Lawmakers are openly venting their frustration as they try to gain traction to end the government shutdown.

The State Department says it's fired a U.S. diplomat over a romantic relationship he admitted having with a Chinese woman alleged to have ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

Senate Republicans have voted down legislation that would have put a check on President Donald Trump’s ability to use deadly military force against drug cartels.

As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.

President Donald Trump’s administration is warning of no guaranteed back pay for federal workers during a shutdown.

Attorney General Pam Bondi goes before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday morning as federal agents surge into cities across the U.S. She's facing growing questions about political influence over a Justice Department that has already criminally charged one of President Donald Trump’s longtime foes and is facing intense White House pressure to prosecute others.

The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least $21.7 billion in military assistance to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago.

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered approval of a proposed 211-mile road through an Alaska wilderness to allow mining of copper, cobalt, gold and other minerals.

The Associated Press is objecting to Donald Trump’s characterization of its ongoing legal dispute over access after the president incorrectly characterized the case in a public forum.

President Donald Trump claims his policies have generated $17 trillion in new investments, but the real number is likely much less.

It’s now Day 6 of the shutdown, and the Democratic minority leader has challenged the Republican House speaker to a televised debate on the impasse over reopening the federal government.

President Donald Trump cracked the door slightly to negotiations with Democrats on the health care subsidies they’ve made central to the shutdown fight, then abruptly closed it Monday, leaving the two sides once again at a seemingly intractable impasse.

Washington lawmakers remain at a standstill over reopening the government, showing few signs of progress as President Donald Trump says layoffs are “taking place right now.”.

Halfway through Donald Trump’s inaugural White House meeting with congressional leadership, the red "Trump 2028" hats appeared on the president’s desk.

In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan.

The Supreme Court is allowing President Donald Trump to strip legal protections from more than 300,000 Venezuelan migrants.

Hopes for a quick end to the government shutdown are fading.

Americans' routine interactions with the federal government this week are increasingly being met with partisan messaging.

The State Department will increase staffing at certain U.S. embassies and consulates to accommodate an expected major jump in visa applications from soccer fans wanting to attend World Cup matches in the United States next year.

Republican leaders have presented a united stance as they try to keep the government open and berate Democrats for demanding health care policy changes in exchange for their votes.

The government shutdown has sparked intense political battles, with both parties blaming each other even as major job cuts — and major disruptions to iconic sites like the Liberty Bell and Pearl Harbor — have begun taking hold.

Senate Democrats kept their promise to reject any Republican spending bill that didn’t extend or restore health care benefits, choosing instead to force a government shutdown.

Plunged into a government shutdown, the U.S. is confronting a fresh cycle of uncertainty after President Donald Trump and Congress failed to strike an agreement to keep government programs and services running by Wednesday’s deadline.

The federal government was thrown into a shutdown with no easy endgame in sight.

The Trump administration is using government communications to blame Democrats for a potential U.S. government shutdown.

President Donald Trump's administration has accused Minnesota of violating federal law by allowing transgender athletes to compete in girls sports.

Drugmaker Pfizer has agreed to lower drug costs under a deal struck with President Donald Trump's administration.

A major US-Africa trade deal, the African Growth and Opportunity Act, has ended, cutting duty-free access to U.S. markets for thousands of African products.

Local hospitals report at least 31 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip.

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.

Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Democratic and Republican congressional leaders heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown.

Party leaders in Congress have long criticized government shutdowns as toxic and destructive.

Democratic congressional leaders have left a White House meeting without a deal with President Donald Trump and Republicans to avoid a government shutdown.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and Republican Leader John Thune are digging in ahead of this week’s deadline to keep the government open, showing little evidence of budging even as both sides have agreed to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Monday.

President Donald Trump will be speaking at a hastily called meeting of top military leaders.

Senate Democrats have struggled for months to counter President Donald Trump.

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said President Donald Trump and the Republican Party are “marching the country” into a government shutdown.

Rep. John Moolenaar has requested an urgent briefing from the White House after Trump supported a deal giving Americans a majority stake in TikTok.

Shares of some big drugmakers rose Friday as Wall Street started sorting out the impact of President Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcement.

The Supreme Court has extended an order allowing President Donald Trump’s administration to keep frozen nearly $5 billion in foreign aid.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán says Hungary will keep buying fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has held talks with Pakistan's prime minister at the White House.

A new report finds the Department of Government Efficiency’s remaking of the federal workforce has battered the Washington job market and put more households in the metropolitan area in financial distress.

Washington's hottest new club has everything: Cabinet secretaries, a new stone patio, meals from the White House kitchen and even a playlist curated by President Donald Trump.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and officials involved in recent deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean.

The White House recently sounded the alarm on one of the most popular drugs on the market, acetaminophen, commonly known as Tylenol, warning of potential dangers for pregnant women.

The White House says it intervened to block a decision to stop processing raw steel at U.S. Steel’s Granite City Works plant in Illinois.

Oracle has named Clay Magouyrk and Mike Sicilia as CEOs, with current CEO Safra Catz becoming executive vice chair of the technology company’s board.

President Donald Trump has promoted unproven ties between Tylenol, vaccines and autism without offering new medical evidence.

