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

President Donald Trump has audaciously claimed virtually unlimited power to bypass Congress and impose sweeping taxes on foreign products.

After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.

Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

President Donald Trump is waging a trade war without getting approval from Congress: He declared a national emergency to slap import taxes — tariffs — on almost every country on earth.

They’d watched overnight as the bombardments grew closer, and observed through binoculars as the final U.S. Marines piled into a helicopter from the roof of the embassy to be whisked away.

President Donald Trump's administration is providing another example of how it's targeting those the president feels are blocking his agenda.

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.

Government staffing cuts have gutted a small U.S. health agency that aims to protect workers.

From France to Iceland to the United States, April Fools’ Day is celebrated with practical jokes and elaborate hoaxes.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin says he is closing a one-room museum at the agency’s Washington headquarters, saving taxpayers $600,000 a year in operating costs.

A controversial South Korean church with powerful political connections faces dissolution in Japan after a Tokyo court issued an order to revoke its legal status.

The Pentagon says internet pages honoring a Black Medal of Honor winner and Japanese American service members were mistakenly taken down.

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

Three former Environmental Protection Agency leaders say rollbacks proposed by the Trump administration endanger the lives of millions of Americans and abandon the agency’s mission to protect the environment and human health.

President Donald Trump says he may put the U.S. Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department in what would amount to an executive branch takeover of the independent agency.

Pam Bondi had insisted at her Senate confirmation hearing that as attorney general, her Justice Department would not “play politics.”.

Former Ohio State University coach Jim Tressel is being nominated to be the state’s next lieutenant governor.

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most controversial plans since taking office.

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

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars after it was temporarily blocked by a federal judge.

A sweeping White House order to freeze federal grants and allocations reflects a theory of presidential power that Donald Trump clearly endorsed during his 2024 campaign.

The youngest person to serve as White House press secretary has made her debut in the briefing room, promising to hold briefings often and saying President Donald Trump also will be available to reporters for questions.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Vice President Kamala Harris says Jan. 6, 2025, was a “good day” for democracy as she oversaw the peaceful certification of Donald Trump's victory.

Congress has certified Donald Trump as the 2024 presidential election winner without challenge.

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.

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

President Joe Biden has awarded the second-highest civilian medal to Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson, leaders of the congressional investigation into the Capitol riot.

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

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100, after roughly 22 months in hospice care.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died.

Many presidents have promised to shake up Washington, but Donald Trump may prove to be in a class of his own.

President Joe Biden is weighing whether to issue sweeping pardons for officials and allies who the White House fears could be unjustly targeted by President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.

President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that his policies would reduce high borrowing costs and lighten the financial burden on American households.

As Vice President Kamala Harris begins her fall campaign for the White House, she can look to history and hope for better luck than others who have tried the same.

Of the 49 vice presidents in U.S. history, nine of them — or nearly 1 in 5 — have risen to the presidency due to death or resignation.

At the heart of JD Vance’s journey from venture capitalist to vice presidential candidate is a memoir he first thought of in law school, “Hillbilly Elegy.”.

Democratic Party leaders are publicly standing by President Joe Biden after a disjointed debate performance.

Fifty years ago, three of the justices Richard Nixon appointed to the Supreme Court joined in an 8-0 decision in the Watergate tapes case that effectively ended his presidency.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments over whether Donald Trump is immune from prosecution in a case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

On April 3, 1974, a deadly tornado barreled through Xenia, Ohio.

Leftists in Chile were tortured, tossed from helicopters and forced to watch relatives be raped during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet.

Henry Kissinger is being remembered positively in China as an envoy who was willing to overlook ideological differences at the height of the Cold War and long after.

Until the bitter end, Henry Kissinger was one of the trusted few in the tight circle of a distrusting President Richard Nixon.

The death on Wednesday of former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has drawn admiration and scorn from political leaders around the world, highlighting the complicated legacy of Kissinger’s views about what it meant to serve America’s interests during the Cold War — and how the country should exert its influence.

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died, his consulting firm says.

You may wonder how the infamous limousine ended up at a museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

President Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are preparing to meet at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit this coming week in San Francisco.

The Philadelphia Orchestra has returned to Beijing for a tour that will mark 50 years since its historic performance in China, the latest sign of improving ties between the two countries ahead of a highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping.

The National Zoo’s three three celebrity pandas will be heading home a little earlier than expected.

