An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app's video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing U.S. operations.
A possible federal shutdown is looming at month's end, and the Democratic leaders of Congress are demanding a meeting with President Donald Trump to negotiate.
Donald Trump warned during the campaign that Black Americans were losing jobs in large numbers and things would only worsen without his leadership.
President Donald Trump likes to project dominance and confidence on the world stage, but lately he's been expressing more frustration and disappointment.
An immigration enforcement operation in the Chicago area is troubling immigrants and activists because of what they say are increasingly aggressive tactics.
Members of Congress are taking steps to tighten their own security as the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has deeply shaken lawmakers who were already concerned for their safety.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.
A man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year told a federal judge that prosecutors haven’t proven that an assassination attempt occurred.
The Trump administration has moved to block a Massachusetts offshore wind farm, its latest effort to hobble an industry and technology that President Donald Trump has attacked as “ugly” and unreliable compared to fossil fuels such as coal and natural gas.
Federal prosecutors say a man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington was wearing a body camera that captured video of the killings from his perspective.
A judge has temporarily stopped the federal government from collecting personal information about residents in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, in 21 states and Washington, D.
President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation that will require a new, $100,000 annual fee for H-1B visa applications.
The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order allowing it to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.
Immigration enforcement officials have arrested almost 550 people in the Chicago area as part of an operation that began less than two weeks ago.
A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges is resigning under pressure from the Trump administration, according to two people familiar with the matter.
A Florida federal judge has tossed out a $15 billion defamation lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump against The New York Times.
President Donald Trump’s administration is asking the Supreme Court to let it enforce a passport policy for transgender and nonbinary people requiring male or female sex designations based on birth certificates.
As late-night talk shows undergo major changes and controversy, a new poll finds most Americans don’t watch them regularly and the ones who do are more likely to be Democrats.
The Senate rejected competing measures to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown on that date.
U.S. President Donald Trump says he’ll meet Chinese leader Xi Jinping at a regional summit taking place in October in South Korea and will visit China early next year.
Russia and Vietnam have developed a mechanism to conceal arms deal payments to avoid American and other Western sanctions, using profits from joint energy-sector ventures to pay for defense contracts, according to internal Vietnamese documents obtained by The Associated Press.
An FBI sniper testified about the effectiveness of a hiding spot chosen by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year.
Three members of a federal control board overseeing Puerto Rico’s finances who were recently fired by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump have filed a lawsuit in U.S. court alleging their firings were illegal.
The State Department is refocusing its foreign health assistance programs around multiyear bilateral deals with recipient countries.
President Donald Trump has suggested he's working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
The United States once again has vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that had demanded an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza and the release of hostages.
Lawyers for U.S. victims of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel are suing various groups that have been designated by the government as terrorist organizations.
President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court for an emergency order to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s board of governors.
President Donald Trump has intensified his efforts to reshape the media landscape, using threats, lawsuits and government pressure.
A judge is blocking the Trump administration from immediately deporting Guatemalan migrant children who came to the U.S. alone back to their home country.
Dozens of women’s rights activists have rallied near the U.S. Embassy in Brussels to protest what plans by President Donald Trump's administration to destroy millions of dollars in family planning supplies meant for women living in hardship in Africa.
A new poll finds more U.S. adults view Israel’s military action in Gaza as excessive than at the beginning of its war with Hamas.
A U.S. Census Bureau advisory committee disbanded by the Trump administration has reconstituted itself.
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.
Two North Carolina brothers have testified about a box left with them by a man accused of trying to assassinate President Donald Trump at his Florida golf course last year.
The House declined late Wednesday to punish one of its own over commentary in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination.
At least 11 of the 14 immigrants deported by the U.S. to Ghana are still being held there, according to the deportees and their lawyers.
FBI Director Kash Patel has defended the Trump administration’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files as he returned to Capitol Hill for a second day to face intense questioning from Democrats over his promises of transparency surrounding the convicted wealthy financier’s case.
Republican leaders in the House and Senate are rejecting Democratic demands for health care subsidies in a bill to avoid a government shutdown.
An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on flag burning has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges.
Ukraine expects to have a $3.5 billion fund by next month to buy weapons from the U.S. and sustain its fight against Russia's invasion.
