The FBI has announced that it planned to move its Washington headquarters several blocks away from its current five-decade-old home.

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

A federal judge says it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants issued by the National Institutes of Health.

The NAACP says it will not invite President Donald Trump to its national convention next month in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the world's highest school dropout rates and a driving factor is that parents are being crushed by unpredictable school fees.

A three-judge appeals court panel ruled against The Associated Press in its continuing bid to restore full access to covering events involving President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has ordered an investigation into pardons and other executive actions issued by his predecessor, Joe Biden — launching an unprecedented effort to show that the Democrat hid his cognitive decline and was otherwise too mentally impaired to do the job.

Last year, Broadway actor and playwright Harvey Fierstein handed director Jack O’Brien the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre.

Elon Musk is leaving the Department of Government Efficiency behind, but its playbook has impacted dozens of agencies, departments and organizations and left thousands of federal workers unemployed or in limbo.

When Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin proposed rolling back more than two dozen rules aimed at protecting clean air and water, he called it the biggest day for deregulation in American history.

President Donald Trump said it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace.

President Donald Trump has lashed out at Leonard Leo, the conservative legal activist who has worked to dramatically reshape the country’s courts.

Tommy Tuberville is a U.S. senator running for Alabama governor.

Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ balladeer.

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.

The U.S. Senate will move this week to block California from enforcing a series of vehicle emissions standards that are tougher than the federal government’s, including first-in-the-nation rules phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

Bruce Springsteen and Donald Trump aren't new foes.

President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center’s leadership, reinforcing how much time he’s devoting to remaking one of the nation’s premier cultural centers in a larger effort to ideologically and socially overhaul the nation’s arts scene.

Popes -- they’re just like us.

If you think you've seen a lot of President Donald Trump on the news, you're not imagining things.

Former President George W.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come under bipartisan criticism over his agency’s actions to cancel billions of dollars in congressionally approved spending to address chronic pollution in minority communities and jump-start clean energy programs.

President Donald Trump’s new pick for surgeon general wrote in a recent book that people should consider using unproven psychedelic drugs as therapy and in a newsletter suggested her use of mushrooms helped her find love.

Sen. Ted Cruz asked whether a hotline between military and civilian air traffic controllers in Washington, D.

President Donald Trump’s readiness to accept a luxury jet as a gift from the ruling family of Qatar for conversion into a presidential aircraft has revived the conversations around emoluments and the notion of a president otherwise allegedly profiting off of the office.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.

Europe will mark Victory in Europe Day’s 80th anniversary as once unbreakable bonds with the US are under pressure.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration’s drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency’s independent scientific research.

When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.

The U.S. House has voted to block California's vehicle emission standards.

The Justice Department is struggling to represent President Donald Trump’s positions in court.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio notes at the end of President Trump’s marathon Cabinet meeting that the U.S. has brought home 47 wrongfully detained Americans so far in Trump’s second term.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore $12 million that Congress appropriated for Radio Free Europe, a pro-democracy media outlet at risk of going dark for the first time in 75 years.

There was no president.

Three House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots are carefully navigating President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was wrongly deported, told him he has been moved from the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT to a detention center with better conditions.

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

U.S. Space Command says it's finalized options for President Donald Trump’s “Golden Dome” missile defense system and has sent its recommendations to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for his review and approval.

Alabama Republicans cheered President Donald Trump and his agenda at a GOP party the day he imposed tariffs and sent stock markets tumbling worldwide.

Air traffic controllers at Washington’s Ronald Reagan National Airport will be offered crisis counseling and additional supervision after a fight in the tower and another alarming near miss two months after a midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter killed 67 people.

Only one person in U.S. history has defied the two-term example set by the first president, George Washington.

Closing out Women's History Month, late politician Margaret Heckler's story is untold-until now. We heard from Kimberly Heckler share personal insights into the trailblazing career of her mother-in-law, a political powerhouse who shaped the future for women in politics.

The Democratic base is angry.

Noted economist Arthur Laffer warns in a new analysis President Donald Trump’s 25% tariffs on auto imports could add $4,700 to the cost of a vehicle.

