The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s first judicial pick of his second term, voting along party lines to approve Whitney Hermandorfer as a judge for the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mystery novelist Martin Cruz Smith, known for such Arkady Renko thrillers as “Gorky Park,” has died at age 82.

Sesame Workshop has regained control of Elmo's X account after a hacker posted racist and antisemitic messages.

Democratic President Joe Biden handed out subsidies to chipmakers and electric vehicle manufacturers.

Many Native Americans are marking ceremonies like graduations with bald eagle feathers, a form of reverence for the bird they have always held sacred as a messenger to the Creator.

The federal government has dismissed charges against a Utah plastic surgeon accused of throwing away COVID-19 vaccines worth thousands of dollars during the pandemic.

One year after Donald Trump's near-assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, friends and allies see some signs of a changed man.

Younger Democratic candidates across the country are running to replace party elders.

A “click-to-cancel” rule, which would have made it easier for consumers to end unwanted subscriptions, has been blocked by a federal appeals court days before it was set to go into effect.

A Gallup poll shows a substantial jump in the share of Americans who view immigration as positive for the U.S. since President Donald Trump took office.

President Donald Trump toured the devastation from catastrophic flooding in Texas and lauded local officials amid mounting criticism that they failed to warn residents quickly enough that a deadly wall of water was coming their way.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio says there are “areas of potential cooperation” between Washington and Beijing.

A federal appeals court has overturned a self-styled right-wing propagandist’s conviction for spreading falsehoods on social media in an effort to suppress Democratic turnout in the 2016 presidential election.

President Joe Biden’s White House physician is refusing to answer questions as part of the House Republican investigation into Biden’s health in office.

The Trump administration is dropping plans to allow continued use of the last type of asbestos legally allowed in U.S. manufacturing after an outcry from asbestos opponents.

A Minnesota state senator who was shot nine times during an attack in June has been moved to a rehabilitation facility.

California Governor Gavin Newsom has launched a two-day tour in South Carolina, urging rural voters to stand up to President Donald Trump and challenge Republicans in the 2026 midterms.

Former President Joe Biden's physician has requested to delay his testimony to the House oversight committee.

President Donald Trump and other Republicans have long criticized states that take weeks to count their ballots after Election Day.

Donald Trump has made tax cuts a central part of his political legacy.

President Donald Trump has signed his signature bill of tax and spending cuts at the White House Fourth of July picnic.

Fireworks are a cornerstone of America's Fourth of July celebrations, but that can make the spirited holiday dangerous.

President Donald Trump says he didn’t know that the term “shylock” is considered antisemitic when he used it in a speech to describe unscrupulous moneylenders.

The Supreme Court is clearing the way for the deportation of several immigrants who were put on a flight in May bound for South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties.

Congressional passage of a massive bill cuts billions of dollars in spending across many areas including clean energy.

The House has passed the massive tax and spending cuts package that President Donald Trump calls “beautiful,” getting it to his desk a day before the July 4 deadline that he had set.

President Donald Trump has signed his tax and spending bill into law after Republicans muscled it through Congress.

House Republicans have lifted President Donald Trump’s $4.5 trillion tax breaks and spending cuts bill to final passage.

A man charged with killing former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband on June 14 says he's looking forward to the facts coming out.

President Donald Trump has a new political foil: New York’s Democratic nominee for mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

President Donald Trump announced a trade deal with Vietnam Wednesday that would allow U.S. goods to enter the country duty-free.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to remove three Democratic members of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, who were fired by President Donald Trump and then reinstated by a federal judge.

Civil and voting rights activists gathered in Jackson, Mississippi, to honor what would have been the 100th birthday of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.

A former FBI agent who was charged with joining a mob’s attack on the U_S_ Capitol and cheering on rioters is now working as an adviser to the Justice Department official overseeing its “weaponization working group.”.

Arizona's top Democrats will bypass the state Democratic Party for next year’s midterms.

At some 887 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

The sprawling Republican budget bill approved by the Senate Tuesday removes a proposed tax on solar and wind energy projects but quickly phases out tax credits for wind, solar and other renewable energy.

A news report says hackers supporting Iran have threatened to release emails supposedly stolen from people connected to President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has instructed his top Cabinet officers to review U.S. policy toward Cuba, ordering them to examine current sanctions and come up with ways to toughen them within 30 days.

At some 940 pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

A Republican plan heading to a vote in the Senate would quickly end incentives for clean energy and impose new taxes on some wind and solar projects, while boosting production of coal used to make steel.

No state may have more to lose than Georgia as Republicans in Congress look to gut federal subsidies that aid both the solar and electric vehicle industries.

Republican U.S. Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska has announced he will not seek reelection next year.

A poll shows only 36% of Democrats say they’re “extremely” or “very” proud to be American, reflecting a dramatic decline in national pride that's also clear among young people.

Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States.

At some 940-pages, the legislation is a sprawling collection of tax breaks, spending cuts and other Republican priorities, including new money for national defense and deportations.

Former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman has been honored at a funeral where former President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris attended.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced the USNS Harvey Milk will be renamed after a World War II sailor who received the Medal of Honor.

A lawyer says the Supreme Court's ruling that Maryland parents who have religious objections can pull their children from public school lessons using LGBTQ storybooks is a historic victory for parental rights.

The Supreme Court has upheld the fee added to phone bills to provide billions of dollars a year in subsidized phone and internet services in schools, libraries and rural areas.

Former President Joe Biden joined thousands of mourners as former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman lay in state at the Minnesota Capitol rotunda.

School districts around the country are cutting back plans to expand their staffing of mental health specialists because of Trump administration cuts to federal grants.

