China says it hopes this year will be a “landmark year” in relations with the United States, as the two sides prepare for an expected leaders’ summit later this moth.
President Donald Trump says it's inconsequential if Russia has provided Iran with information to help Tehran target U.S. military personnel and assets in the Middle East.
Visitors to the Capitol in Washington now have a visible reminder of the siege there on Jan. 6, 2021, and the officers who fought and were injured that day.
Cuban officials say they expect to soon restart a large thermoelectric plant after it shut down earlier in the week and sparked a massive blackout.
The U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran have raised concerns among Democrats and others about diminishing American stockpiles of certain weapons.
President Donald Trump joined grieving families at Dover Air Force Base for the dignified transfer of six U.S. Army Reserve soldiers killed in Kuwait.
Israel is renewing its assault on southern Lebanon, including targeting commanders of the Lebanese branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force in Beirut.
Newly released videos showing the fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal immigration agent in Texas last year call into question assertions by the Department of Homeland Security that a driver intentionally rammed an agent with his car.
U.S. President Donald Trump warned in a Truth Social post that more Iranian officials will be targets, saying, “Today Iran will be hit very hard.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. and Latin American countries are banding together to combat violent cartels as his administration looks to demonstrate it remains committed to sharpening U.S. foreign policy focus on the Western Hemisphere.
President Donald Trump visited Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to view the dignified transfer for six soldiers killed during his war with Iran.
Families and supporters of Americans detained in Iran worry that their loved ones risk becoming collateral damage amid continued Israeli and American bombardment, or victims of retaliation from Iran’s repressive regime.
The family of the Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. is honoring him with a private memorial at Rainbow PUSH headquarters in Chicago.
The price of oil surged higher and showed no signs of halting its rapid climb a week after the U.S. and Israel launched major attacks on Iran that escalated into a war in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump says questions about the war in Iran are “easy” compared to efforts to better regulate college sports.
Affordable housing residents near a federal immigration building in Portland, Oregon, have won a court order limiting federal officers’ use of tear gas during protests at the facility.
A top Pentagon official says a fight with Anthropic centered on how the military could someday use artificial intelligence in autonomous weapons.
President Donald Trump has predicted the destruction not just of college sports but the entire U.S. collegiate system unless the industry is fixed quickly.
A Pakistani business owner who tried to hire hit men to kill a U.S. politician has been convicted in a trial that showcased allegations of Iran-backed plotting on American soil.
The Food and Drug Administration’s controversial vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, is once again leaving the agency.
A gun-rights YouTuber in Texas who goes by the “AK Guy” on social media has a clear path to the GOP nomination for Congress after Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales ended his reelection campaign over revelations of an affair.
National Symphony Orchestra director Jean Davidson has left the Kennedy Center to lead the Wallis Annenberg Center in Los Angeles, as turmoil grows under President Donald Trump’s control.
Assisted by a glittering, pink soccer ball, Lionel Messi crossed yet another frontier with his visit to the White House.
The New York Times is urging a federal judge to block a Pentagon policy that has limited access to the building for journalists from many mainstream news outlets.
Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.
The Florida Bar has walked back what it said was an erroneous statement indicating that it had an open investigation into Lindsey Halligan, a former top federal prosecutor in Virginia.
Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 18 more prisoners as part of his recent effort at a rapprochement with the United States.
Stranded Americans across the Middle East say they’ve been left to navigate flight cancellations and confusing government guidance on their own.
Muslims across the United States are observing Ramadan under rising fears tied to immigration raids, anti-Muslim rhetoric, and war in the Middle East.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has drawn negative attention for his comment that the press has emphasized casualties in the Iran war because it wants to make President Donald Trump look bad.
President Trump, who wants to stop profit-driven companies from buying residences in bulk, spotlighted the struggles of a Houston woman who was regularly outbid by firms on homes in the pandemic.
Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea.
After James Talarico won the Democratic Senate nomination in Texas, Republicans are racing to paint him as too progressive.
Explosions are sending up plumes of smoke in Iran's capital city as the United States says the most intense bombing of the weeklong campaign is coming.
The legal team for Hong Kong pro-democracy ex-publisher Jimmy Lai says he will not appeal the national security conviction for which he was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The Trump administration in recent weeks has taken forceful steps in one Latin American country after another aimed at curbing the influence and economic dominance of China.
Officials say Iran’s retaliatory attacks in the Middle East over strikes from Israel and the U.S. have left some of America’s partners in the Gulf frustrated over a lack of notice or adequate defense.
The Trump administration is following through with its threat to designate artificial intelligence company Anthropic as a supply chain risk in an unprecedented move that could force other government contractors to stop using the AI chatbot Claude.
The Justice Department has released additional Jeffrey Epstein files involving uncorroborated accusations made by a woman against President Donald Trump that the department said had been mistakenly withheld during an earlier review.
The State Department says the United States and Venezuela have agreed to reestablish diplomatic relations in a major shift in a historically adversarial relationship.
A Wisconsin teenager who killed his parents and stole their money to fund his plan to kill President Donald Trump has been sentenced to life in prison.
American employers unexpectedly cut 92,000 jobs last month, a sign that the labor market remains under strain.
President Donald Trump’s plans to nominate Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma to take over as Homeland Security secretary follow a meteoric political rise for the plumbing company owner who was first elected to Congress in 2012.
President Donald Trump has fired his embattled Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
Sen. John Cornyn is going on offense against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton as they fight for a Republican Senate runoff, and President Donald Trump’s endorsement hangs over it all.
