The president will attend a meeting and dinner hosted by MAGA, Inc. Friday evening at the Trump Winery

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has authorized direct negotiations with Lebanon aimed at disarming Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants and establishing relations between the neighbors.

The city of Minneapolis has released a video showing a chase and a scuffle that ended in a nonfatal shooting in January.

The Education Department says it has terminated agreements that previous administrations reached with five school districts and a college aimed at upholding rights and protections for transgender students.

Wisconsin voters will choose a new state Supreme Court justice on Tuesday in an election that will either maintain or expand the court’s liberal majority.

The Trump administration has taken a new tack in celebrating Easter.

Congo will receive some deportees from the U.S. as part of a new deal under the Trump administration’s third-country program.

The Trump administration said Friday it is rejoining two agencies that were split up in the aftermath of the 2010 Gulf oil spill.

On Friday, Attorney General Jay Jones announced that he has joined 20 other attorneys general in a lawsuit to challenge an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on March 31.

Homeland Security is pausing plans to buy new warehouses for immigrant detention as it reviews contracts signed under former secretary Kristi Noem.

Israel’s military says it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen toward Israel for the first time.

An appeals court has ruled that the U.S. can continue to detain immigrants without bond.

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it would allow gas stations to continue selling slightly cheaper E15 this summer in a move that may be good for drivers and corn growers but will likely contribute to air pollution.

Iran has dismissed an American plan to pause the war in the Middle East, issuing its own counterproposal instead, as it launched more attacks on Israel and Gulf Arab countries.

The U.S. military is preparing to deploy at least 1,000 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East in the coming days.

Award-winning journalist Bob Woodward has a new book that will explain how he came to write so many inside accounts from Washington.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has been designated a “priority target” by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as federal prosecutors in New York probe his alleged ties to drug traffickers, according to people familiar with the matter and records seen by The Associated Press.

Clergy will be allowed to minister to immigrants in a holding facility at the headquarters of the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in Minnesota.

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.

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown is expanding, but the public data that tracks it is drying up.

A group of four migrants deported from the United States have arrived in the African nation of Eswatini, under a third-country program that rights groups protest.

Several Virginia congressmembers are raising concerns about proposed legislation in the Virginia General Assembly that would change oversight of the Virginia Military Institute.

Through its social media feed, the White House has sent out a series of pumped-up videos that mix real Iran war explosions with movie action heroes, video game footage and sports heroes.

The Trump administration is criticizing lower court judges who have slowed its efforts to strip legal protections from a broad swath of migrants living in the U.S. It's asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for moves that could expose thousands more people to deportation.

A member of the National Transportation Safety Board says he has been fired without explanation by the Trump administration.

Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region.

Spain’s foreign minister has denied that the government has changed its position on supporting the U.S. military operations against Iran.

A widening U.S.-Israeli war with Iran has seen major strikes, missile fire across the region, and fresh fears for global energy and markets.

The Supreme Court seemed likely Monday to loosen a federal law that bars marijuana users from owning guns in a case that crossed typical political lines.

A federal court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s attempt to slow the process of refunding billions of dollars’ worth of tariffs the Supreme Court struck down as illegal last month.

The U.S. and Israel are pounding targets across Iran, dropping massive bombs on its ballistic missile sites and wiping out warships.

Ed Lynch, Roanoke political analyst and professor of political science at Hollins University, weighs in after strikes were carried out in Iran by the U.S. and Israel Saturday morning.

Early on Sunday, strikes were carried out in Iran by Israel and the U.S., as President Donald Trump has called on its citizens to “take over your government.”

A federal judge has extended his order protecting refugees in Minnesota who are lawfully in the U.S. from being arrested and deported.

President Trump is set to deliver remarks regarding the economy and his “Drill Baby Drill” agenda in Texas at 4:35 p.m. Friday. You can watch the remarks in their entirety here.

Gov. Tim Walz has denounced the Trump administration’s latest threat to withhold federal funds from Minnesota as another step in a “retribution” campaign.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic an ultimatum this week: Open its artificial intelligence technology for unrestricted military use by Friday, or risk losing its government contract.

The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to allow the government to end legal protections for migrants from Syria for now.

Governor Abigail Spanberger is set to give the Democratic Rebuttal to President Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night. There is no set time for her speech, but it is expected to begin shortly after Trump ends his speech Tuesday night. You can watch Gov. Spanberger’s response in its entirety here.

Roanoke College released a poll on Oct. 30 that asked likely Virginian voters multiple questions regarding their opinions on candidates and who they would vote for.

36.6 million Americans tuned in to hear President Trump lay out his agenda in 2025

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is proposing a rule that would limit public housing mostly to citizens, which advocates fear could lead to tens of thousand of people being evicted.

The Trump administration has backed Kalshi and Polymarket in a court fight over whether prediction markets constitute gambling.

The Trump family company wants to trademark the use of the president’s name on any airports but says it doesn’t plan on charging a fee — at least for a proposed renaming of one near his Florida home.

Lawyers say a new group of third-country nationals has been deported by the United States to Cameroon.

More than 1,000 immigration agents have left Minnesota’s Twin Cities area and hundreds more will depart in the days ahead as part of the Trump administration’s drawdown of its immigration enforcement surge.

The Trump administration announced this week that its immigration crackdown in Minnesota is ending.

The Trump administration is urging other nations to press a tiny Pacific island country to withdraw a United Nations draft resolution supporting strong action to prevent climate change, including reparations for damage caused by any nation that fails to take actiom.

New York politicians defiantly raised a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument amid a boisterous, cheering crowd.

Parents who owe a significant amount of child support soon could lose their ability to travel internationally as the Trump administration expands and steps up enforcement of a 30-year-old law that allows the federal government to revoke American passports until payments are made.

