U.S. Vice President JD Vance is seeking to ease concerns in Israel that the Trump administration is dictating terms to its closest ally in the Middle East.
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has emphasized that his country controls its own security and is not a U.S. protectorate.
Senate Republicans projected a unified front at the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, arriving at President Donald Trump’s invitation as they refuse to yield to Democratic demands for health care funds into the fourth week of the government shutdown.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement during a visit to Israel even as they acknowledged significant challenges remain.
President Donald Trump and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese have signed a critical minerals deal.
California authorities say metal shrapnel from an exploding artillery shell hit and damaged a state highway patrol vehicle as the Marine Corps fired live rounds over a freeway during exercises observed by Vice President JD Vance.
A plan to fire live artillery shells over a major Southern California highway as part of a military showcase attended by Vice President JD Vance has drawn strong objections from Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The public release of a Young Republican group chat that included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers has prompted bipartisan calls for those involved to be removed from or resign their positions.
Federal workers furloughed or working without pay are feeling the financial squeeze and fear being swept up in the Trump administration's layoffs.
The Trump administration has revoked the visas of six foreigners deemed by U.S. officials to have made derisive comments or made light of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk last month.
President Donald Trump has posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk, the conservative activist who was fatally shot last month while speaking at Utah Valley University.
Israel and Hamas have taken a significant step in the ceasefire agreement for the Gaza war by releasing hostages and prisoners.
The cryptocurrency industry spent millions last year to unseat a longtime critic, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, and install its allies in Washington.
President Donald Trump is celebrating a breakthrough in the two-year conflict in the Middle East, calling it something people said could never be done.
Vice President JD Vance is expected to visit Indiana on Friday for a second time in recent months as the White House continues to push for redistricting.
President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two sides once again at a seemingly intractable impasse.
Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress as President Donald Trump says layoffs are “taking place right now.”.
Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk.
North Carolina’s Democratic governor has signed into law a criminal justice measure pushed by the Republican-controlled legislature in response to the stabbing death of a Ukrainian refugee on a Charlotte train.
Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes.
The government shutdown has sparked intense political battles, with both parties blaming each other even as major job cuts — and major disruptions to iconic sites like the Liberty Bell and Pearl Harbor — have begun taking hold.
President Donald Trump is proposing using American cities as training grounds for the armed forces.
Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.
Rep. John Moolenaar has requested an urgent briefing from the White House after Trump supported a deal giving Americans a majority stake in TikTok.
The gunman who opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas hated the U.S. government and wanted to incite terror by killing federal agents.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have varying security levels, with some heavily secured and others more exposed.
A debate has been sparked among Black pastors who are trying to square a heroic view of Charlie Kirk, the 31-year-old conservative activist who was gunned down in Utah this month, with the insulting statements about people of color that were key to his political activism.
With Vice President JD Vance calling Charlie Kirk “a martyr for Christianity,” some Kirk admirers suggest his assassination will galvanize throngs of people — notably young conservatives — to become more engaged in evangelical and Catholic churches.
As they mourn slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump, members of his administration and a broader universe of supporters have seemed to impose a double standard on speech.
President Donald Trump has promoted unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without offering new medical evidence.
President Donald Trump and his supporters have paid tribute to conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a memorial service in Arizona.
Turning Point USA, the organization Charlie Kirk founded to mobilize young conservatives, has seen a massive surge in interest and support since the activist’s assassination last week.
Jimmy Kimmel’s television future is hanging in the balance after ABC suspended his late-night show following the host’s comments about Charlie Kirk’s killing.
In an excerpt of former Vice President Kamala Harris's new book, she says she would have picked Pete Buttigieg as her running mate last year but America wasn’t ready for the pairing.
Vice President JD Vance says the national unity he's “desperate” for after the assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk cannot be had with people who condone political violence.
FBI Director Kash Patel says DNA on a towel wrapped around a rifle found near where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated matches that of the 22-year-old accused in the killing.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he will be seeking answers from Israeli officials about how they see the way forward in Gaza following Israel's attack on Hamas operatives in Qatar that has upended efforts to broker an end to the conflict.
A 22-year-old Utah man who was booked on murder charges in the assassination of Charlie Kirk held deep disdain for the conservative activist’s provocative viewpoints and indicated to a family member that he was responsible for the shooting.
Vice President JD Vance flew to Salt Lake City aboard Air Force Two to pick up Charlie Kirk's casket and transport it to his home state of Arizona.
Charlie Kirk began plotting a way to mold young minds into conservatism at an age when he was still sorting out his own path.
Officials have released a new video of a person of interest in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk at a college event in Orem, Utah.
The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods is still at large more than 24 hours later.
Americans have marked 24 years since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks with solemn ceremonies, volunteer work and other tributes honoring the victims.
As Donald Trump prepared to return to the White House, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham encouraged him to send a message to drug cartels.
President Donald Trump had dinner at a seafood restaurant near the White House as part of his effort to promote deploying the National Guard and federalizing the police force in the nation's capital.
The United States has long relied on the Coast Guard and allies to interdict drug vessels through arrests and prosecutions at sea.
European officials, led by EU sanctions envoy David O’Sullivan, plan to visit the U.S. Treasury Department on Monday to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions.
Missouri has become the third state to embrace a mid-decade redesign of its U.S. House districts in a quest for partisan advantage.
Vice President JD Vance has visited Minneapolis to meet with families affected by a deadly church shooting.
Investigators in Minneapolis say the shooter who killed two Catholic school students and wounded 18 other people inside a church was obsessed with the idea of killing defenseless children.
President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital.
As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak.
Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech.
President Donald Trump has marked the fourth anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal by signing a proclamation honoring them.
Britain's top diplomat has been given a formal warning for fishing without a license during a recent outing with U.S. Vice President JD Vance.
President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.
Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.
The Republican-controlled Texas House of Representatives has passed a redrawn congressional map that creates up to five new winnable GOP seats in Congress.
U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's meeting in the Oval Office was notably different from their last encounter in February.
Democratic leaders are lauding Ohio's Sherrod Brown now that he's launched his 2026 campaign to return to the U.S. Senate.
President Donald Trump has started arranging a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Conservative activist Laura Loomer complained on social media about children from Gaza arriving in the U.S. for medical treatment and questioned how they got visas.
European leaders have praised President Donald Trump for agreeing to allow U.S. military support for a force they are mustering to police any future peace in Ukraine.
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his successful election campaign he could end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” upon taking office.
U.S. President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t agree to stop his war in Ukraine after their Friday summit in Alaska.
President Donald Trump says there will be “very severe consequences” if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war against Ukraine after the two leaders meet for a summit later this week in Alaska.
President Donald Trump has been using diplomatic appointments as a soft landing for officials leaving his administration.
Former U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s best-known Democrat, is expected to make another run for the Senate next year as Democrats wage an uphill fight to win control of the chamber.
The Trump administration's new human rights reports for countries worldwide eliminate mentions of discrimination faced by LGBTQ people and reduce a previous focus on reproductive rights.
U.S. Sen. Bernie Moreno has emerged as an interlocutor for conservatives in Latin America seeking to connect with the Trump administration.
Texas Republicans have escalated the penalties against Democrats as they enter a second week camped out in states across the country to block new U.S. House maps pushed for by President Donald Trump to win more seats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
Vice President JD Vance’s security detail had an Ohio river’s water level raised last weekend to accommodate a kayaking trip he and his family took for his 41st birthday.
President Donald Trump is increasing pressure on Republican-led states to redraw congressional boundaries.
President Donald Trump has hinted that Vice President JD Vance might be the favorite to succeed him as the leader of the MAGA movement.