A Florida handyman who was sentenced to life in prison for molesting two children had been convicted of storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was pardoned by President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump, who was neutral in the first round, said he would endorse “soon” in the runoff between Paxton and GOP incumbent John Cornyn and would expect the candidate he did not endorse to drop out.
President Donald Trump's administration is trying to explain why it struck Iran and killed its supreme leader without clear support from Congress or allies.
Some two dozen states are challenging President Donald Trump’s new global tariffs in court.
A federal panel reviewing President Donald Trump's White House ballroom got an earful from members of the public.
Israel launches strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs after ordering residents to evacuate, as fighting with Hezbollah intensifies.
Swaths of Cuba remain without power nearly a day after a massive blackout hit the western part of the island in the latest outage blamed on a fragile electric grid and a lack of fuel.
On its own, the phrase “Christ is king” sums up a core tenet of the Christian faith, that Jesus is the divine ruler of the universe.
Officials in New Delhi say that an Iranian warship that was sunk by a U.S. submarine near Sri Lanka had participated in naval exercises hosted by India before heading out into international waters in the Indian Ocean on its way home.
For years, Iran’s theocratic government warned it would blanket the Middle East with missile and drone fire if it felt its existence was threatened.
House lawmakers on Thursday rejected a war powers resolution to halt Trump’s attack on Iran, a day after the Senate voted down a similar measure.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he should be involved in choosing Iran’s next supreme leader.
As the Trump administration dismantles the Education Department, the agency is pulling back on its role policing discrimination in America’s schools.
The war with Iran is disrupting oil and LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, a key artery for global energy trade, sending prices higher and threatening global growth.
Honduras' new leader was elected with the President Donald Trump's backing and has now ordered a review of economic agreements with China.
The Washington Post reported that a document was distributed to ICE staff indicating the agency was drafting a letter to potentially terminate the facility’s $1.2 billion contract.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has opened an internal investigation into whether the one-time architect of President Donald Trump’s large-scale immigration crackdown made disparaging comments about the Jewish faith while criticizing the U.S. attorney for Minnesota.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of an executive order issued last year by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis that designates two Muslim groups as foreign terrorist organizations.
Turnout in the Democratic primary outpaced that on the Republican side for the first time since 2020, a notable distinction given the draw of high-profile Senate primaries in both parties.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem wrapped up two days of scrutiny in Congress, appearing for the first time in front of lawmakers since the shooting deaths of two protesters in Minneapolis at the hands of immigration enforcement officers.
Colorado’s Democratic governor is signaling his openness to granting clemency to a former county clerk who was convicted in a scheme attempting to find proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.
In a defeat for the Trump administration, a federal judge in New York ruled Wednesday that companies that paid tariffs struck down last month by Supreme Court are due refunds.
President Donald Trump is pressing Big Tech to build its own power as AI data centers spark anger over electric bills.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued its first construction permit for a commercial nuclear reactor in eight years.
Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq are preparing for a potential cross-border military operation in Iran, and the U.S. has asked Iraqi Kurds to support them, Kurdish officials have told The Associated Press.
The Trump administration has formally nominated Kevin Warsh, a former top Federal Reserve official, to be next Fed chair when Jerome Powell’s term ends in two months.
The president could scramble the traditional assumptions about a runoff if he carries out his promise to make an endorsement “soon” and urge whoever he snubs to drop out.
President Donald Trump's administration is expanding its crackdown on state Medicaid programs to New York, launching a fraud probe in the state.
IRS chief Frank Bisignano has largely declined to answer questions from lawmakers about unlawful releases of taxpayer data to immigration agents.
The president also said he would call on whomever he does not endorse to drop out of the race — though he did not specify whether he would back Cornyn or Paxton.
A blackout has left millions of people without power in Havana and the rest of western Cuba in the latest outage on an island struggling with dwindling oil reserves and a crumbling electric grid.
The Food and Drug Administration is reviewing a request for new warnings on antidepressant drugs, and that's presenting an unusual conflict of interest at the agency.
Minnesota’s governor and attorney general are defending their efforts to combat fraud.
A joke from Hilary Knight on “Saturday Night Live” and a couple of fist-bumps with Jack and Quinn Hughes on “The Tonight Show” capped a whirlwind victory lap celebrating the twin Olympic golds won by the U.S. men’s and women’s hockey teams.
The last two names of the six U.S. soldiers killed in a Kuwait attack have been released by the Pentagon, and they are from California and Iowa.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the U.S. is quickly gaining air superiority over Iran but the U.S. can't stop all air attacks.
President Donald Trump says he'll soon endorse a Republican candidate in the Texas Senate race.
Spain’s foreign minister has denied that the government has changed its position on supporting the U.S. military operations against Iran.
Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, long has been considered a contender to the post of the country’s next paramount ruler — even before his father's death though he’s never being elected nor appointed to a government position.
Two blockbuster Senate primaries dominated attention, chaos reigned in down-ballot races and an intense runoff season looms.
U.S. Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Houston, was defeated and four other incumbents — Democrats and Republicans — found themselves in close races or runoffs as votes were still being counted early Wednesday.
Senate Republicans have voted down an effort to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.
A widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has seen major strikes, missile fire across the region, and fresh fears for global energy and markets.
Some of the sharpest criticism President Donald Trump has faced in the early days of the Iran war has come from once-loyal media figures more accustomed to singing his praises.