The Trump administration has significantly reduced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities over the past year.

The Pentagon says it will cut ties with Harvard University, ending military training, fellowships and certificate programs.

A federal judge says the Trump administration must bring back three deported families who should have been allowed to remain in the United States under a court settlement involving the separation of children from their parents at the border.

The highway handles an enormous volume of freight and passenger traffic. More than 12 million commercial trucks travel the interstate annually, moving over $300 billion in goods.

A hearing with Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent turned chaotic Wednesday as Democratic lawmakers clashed with him over fiscal policy and Trump family conflicts.

More prosecutors are leaving the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota during a time of continued turmoil over the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement in the state and recent shootings of civilians by federal agents.

Artists this awards season are having to decide whether and how to join the growing cultural revolt against the Trump administration's immigration crackdowns.

Protesters across the U.S. shut down schools and stores during a nationwide strike to oppose the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minneapolis.

The fatal shooting of Minneapolis man Alex Pretti by federal immigration officers has sparked calls for an independent investigation.

President Donald Trump approved an emergency declaration for Virginia on Saturday that would allow federal disaster assistance to Virginia “to supplement response efforts due to emergency conditions resulting from a severe winter storm beginning on January 22, 2026, and continuing."

The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colleges.

Doctors say immigrant patients are missing key medical appointments, afraid to come to medical clinics amid the Trump administration’s sweeping Minnesota immigration crackdown.

The Justice Department’s investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has brought heightened attention to a key drama that will play out at the central bank in the coming months: Will Powell leave the Fed when his term as chair ends, or will he take the unusual step of remaining a governor.

Providers, state health agencies and others are feeling whiplash and confusion after the Trump administration eliminated and then abruptly reinstated grants that support substance abuse and mental health programs nationwide.

Reproductive rights advocates have dropped a lawsuit against the Trump administration after officials agreed to restore millions in federal funding for family planning services.

The Trump administration says multiple Americans who were detained in Venezuela have been released.

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.

The state of Minnesota and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul are suing the federal government to stop an enforcement surge by Immigration and Customs Enforcement following the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman by an ICE officer.

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore nearly $12 million in funding to the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Some celebrities have donned anti-ICE pins at the Golden Globes ceremony in tribute to Renee Good, who was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis this week.

Earlier this month, American strikes were carried out on Venezuela’s capital that killed civilians and resulted in the capture of the country’s sitting president, Nicolás Maduro, as well as his wife.

New York’s attorney general has sued the Trump administration for halting two major offshore wind projects expected to power more than 1 million homes.

A federal judge is expected to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered legal protections for more than 10,000 relatives of citizens and green card holders.

Environmental experts warn that U.S. plans under President Donald Trump to restart and control Venezuelan oil exports could intensify pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and ecological damage in a country already burdened by decades of oil-related degradation.

The IRS will start accepting 2025 tax returns on Jan. 26, marking the official start of the 2026 tax filing season.

The U.S. has seized a Venezuela-linked oil tanker in the North Atlantic, backed by British support.

In a remarkable rebuke of Republican leadership, the House has passed legislation that would extend expired health care subsidies for those who get coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

The Trump administration’s crackdown on the $12 billion Child Care and Development Fund, which subsidizes care for 1.4 million children from low-income households, has rattled child care providers and families that rely on the aid money.

The Trump administration has finalized a plan to roll back regulations implementing a landmark environmental law that the White House says needlessly delays federal approvals for energy and infrastructure projects.

The Trump administration is nearly tripling the number of countries whose passport holders will be required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply to enter the United States.

After apparent months of planning, the U.S. strike that resulted in the arrest of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro unfolded swiftly over the weekend, with American forces converging on Caracas to arrest Maduro and his wife.

The Trump administration has added seven countries, including five in Africa, to the list of nations whose passport holders are required to post bonds of up to $15,000 to apply for visas to enter the United States.

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.

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.

Venezuelan migrants transferred to a prison in El Salvador by the U.S. government are demanding justice.

The Trump administration says it will begin garnishing the wages of student loan borrowers who are in default early next year.

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Trump administration must give legal due process to Venezuelan migrants flown to a notorious prison in El Salvador, either by providing court hearings or returning them to the U.S. Judge James Boasberg ordered the government to come up with a plan within two weeks.

The Trump administration is suing the local government of Washington, D.C., over its gun laws, alleging that restrictions on certain semiautomatic weapons run afoul of Second Amendment rights.

A judge has scolded Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime confidant Ghislaine Maxwell for including confidential victim names in court papers seeking to set aside her 2021 sex trafficking conviction and free her from a 20-year prison sentence.

The Portuguese suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings came to the U.S. through the diversity immigrant visa program.

A U.S. Army Reserve lawyer detailed as a federal immigration judge has been fired barely a month into the job after granting asylum at a high rate out of step with the Trump administration’s mass deportation goals.

The U.S. Senate passed landmark legislation Wednesday recognizing cancer-related firefighter deaths as line-of-duty fatalities, marking a significant victory for first responders and their families nationwide.

Federal regulators will allow tech companies to effectively plug massive data centers directly into power plants.

Democratic senators are criticizing the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission for pressuring broadcasters to take ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

The Trump administration says in a court filing that the president’s White House ballroom construction project must continue for reasons of national security.

Pro-democracy former Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai would devote himself to God and his family rather than political activism if he were released.

The Justice Department has asked an appeals court to block a contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador in March.

A bipartisan group in Congress is urging the Education Department to add nursing to a list of college programs that are considered “professional.”.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has linked the seizure of an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela to the Trump administration's counterdrug efforts.

A Brazilian woman with family ties to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will be released from immigrant detention while she fights potential deportation.