Former President Barack Obama says the U.S. is at an "inflection point" after conservative activist Charlie Kirk's assassination.
Fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention chief Susan Monarez is warning senators America’s public health system is headed to a “dangerous place” under Health Secretary Robert F.
An immigration crackdown in Washington has taken a toll on children attending the district's schools.
President Donald Trump’s law-enforcement intervention in the nation’s capital has led to federal charges against more than 50 people over the past month.
Mike Waltz almost certainly will not make his debut as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to the United Nations during a gathering of world leaders next week.
Russia moved quickly to exploit conservative activist Charlie Kirk's shooting death at a Utah college, with groups linked to the Kremlin spreading false and misleading claims that experts say are designed to incite violence.
President Donald Trump is relishing a day filled with British royal pageantry with King Charles III.
U.S. stocks churned between gains and losses, but they ultimately remained near their record levels.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has been unable to clinch a defense treaty with Papua New Guinea a week after he failed to land a security pact with another South Pacific island neighbor, Vanuatu.
An FBI analyst has testified that DNA sampled from a rifle, as well as multiple other items, found near where President Donald Trump was playing golf in South Florida last year matches that of a man accused of trying to assassinate Trump that day.
In a story published Sept. 16, 2025, about the House voting on bills on the Washington criminal justice system, The Associated Press erroneously reported that a bill would replace the members of the Judicial Nomination Commission with presidential appointees.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service.
A retired four-star U.S. Navy admiral has been sentenced to six years in prison for his conviction on corruption charges that he agreed to exchange a military contract for a lucrative postretirement job.
Colombian President Gustavo Petro has criticized the U.S. after it added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war.
President Donald Trump formally extended the deadline to keep the social media app TikTok available in the United States until Dec. 16.
A group of Democratic senators say they are deeply concerned that a Pentagon plan to allow military lawyers to work as temporary immigration judges will violate a ban on using service members for law enforcement and affect the military justice system.
The Border Patrol agent who has led an immigration crackdown in Los Angeles has arrived in Chicago, possibly signaling a new phase in an enforcement surge announced last week.
Some staff at the International Criminal Court have found a workaround to allow them to continue their investigations despite sanctions imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has issued its first warnings to online services that offer unofficial versions of popular drugs like the blockbuster obesity treatment Wegovy.
The U.S. has sanctioned two Iranian financiers and several firms in Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates for allegedly coordinating $100 million in cryptocurrency transfers from Iranian oil sales.
Denmark is leading a military exercise with hundreds of troops from several European NATO members in Greenland.
Ghanaian authorities insist on their claim that the group of 14 African immigrants deported to Ghana by the U.S. have been returned to their home countries.
Donald Trump has arrived in the United Kingdom, where he'll become the first U_S_ president to get a second state visit to the U_K_ As Trump left the White House on Tuesday, he noted that during his past state visit he was hosted at Buckingham Palace and this time he'll be at Windsor Castle, which he says people call “the ultimate.”.
A swarm of Russian drones flew last week into Poland in what officials there regarded as a deliberate provocation.
The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades.
The Senate has approved one of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s governing board, giving the White House greater influence over the central bank just two days before it is expected to vote in favor of reducing its key interest rate.
An appeals court has ruled that Lisa Cook can remain a Federal Reserve governor, rebuffing President Donald Trump’s efforts to remove her just ahead of a key vote on interest rates.
President Donald Trump says he would have ordered flags lowered to half-staff after the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker if the governor had asked, but Trump at the time refused to even call the governor.
Security at Charlie Kirk's speaking events and college campus debates around the country varied greatly.
An FBI analyst has testified that a fingerprint on a rifle scope matches that of Ryan Routh, who is accused of trying to assassinate Donald Trump.
Activists in Chicago’s immigrant rights network say there’s been a noticeable uptick in immigration enforcement in recent days as the nation’s third-largest city awaits federal intervention repeatedly promised by President Donald Trump.
Lawmakers have summoned Boar's Head deli meat officials to face a federal food safety committee.
President Trump has announced the deployment of the National Guard to Memphis to combat crime, testing the limits of presidential power by using military force in cities.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. military again targeted a boat allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, killing three aboard the vessel.
A judge has ruled that the Trump administration's central human resources office acted illegally when it directed the mass firings of thousands of probationary workers.
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.
