indo-Pacific that they will not be left alone to face increasing military and economic pressure from China.

President Donald Trump says he is going to double the tariff rate on steel from 25% to 50%.

President Donald Trump has built a coalition by promising to demolish a so-called deep state that he claims is behind dark government conspiracies.

President Donald Trump’s big plans on trade, deportations and more are running up against the laws of political gravity and the separation of powers.

Mining company Signal Peak Energy sits atop a billion-ton coal reserve beneath Montana’s rugged Bull Mountains and ships 98% of the fuel it mines to Japan and South Korea.

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration wrongly ended humanitarian parole for hundreds of thousands of people allowed to live in the United States temporarily.