Does California’s race for governor finally have a leader.

The White House is laying out a new framework that it wants Congress to use to shape national rules for artificial intelligence.

More Democrats are openly running on faith, as progressive clergy and other religious candidates push back on the idea that Christianity belongs to the right.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over a Mississippi law that allows counting late-arriving mail ballots after Election Day.

Iran is making threats against tourist and recreational destinations worldwide, saying it will deny its enemies their security while insisting that it is still building missiles nearly three weeks into the war.

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv.

Oil prices stabilized and Wall Street futures fell early Friday as Israel and Iran traded attacks in the nearly three-week old war that has jolted global markets.

Israel hit the Iranian capital Tehran with airstrikes Friday, with activists reporting sounds of strikes around the city.

The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies.

Clergy groups in Minnesota are asking a federal judge to order ICE to allow in-person pastoral visits for immigrants held in a Minneapolis federal building.

Democrats running for governor across the country are making tariffs a central element of their political message this year.

A senior vice president of Super Micro Computer Inc. and two others affiliated with the company have been charged with conspiring to smuggle billions of dollars of computer servers containing advanced Nvidia chips to China.

The Senate debate over voting legislation is airing out differences on voter ID.

President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s diverging language on Israel’s decision to attack a critical Iranian gas field marks the most notable difference of opinion between the two leaders since the start of the war against Iran.

A federal arts commission has approved the design for a 24-karat gold commemorative coin bearing President Donald Trump's image to celebrate America's 250th birthday.

Cuba is preparing to receive its first shipment of Russian oil this year, just days after the government announced it was operating on natural gas, solar power and thermoelectric plants as severe power outages continue to hit an island whose power grid is crumbling.

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime personal attorney testifies to a House committee that he was unaware of the late financier’s sexual abuse of underage girls at the time it was happening.

The U.S. Education Department is handing off a portion of its student loan portfolio to the Treasury Department.

Two agents fired from the FBI last year say in a federal lawsuit they were terminated “solely” because of their participation in an investigation into President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

FIFA has fined the Israeli soccer federation for breaching anti-discrimination regulations but it took no action on a Palestinian request to suspend Israel from global soccer for allowing clubs based in West Bank settlements.

President Donald Trump has for months wanted to remove Jerome Powell as chair of the Federal Reserve.

Attorneys general in eight states, including California, New York and Illinois, and DirecTV are filing lawsuits seeking to block the merger of Nexstar Media Group and its rival Tegna.

The Trump administration is launching investigations into 13 states that require health insurance plans to cover abortion.

Proposals to prohibit federal immigration agents from wearing masks are gaining new life in states.

A new KFF survey shows many Americans who had Affordable Care Act marketplace health insurance last year are struggling with high health costs.

Markwayne Mullin has moved a step closer to becoming President Donald Trump’s next homeland security secretary.

President Donald Trump this week said he believes he’ll have “the honor of taking Cuba” soon.

A senior administration official says the Pentagon is seeking $200 billion in additional funds for the Iran war.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting food as medicine, but experts say he's overstating what diet can do for serious illness.

President Donald Trump says he knew oil prices would go up because of the Iran war as the conflict underscores the risks of his relentless focus on fossil fuels while pursuing what he calls American energy dominance.

A U.S. senator from Oklahoma who is poised to join President Donald Trump's cabinet says it was a serious brain injury to his son that drew him closer to the president.

President Donald Trump faces the most daunting question of the Iran war: Will he put U.S. troops on the ground to secure the enriched uranium Tehran could use for nuclear weapons.

A Chinese province has intensified a crackdown on fentanyl precursor trafficking, an issue that strained U.S.-China relations and prompted tariffs on imports from China.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has ordered the release of 250 prisoners as part of a deal with Washington to lift some U.S. sanctions, the latest step in the isolated leader’s effort to improve ties with the West.

