The State Department says it's preparing a limited release of commemorative U.S. passports celebrating America’s 250th birthday and featuring a picture of President Donald Trump.
A federal commission has approved the design concept for the Triumphal Arch that President Donald Trump wants to build at an entrance to the nation's capital.
Donald Trump has made a public flex of his political influence abroad on a scale that few, if any, U.S. presidents have, trying to marshal power he’s used domestically to sway races around the world.
Vice President JD Vance has a new book about his religious faith and adult conversion to Catholicism.
Long security lines at airports are driving people crazy as Congress and President Donald Trump try to work out a budget stalemate.
Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have entered the monthlong war in the Middle East and claimed they launched missiles toward Israel.
Pakistan’s foreign minister says Islamabad will soon host talks between the U.S. and Iran.
At least 20 communities with large warehouses across the U.S. have become stealth targets for Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s $45-billion expansion of detention centers.
President Donald Trump’s vision of the Supreme Court, in which his three appointees are personally loyal to him, collided with the court’s view of itself when six justices voted to strike down Trump’s signature economic policy, global tariffs imposed under an emergency powers law.
The Kennedy Center is warning staff that a planned two-year renovation shutdown will lead to job cuts and “skeletal teams.”.
Lawmakers have tried to interview Ghislaine Maxwell, but the former girlfriend and confidante of Jeffrey Epstein invoked her Fifth Amendment rights to avoid answering questions that would be incriminating.
The Associated Press and the Trump administration renewed their argument over a president’s ability to limit media access to journalists he disagrees with.
North Texas is in The Associated Press college football poll for the first time since 1959.
Ford Motor Company is showing off its new world headquarters building in Dearborn, Michigan.
The war between Israel and Iran has raised concerns that Iran could try to close the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important oil chokepoint.
Seven Army bases whose names were changed in 2023 because they honored Confederate leaders are all reverting back to their original names.
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.
President Donald Trump is moving swiftly to act on his immigration promises with little internal restraint, determined to test the bounds of his executive authority in order to fulfill the promises of his reelection campaign.
President Donald Trump has used the first service academy commencement address of his second term to laud graduating West Point cadets for their accomplishments and career choice.
President Donald Trump says at a private religious group's Washington prayer breakfast he's forming a commission on religious liberty.
A deadly collision between a passenger airliner and an Army helicopter left Kansas’ largest city grieving.
A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a Liberian-flagged tanker in the narrow Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
An attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship farther away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden.
A possible attack by Yemen’s Houthi rebels has targeted a ship further away from nearly all of the previous assaults they’ve launched in the Gulf of Aden.
An aerial drone launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck and damaged a vessel in the Red Sea.
On D-Day, The Associated Press had reporters, artists and photographers in the air, on the choppy waters of the English Channel, in London, and at English departure ports and airfields covering the Allied assault in Normandy.
U.S. fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier struck three underground storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen late Friday.
It’s been nearly 70 years since there last was a presidential election rematch, but it has occurred more than people might think in U.S. history.
Sailors aboard the U.S. aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower and its accompanying warships have spent four months straight at sea defending against ballistic missiles and flying attack drones fired by Iranian-backed Houthis.
The U.S. and Britain struck 36 Houthi sites in Yemen in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war.
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With Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin heading to town, Geneva is returning to the international spotlight as a leading hub for diplomacy and multilateralism, things that were largely shunned by the Trump administration.
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A company providing services to the Suez Canal says the maritime traffic jam caused by the Canal's blockage by a cargo ship for nearly a week is continuing to ease.
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The committee has voted to hold the inaugural ceremonies on the West Front of the Capitol, a tradition that began under Ronald Reagan. The Architect of the Capitol is busy constructing the inaugural platform from scratch. The platform traditionally holds more than 1,600 people, including the president and vice president, members of Congress, Supreme Court justices, and the outgoing president and vice president. A Presidential Inaugural Committee, a nonprofit representing the president-elect, will be organized following the Nov. 3 election. For the Washington, D.C., metro area, the inauguration has traditionally provided an economic boost as visitors fill local hotels and restaurants.
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Question: Were any U.S. presidents born in Texas? Answer: There are two United States presidents who were born in Texas. According to WhiteHouse.gov’s official biography, Eisenhower was born in Texas in 1890, brought up in Abilene, Kansas, Eisenhower was the third of seven sons. According to WhiteHouse.gov’s official biography, Johnson was born in 1908, in central Texas. He studied at Southwest Texas State Teachers College, now known as Texas State University in San Marcos.
There have been many ads that have gone down in history for how much they’ve struck people and shaped public opinion during a presidential election.
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FILE - In this Dec. 6, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower poses with President-elect John F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington, before a private conference. Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in 2020 have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events. Case in point: Researchers at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum have found a cache of letters from Americans objecting to JFK's embrace of cocktails at White House events. Can we risk our national and international security on such potential incompetence?Eisenhower was no teetotaler, but historians say he presided over a largely cocktail-free White House. JFK Library archivists say the letters of protest began arriving after newspapers reported on Kennedy's first official event: a January 1961 reception honoring the new president's appointees.