U.S. President Donald Trump has been nominated again for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Pat Williams, a New Deal-style Democrat who won Montana's great liberal-conservative showdown of 1992 to become the state's lone voice in the U.S. House of Representatives, has died.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

Officials in the nation’s capital generally express full confidence in their ability to handle large, complicated events and huge crowds.

Donald Trump's administration says it's the most transparent in history.

Israel’s Cabinet has decided to seize Gaza for an unspecified amount of time.

Hours after Israel's Foreign Ministry posted a condolence for the passing for Pope Francis, it was deleted without explanation.

Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the same time that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could make it easier for the president to fire him.

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

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Panama Canal faces threats from China but together the U.S. and Panama will keep it secure.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will travel to Panama next week to meet its leaders following recent U.S. allegations of Chinese interference in the operations of the critical Panama Canal shipping lane.

President Donald Trump has reopened a debate in the fight over the federal government’s role in education policy after signing an executive order to dismantle the U.S. Education Department.

Filling an empty space on the wall of presidential portraits in the Colorado Capitol with a new painting of Donald Trump could take time after one he disliked was taken down.

Since it was created in 1979, the Education Department has enjoyed enough bipartisan support to keep it in business, with some Republicans even embracing its role in funding and shaping public schools.

Reaction in South Florida to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown has been far more muted than in his first term.

Hong Kong’s leader says his government opposes coercion by foreign governments, an allusion to comments by U.S. President Donald Trump, but stopped short of criticizing a prominent local conglomerate’s decision to sell its Panama Canal port assets to a consortium including American investment bank BlackRock Inc. John Lee was speaking during a news briefing after Beijing’s Hong Kong affairs office reposted newspaper commentaries critical of the deal between the constortium and CK Hutchison...

Ron Nessen, the veteran broadcast journalist who served as press secretary for President Gerald Ford, has died at 90.

As President Donald Trump seeks to end wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, his approach to both seems to boil down to giving the stronger party what it wants and pushing the weaker to accept it.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino has accused U.S. President Donald Trump of lying when Trump said in his address to Congress the night before that his administration was “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.

His group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads opposing Robert F.

When the Trump administration barred Associated Press reporters from presidential events, it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order.

One of the top election officials in Arizona's largest county has drastically downsized a team whose responsibilities included combating false information about elections.

Donald Trump’s second administration has advanced an avalanche of policy action and political pronouncements that have jolted Washington and, in some cases, the world.

Gaza has long been a powder keg.

Former President Jimmy Carter has won a posthumous Grammy award.

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is on his first foreign trip in office.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says President Donald Trump’s desire to acquire Greenland and retake control of the Panama Canal is driven by legitimate national security interests stemming from growing concerns about Chinese activity in the Arctic and in Latin America.

Panama President José Raúl Mulino says there will be no negotiation with the United States over ownership of the Panama Canal.

President Donald Trump is relying on a relatively obscure federal agency to reshape government.

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A cross-border conservation project centered on barn owls is fostering cooperation between Israeli and Arab scientists, offering a rare example of coexistence in the conflict-ridden Middle East.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first official trip abroad next week to Central America.

The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, bishop of the Diocese of Washington, says she will continue to pray for President Donald Trump, hours after he lashed out at her over a sermon.

President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities.

In summoning people to his vision for the future, Donald Trump assembled a dizzying collage of time-honored and time-worn American myths, tropes and ideals.

President Donald Trump’s insistence that he wants to have the Panama Canal back under U.S. control is feeding nationalist sentiment and worry in Panama, home to the critical trade route and a country familiar with U.S. military intervention.

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.

It was a changed Washington that greeted Donald Trump when he took the oath of office as president a second time.

Donald Trump, who overcame impeachments, criminal indictments and a pair of assassination attempts to win another term in the White House, is set to be sworn in as the 47th U.S. president.

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

When Donald Trump arrived in Washington in 2017 on the eve of his first inauguration, he was a stranger to most in town.

President-elect Donald Trump has yet to take office, but his influence already is rippling through state capitols.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has ordered that flags at the U.S. Capitol be raised to their full height on Inauguration Day.

The last time Joe Biden packed up and left office, he took with him tens of thousands of papers from his decades in public service.

Former Presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W.

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

U.S. flags at President-elect Donald Trump's private Mar-a-Lago club are back to flying at full height.

Officials say Israel and Hamas appear to be inching closer to a phased ceasefire agreement.

U.S. stock indexes were split as gains for oil-and-gas producers helped offset drops for Nvidia and other Big Tech companies.

If President Joe Biden is looking for ideas for retirement, he need look no further than past presidents.

The administrator of the Panama Canal has responded to criticisms from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, denying that there is any interference from China in the canal’s operations and saying giving special privileges to any nation would only cause problems.

