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WASHINGTON (AP) -- White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller says President Donald Trump is looking for ways to expand its legal power to deport migrants who are in the United States illegally. To achieve that, he says the administration is "actively looking at" suspending habeas corpus, the constitutional right for people to legally challenge their detention by the...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's ordering a halt to nearly two months of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen's Houthis, saying that the Iran-backed rebels have indicated that "they don't want to fight anymore" and have pledged to stop attacking ships along a vital maritime corridor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President JD Vance ended the Ohio State football team's visit to the White House on Monday by fumbling the team's national championship trophy.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump had an annual physical on Friday and concluded, "I did well," praising his own heart, soul and cognitive ability while noting medical reports from White House doctors may not be ready until the weekend.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump had his annual physical on Friday, a check-up that may give the public its first details in years about the health of a man who, in January, became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is undergoing his annual physical on Friday, potentially giving the public its first details in years about the health of a man who in January became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump is undergoing his annual physical on Friday, potentially giving the public its first details in years about the health of a man who in January became the oldest in U.S. history to be sworn in as president.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley, a Republican from Oregon, and Utah Republican Sen. Reed Smoot thought they had landed on a way to protect American farmers and manufacturers from foreign competition: tariffs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump promised tariffs that would raise U.S. import taxes high enough to mirror what other assess as trade penalties on American goods.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump invited Kid Rock into the Oval Office on Monday and signed an executive order that he says will help curb ticket scalping and bring "commonsense" changes to the way live events are priced.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was signing an executive order Monday that he says will help curb ticket scalping and bring "commonsense" changes to the way live entertainment events are priced.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The attempts by President Donald Trump and top leaders of his administration to downplay a security breach that revealed military strike plans in a Signal group chat including a journalist stand in stark contrast to their reaction to Hillary Clinton's use of a home server as secretary of state.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Second lady Usha Vance plans a trip to Greenland, the self-governing, mineral-rich territory of American ally Denmark that President Donald Trump has suggested the United States should take control over.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer says he won't resign his post, despite pressure from some in his party after he voted to move forward with a Republican spending bill that avoided a government shutdown.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump is attending the NCAA wrestling championships for the second time in three years, the latest example of how he has mostly limited travel early in his new term to trips built around sports events.
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump plans to attend the NCAA wrestling championships for the second time in three years, the latest example of how he has mostly limited travel early in his new term to trips built around sports events.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump, who said Tuesday he was buying a Tesla to show loyalty to company CEO Elon Musk, has had plenty to say about electric vehicles over the years. Most of it is not good.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- They start the day often as low-profile Cabinet secretaries. They end it that way, too, God willing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump 's firing of the nation's senior military officer and a wave of dismissals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren't unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending President Donald Trump 's firing of the nation's senior military officer and a wave of dismals at the Pentagon, insisting that they weren't unusual despite accusations that the new administration is injecting politics into the military.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump's fifth week in office included a dramatic shift in U.S. policy toward Russia, firing the country's senior military officer, sitting for a chummy interview alongside bureaucracy-buster Elon Musk and seeking greater authority over independent regulatory agencies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's been a burning political question for weeks: How long will President Donald Trump -- who doesn't like sharing the spotlight -- be able to do just that with Elon Musk, a billionaire also overly fond of attention?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's been a burning political question for weeks: How long will President Donald Trump -- who doesn't like sharing the spotlight -- be able to do just that with Elon Musk, a billionaire also overly fond of attention?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump greeted Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the White House with a bear hug on Thursday and called him "a great friend of mine," but nonetheless warned that India won't be spared from higher tariffs he's begun imposing on U.S. trade partners around the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump met Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and vowed to bring "fairness and reciprocity" to their countries' economic relationship, which he said would involve reducing U.S. trade deficits and likely raising tariffs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is meeting Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him in hopes of avoiding the additional tariffs that the new administration has slapped on other countries in its opening weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is meeting Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him in hopes of avoiding the additional tariffs that the new administration has slapped on other countries in its opening weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is meeting Thursday with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has heaped praise on him and is hoping to avoid tariffs that the new administration has slapped on other countries in its opening weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Top Trump administration voices on Wednesday contradicted some of the comments the president made a day earlier about the U.S. taking long-term control of war-shattered Gaza, the possibility of sending in American troops and the area's residents being permanently resettled.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the "worst criminal aliens" to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed the Laken Riley Act into law, giving federal authorities broader power to deport immigrants in the U.S. illegally who have been accused of crimes. He also announced at the ceremony that his administration planned to send the "worst criminal aliens" to a detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the signing of the Laken Riley Act, President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States and cannot be deported to their home countries.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United States.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Wednesday will sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation. It mandates the detention and potential deportation of people in the U.S. illegally who are accused of theft and violent crimes before they've actually been convicted.
DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with those countries' governments and left a key congressional ally in Washington perplexed on Sunday.
DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's push to have Egypt and Jordan take in large numbers of Palestinian refugees from besieged Gaza fell flat with the Amman government and perplexed a congressional ally. Trump nonetheless planned to discuss the idea more on Sunday with Egypt's leader.
DORAL, Fla. (AP) -- A key ally of President Donald Trump said the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. Capitol in 2021 is "sending the wrong signal" and expressed concern about the future ramifications of issuing sweeping clemencies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump took office eight years ago, pledging to "drain the swamp" and end the domination of Washington influence peddlers.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The new Department of Government Efficiency, President Donald Trump 's special commission tasked with slashing federal spending, has formally joined the government whose size it is supposed to help shrink.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is spending the eve of his inauguration in a series of Washington events that celebrate his return to power and his "Make America Great Again" movement as he prepares to move back into the White House at a time of deep national political divisions.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal task force aiming to fix the mishandling of classified documents that it says has plagued outgoing presidential administrations for decades is recommending better guidance and training on such materials.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an announcement postponed by the Los Angeles wildfires, President Joe Biden on Tuesday designated two sites in California as national monuments that will honor Native American tribes while shielding picturesque mountains and deserts from mining and energy development.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden is about to have a lot more free time. He need look no further than past presidents for ideas on what to put on his retirement to-do list.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump is promising to replace the head of the National Archives, thrusting the agency back into the political spotlight after his mishandling of sensitive documents led to a federal indictment.
President Joe Biden is decrying what he calls an "unrelenting effort" to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the 2020 election -- seeking to contrast that day's chaos with what he promises will be an orderly transition returning Trump to power for a second term.
President Joe Biden is decrying what he calls an "unrelenting effort" to downplay a mob of Donald Trump supporters overrunning the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to block certification of the 2020 election -- seeking to contrast that day's chaos with what he promises will be an orderly transition returning Trump to power for a second term.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- Mark Burnett, the power producer who helped reintroduce Donald Trump to a national television audience with "The Apprentice," is being tapped by the president-elect as special envoy to the United Kingdom in his upcoming administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House on Thursday announced what it called the first-ever national strategy to counter Islamophobia, detailing more than 100 steps federal officials can take to curb hate, violence, bias and discrimination against Muslims and Arab Americans.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- President Joe Biden's long-delayed trip to Africa had many of the hallmarks of a traditional state visit: There was a 12-shot cannon salute. A series of warm handshakes with Angolan President Joao Lourenco. Celebratory music. Photo opportunities.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- President Joe Biden on his visit to sub-Saharan Africa pledged another $600 million for a cross-continent rail corridor project Wednesday, telling regional leaders that "Africa has been left behind for much too long. But not anymore. Africa is the future."
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Even in the waning days of his presidency and thousands of miles from home, U.S. President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Even in the waning days of his presidency and thousands of miles from home, U.S. President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Even in the waning days of his presidency and thousands of miles from home, U.S. President Joe Biden is finding ways to celebrate trains.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Joe Biden on Tuesday was using the first visit to Angola by a U.S. president to promote Washington's investments in the sub-Saharan African nation and see a slavery museum, where he'll acknowledge the trafficking of humans that once linked the nations' economies.
LUANDA, Angola (AP) -- Joe Biden is using the first visit to Angola by a U.S. president to promote Washington's hefty modern investments in the sub-Saharan Africa nation and to see a slavery museum where he'll acknowledge how the trafficking of human beings once linked the two nations' economies.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump 's team still hasn't signed agreements that are required to formally begin the transition process to the White House -- meaning the government can't provide security clearances and briefings to incoming administration officials and the FBI can't screen his rush of picks for the Cabinet and other key posts.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump has tapped former acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker as U.S. ambassador to NATO -- set to make him the nation's representative to a bedrock Western alliance that the president-elect has repeatedly relished criticizing.