The explosion of Israeli-Palestinian violence has Arab leaders faulting a Biden administration policy that moved away from big U.S. pushes for a broad Israeli-Palestinian peace deal.

The National Zoo’s three giant pandas are set to return to China in December with no public signs the 50-year-old exchange agreement struck by President Richard Nixon will continue.

The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is moving up festivities for the former president’s 99th birthday because of the threat of a partial federal government shutdown.

The White House is calling the Republicans’ newly-launched impeachment inquiry against President Joe Biden “extreme politics at its worst.”.

Hillary Clinton has joined Jill Biden at the White House to honor the recipients of a prestigious arts prize.

The White House Situation Room — a space of great mystique and even higher secrecy — just got a $50 million facelift.

Concern for U.S. democracy has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting diverse beliefs.

Former federal appeals court judge and New York Senator James Buckley has died at age 100.

Even in a year when media layoffs seem a daily part of the news, the firing of three Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonists in a single day was a gut punch.

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.

Former U.S. Senator and Connecticut governor Lowell P.

The United States is about to start the countdown to its 250th anniversary.

President Joe Biden's son Hunter is by no means the first presidential relative whose personal troubles have caused headaches for a White House.

You could call her the mother of Father’s Day.

Daniel Ellsberg’s decision to leak the Pentagon Papers made him an instant hero to opponents and a traitor in the eyes of the White House.

Daniel Ellsberg, the government analyst and whistleblower who leaked the Pentagon Papers in 1971, has died at 92.

Lawmakers this year kicked rival colleagues out of office in Tennessee and off the chamber floor in Montana.

Richard Snyder, a visionary and imperious executive at Simon & Schuster who presided over the publisher’s exponential rise during the second half of the 20th century and helped define an era of growing corporate power, has died.

Former diplomat and presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is marking his 100th birthday, outlasting many of his political contemporaries who guided the United States through one of its most tumultuous periods including the presidency of Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War.

No president wants to give up the power and prestige that comes with the office after only one term, and Joe Biden is no exception.

In May 2017, comedian John Oliver tauntingly coined the phrase “Stupid Watergate” to refer to then-President Donald Trump’s ever-growing list of scandals at the time, including his reported dealings with Russia, the investigation into Michael Flynn and his firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

One of the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s has gone from ice cream to marijuana with a social mission.

Jimmy Carter’s Baptist faith was one of his calling cards in the 1976 presidential campaign.

The last time Secret Service agents escorted a U.S. leader to face criminal charges, they kept their mission a secret -- even from their own bosses.

Donald Trump isn't the first president, in or out of office, to be in legal trouble.

While he’s far from the only U.S. president to be dogged by legal and ethical scandals, Donald Trump now occupies a unique place in history as the first ever indicted on criminal charges.

Renée Fleming spent decades portraying generals' wives, a countess and a courtesan.

Former President Donald Trump will release a new book next month that features letters from celebrities and politicians written to him through the years.

Exaggeration, misinformation and myth have always infected politics – even before social media took it to the extreme.

As 2024's campaign season begins, politicians are looking in the mirror and deciding whether they see an American president staring back.

As former President Jimmy Carter remains in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, many people are considering his impact.

Dancers, drummers and Namibia’s president and first lady welcomed Jill Biden to their country on Wednesday.

House Republicans are launching far-reaching investigations as part of their oversight agenda of the Biden administration.

Barbara Walters was that rarest of TV personalities: a cultural fixture.

This year's White House Christmas ornament gives a nod to former first lady Patricia Nixon.

President Joe Biden's granddaughter Naomi Biden married her fiance, Peter Neal, on the South Lawn of the White House on Saturday.

“Here Comes the Bride” will play at the White House very soon.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, have doled out Halloween candy to trick-or-treaters dressed up as everything from Spider-Man to a flamingo to a monk to a zombie founding father.

Why has The Associated Press tallied votes and declared winners in U.S. elections since the middle of the 19th century.

Fentanyl and other potent synthetic opioids ingrained in the nation's illicit drug supply are killing more people in the U.S. than any other drug has.

Presidents come and go, but White House grounds superintendent Dale Haney has been a constant through the past 10 presidencies.

A legal battle over an endangered toad and a geothermal power plant in Nevada has many similarities to the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark case on the Endangered Species Act nearly a half-century ago.

The office of U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says he is out of the hospital and he's planning to return to Vermont for a full schedule of planned events.

Vermont's 82-year-old Sen. Patrick Leahy has been hospitalized after he felt unwell at his McLean, Virginia, home.