Americans have a dimmer view of Joe Biden’s presidency as he prepares to leave office than they did at the end of Donald Trump’s first term or Barack Obama’s second.

U.S. stocks dropped on worries that good news on the job market may prove to be bad for Wall Street by keeping inflation and interest rates high.

A Panamanian national holiday remembering the killing of 21 protesters by police and U.S. troops in 1964 is taking on new resonance this year as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump threatens to take back control of the Panama Canal.

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

Jimmy Carter has been remembered at his funeral as a man of “character” and “something of a miracle” with “prophetic” vision.

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.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was honored with the pageantry of a funeral in the nation’s capital before a second service in his tiny Georgia hometown that launched a Depression-era farm boy to the world stage.

World shares were mixed as the U.S. stock market remained closed to observe a National Day of Mourning for former President Jimmy Carter.

President Joe Biden has canceled the final overseas trip of his presidency just hours before he was set to depart for Rome and the Vatican, choosing to remain in Washington to monitor the response to fires raging in California.

As the nation is reflecting on the life and legacy of former President Jimmy Carter, one Houstonian is sharing his connection to the late president. Greg Audel, a storyteller, former radio host, and avid Houston Life viewer stopped by with his incredible story on how the two connected and how he says President Carter's kindness meant so much to a lost child trying to navigate life after his parents' divorce.

The U.S. Postal Service says all post offices will be closed on Thursday in honor of former President Jimmy Carter.

Jimmy Carter, who died Dec. 29 at the age of 100, spent his life intertwined with America’s and the world’s enduring legacy of slavery.

President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a lengthy Capitol Hill meeting with Senate Republicans with no set strategy for tackling his legislative priorities.

Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter's decades-long friendship will be on display one last time as Biden eulogizes Carter during his state funeral at Washington National Cathedral.

Jimmy Carter was a president, humanitarian and Nobel laureate.

President-elect Donald Trump paid his respects on Wednesday as President Jimmy Carter lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda as part of state funeral rites.

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.

Less than two weeks before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump is taking some of his most audacious claims and promises of the transition period and amping them up to new levels.

President Jimmy Carter’s legacy of giving back endures in several nonprofits through which he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, worked in the almost 50 years after they left the White House.

President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration is coinciding with an unprecedented string of high-stakes security events in the nation's capital.

Jimmy Carter's state funeral has moved to Washington after observances in his native Georgia.

Living to 100 let Jimmy Carter fulfill his wish to vote for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris against Republican Donald Trump.

Good news on the U.S. economy is back to being bad for Wall Street.

For the first time, the District of Columbia is hosting three so-called National Special Security Events in a two-week span: Monday’s congressional certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s electoral win, this week’s state funeral for former President Jimmy Carter and then Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed a $322 billion budget without a deficit.

Jimmy Carter considered himself such an environmentalist that he made green his signature campaign color.

Much of the U.S. is being blasted by ice, snow and wind, as the polar vortex that dipped south over the weekend is keeping an area stretching from the Rocky Mountains to the coast of Maine in its frigid grip.

Jimmy Carter was the first U_S_ president to make a state visit to sub-Saharan Africa, declaring “the day of the so-called ugly American is over.”.

Jimmy Carter’s long public goodbye began in Georgia, where the 39th U.S. president’s life started more than 100 years ago.

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.

It never got old.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will embark on what is expected to be his final overseas trip in office this weekend, traveling to South Korea, Japan and France.

President-elect Donald Trump has expressed frustration that flags will be flying at half-staff when he takes office later this month.

As president, Jimmy Carter brokered the peace agreement that removed Israel’s most powerful enemy from the battlefield.

It was a decision that robbed hundreds of athletes of their once-in-a-lifetime chance at Olympic glory.

U.S. stock indexes closed an erratic day of trading with more modest losses.

Former President Jimmy Carter was widely known as a man of faith, a born-again Christian who defined himself as a progressive evangelical.

President-elect Donald Trump says he’s planning to attend the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter.

U.S. stock markets will close on Thursday of next week in honor of former President Jimmy Carter, continuing a long-held Wall Street tradition in mourning the nation’s leaders.

One of Jimmy Carter's crowning achievements as president was the Camp David talks that would deliver Israel's first peace agreement with an Arab nation and make Nobel Peace Prize winners of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.

Jimmy Carter helped expand democracy around the world long after he left the White House.

Funeral services honoring former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, will be held in Georgia and Washington, D.

Tributes to former President Jimmy Carter are pouring in from his small hometown of Plains, Georgia, and around the world.

Following the passing of former President Jimmy Carter Sunday, Gov. Greg Abbott has sent condolences to his family.

Jimmy Carter already had drawn months of media scrutiny as a devout Southern Baptist running for president.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter spent decades waging war against an ancient parasite.