EU leaders are accusing Hungary’s Viktor Orbán of blocking major aid to Ukraine to score points at home ahead of elections next month.

European Union leaders are meeting to tackle soaring oil and gas prices driven by the war in the Middle East.

Joe Kent’s resignation from President Donald Trump’s counterterrorism team is fueling a Republican fight over the Iran war and talk about Israel that critics call antisemitic.

European leaders have demanded the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and a moratorium on strikes on water and energy infrastructure in the Middle East as they met in Brussels to grapple with rising energy prices caused by the war.

Israel has pounded Tehran with airstrikes as Iranians mark Nowruz, or the Persian New Year.

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged the U.S. would “massively blow up the entirety” of the world’s largest gas field if Iran attacks Qatar again.

President Donald Trump’s pick as homeland security chief is signaling a gentler stance on disaster relief and promising to roll back some recent restrictions.

There appeared to be some tension as President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi answered questions from White House reporters about Japan’s support for the Iran war.

Oil prices jumped to market-shaking levels but then eased back late in the day, helping Wall Street to pare its losses.

The FBI is investigating whether Joe Kent, who resigned his position as a top counterterrorism official this week in protest of the Iran war, improperly shared classified information.

A former senior counterterrorism official who resigned over the Iran war says he and other national security officials with concerns about U.S. strikes on Iran were not allowed to express those concerns to President Donald Trump.

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is condemning special interest money that poured into the state ahead of this week’s primary, including from a pro-Israel political group that the billionaire and potential 2028 presidential contender once supported.

Democratic lawmakers have stormed out of a closed-door briefing on the Jeffrey Epstein files by Justice Department leaders, and say they will push to force Attorney General Pam Bondi to answer questions under oath about the case.

Lawmakers appear far from ending a funding lapse at the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. and Israel’s war with Iran has thrust the Strait of Hormuz into the crosshairs of yet another geopolitical conflict.

The U.S. national debt has hit a record $39 trillion.

Senator Rand Paul has made it clear he has little regard for President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Homeland Security, fellow Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin.

A Georgia effort to dump voting machines that Donald Trump hates may get derailed by fear of a chaotic last-minute shift in election methods.

A new study says the early U.S. COVID-19 death toll is much higher than official counts, and that there were disparities in which deaths were missing from those tallies.

Cuba’s president has lashed out after the latest threat from the Trump administration after President Donald Trump said he can do “whatever he wants” with the island.

The artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency industries have suffered a setback as they try to reshape the midterm elections and establish themselves as power players in American politics.

The State Department says it is adding 12 countries to an expanding list of nations whose citizens must post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for U.S. visas.

We’ve long had your back, now it’s our turn.

The Treasury Department is easing sanctions on Venezuela’s state oil company.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has left for the United States for what she expects to be a “very difficult” meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump was present as the remains of six U.S. service members returned from the Middle East to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware.

Macy’s is reporting stronger-than-expected profits from the crucial fourth-quarter and comparable sales are up again.

Markwayne Mullin says he'd be a steady hand at the Department of Homeland Security if he's confirmed as secretary.

Iran has broadened its strikes on major energy facilities in the Middle East, eliciting strong warnings from Gulf Arab states that called it a dangerous escalation that threatened to draw them into direct combat with Tehran.

About 90 ships including oil tankers have crossed the Strait of Hormuz since the beginning of the war with Iran.

U.S. stocks slumped after a report said inflation was primed to worsen even before the war with Iran sent oil prices spiking.

The U_S_ government’s top intelligence official has told lawmakers that Iran’s government “appears to be intact but largely degraded.”.

There’s a growing body of data showing the tariffs President Donald Trump said would help American factories are, in fact, squashing many of them.

Analysts say China is unlikely to help the U.S. reopen the Strait of Hormuz, and it is probably welcoming a delay in President Donald Trump’s Beijing trip.

The World Anti-Doping Agency has put off a decision about barring government officials from major sporting events if their countries voluntarily withhold dues.