An emerging TikTok deal with China will ensure that U.S. companies control the algorithm that powers the app's video feed and Americans will hold a majority of seats on a board overseeing U.S. operations.

Donald Trump warned during the campaign that Black Americans were losing jobs in large numbers and things would only worsen without his leadership.

President Donald Trump says the U.S. military has carried out its third fatal strike against an alleged drug smuggling vessel this month.

Federal prosecutors say a man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington was wearing a body camera that captured video of the killings from his perspective.

The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

A federal prosecutor in Virginia whose monthslong mortgage fraud investigation into New York Attorney General Letitia James has not resulted in criminal charges is resigning under pressure from the Trump administration.

For Jews worldwide, the High Holy Days are always a compelling mix of celebration and repentance.

Hungary plans to designate antifa as a terrorist organization, following a similar announcement by U.S. President Trump.

President Donald Trump has suggested he's working to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.

Republican leaders in the House and Senate are rejecting Democratic demands for health care subsidies in a bill to avoid a government shutdown.

An Army veteran who set fire to an American flag near the White House to protest President Donald Trump’s recent executive order on flag burning has pleaded not guilty to federal criminal charges.

Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania says that the nation must “turn the tide” against political violence and the belief that government can’t solve problems.

After a late-night vote and last-minute ruling, the Federal Reserve began a key meeting on interest rate policy Tuesday with both a new Trump administration appointee and an official the White House has targeted for removal.

Donald Trump has arrived in the United Kingdom, where he'll become the first U_S_ president to get a second state visit to the U_K_ As Trump left the White House on Tuesday, he noted that during his past state visit he was hosted at Buckingham Palace and this time he'll be at Windsor Castle, which he says people call “the ultimate.”.

The White House confirmed that Vice President JD Vance plans to visit Howell.

The Trump administration has added Colombia to a list of nations failing to cooperate in the drug war for the first time in nearly three decades.

The Senate has approved one of President Donald Trump’s top economic advisers for a seat on the Federal Reserve’s governing board, giving the White House greater influence over the central bank just two days before it is expected to vote in favor of reducing its key interest rate.

A deadline looming, Congress is charging toward a federal government shutdown.

China has launched two probes targeting the U.S. semiconductor sector ahead of trade talks in Spain.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is willing to risk a government shutdown at the end of the month if Republicans don’t accept Democratic demands on health care.

Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump, has been shot and killed at a Utah college event in an act that the state’s governor called a “political assassination.”.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wants to cancel a public land management rule that sought to put conservation on equal footing with industry.

A Senate committee is approving the nomination of White House economic adviser Stephen Miran to the Fed’s board of governors, setting up a likely approval by the full Senate, which would make Miran the third Trump appointee to the seven-member board.

President Donald Trump’s emergency order over Washington, D.

As Donald Trump prepared to return to the White House, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham encouraged him to send a message to drug cartels.

President Donald Trump's law enforcement surge in Washington, D.

U.S. and European officials have met at the U.S. Treasury Department to discuss economic pressure on Russia, including new sanctions and tariffs on Russian oil.

Democratic lawmakers on the House Intelligence Committee are asking questions about what led the Trump administration to revoke the security clearances of 37 current and former officials.

Law enforcement officials have removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital.

Some history teachers are concerned about what may come of a White House review of the Smithsonian's public-facing content.

A person with knowledge of the details says President Donald Trump will watch the U.S. Open men’s final from Rolex’s suite in Arthur Ashe Stadium.

The U.S. job market has gone from healthy to lethargic during President Donald Trump’s first seven months back in the White House.

President Donald Trump hosted a dinner Friday night for members of Congress in the newly paved White House Rose Garden, telling them they were the first gathering of what he dubbed the “Rose Garden Club.”.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday that would let the U.S. designate nations as state sponsors of wrongful detention, using the threat of associated sanctions to deter Americans from being detained abroad or taken hostage.

Justice Department prosecutors are dropping their federal case against a woman who was charged with threatening to kill President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump plans to attend the men's final of the U.S. Open on Sunday.

The U.S. is purchasing enough doses of a new twice-a-year HIV prevention shot to share with up to 2 million people in poor countries by 2028.

President Donald Trump has hosted tech executives at the White House, showcasing AI research and investments.

As Congress returns for a busy fall stretch, President Donald Trump is reaching into the affairs of the legislative branch, chiseling away at the separation of powers.

Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein's abuse have gathered on Capitol Hill to demand the release of the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness has secured a third term following a tight race on an island shaken by corruption, inequity and economic concerns.

A federal appeals court has ruled President Donald Trump cannot use an 18th-century wartime law to speed the deportations of people his administration accuses of membership in a Venezuelan gang.

President Donald Trump claims a video showing items being tossed from a White House window is fake and created with AI, though his press team earlier seemed to confirm the video's authenticity.

As Congress returns to Washington this fall after a monthlong August recess, it will have to find a way to work with Democrats or around them as a government shutdown looms.

African media have quizzed FIFA president Gianni Infantino if people from the continent will be safe and welcome in the United States at the 2026 World Cup.

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

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

President Donald Trump has fired one of two Democratic members of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board to break a 2-2 tie ahead of the board considering the largest railroad merger ever proposed.

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.

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.