A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.

Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson is running for governor in 2026 and sharing new anecdotes in her upcoming political memoir, “The Purposeful Warrior,” including her experience with miscarriage.

Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.

German lawmakers are set to vote Tuesday on whether conservative leader Friedrich Merz will become the country’s 10th chancellor since World War II.

Asian shares are mostly higher after stocks closed lower on Wall Street, breaking a nine-day winning streak.

A judge has ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months.

Among all U.S. allies being wooed by Beijing in its tariff stare-down with Washington, Japan stands out as a peculiar case.

The premier of Alberta says she will hold a referendum next year on the energy rich province separating from Canada if citizens gather the required number of signatures on a petition.

An attorney in the $2.8 billion legal case reshaping college sports says he thinks an updated agreement with the NCAA will solve the judge’s concerns over roster limits that have delayed the settlement’s approval.

The Trump administration on Monday asked a judge to toss out a lawsuit from three GOP-led states seeking to cut off telehealth access to abortion medication mifepristone.

Ford Motor Co. says it expects to take a $1.5 billion hit to its operating profit from tariffs this year and is withdrawing its full-year financial guidance due to the uncertainty created by the Trump administration’s evolving trade policy.

Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.

A longtime editorial cartoonist for The Washington Post who quit in protest after editors killed her sketch of the newspaper’s owner and other media executives bowing before President Donald Trump, has won the Pulitzer Prize for illustrated reporting and commentary.

A prominent Washington attorney has sued the Trump administration over the revocation of his security clearance, calling it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardizes his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases.

President Donald Trump is threatening to levy all films made outside the U.S. at a steep rate of 100%.

Mattel Inc. says it will have to raise prices for some products sold in the U.S. “where necessary” to offset higher costs related to President Donald Trump’s tariffs.

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts, which provides hundreds of millions of dollars each year to individuals and institutions around the country.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is directing the active duty military to shed 20% of its four-star general officers.

Israel’s Cabinet has decided to seize Gaza for an unspecified amount of time.

President Donald Trump on Monday promoted a dinner he’s set to attend later this month that’s open to almost anyone who buys enough of his meme coin.

The New York Times won four Pulitzer Prizes and The New Yorker three for journalism in 2024.

A U.S. official says Congo and Rwanda have submitted a draft peace proposal as part of a U.S.-led process that could end fighting in resource-rich eastern Congo.

Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio says he met President Donald Trump over the weekend in Florida.

The president of the nation’s largest union for federal workers says the organization’s ongoing staff downsizing will devastate the services it provides members and threatens the group’s survival.

Flight delays and cancellations are causing more chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport outside New York City.

Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz into a federal prison again.

Former Maine Gov. Paul LePage, an early supporter of President Donald Trump’s first successful White House bid and a polarizing figure in state politics, says he is running for Congress in a competitive district.

President Donald Trump’s administration says it’s going to pay $1,000 to immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally and return to their home country voluntarily as it pushes forward with its mass deportation agenda.

Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species — and whether industry had a hand in drafting it.

The shoe company Skechers is being acquired for $9 billion and taken private by the investment firm by 3G Capital, the companies said Monday.

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people.

The Trump administration says it will pay immigrants in the United States illegally $1,000 plus travel costs if they leave voluntarily as it accelerates its mass deportation agenda.

Billionaire Warren Buffett will remain chairman of Berkshire Hathaway after Greg Abel takes over as CEO at the start of the new year.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is among many Democrats looking to find the right path to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans after the GOP won the White House and congressional majorities in 2024.

The European Union is launching a drive to attract scientists and researchers with offers of grants and new policy plans.

George Simion, a nationalist and vocal supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump, has won Romania’s first-round presidential election after capitalizing on widespread anti-establishment sentiment.

President Donald Trump's trade war isn't just about tariffs.

Romania's hard-right nationalist George Simion will face a pro-Western reformist in a pivotal runoff in two weeks after decisively winning the most votes in the first round of the presidential election redo.

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces accidentally sank hours before the mock assault, prompting the drill to be cancelled.

Students and faculty at Dakota State University are facing free speech concerns for the first time now that Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is set to deliver the commencement speech May 10.

Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos and tequila flowing.

Indigenous people across North America are demanding sustained responses to violence in their communities.

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, breaking a nine-day winning streak.

President Donald Trump is opening a new salvo in his tariff war, targeting films made outside the United States.

President Donald Trump announced the NFL draft is coming to Washington in 2027.

President Donald Trump said Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum rejected his proposal to send U.S. troops to Mexico to help thwart the illegal drug trade because she is fearful of the country’s powerful cartels.

President Donald Trump says he's directing his government to reopen and expand Alcatraz, the notorious former prison on a California island that's been closed for more than 60 years.

Nicaragua has withdrawn from the U.N. cultural and educational body UNESCO because it awarded a prize celebrating press freedom to a Nicaraguan newspaper, La Prensa.

President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

It felt much longer, but the U_S_ stock market needed just a few weeks to roar all the way back to where it was on President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day.”.

Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.

The principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.

Morocco's ports have emerged as a flashpoint in protests against the country's decision to normalize ties with Israel.

Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

International students in the U.S. are reconsidering their travel plans this summer after a wave of student status terminations and visa revocations.

Nearly complete electoral data shows that hard-right nationalist George Simion has secured a decisive win in the first round of Romania’s presidential election redo.

President Donald Trump wants to tap into “beautiful, clean coal" to help meet the electricity demands of what he bills as a new dawn of manufacturing and technological advancement in the United States.

Australia’s re-elected Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday was greeted by well-wishers at a Sydney café and said the country had voted for unity over division.

Mexico's president has said that U.S. President Donald Trump proposed sending American troops into Mexico to help her administration fight drug trafficking but that she rejected it.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a $1 billion voucher program into law.

President Donald Trump has posted an artificial intelligence-generated image of himself dressed as pope.

Passengers with flights to or from Newark Liberty International Airport are encountering long delays and cancellations due to an air traffic controller shortage and equipment failures.

President Donald Trump has announced he won't recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native leaders say that advocacy for Indigenous representation must continue during Trump’s second term in the White House.

President Donald Trump is once more calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts.

Warren Buffett shocked an arena full of his shareholders by announcing that he wants to retire at the end of the year.

The deaths of at least six foreign nationals in a fiery van crash in eastern Idaho are a reminder that many visitors to two of the busiest U.S. national parks, Yellowstone and Grand Teton, and nearby areas come from around the world.

Warren Buffett's company reported just over one-third of last year's profit Saturday a few hours before he announced plans to retire as Berkshire Hathaway's CEO at the end of the year.

A new mission statement for the Justice Department unit that upholds voting rights shows it's being redirected toward prioritizing President Donald Trump's executive order on elections.

President Donald Trump’s removal of national security adviser Mike Waltz brings further disruption to his national security team.

Germany’s foreign ministry has hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after he criticized the decision to classify the Alternative for Germany party as a “right-wing extremist” organization.

Ukraine and Russia are at odds over competing ceasefire proposals.

Vatican workers have installed the simple stove in the Sistine Chapel where ballots will be burned during the upcoming conclave to elect a new pope.

Europe will mark Victory in Europe Day’s 80th anniversary as once unbreakable bonds with the US are under pressure.

Romanians vote Sunday in one of the EU country’s most important elections in decades after the previous ballot was annulled following allegations of violations and Russian interference.

After Hurricane Helene devastated Asheville, North Carolina, the sound coming from open car windows as residents gathered on a street at the top of a ridge trying to get cell service last fall was Blue Ridge Public Radio.

The home of Elon Musk’s SpaceX rocket company is now an official Texas city with a galactic name: Starbase.

Alireza Doroudi has been detained in an immigration facility in Louisiana for nearly six weeks.

A nonprofit organization based in rural Brazoria County outside of Houston, Mosaic in Action, came around years after Hurricane Harvey to help a homeowner with roof repairs and mold remediation.

President Donald Trump has dispatched Vice President JD Vance all over the world in the opening months of the administration.

The Department of Justice is suing Colorado and Denver for allegedly interfering with federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.

The United States has given initial approval to sell $3.5 billion worth of air-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia’s fighter jets, the latest proposed arms deal for the region ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the region later this month.

The White House plans to cut staffing at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, including the National Security Agency.

More than a dozen data-gathering programs that track deaths and disease appear to have been eliminated in the tornado of layoffs and proposed budget cuts in the Trump administration’s first 100 days.

President Donald Trump's administration apparently has backed away from a proposal to eliminate funding for Head Start.

Singapore’s long-ruling People’s Action Party has secured another general election landslide, extending its 66-year unbroken rule.

New York City’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with information about a Palestinian woman who was arrested at a protest.

The Army has confirmed there will be a military parade on President Donald Trump’s birthday in June, as part of the celebration around the service’s 250th birthday.

A federal judge has blocked a White House executive order targeting an elite law firm, dealing a setback to President Donald Trump’s campaign of retribution against the legal profession.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration’s drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency’s independent scientific research.

Anthony Albanese has claimed victory as the first Australian prime minister to win a second consecutive term in 21 years.

The Federal Reserve will likely keep its key short-term interest rate unchanged on Wednesday, despite harsh criticism from President Donald Trump and his demand that the Fed reduce borrowing costs.

Tesla sales plunged by more than half last month in several European countries in a sign that Elon Musk could struggle to revive the company after he shifts from his Washington work to running the automaker again.

Lawyers say the Trump administration has reached a preliminary agreement to settle a wrongful death lawsuit brought by the family of Ashli Babbitt over her shooting by an officer during the U.S. Capitol riot.

As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network of marine protected areas.

Guacamole has been spared from tariffs for now.

Authorities in Tennessee have released video of a 2022 traffic stop involving Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to clear the way for Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to access Social Security systems containing personal data on millions of Americans.

President Donald Trump’s first 100 days have included a wide range of attacks on environmental and climate initiatives, and his proposed budget does the same.