By KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and JON GAMBRELL WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send the world's largest aircraft carrier to the Middle East to support another carrier already stationed there, a person familiar with the plans said Friday, bolstering U.S. mi...
By MATTHEW DALY, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive mov...
By MARY CLARE JALONICK and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security appeared certain Thursday as lawmakers in the House and Senate were set to leave Washington for a 10-day break and negotiations w...
By FATIMA HUSSEIN, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security, as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information on immigrants fo...
By STEVEN SLOAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump attacked the Republican leader of the National Association of Governors on Wednesday as tensions between the White House and the bipartisan group of state leaders escalated in vie...
By PETER SMITH, Associated Press A member of the federal Religious Liberty Commission has been ousted after a hearing this week that featured tense exchanges on the definition of antisemitism. The ousted member, Carrie Prejean Boller, had defended prominent...
By MICHAEL HILL and LARRY NEUMEISTER ALBANY, N.Y., U.S.A. (AP) — A lawyer appointed by judges to be the federal prosecutor for the northern state of New York was immediately dismissed by the Department of Justice in the most recent clash between President D...
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — The wife of Noam Chomsky is acknowledging “serious errors in judgment” in the wake of new revelations about the couple’s ties to the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Valeria Chomsky also says she and her husband never wi...
By KEVIN FREKING, MARY CLARE JALONICK and SEUNG MIN KIM WASHINGTON (AP) — A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags a...
By ANNE D’INNOCENZIO, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the five-week-old immigration c...
By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — An investigative jury in Washington refused on Tuesday to formally charge a group of Democratic legislators with a video in which they called on members of the U.S. Army to ignore “illegal orders,” a...
By HANNAH FINGERHUT DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s top election official and a group of naturalized citizens reached a settlement Wednesday in a federal lawsuit that will prevent the state from relying solely on driver’s license records to determine citizen...
The Pentagon allowed CBP to use anti-drone lasers before the FAA closed El Paso's airspace, AP sources say.
By DAVE COLLINS Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while ...
By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the obj...
By JULIET LINDERMAN and CLAIRE GALOFARO, Associated Press The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family....
By MATTHEW BROWN, Associated Press President Donald Trump has nominated for director of the National Park Service an executive from a hospitality company that holds extensive contracts with the agency he would lead. The nomination of Scott Socha late Wednes...
By SAM METZ and NATALIE MELZER RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Israeli government on Thursday asked a court to revoke the citizenship of two men convicted of terrorism offenses, in what appeared to be the first test of a law that would allow the deportation ...
By JENNIFER PELTZ NEW YORK (AP) — New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag Thursday at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd, rebuking the Trump administration for removing the well-known symbol of pride from the LGBT...
By CHRISTOPHER WEBER LOS ANGELES (AP) — An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in Southern California last year, and the father of three U.S. Marines is now on a path toward legal permanent residency in...
By MATT BROWN WASHINGTON (AP) — The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by Black lawmakers. Related Articles Puerto Rico g...
By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JOEY CAPPELLETTI, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge agreed Thursday to block the Pentagon from punishing Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, a former Navy pilot, for participating in a video that called on troops to resist ...
By JON GAMBRELL DUBÁI, UAE (AP) — The number of deaths due to the repression of last month’s protests in Iran reached at least 7,002 people, and there are fears that many more have lost their lives, activists said on Thursday. The slow increase in the numbe...
The world’s largest aircraft carrier has been ordered to sail from the Caribbean Sea to the Middle East, a person familiar with the plans said Thursday, as U.S. President Donald Trump considers whether to take possible military action against Iran.
President Donald Trump has reversed a key Obama-era scientific ruling that underpins all federal actions on curbing planet-warming gases.
Senate Democrats voted Thursday to block a motion to advance a House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, putting Washington on the brink of a partial government shutdown that will affect more than 260,000 federal employees.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service improperly disclosed the confidential tax information of thousands of people to federal immigration enforcement authorities, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the situation.
President Trump lashed out at Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) in a Truth Social post on Wednesday, calling him a “RINO” after the National Governors Association (NGA) announced it would not hold its annual meeting at the White House.
Carrie Prejean Boller has been removed from the White House Religious Liberty Commission after Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), who chairs the body, accused her of trying to “hijack” a hearing on antisemitism this week.
Federal judges in upstate New York appointed a new U.S. attorney on Wednesday only to see him abruptly fired by the White House, in the latest clash between the Trump administration and the judiciary.
Valeria Chomsky says she and her husband Noam Chomsky made serious errors in judgment in their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
A disruption in reimbursements to states for disaster relief costs. Delays in cybersecurity response and training. And missed paychecks for the agents who screen passengers and bags at the nation’s airports, which could lead to unscheduled absences and long...
Activists planned protests at more than two dozen Target stores around the United States on Wednesday to pressure the discount retailer into taking a public stand against the 5-week-old immigration crackdown in its home state of Minnesota.
A federal grand jury in D.C. refused the Justice Department’s attempts to indict six Democratic lawmakers over their comments to military service members — the latest rebuke of the Trump administration’s push to prosecute the president’s foes, according to ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa’s top election official and a group of naturalized citizens settled a federal lawsuit Wednesday that will prevent the state from…
The Pentagon allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to use an anti-drone laser earlier this week, leading the Federal Aviation Administration to suddenly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the sit...
Yale University says a prominent computer science professor will not teach classes while it reviews his conduct, after newly released documents show he sent Jeffrey Epstein an email describing an undergraduate as a good-looking blonde while recommending her...
The House on Wednesday passed a resolution disapproving of President Donald Trump’s tariffs against Canada, a blow to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and a rare Republican rebuke of the president’s signature economic policy.
The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of a U.S. government decision to reunite her with her Afghan family. The decision likely ends a bitter, yearslong legal battle...
President Trump is nominating a food service and hospitality executive to lead the National Park Service (NPS). Trump’s pick to lead the U.S.’s national parks, Scott Socha, is Delaware North’s president of parks and resorts, as well as president of Delaware...
Israel is seeking to revoke the citizenship of at least two men convicted of terrorism offenses, marking what appears to be the first test of a 2023 law allowing...
In defiance of a Trump administration edict, New York City officials and activists raised the rainbow Pride flag again on Feb. 12 at the Stonewall National Monument, the birthplace of the LGBTQ+ rights movement, after it was removed over the weekend by the ...
An immigration judge has dismissed the deportation case against a landscaper who was arrested in Southern California last year, and the father of three U.S. Marines is now on a path toward legal permanent residency in the U.S.
The press gallery overlooking the U.S. House chamber has been renamed after the abolitionist, writer and presidential adviser Frederick Douglass in a bipartisan move brokered by Black lawmakers.
A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Pentagon’s efforts to censure Sen. Mark Kelly and lower his retirement rank in the wake of a video in which the Arizona senator and other Democrats called on service members to reject unlawful orders.
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