Malaysian authorities have announced legal action against Elon Musk's social media platform X and its AI unit xAI.
President Donald Trump has arrived at a delicate moment as he weighs whether to order a U.S. military response against the Iranian government over its crackdown on protests.
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration acted illegally when it canceled $7.6 billion in clean energy grants for projects in states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok as concerns grow over its misuse in generating explicit images.
President Donald Trump gathered House Republicans this week at Washington’s Kennedy Center for a pep rally that kicked off the year.
President Donald Trump is calling on oil executives to rush to invest in Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in private funding to revive the country's ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.
Vice President JD Vance is blaming a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed.
President Donald Trump says he is directing the federal government to buy $200 billion in mortgage bonds, a move he said would help reduce mortgage rates at a time when Americans are worried about home prices.
The House has passed a bipartisan package of three spending bills that would fund parts of the federal government through September.
The top United Nations official says the United States has a “legal obligation” to keep paying its dues that fund U.N. agencies after the White House announced that it's withdrawing support from more than 30 initiatives operated by the world body.
A federal judge has directed the Trump administration to stop purging words it associates with diversity, equity and inclusion from Head Start grant applications and barred it from laying off any more federal employees in the federal Office of Head Start.
President Donald Trump says Venezuela will be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of oil to the U.S., and he pledges to use proceeds from the sale of this oil “to benefit the people” of both countries.
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, there is no official event to memorialize what happened.
On Saturday, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro was captured in an early-morning military raid. Maduro is currently in U.S. custody, but the future of Venezuela is uncertain.
Many state lawmakers responded to the U.S. strikes on Venezuela that resulted in the capture of the country's president. See what they had to say here.
President Donald Trump defended his energy and health in an interview with The Wall Street Journal and disclosed that he had a CT scan, not an MRI scan, during an October examination about which he and the White House delayed offering details.
The Trump administration faces a legal complaint from government employees over a new policy eliminating coverage for gender-affirming care in federal health insurance programs.
The Department of Justice has expanded its review of documents related to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to 5.2 million as it also expands the number of attorneys trying to comply with a law mandating their release.
The longest-serving White House chief usher says presidents before Donald Trump were interested in having a larger space for entertaining too.
The surge of federal officers this week in Minnesota follows new allegations of fraud by day care centers run by Somali residents.
The American Academy of Pediatrics sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, seeking to block nearly $12 million in cuts to the group.
Nineteen states and the District of Columbia have sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and its inspector general over a declaration that could complicate access to gender-affirming care for young people.
A coalition of 21 attorneys general from Democratic-led states has sued the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and its director, Russell Vought.
A transgender employee of the National Security Agency plans to sue the Trump administration and try to block enforcement of a presidential executive order and other policies the employee says violate federal civil rights law.
The Department of Justice has published thousands of its files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
The president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation says she trusts the Trump-appointed chairman of a federal planning commission to do his job and seriously review President Donald Trump's proposal to build a ballroom at the White House.
A YouTube content creator whose livestream talking about investments mysteriously appeared to take over a White House website says he has no idea how it happened.
Donald Trump's White House asked TV networks to grant him airtime for the first national address of his second presidency.
One of New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s appointees has resigned over social media posts she made more than a decade ago that featured antisemitic tropes.
Cannabis companies like Tilray Brands and Canopy Growth could soon face a more mellow path ahead following President Donald Trump’s move to help reclassify the drug’s status.
The “Warrior Dividend” that President Donald Trump announced Wednesday is not a Christmas bonus made possible by tariff revenues, as the president appeared to suggest during his televised address to the nation.
The Senate has moved quickly to close a loophole that could allow military aircraft to fly without broadcasting their locations, just like an Army helicopter was doing last January before it collided with an airliner over Washington, D.C., killing 67 people.
President Donald Trump has added partisan and subjective plaques to a refashioned West Wing walkway he calls the Presidential Walk of Fame.
A federal judge in Washington says he's inclined to deny a preservationist group's request to temporarily halt President Donald Trump's ballroom project.
The Trump administration has designated another Latin American drug cartel as a foreign terrorist group, increasing financial pressure on its members and opening the door to potential military action against them.
The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people.
The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.
Brian Jack is a first-term Republican congressman from Georgia, but he's become a key figure in the Oval Office.
The Treasury Department is targeting businesses used to send money abroad as President Donald Trump's administration ramps up investigations into fraud within Minnesota's Somali community.
