The United States announced it is seeking U.N. authorization for a new “Gang Suppression Force” to help tackle escalating violence in Haiti where the armed groups are expanding their brutal activities from the capital into the countryside.

The Trump administration has approved a $825 million arms sale to Ukraine, which will include extended-range missiles and related equipment to boost its defensive capabilities.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is heading back to Latin America next week for visits to Mexico and Ecuador.

President Donald Trump has floated the idea of “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages federal disaster response.

A man captured on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington has been charged with a misdemeanor after prosecutors failed to convince a grand jury to return a more serious felony indictment, according to court papers filed Thursday.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from removing Michael Abramowitz as director of Voice of America.

Jim O'Neill, a deputy to Health Secretary Robert F.

A new analysis by The Associated Press shows President Donald Trump’s recent focus on crime in Washington and other big cities came as views of his handling of immigration had been souring.

The Trump administration has asked a military base outside of Chicago for support on immigration operations.

The Treasury Department wants U.S. financial institutions to monitor for suspected Chinese money laundering networks handling funds that are used to fuel the flood of fentanyl across American communities.

Jim O'Neill, a top deputy to Health Secretary Robert F.

A U.S. diplomat has apologized for using the word "animalistic" during a press conference in Lebanon.

Japan’s top trade negotiator has abruptly canceled a trip to Washington aimed at issuing a joint statement on a tariffs deal with the Trump administration.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is doubling down on his message to President Donald Trump that the nation’s third-largest city doesn’t need or want military intervention to fight crime.

Louisiana has abandoned its defense of a political map that elected two Black members of Congress and instead called on the Supreme Court to reject any consideration of race in redistricting in a case that could bring major changes to the Voting Rights Act.

The director of the nation’s top public health agency has been fired after less than one month in the job.

Mexico says its postal service is suspending package shipments to the United States, following similar steps taken by countries from the European Union and elsewhere.

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The Democratic National Committee is seriously considering scrambling the party’s next presidential primary calendar.

Federal prosecutors have failed to indict a man who was seen on camera hurling a sandwich at a federal law enforcement official in the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump's administration is appealing to the Supreme Court again in its bid to keep billions of dollars in foreign aid funding frozen.

President Donald Trump’s administration is taking control of Washington's Union Station from Amtrak, marking another federal intervention in the nation's capital.

As President Donald Trump asserts more unilateral authority, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has announced that his department will take over managing Union Station from Amtrak.

A new poll shows handling crime is now a relative strength for President Donald Trump.

The top U.S. diplomat in Denmark has been summoned by the government after a report that people connected to President Donald Trump have been carrying out covert influence operations in Greenland.

India faces a major challenge as steep U.S. tariffs on Indian products take effect.

Donald Trump’s vow to fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook is at the intersection of the Republican president’s efforts to consolidate power and purge diverse voices from the higher ranks of American leadership.

The U.S. is ramping up efforts to boost production of crucial components used in electric vehicles, smartphones and fighter jets.

Some employees of the Federal Emergency Management Agency who signed a public letter of dissent earlier this week were put on administrative leave Tuesday evening.

Hundreds of people have been arrested since President Donald Trump’s crime crackdown flooded the nation’s capital with federal agents and troops.

The Justice Department has reached settlements with a group of current and former FBI agents who have said they were disciplined for invoking their political beliefs or clashing with supervisors about approaches to investigations.

Days after getting his massive civil fraud penalty thrown out, President Donald Trump asked New York’s highest court on Tuesday to overturn his other punishments, including a multiyear ban on him and his two eldest sons holding corporate leadership positions.

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Bill Pulte, the country's top housing regulator, has been using his position to target President Trump's political enemies.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order challenging a 1989 Supreme Court decision that protects flag burning as free speech.

A whistleblower says more than 300 million Americans' Social Security data was put at risk after Department of Government Efficiency officials uploaded sensitive information to a cloud account not subject to oversight.

A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and other top Democrats are warning President Donald Trump to stay out of the cities they run.

The Democratic National Committee leadership has withdrawn a measure that would have clarified the party’s position on the Israel-Hamas war.

Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook's lawyer says she'll sue President Donald Trump's administration to try to prevent him from firing her.

A watchdog investigation into former special counsel Jack Smith over his prosecutions of President Donald Trump is based on an “imaginary and unfounded” premise.

U.S. President Donald Trump claims that the war in eastern Congo is among the ones he has stopped, after brokering a peace deal between Congo and Rwanda in June.

Lisa Cook made headlines three years ago when she became the first Black woman to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world.

The White House says a judge's decision to throw out the Trump administration's lawsuit against all federal judges in Maryland is a direct assault on the president’s ability to enforce immigration laws.

Low-value imports are losing their duty-free status in the U.S. this week as part of President Donald Trump's agenda for making the nation less dependent on foreign goods.

Melania Trump is inviting students in grades K-12 to participate in a government-sponsored nationwide contest using artificial intelligence.

President Donald Trump's announcement that he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook has rattled financial markets worldwide.

President Donald Trump says he's firing Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, a sharp escalation in his battle to exert greater control over what has long been considered an institution independent from day-to-day politics.

Adm. Daryl Caudle has taken over as the Navy’s highest-ranking officer.

