A trio of elections have provided plenty of warning signs to Republicans and President Donald Trump.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling this week to a gathering of top diplomats from NATO countries.

Senate Republicans insist they are pushing ahead on President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks and spending cuts this week.

A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children in the United States.

President Donald Trump is set to launch a barrage of so-called reciprocal tariffs on friend and foe alike.

Democratic Sen. Cory Booker broke the record for the longest floor speech in recorded Senate history when he bested Sen. Strom Thurmond's filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Asian shares are mostly falling, shaken by jitters over what President Donald Trump will announce about tariffs on his “Liberation Day” later in the global day.

The Senate has confirmed Matt Whitaker as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO.

U.S. officials say the U.S. Naval Academy has removed nearly 400 books from its library after being told by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office to review and get rid of books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion.

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The Trump administration has paused some family planning grants as it investigates whether the providers are following federal laws.

Another major international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to dedicate at least $100 million in free legal services to causes such as supporting veterans and combating antisemitism.

There is no answer yet on the lawsuit filed by Institute of Peace board members who were fired amid a remaking of the independent think tank.

A federal judge has rejected a Trump administration bid to move Mahmoud Khalil’s legal case to Louisiana.

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.

Thousands of people at the nation’s top health agencies were laid off Tuesday.

President Donald Trump says his tariff announcements slated for Wednesday will amount to a “Liberation Day” for the United States.

The Social Security Administration says it is investigating the root cause of website outages that have affected the “my Social Security” portal where recipients access their benefits.

Melania Trump has recognized eight women with the 2025 International Women of Courage Award.

House Speaker Mike Johnson suffered a decisive defeat after he tried and failed to squash a proposal for new parents in Congress to able to vote by proxy, rather than in person, as they care for newborns.

The U.S. military says the final U.S. soldier who went missing in Lithuania has been found dead, ending a massive weeklong search for the four service members whose armored vehicle was pulled from a swampy training area.

The Trump administration has halted several dozen federal research grants at Princeton University.

President Donald Trump's administration has acknowledged mistakenly deporting a Maryland man with protected legal status to a notorious El Salvador prison.

The lawmaker who's been holding the Senate floor with a lengthy speech railing against President Donald Trump's Republican agenda is a New Jersey Democrat who once found common ground with the president during his first term.

Attorneys general from 23 states and the District of Columbia are suing the Trump administration for its decision to claw back $11 billion that went to public health departments for COVID-19 efforts and addiction and mental health programs.

Whole and 2% milk has been banned from school meals since 2012.

The Supreme Court will hear arguments in a South Carolina case over whether states can cut off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is holding the Senate floor with a marathon speech that set the record for the longest continuous Senate floor speech in the chamber’s history at over 24 hours.

The Food and Drug Administration’s chief tobacco regulator has been forced out.

New Jersey Democratic Sen. Cory Booker has held the Senate floor with a marathon speech that lasted more than 25 hours.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that while most Americans disapprove of President Donald Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the conflict is not weighing as heavily on his public perception as it did on President Joe Biden.

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

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health.

Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego says he will block the confirmation of top leaders at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says his government is making last ditch efforts to get U.S. President Donald Trump to exclude his country from an increase in auto tariffs due to take effect this week.

U_S_ stocks swerved through another shaky day of trading, with uncertainty still high about just what President Donald Trump will announce about tariffs on his “Liberation Day.”.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is taking the fight over Medicaid cuts deep into Republican territory, visiting nursing homes in GOP-held districts to warn of what Democrats call devastating consequences if proposed federal rollbacks go through.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to become the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff acknowledges he's an unconventional nominee.

With President Donald Trump’s so-called “Liberation Day” of tariff implementation fast approaching, Senate Democrats are putting Republican support for some of those plans to the test by forcing a vote to nullify the emergency declaration that underpins the tariffs on Canada.

A handful of elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump’s political standing just over two months into his second term in the White House.

The Tennessee Valley Authority has promoted one of its top executives to CEO as President Donald Trump has begun turning his attention back to the nation's largest public utility.

As they readied to leave work Monday, some workers at the Food and Drug Administration were told to pack their laptops and prepare for the possibility that they wouldn’t be back.

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

A federal judge is pausing plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, one week before they were set to expire.

President Donald Trump invited Kid Rock into the Oval Office and signed an executive order that he says will help curb ticket scalping and bring “commonsense” changes to the way live entertainment events are priced.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the military to make fitness standards for all combat jobs gender neutral, formalizing a process that largely exists for many of those jobs already.

Two election watchdog groups are suing President Donald Trump's administration over his executive order seeking to overhaul the nation's elections.

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.

The Trump administration says it has deported 17 more “violent criminals” from the Tren de Aragua and MS-13 gangs to El Salvador, as it doubles down on a policy of removing people from the U.S. to third countries despite criticism over lack of transparency and human rights protections.

Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism.

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.

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned six people and seven companies it said were involved in money laundering for factions of the Sinaloa Cartel.