The Trump administration argues that providing real-time American Sign Language interpretation for events like White House press briefings would intrude on the president’s control over his public image.
President Donald Trump has been sued by preservationists seeking an architecture review and congressional approval over his White House ballroom project.
Indiana’s Republican-led Senate has decisively rejected a redrawn congressional map that would have favored their party, defying months of pressure from President Donald Trump and delivering a stark setback to the White House ahead of next year’s midterm elections.
The House voted to repeal President Donald Trump's executive order from earlier this year that aimed to remove collective bargaining rights for hundreds of thousands of federal employees.
The Senate has rejected two partisan health bills on expiring Affordable Care Act subsidies, essentially guaranteeing that millions of Americans will see a steep rise in costs at the beginning of the year.
The Trump administration may have softened its language on China to maintain a truce in their trade war, but Congress is pushing for more restrictions on Beijing.
Sweeping taxes on imports have cost the average American household nearly $1,200 since Donald Trump returned to the White House this year, according to calculations by Democrats on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee.
President Donald Trump has announced the long-awaited launch of a "gold card" program offering legal status and a pathway to U.S. citizenship.
President Donald Trump says the U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela amid mounting tensions with the government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, announced her resignation as acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey.
President Donald Trump is giving farmers some $12 billion in aid to help as they struggle to sell their crops while getting hit by rising costs.
President Donald Trump's White House has established a hall of shame for journalists it finds guilty of media bias as it looks for new avenues of attack against legacy news outlets.
U.S. Southern Command says it has conducted another strike against a small boat in the eastern Pacific Ocean, following a pause of almost three weeks.
House Republicans plans to vote on a bill regulating college sports has been scrapped due to divisions within their caucus.
President Donald Trump will be taking center stage at the World Cup draw as he rolls out the welcome mat for teams and fans from around the globe.
President Donald Trump's decision to knock down the East Wing to build a big ballroom has significantly altered the visitor experience at the White House.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday he would push a new requirement that the Federal Reserve’s regional bank presidents live in their districts for at least three years before taking office, a move that could give the White House more power over the independent agency.
The Pentagon’s watchdog has found that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put U.S. personnel and their mission at risk when he used the Signal messaging app to convey sensitive information about a military strike against Houthi militants in Yemen.
President Donald Trump's tax legislation included a provision called "Trump Accounts," which gives $1,000 to every newborn if their parents open an account.
The White House and the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee have each lent support for a bill designed to regulate college sports that has been criticized by opponents as a giveaway to the NCAA and its most powerful schools.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is citing the “fog of war” in defending a follow-up strike on an alleged drug-carrying boat in the Caribbean Sea in early September.
Melania Trump has decorated the White House for the holidays, and her theme is “Home Is Where the Heart Is.”.
Donald Trump’s doctor says the president had MRI imaging on his heart and abdomen in October as part of a preventative screening for men his age.
Officials are slated to provide an update on Thursday at 9 a.m. on the shooting of two National Guard members near the White House.
Two West Virginia National Guard members who deployed to the nation’s capital have been shot just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence.
President Donald Trump brought insults and grievances to the traditional Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony at the White House.
Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging U.S. troops to defy “illegal orders” say the FBI has contacted them to begin scheduling interviews, signaling a possible inquiry into the matter.
The Trump administration plans to review all refugees admitted during the Biden years, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press.
The Associated Press and the Trump administration renewed their argument over a president’s ability to limit media access to journalists he disagrees with.
The race for California governor features former presidential wannabes, a county sheriff, two women who could become the first female to hold the office, current and former House members and at least one billionaire.
President Donald Trump says he's teaming up with legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to revamp the golf courses at Joint Base Andrews.
A federal judge on Thursday ordered a temporary end to President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital.
The daughter of a detained Chinese Christian pastor is urging U.S. lawmakers to help free her father at a time when President Donald Trump has vowed to “save our Great Christian population” worldwide.
France's government is taking action against Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, after it generated posts questioning the use of gas chambers at Auschwitz.
The U.S. Treasury Department plans to reclassify certain refundable tax credits as "federal public benefits," barring undocumented immigrants and some noncitizens from receiving them.
President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine, Keith Kellogg, has informed the White House he’ll leave his post in January.
Democrats on the House and Senate intelligence committees say the Trump administration is undermining the nation's spy services.
The Trump administration has threatened to withhold nearly $75 million in funding if Pennsylvania does not immediately revoke what the administration claims are illegally issued commercial driver’s licenses to immigrants.