President Donald Trump has marked the fourth anniversary of a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the Afghanistan withdrawal by signing a proclamation honoring them.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributed federal funds to public media stations, is shutting down on September 30.

Efforts by U.S. immigration officials to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda, a country to which the Salvadoran national has no ties, has again focused attention third-country deportations.

The House Oversight Committee is subpoenaing the estate of the late Jeffrey Epstein.

Public schools have reopened in the nation’s capital with parents on edge over the presence of thousands of National Guard troops, some armed, and federal law enforcement officers.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order directing the Justice Department to prosecute people for burning the American flag.

More than 180 current and former FEMA employees have published a letter warning of potential disaster due to cuts in the agency.

President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung had a friendly interaction before the cameras at the White House that was far different than Trump's warnings against the new leader earlier Monday.

President Donald Trump says he’s firing Federal Reserve board Member Lisa Cook amid mortgage fraud allegations.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia has been detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after checking in with immigration officials on Monday in Baltimore.

Ken Martin, the new chair of the Democratic National Committee, says he's bringing a bazooka to the fight against President Donald Trump and his Republican allies.

France's foreign ministry officials have met with a representative of U.S. ambassador Charles Kushner.

Some National Guard units patrolling the nation’s capital at the direction of President Donald Trump have started carrying firearms.

Donald Trump ran on a promise to use the powers of the government for revenge against those he believed wronged him.

Donald Trump was the Republican Party outsider in 2016.

The push to redraw congressional maps in Texas is shifting the dynamics of the state’s 2026 Senate campaign.

A judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot deny funding to Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and 30 other cities and counties because of policies that limit cooperation with federal immigration efforts.

The Trump administration said Friday it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.

President Donald Trump visited a gift shop near the White House and stopped by the Kennedy Center on Friday, all while his federal takeover of Washington is keeping residents on edge.

The Trump administration says it will not defend a decades-old grant program for heavily Hispanic universities that is being challenged in court, declaring that the government believes the funding is unconstitutional.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has moved to strip thousands of federal health agency employees of their collective bargaining rights.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has fired a general whose agency’s initial intelligence assessment of U.S. damage to Iran nuclear sites angered President Donald Trump.

A jail release order from a Tennessee court requires Kilmar Abrego Garcia to travel directly to Maryland, where he'll be in home detention with his brother as his custodian.

Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend repeatedly denied to the Justice Department witnessing any sexually inappropriate interactions with Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump says that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will happen on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington.

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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped an investigation into a buy now, pay later company linked to President Donald Trump's son Donald Trump Jr. The agency says the investigation was politically motivated against firearms companies and Trump Jr. On Tuesday, the CFPB notified Public Square Holdings subsidiary Credova it was no longer under investigation.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered National Guard troops to start carrying firearms while patrolling the streets of Washington for President Donald Trump’s law enforcement crackdown.

The Associated Press has used an "efficiency gap" analysis to examine congressional elections in 2024 and other recent presidential election years.

Moves by Texas Republicans and California Democrats to redraw their U.S. House districts could disrupt a rare partisan balance in American politics.

The Justice Department has released transcripts of interviews its No. 2 official did with Jeffrey Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend as the Trump administration scrambles to present itself as transparent amid a fierce backlash over an earlier refusal to disclose a trove of records from the sex-trafficking case.

The FBI has searched the Maryland home and Washington office of ex-Trump national security adviser John Bolton as part of an investigation into the handling of classified information.

President Donald Trump's administration has been pushing for the death penalty, but judges are blocking attempts to reverse previous decisions against capital punishment.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the company is discussing a potential new computer chip designed for China with the Trump administration.

President Donald Trump is proudly promoting the work of roughly 2,000 National Guard troops in Washington to confront what the Republican president describes as an out-of-control crime wave in the Democratic-run city.

A federal website that informs the public about data collection has gone down, causing concern among advocates.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency is ramping up its hiring efforts to support President Donald Trump's mass deportation goals.

The top U.N. envoy for Syria is warning that its transition remains “on a knife-edge” and violence could resume at any moment in the southern city of Sweida, which saw deadly clashes last month.

A $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit against Fox News for its coverage after the 2020 presidential election focuses on the roles of hosts Jeanine Pirro, Maria Bartiromo and Lou Dobbs in spreading false stories about fraud in Democrat Joe Biden's victory over President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration plans to deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia to Uganda after he declined a plea deal involving deportation to Costa Rica.

Before his return to the White House this year, President Donald Trump faced a slew of criminal charges and lawsuits that threatened his finances and freedom.

The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

President Donald Trump is blaming renewable energy sources such as wind and solar power for skyrocketing energy costs.

Vice President JD Vance has been promoting President Donald Trump's new tax cuts and spending bill in swing-state Georgia.

A judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Habba, has been unlawfully serving as the the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

A coalition of more than 30 privacy and civil rights groups is calling on U.S. universities to dismantle campus surveillance and data collection in order to protect student protesters from government retaliation.

The Trump administration says it’s reviewing more than 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation.

Federal authorities have set up checkpoints around the nation's capital, asking people for their immigration status and detaining them.

Flight attendants at both regional and legacy airlines say they're frustrated by what they call low wages and long-standing airline practices of not paying them during the boarding process.