President Donald Trump has pardoned a Virginia man whose sentence already was commuted for his convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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.

A court filing says an official allied with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has been put in charge of the U.S. Institute of Peace, a think tank targeted by President Donald Trump for closure.

Comic Amber Ruffin is off the bill at the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner in Washington.

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has instructed the Justice Department to dismiss a lawsuit challenging a sweeping 2021 election law in Georgia.

President Donald Trump says Wednesday will be “Liberation Day” — when he plans to roll out a set of tariffs he promises will free the United States from foreign goods.

Chinese telecoms gear giant Huawei says its net profit fell 28% in 2024 while its revenue surged, as the company invested heavily in advanced technologies.

The Democratic base is angry.

Immigration remains a strength for President Donald Trump, but a new AP-NORC poll finds his handling of tariffs is getting more negative feedback.

Elon Musk and his political operatives have tried to shape the closely watched Wisconsin Supreme Court race in ways that are not immediately obvious but could be critical to Tuesday’s outcome.

U.S. government efforts to eliminate diversity initiatives are not going down well on the European continent.

The U.S. Army says three of the soldiers who went missing in Lithuania have been found dead in an armored vehicle that was pulled from a swampy area in Lithuania early Monday.

Suspected U.S. airstrikes have struck around Yemen’s rebel-held capital overnight into Monday morning.

President Donald Trump’s fast-approaching “Liberation Day” sent stock markets swinging sharply worldwide.

President Donald Trump says a tree that’s nearly two centuries old will be removed from the White House grounds because it’s deteriorating.

President Donald Trump says he's considering ways to serve a third term.

A French minister has accused U.S. diplomats of interfering in the operations of French companies by sending them a letter reportedly telling them that U.S. President Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives could also apply outside of the United States.

Elon Musk has given out $1 million checks to two Wisconsin voters, declaring them spokespeople for his political group.

In the early part of his second term, President Donald Trump has taken action against individuals, law firms, private corporations, media companies and universities he regards as adversaries.

President Donald Trump says “Liberation Day” is coming.

President Donald Trump is making his clearest commitment to not fire anyone over an embarrassing accidental leak of his administration’s plans for an airstrike against the Houthis in Yemen.

Most employees at the U.S. Institute of Peace, a congressionally created and funded think tank now taken over by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, have received email notices of their mass firing — the latest step in the Trump administration’s government downsizing.

An American woman who was detained for weeks in Afghanistan by the Taliban has been released.

President Donald Trump has spent nearly every weekend in Florida since starting his second term.

President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to change how elections are run in the U.S. is creating uncertainty for state and local election officials and worries about voter confusion before the next federal election, the 2026 midterms.

The most important Republican in New Jersey’s race for governor this year might well be a part-time resident who burnished his reputation and his brand near the Atlantic City Boardwalk.

President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision to review military standards on combat and physical fitness and appearance opens a Pandora’s box of the widely different rules among the services.

Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.

Billionaire Elon Musk’s unprecedented efforts to bolster the conservative candidate in next week’s hotly contested Wisconsin Supreme Court race have run into legal hot water amid accusations that he had broken state election law.

A White House official says President Donald Trump has commuted the sentence of Ozy Media co-founder Carlos Watson.

President Donald Trump says U.S. officials are “going to be helping” with the response to Southeast Asia’s deadly earthquake.

A federal appeals court has lifted an order blocking Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from further cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

A federal judge has agreed to block the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

An appeals court has ruled that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent labor agencies from their respective posts in the federal government.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.

U.S. and Lithuanian troops and authorities are struggling to drain a swampy area in Lithuania in ongoing efforts to recover four American Army soldiers who went missing three days ago and are warning that it will be a long operation.

The Smithsonian, which oversees numerous museums and cultural centers, including the Air and Space Museum and the National Museum of African American History and Culture, is coming under criticism from President Donald Trump.

U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has landed in Mexico to cap off a tour to three Latin American nations to discuss immigration, crime and deportation.

President Donald Trump is pushing the House of Representatives to pass a measure that would prevent immediate financial disaster for the District of Columbia.

With technology and AI increasingly used to perpetrate illegal acts, the IRS’ crime fighting arm is announcing a new program intended to improve how it interacts with financial institutions.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues.

A prominent international law firm has reached a deal with President Donald Trump to provide at least $100 million in free legal services and to review its hiring practices, averting a punishing executive order like the ones directed at nearly a half-dozen other major legal institutions in recent weeks.

Wisconsin’s Democratic attorney general has asked a court to block billionaire Elon Musk from handing out $1 million checks to voters this weekend.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demanded that the country change its approach.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says the Trump administration will work with allies to ramp up deterrence against threats across the world, including China’s aggression in the South China Sea.

Another wipeout slammed Wall Street as worries built about a potentially toxic mix of worsening inflation and a U.S. economy slowing because of households afraid to spend due to the global trade war.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance says Denmark has “underinvested” in Greenland’s security and demands Denmark change its approach as President Donald Trump continues to talk of taking over the Danish territory.