President Donald Trump put his son-in-law Jared Kushner and longtime friend Steve Witkoff in charge of resolving the war in Ukraine and a standoff with Iran. On Thursday, they juggled those momentous issues within hours of each other.

Dispatched to Geneva, Switzerland, Kushner and Witkoff met Iranian officials at the Omani ambassador’s ...Read more

Congress added nearly $34 billion above the president’s fiscal 2026 defense request for more than 1,000 research and procurement programs favored by lawmakers but not necessarily by the military, according to a new report.

The $33.97 billion in a fiscal 2026 omnibus spending law is a dramatic surge in appropriations for what are known as ...Read more

U.S. and Iranian officials ended the latest round of nuclear talks in Geneva on Thursday by agreeing to re-convene as soon as next week, opening the door to further diplomacy even as President Donald Trump masses military forces in the region.

With just days to go before Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two sides agreed to resume ...Read more

Would-be Donald Trump assassin Asif Merchant was caught on video as he spread a napkin out on a hotel room table, put down a creamsicle-colored vape, and said, “This is the target. How will it die?”

Merchant, who’s accused of trying to mastermind a political assassination at a 2024 U.S. campaign rally, thought he was speaking with a ...Read more

The Pentagon’s first kamikaze drone unit is ready to participate if President Donald Trump decides to launch strikes on Iran, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

The drone unit is known as Task Force Scorpion and evolved from an experimental U.S. military drone unit. It’s now ready for operations, U.S. Central Command spokesman Capt. ...Read more

As Caribbean leaders arrived here this week to placards urging them not to forget Cuba, they were caught between mounting pressure from the United States over ties to Havana and constituents who have long relied on Cuban doctors and educational scholarships to build healthcare systems and professional careers.

So when Jamaica Prime Minister ...Read more

Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New York, ...Read more

Mayor Zohran Mamdani presented President Donald Trump with a pitch to build 12,000 housing units in New York City at a White House sit-down Thursday, marking the moment with a chummy picture of the pair in the Oval Office featuring Trump clutching a fake Daily News front page and smiling ear-to-ear.

“I had a productive meeting with President ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Senators came together across the aisle Thursday to move legislation meant to address gaps in the law around abuse and exploitation of children online.

The Senate Judiciary Committee by voice vote approved a package related to crimes against children, including sections on sentencing guidelines for child sexual abuse material, or...Read more

WASHINGTON — Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told House lawmakers she did not have information on the past criminal investigation into Jeffrey Epstein and never recalled meeting the now-deceased sex offender, according to remarks prepared as part of a congressional deposition Thursday in New York.

In an opening statement she shared ...Read more

Gov. Maura Healey is responding to President Trump naming Massachusetts, along with California, Maine, and Minnesota, as some of the most fraud-ridden states in the country while announcing a new “war on fraud” during his State of the Union address.

“At the end of the day, this is all about the president and the Trump administration ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis — U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders Wednesday in Saint Kitts’ capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump may continue constructing a 90,000-square-foot ballroom at the White House, a Washington federal judge held in a ruling that dealt an initial blow to historic preservationists who tried to halt the project.

Senior Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found Thursday that...Read more

Iran said nuclear talks with the United States have progressed “very intensely and very seriously” as the two sides continued negotiations over a deal into the early evening in Switzerland.

With days to go until President Donald Trump’s deadline to reach an agreement, the two countries started their third round of Omani-mediated ...Read more

BASSETERRE, Saint Kitts and Nevis – U.S. officials close to Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Raul Castro’s grandson on the sidelines of the annual meeting of Caribbean leaders on Wednesday in Saint Kitts’s capital as efforts to negotiate economic and political changes in Cuba continue.

Multiple sources with knowledge of the meeting...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton gave closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state sat for a deposition to the House of Representatives oversight committee near the couple’s home in suburban Chappaqua, New...Read more

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is slated to meet with President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon in the White House with housing reportedly on the agenda, sources confirmed to the Daily News.

The mayor traveled to Washington, D.C., on Thursday morning. The D.C. meeting, and the mayor’s travel, was not advised and did not appear on his public...Read more

NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton was set to give closed-door testimony Thursday to a congressional committee investigating the Jeffrey Epstein sex-trafficking scandal, with Bill Clinton to follow on Friday.

The former secretary of state will give a deposition to the House of Representatives’ oversight committee near the couple’s home in ...Read more

ST. LOUIS — The August primaries are still a spring and summer away, but the Democratic race for Missouri's 2nd Congressional District is already heating up.

Joan VonDras, a former schoolteacher, is taking her main Democratic opponent to task for criticizing her about donating to her own cause.

In a statement sent to area media outlets, ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Republicans blew past a deadline to release legislation that would allow the year-round sale of E15 gasoline last week, but at least one member of a panel to resolve the issue says he hopes a final deal will soon emerge.

The E15 Rural Domestic Energy Council, established last month to satisfy lawmakers threatening to vote ...Read more