A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting heads of states for festivities Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

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

About two dozen states led by Democrats have sued the Trump administration over the dismantling of AmeriCorps.

A federal judge in west Texas has joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.

President Donald Trump has paid his respects to Pope Francis, joining more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries at the funeral of the Catholic Church leader.

The legendary attorney who was once deemed the “chief counsel” of the Civil Rights Movement by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been honored with a statue outside the Alabama State Bar Association.

At least 26 people were killed and more than a dozen injured after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir.

India is blaming Pakistan for a militant attack that killed 26 people in Indian-held Kashmir, downgrading diplomatic ties and suspending a crucial water-sharing treaty.

At least 26 people have been killed and 17 others wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the worst assault in years targeting civilians in the restive region that has seen an anti-India rebellion for more than three decades.

Thirty years after the deadliest homegrown attack in U.S. history, former President Bill Clinton has returned to Oklahoma City for a remembrance ceremony.

A bomb with a force powerful enough to instantly destroy much of a nine-story building shattered a quiet Oklahoma City morning and sent a shock wave through America.

A career diplomat has become the unexpected face of President Donald Trump's “America First” agenda at the United Nations.

A 30-year-old community service program for young adults that operates across the U.S. has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash government spending.

Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged.

Democrats are quick to say that President Donald Trump’s tariffs are horrible, awful, terrible.

The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, to a place nearby.

The upheaval in stocks has been grabbing all the headlines, but there is a bigger problem looming in another corner of the financial markets that rarely gets headlines: Investors are dumping U.S. government bonds.

This year's official White House Christmas ornament honors more than 150 years of culinary diplomacy practiced at state dinners.

A federal appeals court is allowing billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to once again access people’s private data at the Education Department, the Treasury Department and the Office of Personnel Management.

President Donald Trump says he won’t back down on his sweeping tariffs on imports from most of the world unless countries even out their trade with the U.S. He's digging in on his plans to implement the taxes that have sent financial markets reeling, raised fears of a recession and upended the global trading system.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.

President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports.

An appeals court in California has refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were let go in mass firings.

Constitutional challenges are expected for President Donald Trump's order to overhaul U.S. elections.

After a judge ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were fired in a dramatic downsizing of the U.S. government, many have been asked to return to work only to be put on administrative leave, or offered early retirement.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

Donald Trump's style of diplomacy is a whole lot like a high-stakes business deal, and his No. 1 goal is to come out of the transaction on top.

A federal judge in the nation’s capital is refusing to block employees of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury systems containing sensitive personal data for millions of Americans.

President Donald Trump wants to increase logging in national forests and on public lands, including by bypassing endangered species protections.

President Donald Trump will stand at the front of the U.S. House chamber to address a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term in office.

The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing.

President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States, and activists and advocacy groups are alarmed by what that will mean for non-English speakers when it comes to immigration, voter access and other issues.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order designating English as the official language of the United States.

When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.

Sinn Féin’s leaders say they will not attend a traditional St. Patrick’s Day event next month at the White House as a protest against President Donald Trump’s stance on Gaza.

Although some parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda are getting bogged down by litigation, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is having better luck in the courtroom.

Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who was forced from office in the wake of the Whitewater investigation, has died.

Since President Donald Trump began his second term last month, he has focused on bringing about a dramatic reduction in the federal workforce at a breakneck pace.

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most controversial plans since taking office.

The federal office that enforces civil rights at school across the nation has been ordered to prioritize complaints of antisemitism above all else as it molds to President Donald Trump’s agenda, raising fears that other rights violations will go unpunished.

Beyoncé has won album of the year at the 67th Grammy Awards.

Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.

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Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand his power in the first days of his presidency.

Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.

The crowded scene in the Capitol Rotunda on Inauguration Day featured four of the world’s five wealthiest men, five U.S. presidents, influential sporting figures and two foreign leaders with prime seats on the dais.

A president’s inaugural address is a time-honored spectacle: A makeshift grandstand is erected next to the Capitol and hundreds of thousands people line the National Mall.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected opera tenor Christopher Macchio to perform the national anthem at his second inauguration.

President Joe Biden has posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey, who influenced Malcolm X and other Black civil rights leaders and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

It's unclear who'll take over at the Pentagon and the military services when the top leaders all step down Monday as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office.

There’s not only one Donald Trump in the United States.