Democratic Sen. John Fetterman of Pennsylvania isn’t even up for reelection until 2028, but already a one-time primary foe, Conor Lamb, is crisscrossing Pennsylvania looking and sounding like he’s preparing to challenge Fetterman again.

A few Republicans are reacting with indignation after the Senate parliamentarian advised that some of the measures in their tax and immigration bill could not be included in the legislation.

House Republicans have subpoenaed a senior aide to former first lady Jill Biden.

New disclosures with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that President Donald Trump will control the so-called “golden share” that’s part of the national security agreement under which he allowed Japan-based Nippon Steel to buy out iconic American steelmaker U.S. Steel.

A new chapter in U.S.-Iran relations is about to be written, whether for the better or the even worse.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has formally approved plans to establish a new international court to prosecute senior Russian officials for the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

A federal judge has partially granted a preliminary injunction that sought to release funds for the build out of electric vehicle chargers in more than a dozen states.

President Donald Trump says “NO ONE GOES ON VACATION” until the big, beautiful bill is on his desk by the Fourth of July deadline.

The U.S. House has voted overwhelmingly to set aside an effort to impeach President Donald Trump over the military strikes in Iran.

New York City has closed the arrival center for migrants it had established in a once grand Manhattan hotel.

President Donald Trump's administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for a deportation flight of several immigrants to South Sudan, a war-ravaged country where they have no ties.

The new immigration detention center at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades that President Donald Trump visited was heralded by Republicans as a potential model for other states to aggressively ramp up detention and deportation efforts.

There's a new top Democrat on the influential House Oversight Committee.

President Donald Trump wants a tidy end to the war between Israel and Iran.

President Donald Trump's decision to take military action in Iran has reignited debate over the War Powers Act.

President Donald Trump took office in January pledging to “make America the crypto capital of the world” and has since harnessed wide swaths of the federal government to bolster the industry.

President Donald Trump is in Europe for a two-day NATO summit laden with uncertainty over Iran’s response to U.S. airstrikes, the fate of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the future of U.S. troops based in NATO countries.

A new poll shows Americans’ support for green energy tax credits and renewable energies like wind and solar power has decreased in recent years, driven by a softening in support from Democrats and independents.

President Donald Trump’s decision to strike three nuclear sites in Iran could deepen a divide among some of the Republican’s supporters.

Democrats seem to be at odds once more when it comes to the Mideast.

House and Senate Republicans are taking different approaches when it comes to the tax cuts that lawmakers are looking to include in their massive tax bill.

President Donald Trump is calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate the 2020 election won by Democrat Joe Biden, repeating his baseless claim the contest was marred by widespread fraud.

President Donald Trump honored Juneteenth in each of his first four years as president, before it became a federal holiday.

Celebrations are being held around the country to commemorate the Juneteenth holiday marking the day in 1865 when Union soldiers brought the news of freedom to enslaved Black people in Texas.

Democrats have spent the early months of Donald Trump's second presidency trying to find the right messages and messengers to counter an aggressive administration.

President Donald Trump says he plans to tap Chad Meredith, a former state solicitor general in Kentucky, for a federal judgeship in the state.

Republican senators are looking into former President Joe Biden's ability to serve in office.

Nippon Steel and U.S. Steel say they've finalized their “historic partnership,” a year-and-a-half after the Japanese company first proposed its deal to buy the iconic American steelmaker for nearly $15 billion.

Former President Joe Biden will be attending a Juneteenth celebration at a historic African Methodist Episcopal church in Galveston, Texas.

The Supreme Court has upheld Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for transgender minors, a jolting setback to transgender rights.

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from limiting passport sex markers for many transgender and nonbinary Americans.

There's a split among President Donald Trump and some of his most devout MAGA supporters as Trump weighs how the U.S. should proceed in the conflict between Israel and Iran.

A proposal by Senate Republicans would adjust the pace at which some crucial home energy efficiency and electric vehicle tax credits are phased out in timelines different from what House Republicans proposed in the multitrillion-dollar tax bill they passed last month.

While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal nations in Oklahoma continued to own slaves until the following year, 1866.

President Donald Trump has dismissed the assessment of U.S. spy agencies that Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon before the latest conflict with Israel.

Nine days after he helped defend the U.S. Capitol from a mob of Trump supporters, Metropolitan Police Officer Jeffrey Smith shot and killed himself while driving to work.

President Donald Trump has fired a Democratic commissioner for the federal agency that oversees nuclear safety as he continues to assert more control over independent regulatory agencies.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer has alleged in a federal lawsuit that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.

Private prison operators are marketing their shuttered lockups to federal immigration officials as President Donald Trump pushes for mass deportations, with some facilities nabbing lucrative no-bid contracts.

No-bid contracts with politically connected companies have become crucial to the Republican Trump administration’s push for more space to hold immigrants for deportation.

It was 160 years ago that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned they had been freed — after Civil War's end and two years after President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.

President Donald Trump vetoed a plan presented to the U.S. in recent days to kill Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to a U.S. official familiar with the matter.

The Trump administration's Justice Department has begun targeting Democratic and presidential swing states with demands for election data or changes to voter registration procedures.

The grand military parade that President Donald Trump wanted for eight years has barreled down Constitution Avenue in Washington with tanks, troops and a 21-gun salute.

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order paving the way for a Nippon Steel investment in U.S. Steel, so long as the Japanese company complies with a “national security agreement” submitted by the federal government.

A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against President Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

A political consultant who sent robocalls that used artificial intelligence to mimic former President Joe Biden has been acquitted of 22 criminal charges in New Hampshire.

President Donald Trump has already eroded many of the U.S.’s democratic safeguards and traditions in the initial months of his second term.