Arizona has become the first state to file criminal charges against Kalshi, accusing the prediction market platform of operating an illegal gambling business within its borders.

Iranian authorities have confirmed the death of Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who was thought to be running the country since the beginning of the war.

The Federal Reserve kept its key interest rate unchanged Wednesday and Chair Jerome Powell highlighted the increasingly uncertain outlook for the U.S. economy and inflation in the wake of the Iran war, suggesting the Fed could stand pat for an extended period.

The Trump administration is expanding its growing Medicaid fraud crackdown to Florida.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work.

Just over a year ago, the Trump administration began an immigration enforcement campaign that swept up multiple people who had participated in pro-Palestinian activism on U.S. campuses.

The Iran war has rattled the global flow of oil, with steeper fuel costs already straining households worldwide.

Gregory Bovino, who became a face of the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration enforcement tactics in large cities, says he plans to retire from the U.S. Border Patrol in the coming weeks.

President Donald Trump says he plans to endorse a candidate in the Texas Republican Senate runoff to end the painful primary.

Attorney General Pam Bondi has been subpoenaed to answer questions from Congress about the Justice Department’s sex trafficking investigation of Jeffrey Epstein and the agency’s handling of millions of files related to the disgraced financier.

President Donald Trump says NATO and other allies have rejected his calls to help secure the Strait of Hormuz.

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts is warning that personal criticism of federal judges is dangerous and “it’s got to stop.”.

A military investigation has found that a “one in a million” malfunction during a live fire demonstration over Camp Pendleton last October led to a misfire that rained shrapnel on Interstate 5.

A federal judge has for now halted Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s biggest vaccine moves, disrupting his push to remake U.S. immunization policy.

Venezuela has won the World Baseball Classic for the first time, rebounding from a blown eighth-inning lead to beat the United States 3-2 on Eugenio Suárez’s tiebreaking double in the ninth.

The Iran war has scrambled the Federal Reserve’s outlook on inflation and unemployment and will likely further delay interest rate cuts this year, putting off any relief for consumers struggling with high borrowing costs for home and car purchases.

President Donald Trump is delaying a diplomatic trip to China that was planned for months but began to unravel as he pressured Beijing and other world powers to form a military coalition to protect the vital Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio are calling for new people in charge of Cuba as the socialist island experiences its third nationwide blackout in four months.

A man charged with planting pipe bombs near the U.S. Capitol on the eve of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot claims he's covered by President Donald Trump's blanket pardons.

President Donald Trump is pushing back against claims by the director of the National Counterterrorism Center about the motivations for the Iran war.

Israel says Ali Larijani, a top Iranian security official who was widely believed to be running the country after the killing of its supreme leader, was killed in an overnight strike.

Millions more Americans will likely donate to nonprofits as a result of changes to tax laws, but those changes will also likely reduce the overall amount of money given to charity.

Iran’s Embassy in Mexico has suggested the country is negotiating with FIFA to move Iran’s World Cup matches from the U.S. to Mexico after President Donald Trump discouraged the team from attending the tournament, citing safety concerns.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called Russia and Iran “brothers in hatred.”.

Republicans have launched an unprecedented effort to hold the Senate floor and talk for days about a bill that they know won’t pass — an attempt to capture public attention on legislation requiring stricter voter registration rules as President Donald Trump pressures Congress to act before November’s midterm elections.

The U.N. human rights office has expressed concerns about possible “ethnic cleansing,” warning of an acceleration of Israeli settlements and displacements of thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Israel killed two senior Iranian security officials in a major blow to the country’s leadership.

Oil prices resumed their rise because of the war with Iran, but U.S. stocks held steadier this time around.

The widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran is choking the Strait of Hormuz and sending energy and security shocks around the world.

Sen. Markwayne Mullin has a tough path as he moves toward leading the Department of Homeland Security, with immigration fights, disaster anger and Iran threats piling up.