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Donald Trump was back in Iowa to resume a fall push in the state that kicks off the Republican nomination calendar.

A federal judge blocked two portions of North Carolina’s new abortion law from taking effect while a lawsuit continues.

Lawyers at the Supreme Court have some occasionally eccentric rituals.

A new federal rule threatens to cut federal money to college programs that consistently leave graduates with low pay or unaffordable debt.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she won’t recuse herself from Donald Trump’s 2020 election interference case in Washington.

At least one Molotov cocktail has been thrown at the Cuban Embassy in Washington, but there was no significant damage and no one was injured.

Soon after Felix Llerena arrived in Miami in 2017, the Cuban activist was drawn to then-President Donald Trump by the Republican's aggressive approach toward Cuba’s communist government.

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy has taken a dig at former President Donald Trump.

When former President Donald Trump visits Detroit on Wednesday, he’ll be looking to blunt criticisms from a United Auto Workers union leadership that has said a second term for him would be a “disaster” for workers.

A former top U.S. ambassador has been sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay a $93,350 fine for improperly helping a wealthy Persian Gulf country influence U.S. policy and for not disclosing gifts he received from a disgraced political fundraiser.

After a federal judge rules that DACA is illegal, a San Antonio DACA recipient worried about what could happen to her legal protections.

Ex-President Bill Clinton is eulogizing former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as a groundbreaking Latino politician and unorthodox master diplomat who could coax good things out of dictators and despots.

The Biden administration has tapped former Commerce Secretary and major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker to coordinate U.S. efforts to channel private sector reconstruction assistance to Ukraine.

Texas is still the state with the highest percentage of uninsured residents, at nearly 17 percent, according to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau survey released Thursday.

A federal judge has declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

A federal judge has declared illegal a revised version of a federal policy that prevents the deportation of hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children.

The White House is working to stay above the fray on the historic impeachment proceedings launched ahead of the 2024 election by House Republicans.

Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist and primary architect of the 1963 March on Washington, who often worked tirelessly out of the limelight, takes center stage in the new Netflix drama “Rustin.”.

Hillary Clinton has joined Jill Biden at the White House to honor the recipients of a prestigious arts prize.

Lawyers for Donald Trump have asked the federal judge presiding over his election subversion case in Washington to recuse herself.

Former President Barack Obama congratulated Coco Gauff on her U.S. Open title, less than two weeks after attending her first comeback of the tournament.

Collaboration between art and government sometimes breeds conflict.

The White House Situation Room — a space of great mystique and even higher secrecy — just got a $50 million facelift.

President Joe Biden will nominate a former Obama administration official to lead the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been without a permanent leader for a year and a half.

Concern for U.S. democracy has prompted the entities supporting 13 presidential libraries dating back to Herbert Hoover to call for a recommitment to the country’s bedrock principles, including the rule of law and respecting diverse beliefs.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to make a rare public appearance at the White House since losing her 2016 bid for the presidency, attending an arts event next week with first lady Jill Biden.

Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie says Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis put “politics ahead of his job” by declining to meet with President Joe Biden during Biden's weekend visit to survey Hurricane Idalia’s damage in DeSantis’ state.

The Environmental Protection Agency is delaying plans to tighten air quality standards for smog despite a recommendation by a scientific advisory panel to lower air pollution limits to protect public health.

A new book about Joe Biden portrays the president as someone whose middle-class upbringing helped foster a resentment of intellectual elitism that shaped his political career and sometimes caused strain with his onetime boss, Harvard-educated Barack Obama.

The White House says President Joe Biden has nominated former Treasury secretary Jacob Lew to serve as the next U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office says he has no plans to meet with President Joe Biden when the Democrat flies to Florida this weekend to survey damage from Hurricane Idalia, suggesting that doing so could hinder disaster response because of the logistics involved.

Executives with one of the largest wind and solar energy development companies in the world are gathering with federal officials on the dusty plains of New Mexico to mark the groundbreaking of what will be the largest renewable energy infrastructure project in the United States.

More than 170 global leaders and Nobel laureates are urging Bangladesh to suspend legal proceedings against Muhammad Yunus, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for pioneering the use of microcredit to help impoverished people.

