WASHINGTON— President Donald Trump renewed his call for European countries to “stop buying oil” from Russia, a demand he has linked to further U.S. pressure on Vladimir Putin to halt the war in Ukraine.

“The Europeans are buying oil from Russia — not supposed to happen, right?” Trump said in a dinner speech at Mount Vernon, Virginia...Read more

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Defense Department is requiring journalists agree to submit anything they publish about it for government approval as a condition of access, the latest Trump administration effort to control during peacetime what information the public learns about military operations.

The new rule — part of an updated press ...Read more

Democratic congressional leaders demanded a meeting with Donald Trump ahead of a possible government shutdown, drawing a noncommittal response from the president.

“I’d love to meet with them, but I don’t think it’s going to have any impact,” Trump told reporters outside the White House on Saturday.

After Senate Republicans and ...Read more

SEATTLE — Microsoft urged traveling H-1B visa employees on Friday to return to the U.S. immediately in the wake of President Donald Trump’s executive order to increase visa fees to $100,000, according to internal emails.

Trump signed the executive order on Friday, claiming it will curb abuses that displace U.S. workers. The changes are set ...Read more

Democratic congressional leaders demanded on Saturday a meeting with President Donald Trump ahead of a possible government shutdown after Senate Republicans and Democrats blocked rival stopgap measures.

Trump on Friday predicted a shutdown was likely, adding that “we’ll continue to talk to the Democrats.”

The Senate, which can take ...Read more

President Donald Trump issued an ultimatum to the Nicolás Maduro regime on Saturday, demanding that it immediately accept the return of criminals and mentally ill individuals who he said were released from Venezuelan prisons and asylums and sent to the United States.

Trump warned that failure to comply would have devastating consequences.

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President Donald Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the U.S. legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective expat workers.

Trump on Friday slapped a $100,000 application fee on the widely used H-1B visa program, a move that would drastically increase ...Read more

In what’s become something of a ritual, members of Congress have lately been holding news conferences calling for stricter limits on their own stock trading. Americans love this idea, yet the bills have so far gone nowhere. Here’s hoping common sense may soon prevail.

Time and again, in recent years, members of both parties have executed ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump predicted that a U.S. government shutdown is likely, citing a stalemate between his party and Democrats.

“We’ll continue to talk to the Democrats but I think you could very well end up with a closed country for a period of time,” Trump said Friday in the Oval Office.

The prospect of a shutdown ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that the United States had carried out a strike on a drug-trafficking vessel in international waters, killing three people on board, part of a campaign against cartels that have escalated tensions with Venezuela and some other Latin American nations.

“On my Orders, the Secretary of War ordered a ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb overuse.

The proclamation requires the payment and asserts that abuse of the H-1B pathway has displaced U.S. workers. The proclamation restricts entry under...Read more

WASHINGTON — A federal prosecutor in Virginia is resigning from his post after being told by Trump administration officials that he’d be removed for not bringing mortgage fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The decision to step down by Erik Siebert, who has been ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration officials told the top prosecutor for the Eastern District of Virginia that he will be removed from his position, after he didn’t bring mortgage fraud charges against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Erik Siebert, whom President Donald Trump ...Read more

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri judge on Friday found the language of a Republican-led ballot measure that would ban most abortions unfair and ordered the state’s top election official to rewrite it.

The ruling, issued Friday afternoon by Cole County Circuit Court Judge Daniel Green, found that the ballot question did not properly inform ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Friday said a man who pleaded guilty in a plot to kill Supreme Court Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh should receive a prison sentence of 30 years to life.

Nicholas Roske, who was arrested after authorities said they found him near Kavanaugh’s Maryland residence in June 2022, has pleaded guilty to attempting ...Read more

Sen. John Fetterman, D.-Pa., joined Senate Republicans Friday in voting for their plan to prevent a potential government shutdown, being the lone Democrat to do so.

Fetterman had been vocal about his strong desire to avoid a shutdown in the lead-up to Friday’s vote when he crossed the aisle to support a Republican-led continuing resolution to...Read more

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a proclamation as soon as Friday that would move to extensively overhaul the H-1B visa program, requiring a $100,000 fee for applications in a bid to curb overuse, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.

Trump is set to sign a proclamation Friday, requiring the payment and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Senate shot down dueling versions of a short-term funding patch Friday before leaving town for a weeklong recess without a plan in place to avoid a partial government shutdown next month.

With lawmakers unable to resolve a partisan standoff over extending expiring health insurance subsidies, Senate leaders agreed to engage in...Read more

Cuba’s foreign minister lashed out at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, calling him “a fraud” and “an international criminal,” in a personal attack that suggests the island’s government has given up on improving its strained relationship with the Trump administration amid heightened fears of a potential U.S. military action in ...Read more

Cesar Lima never gave much thought to the politics of offshore wind. Most days, the ironworker focused on his shift 15 miles out at sea, climbing turbines and watching dolphins gliding past his vessel off the coast of Rhode Island.

That changed when President Donald Trump’s administration ordered work to stop on the Revolution Wind project a ...Read more