A group backed by Elon Musk is running ads targeting Republican lawmakers in several states over their support of a federal drug pricing program.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Raúl M.

President Donald Trump's choice to be U.S. ambassador to Canada says America's northern neighbor is a sovereign state.

The investigation into a January midair collision that killed 67 people near Washington, D.

The Trump administration is demanding U.N. humanitarian agencies that receive or disburse U.S. funding to fill out a questionnaire disclosing any ties to communism, socialism or anti-American beliefs.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is praising President Donald Trump for motivating fellow transatlantic alliance members to step up defense spending and getting Russia to the negotiating table for talks about its grinding war against Ukraine.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court to allow restrictions on birthright citizenship to partly take effect while legal fights play out.

Universities across the U.S. have announced hiring freezes due to the risk of federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

A federal judge in California has ordered the Trump administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers let go in mass firings across multiple agencies.

The Internal Revenue Service’s acting chief counsel, William Paul, has been removed from his role at the agency and replaced by Andrew De Mello, an attorney in the chief counsel’s office who is deemed supportive of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, according to two people familiar with the plans who were not authorized to speak publicly.

A day before a shutdown deadline, Senate Democrats are mounting a last-ditch protest over a Republican-led spending bill that already passed the House.

A coalition of Democratic-led states is challenging the Trump administration’s layoffs across the Education Department, saying it amounts to an illegal dismantling of an agency created by Congress.

The Federal Trade Commission has walked back comments that a lack of resources is interfering with the agency’s ability to be ready for a September trial over Amazon’s Prime program.

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of David Weldon, a former Florida congressman, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A federal judge in San Francisco has President Donald Trump’s administration to rehire thousands of probationary workers let go in mass firings.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres is on a four-day visit to Bangladesh for a first-hand look at the situation of more than 1 million Rohingya refugees as fears mount of serious aid cuts.

President Donald Trump is threatening a 200% tariff on European wine, Champagne and spirits if the European Union goes forward with a planned tariff on American whiskey.

Russian news agencies say that Trump special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Moscow for high-level talks.

European Union leaders have announced a 4.7 billion euro, or about $5.1 billion, investment package in South Africa to support green energy transition and vaccine production.

Wall Street’s sell-off hit a new low following President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war.

The fate of the IRS Direct File program remains unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their way through the federal bureaucracy.

Top diplomats from Group of 7 industrialized democracies have gathered in Canada as U.S. President Donald Trump's trade and foreign policies have thrown the bloc's once solid unity into disarray.

An hours-long outage on StudentAid.

The Trump administration has resumed family detention of immigrants in a South Texas facility after a Biden-era pause.

A federal judge says she hopes to rule next week on whether to block President Donald Trump’s administration from banning transgender people from serving in the U.S. military.

Again and again, the Trump White House has turned to a 73-year-old legal statute to defend its immigration crackdown.

Kuwait has released 10 American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related charges, in a move seen as a gesture of goodwill between two allies.

A federal judge repeatedly sounded skeptical that mass firings of probationary federal workers were made by the government because the employees couldn’t do their jobs.

President Donald Trump is hosting Ireland's prime minister, Micheál Martin, for the annual St. Patrick's Day celebration at the White House.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing portions of an executive order designed to punish a prominent law firm linked to Democratic-funded opposition research during the 2016 presidential campaign into ties between the Republican candidate and Russia.

Military service leaders are telling senators that passing a temporary budget that keeps defense spending largely flat will hurt readiness and efforts to modernize the force.

The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food banks to purchase food from local farmers and producers.

Lawmakers in South Africa have laid out plans to shore up the budgets for health and defense but also put up value added tax by 0.5%, a move that will raise the cost of living.

A lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission says the agency needs to seek a trial delay in a case against Amazon due to staffing and budgetary challenges.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency has announced a series of actions to roll back landmark environmental regulations, including rules on pollution from coal-fired power plants, climate change and electric vehicles.

The Trump administration on Wednesday announced it will reconsider the reach of the nation’s bedrock clean water law and likely further limit the wetlands it covers.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs, effectively gutting an office that already faced a backlog of thousands of complaints from students and families across the country.

The Trump administration says it is dropping a civil lawsuit against the largest provider of housing for unaccompanied migrant children over alleged sexual abuse of minors at its facilities.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has accomplished the seemingly unexpected, keeping his Republican majority in line to fund the government.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it has terminated grant agreements worth $20 billion issued by the Biden administration under a so-called green bank to finance climate-friendly projects.

The deep cuts across federal agencies since Donald Trump’s return to the White House include reductions in force, which mean not only layoffs but also elimination of positions altogether.

President Trump's nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is getting ready to appear before Congress.

Multiple sources tell The Associated Press that the Trump Administration is starting another round of job cuts — this one more than 1,000 — at the nation’s weather, ocean and fisheries agency.

Canada will announce Canadian $29.8 billion or $20.7 billion in retaliatory tariffs in response to the 25% steel and aluminum tariffs that U.S. President Donald Trump has leveled.

An Emirati diplomat earlier identified by Tehran as carrying a letter from U.S. President Donald Trump seeking to jump-start talks over Iran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program has met with Iran’s foreign minister.

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs and Attorney General Kris Mayes have adopted sharply different approaches to handling Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

A National Institutes of Health study aims to find out whether ultraprocessed foods lead people to eat more.

The Education Department’s civil rights branch is losing nearly half its staff in the Trump administration’s layoffs.

President Donald Trump campaigned as a champion of free speech, but First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in his second term.

Ukrainian and Polish officials say U.S. arms deliveries to Ukraine have resumed.

U.S. stock indexes rose after getting some relief from an encouraging inflation update.