Attorney General Merrick Garland came in with a mission to calm the waters at the Justice Department and restore its reputation for independence after four turbulent years during Donald Trump's presidency.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

President Joe Biden is set to deliver a farewell address to the nation from the Oval Office.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken has made a last-minute case for a plan for the post-war reconstruction and governance of Gaza as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appears tantalizingly close to completion.

In January 1981, Jimmy Carter nodded politely toward Ronald Reagan at the Republican's inauguration.

As President Joe Biden prepares to leave office next week, he's insistent that his one-term presidency has made strides in restoring American credibility on the world stage and has proved that the U.S. remains an indispensable partner around the globe.

Five current and former U.S. presidents have come together for Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Inside Washington National Cathedral, the five men who've occupied the Oval Office since 1993 convened for a rare moment together at Jimmy Carter’s state funeral.

Former first lady Michelle Obama didn't attend the state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter.

As the holiday honoring the slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. approaches, his daughter is urging people to really focus on his work throughout the next year, rather than just paying him tribute for a day.

Six days of funeral observances for former President Jimmy Carter are set to take place in Georgia, where he died on Dec. 29 at the age of 100.

Some transgender people worry President Joe Biden did not do enough to shield them from the torrent of Trump policies to come.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died.

What a wonderful year 2024 has been for investors.

Former President Bill Clinton will be home for Christmas after being discharged from a Washington hospital where he was treated for the flu.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

Bill and Hillary Clinton say voters disappointed with the presidential election need to remain involved in public service and find ways to give back.

It was a life that took him from peanut farming to the presidency.

President Joe Biden’s decision to go back on his word and pardon his son Hunter wasn't all that surprising to those who are familiar with the president's devotion to his family.

Bill Clinton's presidential library and museum is planning a major update and expansion as it celebrates 20 years of being open.

U.S. officials are proposing increased logging on federal lands across the Pacific Northwest under changes to a sweeping forest management plan that’s been in place for three decades.

Before he comes back for good on Inauguration Day, Donald Trump will return to the White House briefly at the invitation of President Joe Biden.

The results on Election Day will come down to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Kamala Harris made a surprise appearance on “Saturday Night Live” as she took a brief break from the battleground states where she's been campaigning.

In the waning days of the presidential campaign, former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are courting Native American voters in states where their vote could swing some of the most hotly contested counties in the country.

The rally Republican Donald Trump is planning for Madison Square Garden on Sunday follows a long line of political events at the storied New York City arena.

Georgia voters are once again expected to play a pivotal role in the presidential election on Nov. 5, even as many are focusing on recovering and rebuilding from the devastating effects of Hurricane Helene.

One is the longest-serving woman in congressional history.

The Pentagon says more than 800 military personnel have seen their service records upgraded to honorable discharges after previously being kicked out of the military under its former “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.

Former President Bill Clinton is urging voters in rural Georgia to get behind Kamala Harris' campaign for the office he once held.

Some Michigan Democrats are raising concerns about Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential bid in a crucial swing state.

Authorities in Congo say 600 prisoners in the country's main prison have been freed as part of a process aimed at decongesting overcrowded prisons.

Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans are blaming comments made by Democrats that he is a threat to democracy for the unprecedented attacks on him, the latest coming over the weekend.

Donald Trump claimed she would raise viewers’ taxes and accused her of supporting open border policies that had allowed an influx of unvetted and dangerous migrants into the country.

Prince Harry, actor Matt Damon, and World Central Kitchen founder Jose Andres are set to speak at the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York on Sept. 23 and 24, the Clinton Foundation announced Thursday.

Former President Bill Clinton is preparing to deliver his 12th address to the Democratic National Convention.

The Democratic National Convention kicks off this week, with delegates and officials descending on Chicago to formally nominate Vice President Kamala Harris as their nominee.

As the American city that has hosted more political conventions than any other, Chicago has pretty much seen it all.

Reflections on the late Congresswoman from Houston's lie will also come from her children as well as local and national leaders.

Reflections on the late Congresswoman from Houston's lie will also come from her children as well as local and national leaders.

President Joe Biden has announced that he will be endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris after dropping out of the presidential race.

Organizers of next month’s Democratic National Convention are tossing out their script.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans has ruled unconstitutional a method the Federal Communications Commission uses to fund telephone and broadband services for rural and low-income users.