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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a Tuesday speech that the ongoing tariffs showdown with China is unsustainable and expects a “de-escalation” in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
The White House has expressed support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following media reports that he shared sensitive military details in another Signal messaging chat that included his wife and brother.
Harvard University announced Monday that it was suing to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus.
President Donald Trump says overcast weather for the annual White House Easter egg roll means no one has to worry about getting sunburned.
Four House Democrats are visiting El Salvador in a bid to support Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man whom the Trump administration deported to a notorious Salvadoran prison.
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.
A federal judge who ordered the Trump administration to stop blocking The Associated Press from presidential events has refused to take immediate steps to get White House officials to comply.
The Associated Press and Trump administration were back in a Washington court as part of a high-stakes battle over who can control which journalists can question the president.
The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures.
The White House has put forward a new media policy that sharply curtails access to Donald Trump by the news agencies that serve media outlets around the world.
President Donald Trump’s administration has dug in on its contention that his government should not have to repatriate Kilmar Abrego Garcia, despite court rulings that he was wrongly deported and should be returned to the United States.
Some of the Democratic Party’s core political groups are preparing for the possibility President Donald Trump’s allies may soon launch criminal investigations that could handicap Democratic infrastructure.
The Trump administration has turned a reporter and photographer from The Associated Press away from covering an Oval Office news conference involving President Donald Trump and El Salvador President Nayib Bukele.
President Donald Trump’s top advisers and El Salvador president Nayib Bukele say that they have no basis for the small Central American nation to return a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.
A federal judge lambasted a government lawyer who couldn’t explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump’s administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump’s administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.
It was one week after President Donald Trump’s big tariff announcement when he pulled back from the import taxes he'd imposed on many U.S. trading partners.
President Donald Trump delivered another jarring reversal in American trade policy Wednesday, suspending for 90 days import taxes he’d imposed barely 13 hours earlier on dozens of countries while escalating his trade war with China.
The Trump administration says it will appeal a federal court decision that ordered it to readmit Associated Press journalists to White House events on First Amendment grounds.
Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days, but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.
U.S. stocks soared to one of their best days in history on a euphoric Wall Street after President Donald Trump said he would back off on most of his tariffs temporarily.
President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with almost all of America’s trading partners.
A federal judge has ordered the White House to restore The Associated Press’ full access to cover presidential events.
President Donald Trump has announced far-reaching new tariffs on nearly all U.S. trading partners — including a 34% tax on imports from China and 20% on the European Union, among others.
New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted 25 hours and 5 minutes, setting the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history.
The recent firings of career Justice Department lawyers by the White House is a sign of President Donald Trump’s tightening grip over the law enforcement agency known for its long tradition of political independence.
President Donald Trump says protecting national security gives him the authority to end collective bargaining with labor unions across most of the federal government.
President Donald Trump has once again scrambled the politics of organized labor and the working class with his planned tariffs on auto imports.
A lawyer for The Associated Press has asked a federal judge once again to reinstate the agency’s access to the White House press pool and some other official events.
The top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee are requesting an investigation into how Trump national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says the alleged leader of the MS-13 street gang on the East Coast has been arrested in Virginia.
An appeals court in California has refused to halt a judge’s order requiring the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers who were let go in mass firings.
The Associated Press and Trump administration are due back in court in their fight over access to presidential events.
Trump administration officials are struggling to stem the fallout from revelations that top national security officials discussed sensitive attack plans over a messaging app and mistakenly added a journalist to the chain.
Some military spouses and veterans are questioning the White House’s handling of security after a journalist was accidentally added to a group chat about military strikes in Yemen.
The Atlantic has released the Signal chat among Trump senior national security officials.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has visited the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s trip Wednesday to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”.
During the first Trump administration, many journalists worried most about being called “fake news.”.
The John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week disclosed sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers.
The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador.
The Education Department has concluded that Maine’s education office violated Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to play on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ sports facilities.
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is rejecting calls for impeaching federal judges after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans.
The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war.
President Donald Trump is claiming that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have no force because, he says, Biden signed them with an autopen.
The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee.
A French politician has suggested the U.S. is no longer worthy of keeping the Statue of Liberty.
A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around deportation flights wasn't binding because it was made verbally.
The Trump administration has transferred more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order to bar the deportations temporarily.
President Donald Trump’s supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval.
The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.
President Donald Trump used a visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career.
Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown.
U.S. stock indexes rose after getting some relief from an encouraging inflation update.
A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana.
When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges.
The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.
A U.S. green card holder faces deportation after helping lead student protests at Columbia University in New York last spring over the war in Gaza.
President Donald Trump granted U.S. automakers a short reprieve from stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada this week.
President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.
President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers.
White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that U.S. officials have had “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials, as the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas hangs in the balance.
For a second time, the Associated Press is asking a federal judge to immediately restore its access to presidential events.
The acting administrator of the organization that is pushing for sweeping budget cuts across federal agencies is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.
The White House says its officials "will determine" which news outlets cover President Donald Trump.
The Justice Department has filed a complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of misconduct during hearings over President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for banning transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military.
The new head of the Social Security Administration says deceased centenarians are “not necessarily receiving benefits."
The Trump administration is falsely claiming tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving improper Social Security payments.
It's been nearly a month in office for President Donald Trump, and he's acted with dizzying speed to reorder the American economy and global diplomacy.
The Trump administration has blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event.
The White House had blocked an Associated Press journalist from a news conference with two major world leaders.
Donald Trump promised as a candidate that he could easily conquer inflation, but the reality is proving tougher than he expected.
The White House says news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico are telling “lies."
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.
Civil rights attorneys have sued the Trump administration to gain access to detained migrants who they say have been flown to Guantanamo Bay and held there without being able to consult lawyers or speak to relatives.
U.S. officials say Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who’d been detained for more than three years.
The White House says court rulings going against President Donald Trump's administration are coming from “judicial activists” on the bench whose decisions amount to a “constitutional crisis.”.
President Donald Trump has hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House and has renewed his insistence that Gaza could somehow be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area.
The Vatican's charity is voicing outrage at what it calls the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID.
A federal court has blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown.
President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce.
False and misleading social media posts are circulating online as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.
