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One of the world’s most acclaimed writers, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, has died at 87.
A federal judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit that accuses billionaire Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency of illegally accessing government data systems, canceling government contracts and firing federal employees.
Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ balladeer.
Lashing out at Apple’s plans to make most of its U.S. iPhones in India, President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a 25% tariff on the popular device unless the tech giant starts building the product in its home country — a move that still seems unlikely to happen any time soon, if ever.
After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.
Iran and the United States will hold talks Friday in Rome, their fifth round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iran and the United States will hold a fifth round of talks in Rome on Friday over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Senate Republicans have voted to establish a new precedent that will allow them to roll back clean air standards in California, including a rule phasing out the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.
The agency responsible for immigration enforcement has aggressively revived and expanded a decades-old program that delegates immigration enforcement powers to state and local law enforcement agencies.
The mother of Casandra “Cassie” Ventura says she paid Sean “Diddy” Combs $20,000 in 2011 when he demanded the money because he was mad that her daughter had started dating someone else.
The announcement that Joe Biden has prostate cancer is the latest example of how the final chapters of his political career have been shaped by the disease.
The Trump administration has been pushing back against certain court rulings it doesn't like in the hundreds of cases filed against it in the past few months.
Former FBI Director James Comey has been interviewed by the Secret Service about a social media post that Republicans suggested was a call for violence against President Donald Trump.
For decades, Israel has leveraged its special relationship with the United States to serve as a gatekeeper to Washington.
The Library of Congress, a 225-year-old Washington institution, has never had a moment like this.
A former White House executive chef says U.S. presidents and their families are “just regular people” when they're at home in the private living areas of the Executive Mansion.
Patricia Clarkson stars in the movie “Lilly,” a biopic about former Alabama factory worker Lilly Ledbetter who became an equal pay icon.
President Donald Trump’s agreement with China to temporarily slash tariffs for 90 days offered the world a bit of welcome relief.
President Donald Trump's onetime defense attorney has been appointed acting librarian of Congress.
The United States is pulling back from its role in spreading democratic ideals abroad under President Donald Trump.
The Republican Party is trying to figure out what it stands for in terms of economic policy during the second Trump administration.
Vice President JD Vance says Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States looks to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine.
A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia has become a household name as the Trump administration wages an intense legal battle to keep him locked up in an El Salvador prison despite his mistaken deportation.
A retired U.S. brigadier general who failed to get through the confirmation process in the first Trump administration is getting renewed scrutiny for his political and anti-Islamic social media posts.
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 principle of “checks and balances” is rooted in the Constitution’s design of a national government with three distinct, coequal branches.
Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.
Cardinal Álvaro Ramazzini is taking to his first conclave the same spirit that guided his decades-long front-line ministry among the migrants, poor and Indigenous people in Guatemala’s highlands.
As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network of marine protected areas.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been on a campaign against Iran's nuclear program and his opposition helped convince President Trump to withdraw from an Obama era deal meant to rein it in.
President Donald Trump's remark to Terry Moran in an ABC News interview — that it was his choice to whom he would grant an interview — exposes a delicate question for journalists.
Microsoft has pledged to fight any U.S. government order to halt data center operations in Europe, as it sought to soothe concerns among European customers that trans-Atlantic tensions would lead to service disruptions.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and President Donald Trump have shared a hug as he arrived in her home state.
A federal judge expressed skepticism over the Trump administration’s assertions that its decision to declare an invasion at the U.S.-Mexico border and suspend asylum access was not something courts had the authority to review.
For President Donald Trump's administration, the numbers on executive orders, deportations, reductions in the federal workforce and tariffs in his first 100 days back in the White House point toward a renewed America.
President Donald Trump hosted the 2025 Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles at the White House, but several players, including quarterback Jalen Hurts, skipped the event.
Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.
President Donald Trump is among more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries attending the funeral for Pope Francis in Vatican City on Saturday.
The FBI has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, saying she “intentionally misdirected” federal immigration agents away from a man they were trying to take into custody at her courthouse.
Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him.
President Donald Trump is putting his “touches” on the White House with new flagpoles, new artwork and a complete redecoration of the Oval Office.
Barack Obama says he wouldn't have been a U.S. senator or president without the support of Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, who has announced he's not seeking reelection.
Some Black churches are pledging to support the National Museum of African American History and Culture following an executive order by President Donald Trump alleging exhibits there and at other Smithsonian Institution sites have expressed a “divisive, race-centered ideology.”.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is defending himself against a second assertion that he shared classified material through an unapproved and unsecured network.
Negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program will move Saturday in Oman to what’s known as the “expert level” — a sign analysts say shows that the talks are moving forward rapidly.
Iran and the United States will hold talks Saturday in Oman, their third round of negotiations over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Iowa looked a lot different in 2010, when Republican Kim Reynolds was first elected to statewide office.
As far as biographies go, the two men in charge of the delicate negotiations between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program couldn’t be more different.
Dakota Meyer, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Afghanistan War, is reenlisting in the the military and will serve in the Marine Reserves.
A 30-year-old community service program for young adults that operates across the U.S. has become the latest target of the Trump administration’s campaign to slash government spending.
A federal judge says he's found probable cause to hold the Trump administration in criminal contempt of court and could seek officials’ prosecution for violating his orders last month to turn around planes carrying deportees to an El Salvador prison.
Young volunteers who respond to natural disasters and help with community projects across the U.S. have been discharged.
Iranian state television has confirmed that the second round of Iran-U.S. nuclear talks will be held in Rome after earlier confusion over where the negotiations would take place.
American artist Kehinde Wiley has unveiled an exhibition in Morocco of portraits of African leaders as part of a yearslong series exploring politics and image-making.
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is taking his “Fighting Oligarchy” tour deep into Trump territory alongside his fellow progressive champion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
A second U.S. aircraft carrier is operating in Mideast waters ahead of the next round of talks between Iran and the United States over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
President Donald Trump is betting that a beleaguered Iran is so vulnerable following a tumultuous 18 months in the Middle East that it might finally be ready to abandon its nuclear program.
The White House has hung a painting of President Donald Trump depicting a moment after an assassination attempt against him last summer — bumping the official portrait of one of his predecessors, Barack Obama, to a place nearby.
Iran and the United States will meet in Oman for the first talks in President Donald Trump’s second term over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.
Off the coast of Japan 80 years ago, a U.S. naval captain ordered his battleship to hold a burial at sea for a kamikaze pilot who died slamming his fighter plane into the American vessel.
President Donald Trump’s administration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting China will push Apple into manufacturing the iPhone in the U.
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services says the Trump administration will immediately start considering “antisemitic activity” on social media and physical harassment of Jewish people as grounds for denying immigration benefits.
President Donald Trump has long complained about modern rules that limit water flow for showerheads, making it harder for him to wash his “beautiful hair."
President Donald Trump has signed four executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that’s long been in decline.
Alabama Republicans cheered President Donald Trump and his agenda at a GOP party the day he imposed tariffs and sent stock markets tumbling worldwide.
The Trump administration is asking an appeals court to suspend a judge's order for the government to broker the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported from the U.S. to a notorious El Salvador prison.
Stanley “Goose” Stewart, who survived the Upper Big Branch coal mine disaster that killed 29 workers 15 years ago Saturday, calls a recommendation by the Trump administration to close three dozen offices of the Mine Safety and Health Administration across the country “idiotic.”.
Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson says he is leaving the Washington Post.
Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was once called the most popular politician on Earth by then-U.S. President Barack Obama.
The acting chief of the top federal agency for protecting worker rights has signaled a pivot toward prioritizing President Donald Trump’s campaign to stamp out diversity, equity and inclusion programs in the private and public sectors.
There is no answer yet on the lawsuit filed by Institute of Peace board members who were fired amid a remaking of the independent think tank.
The Democratic-backed candidate for Wisconsin Supreme Court has won, defeating President Donald Trump’s endorsed challenger.
Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer is taking the fight over Medicaid cuts deep into Republican territory, visiting nursing homes in GOP-held districts to warn of what Democrats call devastating consequences if proposed federal rollbacks go through.
A federal judge is pausing plans by the Trump administration to end temporary legal protections for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans, one week before they were set to expire.
At least four states are considering giving college athletes tax breaks on endorsement income.
U.S. immigration officials are asking the public and federal agencies to comment on a proposal to collect social media handles from people applying to benefits such as green cards or citizenship, to comply with an executive order from President Donald Trump.
President Donald Trump's administration has increasingly turned to the use of emergency appeals to the Supreme Court as it faces more than 130 lawsuits over his executive orders.
Civil rights advocates, historians and Black political leaders are sharply rebuking President Donald Trump for his order targeting the Smithsonian Institution.
