Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week, just months after resoundingly winning an office previously held by a Republican.

The United Nations says the United States has paid about $160 million of the nearly $4 billion it owes the world body.

The Federal Communications Commission is investigating ABC’s “The View” over possible violations of the requirement that broadcast stations give equal time to political candidates when they appear on-air.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge a combined $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package, while five countries have agreed to deploy troops to take part in an international stabilization force to the war-battered Palestinian territory.

A federal panel made up of President Donald Trump's appointees has approved his plan to build a massive ballroom on the site of the former White House East Wing.

New research shows midsize U.S. companies pay far more in Trump-era tariffs, and the costs land at home.

Iran held annual military drills with Russia as a second American aircraft carrier drew closer to the Middle East, with the United States and Iran signaling they are prepared for war if talks on Tehran’s nuclear program fizzle out.

The National Governors Association is pulling out of an annual meeting at the White House after President Donald Trump declined to invite two Democratic governors.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is pushing back on President Donald Trump while trying to rally Democrats in his state around a mid-decade redistricting fight.

President Donald Trump is weighing military action against Iran, leading an immigration crackdown, and teasing a federal takeover of state elections.

President Donald Trump has announced at the inaugural Board of Peace meeting that nine members have agreed to pledge $7 billion toward a Gaza relief package.

Federal investigators say a veteran agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration took cash to push fraudulent visa applications through the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic.

Democrats are playing catch-up in having online influencers and content creators promote their candidates and priorities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to travel to Israel next week to update Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the U.S.-Iran nuclear talks.

The top U.S. military commander for Latin America has met with Venezuela’s acting president in Caracas as both sides discuss security and policy goals.

The U.S. military says a red, white and blue color scheme championed by President Donald Trump will become the new look for Air Force One.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei deepens ties with U.S. President Donald Trump while trying to avoid a break with China, Argentina’s top trading partner.

The Food and Drug Administration plans to drop its longtime standard of requiring two rigorous studies for new drug approvals.

President Donald Trump has hosted a White House reception for Black History Month, less than two weeks after he sparked a bipartisan outcry by posting a racist video on social media that depicted former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle Obama, as primates in a jungle.

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

A trial is drawing to a close for the tax-evasion case against a prominent Supreme Court lawyer accused of failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in winnings from ultra-high-stakes poker games.

A delegation of U.S. senators is returning from a trip to Ukraine.

Members of the United Nations Security Council are calling for the Gaza ceasefire deal to become permanent and blasting Israeli efforts to expand control in the West Bank as a threat to prospects of a two-state solution.

Vaccine maker Moderna says the Food and Drug Administration will decide whether to approve its new flu shot for older adults after all.

A coalition of health and environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

A new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s 2024 victory.

Democratic candidates have notched a series of wins in recent special elections — but a new AP-NORC poll finds views of the Democratic Party among rank-and-file Democrats have not bounced back since President Donald Trump’s victory in 2024.

Britain’s House of Lords is facing scrutiny as an indirect result of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

The billionaire behind the retail empire that once blanketed shopping malls with names such as Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch has told members of Congress he was “duped by a world-class con man,” his close financial adviser Jeffrey Epstein.

Obama aides have described how they underestimated Donald Trump before his 2016 presidential run, even as his influence grew online and in politics.

U.S. Capitol Police in Washington, D.C., have arrested an 18-year-old man as he ran towards the west side of the Capitol Building armed with a shotgun.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia entered the news in March 2025 after he was deported to El Salvador despite a court ruling that should have prevented it.

A federal judge has ruled that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement cannot re-detain Kilmar Abrego Garcia because a 90-day detention period has expired and the U.S. government has no viable plan for deporting him.

The Justice Department has issued new subpoenas in an investigation into perceived adversaries of President Donald Trump and the U.S. government’s response to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

The U.S. military says it's carried out strikes on three boats accused of smuggling drugs in Latin American waters.

Conservation and historical organizations are suing the Trump administration over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America’s national parks.

Stephen Colbert says his interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico was pulled from Monday's broadcast over fears it would violate “equal time” guidance from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration.

Lawmakers and the White House offered no signs of compromise over the holiday weekend in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers that has led to a pause in funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Iran has announced the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz for live fire military drills.

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Maryland Gov. Wes Moore over what he says is as a lagging response to a January pipe rupture that sent sewage flowing into the Potomac River northwest of Washington.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is stepping up his race for the U.S. Senate with early voting about to begin for the March 3 GOP primary.

Iran's top diplomat has held talks with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in Geneva a day before a second round of negotiations between the U.S. and Iran.

Lawmakers and the White House are offering no signs of compromise in their battle over oversight of federal immigration officers.

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge.

President Donald Trump says that members of his newly created Board of Peace have pledged $5 billion toward rebuilding Gaza and will commit thousands of personnel to international stabilization and police forces for the territory.

The U.S. military says it's boarded another sanctioned oil tanker in the Indian Ocean.

Many political candidates pitch themselves as outsiders.