Former KGB officer Oleg Gordievsky has died aged 86 in England.

A Trump Cabinet secretary violated the law when he told TV viewers this week to buy Tesla stock, but it's not clear that anything will be done about it.

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.

They have run through heartache and grief, battling illnesses and injuries as their bodies have aged.

Former President George W.

The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.

Conservatives have long talked about cutting government, but Republicans in Congress have shied away from approving deep reductions because of fear of how voters would react.

President Donald Trump will stand at the front of the U.S. House chamber to address a joint session of Congress, the first of his second term in office.

The 25% tariff on most imported Canadian goods that President Donald Trump’s plans to impose Tuesday has touched off a range of emotions along the world’s longest international border.

The designated survivor for a president's address to Congress starts the day as a Cabinet secretary and ends it that way, too, God willing.

Nathan Chen, Nancy Kerrigan and Peggy Fleming are among the figure skaters added to the cast of a benefit event this weekend in Washington, D.

Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell has announced that he won’t seek reelection next year, ending a decadeslong tenure as a power broker who championed conservative causes but ultimately ceded ground to the fierce GOP populism of President Donald Trump.

Pinpointing the genesis of “waste, fraud and abuse” as political rhetoric is difficult.

Conservatives who have spent decades promoting deep cuts to government are giving mixed reviews to the Department of Government Efficiency, the Elon Musk-led project to slash the federal workforce and reduce or end disfavored programs.

At 100 years old, the Goodyear Blimp is an ageless star in the sky.

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.

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

A second federal judge in two days has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of parents who are in the U.S. illegally.

A figure skating tribute will take place in Washington, D.

Donald Trump’s first week in office isn’t over yet, but what the Republican president has done so far offers clues about how his next four years in the White House may unfold.

President Donald Trump’s executive order denying U.S. citizenship to the children of parents living in the country illegally has faced the first of what will be many legal tests.

A federal judge, John C. Coughenour, temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's executive order attempting to end birthright citizenship, citing it as blatantly unconstitutional.

The Nielsen Company says an estimated 24.6 million people watched coverage of President Donald Trump's second inauguration.

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.

A rare frigid storm is charging through Texas and the northern Gulf Coast, blanketing New Orleans and Houston with snow, closing highways and grounding nearly all flights.

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.

Ronald and Nancy Reagan were disappointed, but felt they had no choice.

The decision to move Monday's swearing-in means thousands of people with plans to visit Washington won’t be able to see President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration in person.

It’s called the Voice of America.

Every president since Ronald Reagan has left a note for his successor, and President Joe Biden could be the first to write a letter to someone who is both his successor and the predecessor who left a note for him.

Eight years ago, Donald Trump delivered an inaugural address that set aside the typical optimism and promises of unity with a dark portrait of national life.

The vast majority of Americans are about to get an extended taste of frigid Siberian weather.

Since the Los Angeles fires began last week, “Parable of the Sower” and other Octavia Butler works written decades ago have been cited for anticipating a world wracked by climate change, racism and economic disparity.

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

The Oscar nominations are being pushed back almost a week from their original date amid the ongoing California wildfires.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio is urging President-elect Donald Trump to pardon him over the Jan. 6 insurrection as Trump’s return to power has thrown into question the future of the Jan. 6 cases.

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

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.

Jimmy Carter’s funeral will feature an interstate choreography of grief, ceremony and logistics that is characteristic of state funerals.

The 39th and longest-lived U.S. president, James Earl Carter Jr., died Sunday at the age of 100.

Former President Jimmy Carter has died at the age of 100.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has died at his home in Plains, Georgia.

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.

Congress has until midnight Friday to come up with a way to fund the government, or federal agencies will shutter.

Among the roughly 1,500 people whose sentences were commuted or who were pardoned by President Joe Biden are a nonprofit leader who supports at-risk youth, a social worker who fosters animals and a postdoctoral researcher One woman who received a pardon said she wanted people with drug addiction to know there is always hope.

The first guest invited to ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange in 1956 wasn’t a company executive, a politician or a celebrity.