Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is visiting the high-security El Salvador prison where Venezuelans who the Trump administration alleges are members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang have been held since their removal from the U_S_ Noem’s Wednesday trip to the prison where inmates are packed into cells and never allowed outside comes as the Trump administration seeks to show it is deporting people it describes as the “worst of the worst.”.

During the first Trump administration, many journalists worried most about being called “fake news.”.

Israeli forces have destroyed Gaza's only specialized cancer hospital as ground forces advance deeper into the Gaza Strip.

The John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week disclosed sensitive personal information, including Social Security numbers.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order Thursday "aimed at eliminating” the U.S. Education Department.

The Justice Department is resisting a federal judge’s demand for more information about flights that took deportees to El Salvador.

The Education Department has concluded that Maine’s education office violated Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to play on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ sports facilities.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is rejecting calls for impeaching federal judges after President Donald Trump demanded the removal of a judge who ruled against his deportation plans.

The White House says President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to an immediate pause in strikes against energy infrastructure in the Ukraine war.

President Donald Trump has hung a copy of the Declaration of Independence in the Oval Office, according to images he shared on social media.

President Donald Trump is claiming that pardons recently issued by Joe Biden to lawmakers and staff on the congressional committee that investigated the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have no force because, he says, Biden signed them with an autopen.

The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song “Closing Time” over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee.

A French politician has suggested the U.S. is no longer worthy of keeping the Statue of Liberty.

A federal judge on Monday was incredulous at the contention by the Trump administration that his directive to turn around deportation flights wasn't binding because it was made verbally.

The Trump administration has transferred more than 200 immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order to bar the deportations temporarily.

President Donald Trump’s supporters are echoing some of the rhetoric and actions that elsewhere have preceded attacks on the judiciary as the courts deliver a series of setbacks to his dramatic attempt to change the federal government without congressional approval.

The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday, hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law.

President Donald Trump used a visit to the Justice Department on Friday to air a litany of grievances about the criminal investigations that threatened to torpedo his political career.

Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown.

U.S. stock indexes rose after getting some relief from an encouraging inflation update.

A government lawyer has asked a federal judge to move the legal fight over the detention of Mahmoud Khalil to either New Jersey or Louisiana.

When protests over the Israel-Hamas war took root on Columbia University’s campus last spring, Mahmoud Khalil became a familiar, outspoken figure in a student movement that soon spread to other U.S. colleges.

The White House complained that Columbia University is refusing to help federal agents find people being sought as part of the government’s effort to deport participants in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

A U.S. green card holder faces deportation after helping lead student protests at Columbia University in New York last spring over the war in Gaza.

President Donald Trump granted U.S. automakers a short reprieve from stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada this week.

President Donald Trump has issued what he calls a “last warning” to Hamas to release all remaining hostages held in Gaza.

President Donald Trump is granting a one-month exemption on his stiff new tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada for U.S. automakers.

White House press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that U.S. officials have had “ongoing talks and discussions” with Hamas officials, as the ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas hangs in the balance.

For a second time, the Associated Press is asking a federal judge to immediately restore its access to presidential events.

The acting administrator of the organization that is pushing for sweeping budget cuts across federal agencies is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.

The White House says its officials "will determine" which news outlets cover President Donald Trump.

The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon.

The Justice Department has filed a complaint accusing a federal judge in Washington of misconduct during hearings over President Donald Trump’s executive order that calls for banning transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military.

The Associated Press is suing three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events.

Donald Trump won reelection months ago and is barred from seeking another term.

Until a few weeks ago, the biggest news to come out of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.

The new head of the Social Security Administration says deceased centenarians are “not necessarily receiving benefits."

The Trump administration is falsely claiming tens of millions of dead people over 100 years old are receiving improper Social Security payments.

It's been nearly a month in office for President Donald Trump, and he's acted with dizzying speed to reorder the American economy and global diplomacy.

The Trump administration has blocked The Associated Press from traveling with President Trump on Air Force One and also from covering an Oval Office event.

The White House had blocked an Associated Press journalist from a news conference with two major world leaders.

Donald Trump promised as a candidate that he could easily conquer inflation, but the reality is proving tougher than he expected.

The White House says news organizations that refuse to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico are telling “lies."

When the Trump administration barred Associated Press reporters from presidential events, it did so after an or-else demand that the news agency change its style from the “Gulf of Mexico” to the “Gulf of America,” in line with the president's executive order.

Civil rights attorneys have sued the Trump administration to gain access to detained migrants who they say have been flown to Guantanamo Bay and held there without being able to consult lawyers or speak to relatives.

U.S. officials say Belarus has released three people, including an American and a journalist, who’d been detained for more than three years.

The White House says court rulings going against President Donald Trump's administration are coming from “judicial activists” on the bench whose decisions amount to a “constitutional crisis.”.

President Donald Trump has hosted Jordan’s King Abdullah II at the White House and has renewed his insistence that Gaza could somehow be emptied of all residents, controlled by the U.S. and redeveloped as a tourist area.

The Vatican's charity is voicing outrage at what it calls the “reckless” and “unhuman” U.S. plans to gut USAID.

A federal court has blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown.

President Donald Trump keeps cranking out executive orders designed to remake the government while his ally and adviser, billionaire Elon Musk, hunts for more ways to upend the federal workforce.

False and misleading social media posts are circulating online as the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development.

President Donald Trump’s administration is using federal prisons to detain some people arrested in its immigration crackdown.