A top European Union official has rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

The U.S. military is reporting a series of strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has offered a reassuring message to America’s allies.

The U.S. military says it has carried out another deadly strike on a vessel accused of trafficking drugs in the Caribbean Sea.

A White House memo says demolition crews "excellently preserved" the White House residence when they tore down the East Wing for President Donald Trump’s planned ballroom.

A top Bolivian official says the United States has resumed intelligence coordination on counternarcotics efforts with Bolivia under its new president.

Dozens of U.S. lawmakers were trying to make their way this weekend to the Munich Security Conference to assure allies of America's reliability.

Virginia voters will get to cast ballots on a congressional redistricting plan that could help Democrats in this year's midterm elections.

The Trump administration is suing Harvard University, saying it has refused to provide admissions records that the Justice Department demanded to ensure the Ivy League school stopped using affirmative action in admissions.

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security is set to lapse, and a shutdown looks certain.

The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Fears are rising of the outbreak of another war that could spread into a regional conflict in the Middle East as U.S. President Donald Trump raises the pressure on on Iran to give up its nuclear program.

Dubai has replaced the longtime head of DP World after emails linked him to Jeffrey Epstein.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that Trump's recent push to seize control of Greenland is divisive even within his own party.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the U_S_ and Europe to “repair and revive trans-Atlantic trust together.”.

President Trump used a Fort Bragg appearance on Friday to praise U.S. Special Forces for last month's raid that removed Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro.

President Donald Trump says he's amassed a collection of campaign funds exceeding $1.5 billion, an unprecedented sum for a lame-duck president.

A new trove of documents released by the Justice Department reveals that Epstein’s reach into academia was wider than previously known.

President Donald Trump says a change in power in Iran “would be the best thing that could happen” as the U.S. administration weighs whether to take military action against Tehran.

President Donald Trump has pardoned five former NFL players for crimes that include perjury, counterfeiting and drug trafficking.

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis from North Carolina suggests he could support a compromise that would allow the Senate Banking Committee to start hearings on Kevin Warsh, President Donald Trump’s nominee to chair the Federal Reserve.

Taiwan has reached a trade deal with the United States that cuts almost all of its tariff barriers.

Sen. Rand Paul has challenged federal immigration officers over the shooting death of Alex Pretti and said the public has lost trust.

The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the prominent abolitionist Frederick Douglass.

The top antitrust official in the Trump administration is leaving her post amid tension about greenlighting big mergers in recent months.

President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that has extensive contracts with the agency he would lead.

FX and Hulu’s new series “Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette” retells the couple’s romance and death, and has sparked criticism from Kennedy's nephew, Jack Schlossberg.

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appears certain.

Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a bill that amends a law to recognize a fetus as a human being.

The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.

A federal judge has blocked the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former U.S. Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist unlawful orders.

A federal judge has used part of a court hearing to read email and social media death threats she received following her ruling blocking the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration protections for Haitians in the U.S. Judge Ana Reyes in Washington recently blocked the termination of temporary protected status for Haitians while a lawsuit challenging the Republican administration’s effort to end it proceeds.

President Donald Trump has invited Latin American leaders to take part in a summit in Florida next month, gathering the officials at a moment when the administration is spotlighting what it sees as concerning Chinese influence in the region.

The U.S. military says two Navy ships deployed as part of the Trump administration’s massive military buildup in the Caribbean Sea have collided.

Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said Thursday that he did not think it was appropriate for the Justice Department to be tracking the search history of lawmakers who are reviewing files from the Jeffrey Epstein investigation.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from transferring 20 inmates with commuted death sentences to the nation’s highest security federal prison.

Health experts say the federal government now shares less public health data, even after Robert F_ Kennedy Jr_ promised “radical transparency.”.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reshaping U.S. health policy as HHS secretary, and doctors say his changes are eroding trust.

Hong Kong's CK Hutchison say it's escalating its fight over the two Panama Canal ports that it operates.

A U.S. judge says President Donald Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC can go to trial in 2027.

The Trump administration says it is ending its massive immigration crackdown in Minnesota after weeks of angry mass protests, thousands of arrests and two fatal shootings.

The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations.

Syrian government forces have taken over the al-Tanf base in eastern Syria, a site the U.S. military has run for years.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 6 in 10 U.S. adults believe that President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in sending federal immigration agents into U.S. cities.

European allies at NATO are brushing aside concerns that the United States has stepped back from its leadership role at the alliance.

European Union leaders reached a broad agreement Thursday in a Belgian castle to restructure the 27-nation bloc’s economy as they face antagonism from Trump, strong-China and Russia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading a large U.S. delegation to the Munich Security Conference this week.

The chairman of the federal Religious Liberty Commission ousted a member after a hearing that featured tense exchanges on the definition of antisemitism.

The IRS has erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, according to a new court filing.

Melania Trump celebrated an early Valentine's Day with children and young adults receiving treatment for rare and serious diseases.

The House has voted to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada.

The Congressional Black Caucus is building a new coalition with major civil rights groups to push back on President Donald Trump’s domestic agenda.