A new AP-NORC/AAPI Data poll shows that most Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders do not agree with the strategy of putting entire federal agencies on the chopping block, nor are they broadly on board with mass layoffs of federal workers.

As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the Education Department, officials have suggested other agencies could take over its major responsibilities.

President Donald Trump in recent days has dismissed fears of a recession and brushed aside the stock market sell-off, going so far as to say, “You can’t really watch the stock market.”.

President Donald Trump is openly challenging U.S. allies by increasing tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports to 25% as he vows to take back wealth he says was “stolen” by other countries, drawing quick retaliation from Europe and Canada.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says U.S. tariffs on Australian steel and aluminum are unjustified, but his government will not retaliate with its own tariffs.

Prosecutors in the Justice Department section that handles public corruption cases have been told the unit will be being significantly reduced in size, and that its cases will be transferred to U.S. attorney’s offices around the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.

A law firm targeted by President Donald Trump over its legal services during the 2016 presidential campaign has sued the federal government over an executive order that seeks to strip its attorneys of security clearances.

A union for U.S. Agency for International Development contractors is asking a federal judge to intervene in any destruction of USAID classified documents.

The Education Department plans to lay off more than 1,300 of its employees as part of an effort to halve the organization’s staff -- a prelude to President Donald Trump’s plan to dismantle the agency.

The European Union is doubling down on its pledge to continue supporting Ukraine against Russia’s illegal invasion and stepping up humanitarian aid when others pull back as the bloc of European countries reconciles with the reality of America's retreat on the global stage.

President Donald Trump is once again lashing out at three of his biggest irritants: foreign steel, foreign aluminum and Canada.

The United States has extended its ban on flights to Haiti’s capital until Sept. 8 because of escalating gang violence.

A third appellate court has upheld a block on President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship.

Two senior federal judges, both appointed by Republican presidents, have spoken out against threats of violence and impeachment against their colleagues in the judiciary.

Republicans, particularly those in Congress, have been overwhelmingly supportive of broad cuts across the federal government at the hands of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration’s plan to cut hundreds of millions of dollars for teacher training, finding cuts are already affecting training programs aimed at addressing a nationwide teacher shortage.

President Donald Trump says he's buying a Tesla to show loyalty to company CEO Elon Musk.

A federal judge on Tuesday found that removing most grants and most staff from a U.S. federal agency that invests in African small businesses would be legal.

U.S. officials have not determined who was behind an apparent cyber attack on the social media site X that limited access to the platform for thousands of users.

President Donald Trump selected a shiny red Tesla on the White House driveway as he showed support for Elon Musk's electric automaker.

A report details how China in two decades has grown to be the dominant global player in shipbuilding, dwarfing the U.S., which now has only 0.1% of the global market.

President Donald Trump’s threat to double his planned tariffs on steel and aluminum from 25% to 50% for Canada has led the provincial government of Ontario to suspend its planned surcharges on electricity sold to the United States.

A federal judge says President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in freezing almost all spending on U.S. humanitarian and development work abroad.

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

The House has passed legislation to avert a partial government shutdown and fund federal agencies through September.

The Supreme Court has weighed in twice on President Donald Trump’s rapid-fire efforts to remake the federal government.

Polls have opened in Greenland for early parliamentary elections Tuesday as U.S. President Donald Trump seeks control of the strategic Arctic island.

Japan's trade minister says he has not gotten assurances from U.S. officials that the key U.S. ally will be exempt from higher tariffs, some of which effect on Wednesday.

The polling station in Greenland’s capital has closed.

The owners of Brough Brothers bourbon in Kentucky are ready to put their business plan into action.

The U.S. stock market fell further following President Donald Trump’s latest escalation in his trade war, briefly pulling Wall Street 10% below its record set last month.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security skipped a fully competitive bidding process to give two Republican-linked firms the first part of a $200 million anti-immigration ad campaign.

The Trump administration has cut millions of dollars in federal funding from two cybersecurity initiatives, including one dedicated to helping state and local election officials.

Elon Musk says Social Security and other federal benefit programs will be targeted in his hunt for fraudulent spending.

Canada’s governing Liberal Party appeared poised for a historic election defeat this year.

A federal judge overseeing a lawsuit aimed at stopping the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has heard testimony about the chaos that erupted inside the agency last month after government employees were ordered to stop working.

The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights is best known for enforcing disability rights across America’s schools, but under President Donald Trump it’s being reshaped into a frontline figure in the president’s political battles.

Crews have begun work to remove the large yellow “Black Lives Matter” painted on the street one block from the White House.

The Senate has voted to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary.

A columnist who has worked at the Washington Post since 1984 quit on Monday, after she said the publisher Will Lewis killed her column criticizing owner Jeff Bezos' edict that the newspaper's editorial section concentrate on issues of personal liberties and the free market.

A nonprofit that was awarded nearly $7 billion by the Biden administration to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects has sued the Environmental Protection Agency, accusing it of improperly freezing its account.

The Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit from Republican attorneys general in 19 states aimed at blocking climate change suits against the oil and gas industry from Democratic-led states.

The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether state and local governments can enforce laws banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case.

President Donald Trump is dismissing business concerns over the uncertainty caused by his planned tariffs on a range of American trading partners and the prospect of higher prices and isn’t ruling out the possibility of a recession this year.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is signaling that the Trump administration has finished its six-week purge of programs of the six-decade-old U.S. Agency for International Development.

Young people who aspired to federal government service are dismayed by President Donald Trump ending a program created to entice highly qualified workers to join the government.

In President Donald Trump’s idealized framing, the United States was at its zenith in the 1890s.

U.S. President Donald Trump first suggested buying Greenland in 2019.

The U.S. stock market’s sell-off accelerated as worries built about pain for the economy because of tariffs and other policies by President Donald Trump.