The Biden administration is proposing a new rule that would make 3.6 million more U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay, reviving an Obama-era policy effort that was ultimately scuttled in court.

Former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, were in the Arthur Ashe Stadium stands to watch Coco Gauff’s first-round victory at the U.S. Open.

The man who became known as “Joe the Plumber” during the 2008 U.S. presidential election has died.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden shook hands with middle schoolers on their way to lunch and dropped by an eighth grade math class Monday to welcome students back for the new school year.

Republican and independent support for gun restrictions is slipping a year after Congress passed the most comprehensive firearms safety legislation in decades with bipartisan support.

Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress.

The major freight railroads say a disagreement over whether they will be allowed to discipline some workers who use a government hotline to report safety concerns has kept them from following through on the promise they made back in March to join the program after a fiery Ohio derailment prompted calls for reforms.

The drowning death of former President Barack Obama’s personal chef near the family’s home on Martha’s Vineyard has been ruled an accident by the Massachusetts medical examiner.

The Biden administration has tightened offshore oil drilling safety regulations, including rules regarding the use of “blowout preventer” devices on offshore oil and gas drilling rigs.

President Joe Biden says former Obama administration attorney Ed Siskel is the new White House counsel.

The American presidency is vested with many overt powers, but one of the most important powers of the office is implicit, and that's the power of rhetoric.

Camp David is where U.S. presidents go to relax and escape Washington's prying eyes.

The illustrator of bestselling children’s books by former President Barack Obama, Madonna and poet Amanda Gorman has a six-figure deal with a Macmillan imprint for two of his own projects.

Clarence Avant, the manager, entrepreneur, facilitator and adviser who helped launch or guide the careers of Quincy Jones, Bill Withers and many others and came to be known as the "Black Godfather" of entertainment and beyond has died at 92.

A judge's order requiring “religious-liberty training” by a conservative Christian group is stirring debate among legal scholars.

Members of Ethiopia’s LGBTQ+ community say they face a wave of online harassment and physical attacks and blame much of it on the social media platform TikTok.

The federal judge overseeing the election conspiracy case against Donald Trump is warning that there are limits on what the former president can publicly say about the investigation as he campaigns for a second term in the White House.

President Joe Biden is raising money for his reelection campaign by offering donors the chance to meet himself and Barack Obama, meaning the former president will be entering the 2024 political fray earlier than he did during last year’s midterms or the last presidential election.

President Joe Biden says his policies of financial and tax incentives have revived U.S. manufacturing.

Thomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.

The federal judge assigned to the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump stands out as one of the toughest punishers of rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

Barraging the Obama administration with lawsuits, the Texas attorney general’s office wasn’t just trying to block policies. It was injecting disruptive, overtly Christian legal philosophies into the mainstream, and grooming a generation of conservative legal warriors.

A California college where President Barack Obama started his undergraduate studies will no longer give special treatment to the children of alumni.

President Joe Biden is staking his reelection bid on the political and financial muscle of the Democratic National Committee.

President Joe Biden has made some progress wooing his party’s left wing since taking office.

Congress will vote this week on legislation that will shape the agency responsible for safely managing the nation’s airspace and regulating its airlines.

After having just four official staffers on payroll last quarter, President Joe Biden’s 2024 reelection campaign has announced that former White House aide and congressman Cedric Richmond is joining as co-chair.

A Capitol riot suspect who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home has been indicted on federal firearms charges.

President Joe Biden and the Democratic National Committee raised more than $72 million for his reelection in the 10 weeks since he announced his 2024 candidacy.

A man charged in the Capitol riot who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home will remain in jail while he awaits trial.

Mexico’s president has vowed to continue campaigning against the opposition front-runner for the 2024 presidential elections, breaking a longstanding tradition of presidents staying out of the race to succeed them.

An actor best known for his roles on “CSI: NY” and “The Good Doctor” will run for Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat and challenge U.S. Rep. Elissa Slotkin for the Democratic nomination.

After major blows to his agenda by the Supreme Court, President Joe Biden is intent on making sure voters will have the final say.

