The Justice Department reassignments involve top career officials in the national security and criminal divisions, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

The president of Panama has formally complained to the United Nations about President Donald Trump's "threats" to acquire the Panama Canal.The New York Times reviewed the letter sent by José Raúl Muli...

Even Republicans who once said violent rioters should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law declined to criticize the presidential clemency for violent offenders, saying it was time to move o...

A day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, America’s far-right celebrated. Some called for the death of judges who oversaw the trials. Others partied and expressed relief. Some even wept with joy.

Elise Stefanik didn’t have a good answer for why neo-Nazis are celebrating what sure looked like a Hitler salute from the president’s biggest ally.

Nearly 900 humanitarian aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the third day of a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants Hamas, as a senior U.N. official said so far there had been no apparent law-and-order issues.

Kiden-Aloyse Smith writes on the historical significance of Inauguration Day falling on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

WASHINGTON (RNS) — The inaugural prayer service at the Washington National Cathedral Tuesday morning featured a number of interfaith leaders, including the Rt. Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal…

The memo rescinds a Biden administration guideline that created "protected areas" consisting of places where "children gather, disaster or emergency relief sites, and social services establishments."

The case of Guatemala reveals how President Trump’s promised sweeps could change life outside the United States, too.

From criminal subpoenas to the Espionage Act, the next administration is likely to crack down on journalists. How we respond depends on the courage of media owners.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper smacked down President Donald Trump over his massive pardoning spree of Jan. 6 rioters on his first day in office.In particular, Tapper aimed at Trump's comments to reporters, w...

Trump's executive orders change ACA enrollment and insurance coverage and could impact 24 million people.

The new president has granted clemency to around 1,500 people convicted for their participation in the 2021 Capitol riot.

Jacob Chansley, the January 6 rioter known as "QAnon Shaman," said he will buy guys after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

Gusts could peak at 70mph (113km/h) along the coast and 100mph (160km/h) in the mountains and foothills Winds picked up on Tuesday in southern California and at least a couple of new wildfires broke out as firefighters remained on alert in extreme fire…

An angry Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) showed up at the D.C. Central Detention Facility (D.C. Jail) on Tuesday to offer guided tours of the U.S. Capitol to Jan. 6 rioters who President Donald Trump pardo...

Donald Trump signs record 26 executive orders on second term’s first day, including an effort to restrict citizenship.

Proponents of the amendments – described by activists as ‘disastrous’ – say they align with Islamic principles Iraq’s parliament has passed amendments to the country’s personal status law that opponents say would in effect legalise child marriage. The…

Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the...

Leaders of far-right militia groups and other US Capitol rioters who were convicted of violently assaulting police were freed from prison overnight by President Donald Trump’s mass pardons and commuta...

President Donald Trump said on Monday that tariffs on Canadian imports could come on Feb. 1. The Globe’s Shannon Proudfoot discusses what impact the uncertainty around tariffs is having in Canada and how it may be a negotiating gambit by Mr. Trump.

Not that the movie was correct, but it wasn’t totally wrong — and we could soon face the consequences.

Fighting endless wars in distant lands is not the solution here. It’s the problem.

Officers enforcing immigration laws will now be able to arrest migrants at sensitive locations like schools and churches after the Trump administration threw out policies limiting where those arres…

A Lone Star journalist finds himself shoulder to shoulder with rioters on Jan. 6, 2021.

Legal challenges from advocacy groups and state were filed Tuesday over Trump's immigration executive order

Critical CO2 stores held in permafrost are being released as the landscape changes with global heating, report shows

The move reverses guidance that for over a decade has restricted two key federal immigration agencies from carrying out immigration enforcement in sensitive locations.

The suspension of the U.S. refugee resettlement program was among the bevy of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump on his first day in office – and it has advocates sounding the alarm.The...

Trump boasted he would end the war between Russia and Ukraine as soon as he took office. That didn’t happen.

“They can still apply to renew their passport — they just have to use their God-given sex, which was decided at birth,” the White House press secretary told NOTUS.

President Donald Trump is granting temporary, six-month security clearances to incoming White House officials who have not completed the vetting process typically required before being allowed to acce...

Much like despots before him, Trump is employing a classic authoritarian tactic to justify some of his worst plans.

States Newsroom asked over 20 Senate Republicans if they are comfortable with Trump’s clemency orders, and followed up with some.

Economists think this is the result of large federal government deficits, a productive and rapidly growing economy and the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency

Guy Reffitt was pardoned by President Trump on Monday.

The first day of President Donald Trump’s new administration offered plenty of fodder for political observers, as well as a window into where the country is heading in the next four years, a New York ...

Three former secretaries of the U.S. Department of Education took to a Brookings Institution panel on Tuesday to offer more perspective on President Donald Trump’s calls to dismantle the federal…

Within moments of President Donald Trump taking office, the Spanish language version of the White House website, "La Casa Blanca," went dark — triggering outrage from commenters on social media.The mo...

The orders require drafting strategies to enforce the gender binary (within 30 days) and meetings on fighting DEI and environmental justice (monthly).

Trump’s decision is shortsighted and put the rest of the world is put at greater risk, say public health scholars

The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the…

Affidavit to senators claims defense secretary pick’s alleged behavior prompted his second wife to fear for her safety Senators have reportedly received an affidavit from the former sister-in-law of Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s controversial pick for…

President Donald Trump's close ally, tech billionaire Elon Musk, caused an explosion of controversy on the day of Trump's swearing-in by repeatedly making an arm gesture that social media commentators...

Tech entrepreneur, who may run for governor of Ohio, reportedly clashed with billionaire SpaceX CEO

Aileen Cannon just stopped the release of a major report from Jack Smith on his investigation into Trump.