Harvard University has filed suit to halt a federal freeze on more than $2.2 billion in grants after recently announcing it would defy the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has met briefly with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday as the pontiff recovers from pneumonia.

The Trump administration has called U.S. manufacturing an “economic and national security” priority and says tariffs will force companies to have more products made in the U.S. to avoid steep price increases on their imports, leading to “better-paying American jobs,” for people making cars, appliances and other goods.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has met with the Vatican’s No. 2 official as they the sides spar over the U.S. crackdown on migrants.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance is in Rome for talks on tariffs with Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.

A draft budget proposal circulating among federal officials would dramatically deepen cuts at the nation’s top health agency, eliminating some public health programs entirely and serving as a roadmap for more mass firings.

The showdown between the Trump administration and Harvard University is spotlighting bare-knuckled politics and big dollar figures.

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program.

President Donald Trump’s tariffs are likely to cost Iowa farmers their biggest market for the hundreds of millions of bushels of soybeans they grow every year.

The Trump administration is doubling down on its decision not to tell a federal court whether it has any plans to repatriate a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month and remains confined in a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The Trump administration has revoked the visas of 18 students at Florida International University.

Marjorie Taylor Greene bought some high profile stocks last week as other investors were bailing out of the market.

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against a man accused of killing a fellow inmate at the federal government’s “Supermax” prison in Florence, Colorado, while serving a life sentence for killing his cellmate at another lockup.

The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts at national parks across the country now have many concerned about how this will impact programs that protect and maintain these natural spaces.

The Senate has confirmed former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee as President Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel.

The Justice Department is sharply criticizing a judge who halted enforcement of a White House executive order meant to punish a prominent law firm.

Iran and the United States will hold a second round of talks in Rome on Saturday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Many parents need child care scholarships to work.

The Trump administration has ended funding to U.N. World Food Program emergency programs helping keep millions alive in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and 11 other impoverished countries, many of them struggling with conflict.

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

China on Monday accused the U.S. of unilateralism, protectionism and economic bullying with tariffs, while calling on representatives of American companies including Tesla, to “take concrete actions” to resolve the tariffs.

Analysts predict President Trump’s global tariffs will cost the average American family an extra $2,000-plus a year.

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen is in Greenland for a visit aimed at building the trust of Greenlandic officials as the Trump administration is seeking control of the Arctic territory.

A federal judge in Virginia has blocked the Trump administration's move to fire more than a dozen intelligence agency employees who worked on diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked over campus activism said he decided to leave the United States.

The Defense Department is going to offer a new round of voluntary resignations and retirements to the civilian workforce, but details are slim.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court.

Dozens of people gathered at the Krome Detention Center to protest the conditions there on Saturday.

The Associated Press and Trump administration are due back in court in their fight over access to presidential events.

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.”.

A proposal to cut federal funding for HIV prevention could affect The Pride Center in Wilton Manors, its CEO says.

Frances and Joe Badlotto are collecting letters from people in their community in an attempt to bring their neighbor back home.

A lawsuit filed by Voice of America reporters, some unions and a press freedom group charged the Trump administration with unlawfully shutting down the news outlet.

A Philippine official says U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to Asia next week, for talks that will include increasing deterrence against aggression in the disputed South China Sea.

Johnson & Johnson says it will invest more than $55 billion within the United States over the next four years, including four new manufacturing plants.

The Trump administration's cuts to foreign aid have defunded groups that campaign for LGBTQ+ communities and for democracy around the world.

Confronted with huge cuts to its federal funding, Columbia University’s leaders face a grim decision: They can yield to the Trump administration’s demands over alleged antisemitism — ceding extraordinary control to the federal government — or they can fight back, potentially risking even more debilitating cuts in an escalating clash.

An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump administration cut off funding for the federal refugee program in January.

Donald Trump Jr. told Republicans at a rally before early voting begins in Wisconsin’s high-stakes Supreme Court race that a win is imperative to maintain GOP momentum ahead of the 2026 midterms and the next presidential election.

In the last 48 hours, the Trump administration cuts slashed into communications and info wars including the government-run pro-democracy Radio and TV Marti that broadcasts to Cuba from South Florida.

The Trump administration has transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations under an 18th century wartime declaration targeting Venezuelan gang members.

The Trump administration has moved to dismiss lawsuits against Iowa and Oklahoma for their immigration laws.

U.S. wholesale inflation decelerated last month, suggesting that price pressures are easing for now.

Taiwanese President William Lai Ching-te says tougher measures are needed to counter stepped-up Chinese infiltration, spying and other efforts to weaken the island’s defenses.

The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause.

The Trump administration says it is dropping a civil lawsuit against the largest provider of housing for unaccompanied migrant children over alleged sexual abuse of minors at its facilities.

For years, sunny South Florida has been a home away from home for Canadians.

U.S. inflation slowed last month for the first time since September even as additional tariffs on steel and aluminum kicked in Wednesday that could send prices higher.

Republicans, particularly those in Congress, have been overwhelmingly supportive of broad cuts across the federal government at the hands of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Two universities in Florida are among the 60 schools the Trump administration is investigating for antisemitism.

A bipartisan group of lawmakers urge the Trump administration to scrap plans to kill more than 450,000 invasive barred owls in West Coast forests in coming decades.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced new immigration enforcement leadership as she pledged to step of polygraph tests on employees to identify those who may be leaking information about immigration operations to the media.