Democrats are opposing Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency as it turns its attention to the Education Department, with lawmakers raising questions about DOGE’s access to internal systems containing personal information on tens of millions of Americans.

House Republicans have missed another deadline to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending.

Federal government payments for subscriptions to media outlets have become the latest target of President Donald Trump's spending hawks.

Donald Trump's border czar is blaming news leaks for hindering a large-scale immigration operation in Colorado.

President Donald Trump has faced several setbacks from federal courts, which have blocked or paused some of his most controversial plans since taking office.

A judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s plan to push out federal employees by offering them financial incentives.

President Donald Trump is hardly retreating from his Gaza remarks.

President Donald Trump promised voters an administration that wouldn’t waste precious American lives and taxpayer treasure on far-off wars and nation building.

President Donald Trump’s top diplomat and his main spokesperson are walking back the idea that he wants the permanent relocation of Palestinians from Gaza, after American allies and even Republican lawmakers rebuffed his suggestion that the U.S. take “ownership” of the territory.

Leaders of dozens of Head Start preschools said they might need to close temporarily because they remain locked out of their federal funding, a problem that first surfaced last week during President Donald Trump’s aborted effort to freeze federal grants.

Donald Trump’s efforts to undo diversity, equity and inclusion efforts throughout the federal government have had a trickle-down effect far beyond formal DEI programs.

President Donald Trump says he will put in place 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on goods from China effective Saturday.

Black History Month, a celebration of Black history, culture and education, kicks off on Feb. 1.

Vice President JD Vance is suggesting that some reporters covering the Trump White House are biased — perhaps even Democratic “propagandists.”.

There were no survivors after a collision between an American Airlines passenger jet and an Army helicopter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport near Washington, D.

After widespread panic and confusion, the White House has rescinded its memo ordering a freeze on federal aid spending.

The Defense Department intelligence agency has paused observances of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Pride Month, Holocaust Days of Remembrance and other cultural or historical annual events in response to President Donald Trump’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the federal workplace.

Not every outlet popular with conservative readers is cheerleading for President Donald Trump.

Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand his power in the first days of his presidency.

On the campaign trail last year, President Donald Trump talked tough about imposing tariffs as high as 60% on Chinese goods and threatened to renew the trade war with China that he launched during his first term.

California water regulators have said there's no truth to President Donald Trump's claim that the U_S_ military entered the state and “turned on the water.”.

As the White House paused federal grants and loans in a far-reaching executive order, early childhood education centers and states discovered Tuesday they could no longer access money they rely on to provide care for some of the nation’s neediest families and children.

President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders focused on the military, including one that directs Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to revise the Pentagon’s policy on transgender troops, likely setting in motion a future ban on their military service.

The youngest person to serve as White House press secretary has made her debut in the briefing room, promising to hold briefings often and saying President Donald Trump also will be available to reporters for questions.

President Donald Trump boasted about his first week in office as he rallied House Republicans to advance tax cuts, border security and other conservative priorities.

President Donald Trump is crowing about his campaign pledge to eliminate taxes on tips.

Those binders full of executive orders that President Donald Trump has been signing with a flourish in recent days don’t just magically appear before him.

President Donald Trump has defended his decision to pardon people convicted of assaulting police officers during the attack on the Capitol and suggests there could be a place in U.S. politics for the Proud Boys extremist group, quickly evoking some of the controversies of his first term.

Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th president of the United States, taking charge as Republicans claim unified control of Washington and set out to reshape the country’s institutions.

Donald Trump has given voters a hefty list of promises, and many of them come due right away.

After disasters like the wildfires in Los Angeles happen, much of the rebuilding work is done by Latino immigrant workers, many in the country illegally.

The supremely popular TikTok could be banned on Jan. 19 under a federal law that forces the video sharing platform to divest itself from its China-based parent company, ByteDance, or shut down its U.S. operations.

California has withdrawn requests for the EPA to give the state authority to enforce rules limiting emissions from diesel-powered trains and big rigs.

Donald Trump ran on a return to his “America First” foreign policy platform.

President Joe Biden is moving to ban new offshore oil and gas drilling in most U.S. coastal waters.

Vice President Kamala Harris says Jan. 6, 2025, was a “good day” for democracy as she oversaw the peaceful certification of Donald Trump's victory.

After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal.

Donald Trump seemed poised to inherit a relatively strong economy when he begins a second term in the White House in January.

More world leaders are confirming they have been invited to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.

China experts say Chinese leader Xi Jinping would likely see President-elect Donald Trump’s invitation to attend his inauguration as too risky to accept, and the gesture from Trump may have little bearing on the increasingly competitive ties between the two nations.

President-elect Donald Trump has invited Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders to his inauguration next month.

President Joe Biden says having healthy women is as important for the U.S. economy as it is for the women themselves.

Many presidents have promised to shake up Washington, but Donald Trump may prove to be in a class of his own.

Donald Trump is making threats, traveling abroad, and negotiating with world leaders.

Military leaders are rattled by a list of “woke” senior officers that a conservative group is urging Pete Hegseth to dismiss for promoting diversity in the ranks if he is confirmed to lead the Pentagon.

TikTok’s future in the U.S. appeared uncertain on Friday after a federal appeals court rejected a legal challenge the company brought against a law that requires it to cut ties with its China-based parent company or be banned by mid-January.

President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt to serve as his White House press secretary.