President Donald Trump on Friday floated cutting tariffs on China to 80% ahead of a weekend meeting as he looks to de-escalate the trade war.

President Donald Trump says he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.

President Donald Trump has pulled the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, after a key Republican senator said he could not support Martin for the job due to his defense of Jan. 6 rioters.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis says he’s informed the White House that he won’t support Donald Trump’s pick for top federal prosecutor in Washington, stalling the nomination in the Senate weeks before the temporary appointment expires.

Most of President Donald Trump’s top nominees have sailed through the Senate with little resistance.

Officials say a suspect has been arrested in connection with last week's theft of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s purse as she ate at a Washington, D.

The top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, who promoted President Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was rigged, has formed a “special unit” to investigate election offenses, according to an email sent to lawyers in his office.

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.

Georgetown Law School’s dean has rebuffed an unusual warning from the top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.

The Department of Justice is reviewing the prosecution of a former Colorado clerk who was convicted in state court of helping President Donald Trump's supporters access confidential data about the 2020 election and is supporting her bid to get out of jail.

During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has worked to tear down the federal government and attack long-standing institutions.

Several senior leaders in Washington’s federal prosecutors office have been demoted to jobs handling misdemeanors or other low-level matters.

President Donald Trump is backing Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.

Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing their job.

A top supervisor in the federal prosecutors’ office in Washington said she was forced to resign following a dispute with her boss over a directive that she scrutinize the awarding of a government contract during the Biden administration, according to a letter reviewed by The Associated Press.

A conservative activist who echoed Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters has been nominated by the Republican president to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.

Elon Musk has promised transparency as President Donald Trump's leader in making the federal government more efficient.

The emergence of X owner Elon Musk as the most influential figure around President Donald Trump has created an extraordinary dynamic — a White House adviser who's using one of the world’s most powerful information platforms to sell the government’s talking points while threatening its detractors.

Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to dismiss their case against a former Nebraska congressman charged with lying to authorities about a foreign billionaire’s illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign.

The top federal prosecutor for Washington, D.