A prominent Palestinian activist who helped lead last spring's protests at Columbia University has been arrested by federal immigration agents.

At Fishtown Seafood, owner Bryan Szeliga is worried about the oysters.

The Justice Department is celebrating its decision to drop a federal lawsuit against a Louisiana petrochemical plant accused of worsening cancer risks for residents in a majority-Black community.

A union representing Transportation Security Administration workers calls the Department of Homeland Security's decision to end the collective bargaining agreement with them an “unprovoked attack.”.

Charitable organizations that relied on U.S. foreign assistance are looking to other private and public donors now that the Trump administration has suspended nearly all foreign aid contracts.

Mortgage rates eased this week for the seventh week in a row, a trend that gives prospective home shoppers more financial flexibility just as the spring homebuying season gets going.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning an “aggressive” reorganization that includes cutting 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for millions of veterans.

The U.S. has paused its intelligence sharing with Ukraine, cutting off the flow of vital information that has helped Kyiv defend against Russian invaders.

A Minnesota farmer worries about the price of fertilizer.

The recently announced U.S. tariffs on steel imports mean that countries like China, which export to the U.S., will need to find new markets — and that could lead to steel dumping in places like India.

Companies that depend on cross-border trade were already facing higher prices in anticipation of the tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada that took effect Tuesday.

California Democrat Rep. Sam Liccardo is proposing legislation that takes aim at President Donald Trump's meme coin.

A federal judge has refused to immediately order the White House to restore The Associated Press’ access to presidential events, saying the news organization had not shown it had suffered irreparable harm in the matter.

The U.S. on Monday imposed sanctions on dozens of people and oil tankers across China, the United Arab Emirates, India and other jurisdictions for allegedly helping to finance Iran and its support for militant groups that launch attacks against the U.S. and its allies.

In some churches Sunday morning in South Florida's Haitian communities, prayers for the Pope come with unrelated heightened fear.

The Trump administration’s mass deportations hit reality TV news Friday.

The Trump administration cut funding from the Stonewall National Museum, Archives & Library in Fort Lauderdale.

Miami-Dade County Commissioner Marleine Bastien stood with a group of activists Friday to advocate for Haitians in South Florida whose immigration status is going to change.

A federal judge says the Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide.

The Trump administration is throwing out protections for roughly half a million Haitians that had shielded them from deportation.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.

The United States government is formally designating eight Latin American organized crime groups that also operate in the U_S_ to be “foreign terrorist organizations.”.

Florida lawmakers are pushing forward a bill that would create a Donald Trump Presidential Library.

Prosecutors dropped all charges Tuesday, including a hate crime count, against a man who police said was caught on camera hurling “Hispanophobic” language during a January attack at a Miami Beach bar over an unpaid tab.

In his month in office, President Trump has amped up attention and warnings that, in his words, all hell could break out if all remaining hostages are not released by Hamas.

President Donald Trump's administration has disbanded an FBI task force focused on investigating foreign influence campaigns and placed on leave several election security employees at the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency.

A union official says the Trump administration has fired 20 immigration judges without explanation amid sweeping moves to shrink the size of the federal government.

Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, Danielle Sassoon, and five high-ranking Justice Department officials have resigned after she refused an order to drop corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

Several NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must not be cut out of any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he would hold talks soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is the latest U.S. government agency to have its work halted by the Trump administration.

The U.S. Education Department is scrapping a policy from the Biden administration that threatened to upend colleges’ plans to pay athletes for their name, image and likeness by making those payments subject to federal Title IX rules.

USAID has lost almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid over the Trump administration’s foreign funding freeze and idling of staff, a government watchdog warned Monday.

Shock and betrayal are some of the words used by Venezuelans in South Florida who, as of last week, were given weeks to leave the country.

North Korea has lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio for calling it a “rogue” state and warned that such remarks will never contribute to U.S. interests.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio arrived in Miami last week after being released from prison with President Trump's pardon.

The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material in restricted areas to Elon Musk’s government-inspection teams.

A new memo says the Defense Department will no longer reimburse service members for travel out of state to get reproductive health care, including abortions and fertility treatments.

Small business owners in South Florida are bracing for the impact of new federal directives, with some calling them “disruptive” and “distracting.”

Hours after being sworn in as the new U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy took aim at the main way the federal government regulates miles per gallon for cars and pickup trucks — also a principal way that it controls air pollution and addresses climate change.

The Trump administration has made or initiated major policy changes that impact nonprofits and their missions in its first week.

Florida lawmakers gaveled in the special session Gov. DeSantis asked for on Monday, then quickly gaveled out of it and started their own.

Week one, even day one of the Trump Administration actions targeted and reversed President Biden’s directives, leaving democratic members of congress who were ready to find common ground looking a little harder.

Pete Hegseth has been sworn as the nation’s 29th secretary of defense.

Americans see the federal government as rife with corruption, inefficiency and red tape — but they’re less sure about whether Elon Musk is the right person to fix it.

Civil rights advocates in South Florida said they were ready to stand against President Donald Trump’s orders against people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer.

Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arrests could happen.

It’s called the Voice of America.

California has withdrawn requests for the EPA to give the state authority to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs.