WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy carrier strike group is moving toward the Middle East as President Donald Trump revives his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters aboard ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Trump administration lawyers have joined California Republicans in urging Supreme Court to block California’s new election map on the grounds that one district in the San Joaquin Valley was drawn to favor Latinos.

Two months ago, Donald Trump’s lawyers called on the court to uphold a new Republican-friendly election map in ...Read more

Nearly 500 people have stopped to sign a giant replica of the birthday card President Donald Trump gave to the convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein for his 50th birthday. The clandestine arts activism group Secret Handshake erected the pop-up monument Monday on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

The messages speak volumes about this ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Republican former Rep. Chris Collins, who represented a Western New York district until he resigned in 2019 and pleaded guilty in a corruption scandal, on Friday announced his comeback bid in Florida.

Collins, who was pardoned by President Donald Trump in 2020, is joining a crowded primary field for the deep-red seat that ...Read more

As many as 85 million deaths were caused by World War II, including more than 400,000 U.S. service members. It was the largest and deadliest conflict in history, involving more than 70 countries.

Out of that horrific six-year battle, the United States, Canada, and 10 Western European nations forged the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to ...Read more

President Donald Trump revived his threats to use military force against Iran’s senior leadership amid a violent crackdown on nationwide protests, saying late Thursday that an armada of U.S. Navy vessels was en route to the Middle East.

“We have a big flotilla going in that direction and we’ll see what happens,” Trump told reporters ...Read more

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Scowling under a wool cap and a hood, Robert DeJesus stood in the bitter wind outside the Sunrise Diner in Allentown last week and confessed his “big mistake:” voting for President Donald Trump in 2024.

“The guy makes ‘cookie promises,’” said DeJesus, 57, a retired construction worker and independent voter from ...Read more

A former Washington, D.C., police officer seriously wounded in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol nearly came to blows with a right-wing election-denier during prosecutor Jack Smith’s congressional hearing on Thursday.

The dust-up came during a break in the proceedings, when activist and Army veteran Ivan Raiklin approached former cop ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said that his new Board of Peace was withdrawing Canada’s invitation to join, days after Prime Minister Mark Carney issued a withering speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos warning against coercive tactics by the world’s great powers.

“Dear Prime Minister Carney: Please let this Letter serve to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would focus on Iowa’s farmers when he visits the state next week, telling reporters on Air Force One he intends to do “a lot” of campaigning to help Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

“The farmers have been very special to me. Very successful. All three terms,” he ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The House passed a roughly $1.25 trillion spending package Thursday in a pair of votes that overcame internal GOP divisions and Democratic protests over the Trump administration’s immigration policies.

The most closely watched of the four bills at stake was the Homeland Security measure, which was at greatest risk of defeat ...Read more

WASHINGTON — In a bipartisan move, the U.S. House on Thursday voted 268-164 to reject an effort to block funding for a provision in federal law requiring automakers and federal regulators to install lifesaving, anti-drunken driving technology into new vehicles.

The 2021 provision, adopted as part of the bipartisan infrastructure package, was ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Supporters of a Senate-passed bill that would allow individuals to sue over nonconsensual intimate depictions generated by artificial intelligence urged the House on Thursday to take action on the legislation.

Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Laurel Lee, R-Fla., held a news conference with reality TV personality and ...Read more

A voice off-stage boomed “Please welcome the chairman of the Board of Peace!” and Donald Trump entered the same hall in Davos where he addressed the world’s elite just a day earlier. But it was a rather different collection of characters who showed up.

Among those summoned were the iconoclastic Javier Milei, the ever-smiling Trump ...Read more

Lawmakers put tough questions to UnitedHealth Group CEO Stephen Hemsley on Jan. 21, challenging the executive on his pay and demanding answers on whether the Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based company drives up costs through its massive size while subjecting patients to wrongful claims denials.

The bipartisan grilling came from members of the U.S. ...Read more

FORT WORTH, Texas — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett and state Rep. James Talarico will debate for the first time on Saturday afternoon, as they bid to represent Texans in the U.S. Senate.

Crockett and Talarico are the front-runners in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat that is currently held by Sen. John Cornyn, a longtime Republican ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former special counsel Jack Smith on Thursday defended his findings that President Trump “willfully broke the law” in his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, telling lawmakers that Republican efforts to discredit the probe are “false and misleading.”

“No one should be above the law in our...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he has finished interviewing candidates to serve as the next Federal Reserve chair and reiterated that he has someone in mind for the job.

“I’ll be telling you soon. I have somebody that I think will be very good but I’m not going to reveal it,” Trump told reporters Thursday.

“It’s someone...Read more

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon will take aim at a contracting program that’s become a critical part of the business portfolios for many Alaska Native corporations.

“We’re actually taking a sledgehammer to the oldest DEI program in the federal government,” Hegseth said in a video posted to social media on Jan. 16, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It was Thursday morning and Mike Johnson had a problem — again.

An increasingly familiar scene was playing out on the House floor, as a handful of holdouts threatened to tank a procedural vote that once would have held little drama. What was supposed to be a 5-minute vote stretched into 20 minutes, then 25.

Working their way ...Read more