With no end in sight to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO leaders are gathering in Lithuania this week for their annual summit at a time when the world's biggest security alliance is facing new tests of its unity.

At the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, the aging men known by their serial numbers arrived at the meeting shackled.

Federal prosecutors say former President Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was the home address of former President Barack Obama the same day a man with guns in his van was arrested near the property.

Millions of Americans will attend parades, fireworks, barbecues and other Independence Day events, celebrating the courage and sacrifices of the nation’s 18th century patriots who fought for the nation’s independence from England and what they considered an unjust government.

Through history, the Fourth of July has been a day for some presidents to declare their independence from the public.

Authorities say they found two guns, 400 rounds of ammunition as well as a machete in the van of a man arrested near former President Barack Obama’s Washington home on charges in the U.S. Capitol riot.

Two military chefs crowned champions on the Food Network's “Chopped” have been cooking up their specialties in the White House Navy Mess.

Georgia is offering a new bargain to some adults without health insurance beginning Saturday: Go to work or school and the state will cover you.

Law enforcement officials say a man who had explosives materials and weapons and was wanted for crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has been arrested in the Washington neighborhood where former President Barack Obama lives.

President Joe Biden closed out an end-of-quarter campaign blitz Thursday with a pair of Manhattan fundraisers hosted by Wall Street power brokers, a funding push designed to put Biden on strong financial footing for a 2024 White House contest expected to set spending records.

Federal judges in Kentucky and Tennessee on Wednesday blocked portions of bans on gender-affirming care for transgender youth, handing down the rulings shortly before the statutes were set to go into effect.

Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride says she’s running for the U.S. House of Representatives.

A judge's ruling that struck down Arkansas' first-in-the-nation ban on gender-affirming care for minors is offering hope to opponents of such laws.

In the nine years since becoming India's prime minister, Narendra Modi has never held a solo news conference and he often avoids reporters questions.

President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and a pragmatism about shared challenges.

President Joe Biden had just six words to offer after his 53-year-old son Hunter pleaded guilty to federal tax offenses in a deal that is also likely to spare him time behind bars on a weapons charge.

The United States and China may be back to talking at a high level, but their battle for global power and influence remains unchecked and mutual suspicion still runs deep.

Back in March 2021, Merrick Garland pledged on his first day as attorney general a return to what he calls the “norms” of the Justice Department.

President Joe Biden will speak at a summit in Connecticut to mark the first anniversary of a gun safety law signed after the Uvalde, Texas, school massacre.

The government can keep enforcing “Obamacare” requirements that say health insurance plans must cover preventative care, amid a legal battle over the mandates.

Vice President Kamala Harris saluted more than a thousand U.S. college athletes from championship teams who gathered Monday at the White House South Lawn.

As Donald Trump readies for a momentous court appearance Tuesday on charges related to the hoarding of top-secret documents, Republican allies are amplifying, without evidence, claims that he's the target of a political prosecution.

Attorneys have told a federal appeals court they are close to an agreement that could temporarily maintain government requirements for preventive health insurance coverage.

Congress will consider rolling back an Obama-era rule that requires airlines to show the total cost of a ticket when advertising fares.

The Federal Aviation Administration has another acting leader at the controls.

A federal appeals court in New Orleans is weighing whether to continue blocking enforcement of a judge's ruling limiting coverage requirements under former President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

The coming impeachment trial for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has a twist.

President Joe Biden is preparing to host the NCAA men's and women's championship teams at the White House.

Politics and sports go together like baseball and apple pie.

Mutual supporters of Sen. Tim Scott and former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley are in a conundrum now that the two South Carolina natives are both candidates for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is asking that a federal judge be disqualified from the First Amendment lawsuit filed by Disney against the Florida governor and his appointees.

Perhaps the most unlikely feature of high-stakes budget negotiations going on in Washington is a debate over permitting.

While the world awaits Ukraine’s spring offensive, its leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy has already launched a diplomatic one.

Holding this week’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, the site of the world’s first atomic bomb attack, is an attempt by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to promote an anti-nuclear message.