Members of different LGBTQ and transgender communities are descending on the nation's capital with plans for celebrations, parades, concerts and more.

One initiative distributes laptops in rural Iowa.

The U.S. military spent more than $6 billion over the past three years to recruit and retain service members, in what's been a growing campaign to counter enlistment shortfalls.

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the U.S. lost their jobs or grants.

From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation's capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents customarily commemorate Memorial Day on hallowed ground.

Kentucky Democrats are trying to address the party's steep deficits in overwhelmingly white, conservative pockets of rural America.

Senate opposition led President Donald Trump to abandon his candidate to be the top prosecutor in the nation’s capital.

President Donald Trump has used the first service academy commencement address of his second term to laud graduating West Point cadets for their accomplishments and career choice.

Speaker Mike Johnson was rushing through the halls of the Capitol during the overnight House vote on President Donald Trump's big tax bill.

A federal judge has denied the Trump administration’s request that she stay her May 19 ruling that returned control of the U.S. Institute of Peace back to its acting president and board.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered further restrictions on how the press operates at the Pentagon.

President Donald Trump is ordering a major overhaul of the National Security Council that will shrink its size, lead to the ouster of some political appointees and return many career government employees back to their home agencies.

A federal judge has permanently blocked another of President Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting a major law firm, calling it unconstitutional retaliation designed to punish lawyers for their legal work that the White House does not like.

Privacy and hunger relief groups and a handful of people receiving food assistance benefits are suing the federal government over the Trump administration’s attempts to collect the personal information of millions of U.S. residents who use the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

Even as his fame and wealth have soared over the decades, Bruce Springsteen has retained the voice of the working class’ balladeer.

Chief Justice John Roberts is agreeing to temporarily pause orders that would require Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to publicly disclose information about its operations.

President Donald Trump says U.S. Steel will keep its headquarters in Pittsburgh as part of what he called a “partnership” between the American steelmaker and Japan-based Nippon Steel, which sought to buy it.

The Army is telling The Associated Press that military air traffic controllers lost contact with an Army helicopter for about 20 seconds as it neared the Pentagon on the flight that caused two commercial jets to abort their landings this month at a Washington airport.

Ask someone for their thoughts, could it now cost you a nickel.

President Donald Trump has signed executive orders to speed up the development of nuclear power and grant the energy secretary authority to approve advanced reactor designs and projects.

The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the company to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S. regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people.

A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for trying to carjack a car occupied by two U.S. Marshals Service deputies who were members of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s security detail.

South Africa's top law enforcement official says U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and he “twisted” the facts while pushing a false narrative about mass killings of white people in his country.

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement.

House Republicans are jubilant about muscling through President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” tax and immigration package by a single vote.

Vice President JD Vance has told military academy graduates that President Donald Trump is working to ensure that U.S. armed forces are only sent into harm’s way with clear goals rather than the “open-ended conflicts” of the past.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration decision to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

A federal judge has blocked a Trump administration decision to revoke Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students.

President Donald Trump is threatening a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well as a 25% tariff on smartphones unless the products are made in America.

The Chinese government says the Trump administration’s move to ban international students from Harvard will harm America’s international standing.

Mediator Oman says Iran and the United States made “some but not conclusive progress” in a fifth round of negotiations in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social media post or a much hyped announcement.

The Trump administration has granted Syria sweeping exemptions from sanctions.

The group run by Elon Musk that aims to cut federal spending in the second Trump administration is targeting U_S_ Census Bureau surveys it claims are “wasteful."

President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its standoff with Harvard University on Thursday, revoking the school’s ability to enroll international students.

The men who were placed on a deportation flight headed for the chaotic nation of South Sudan were originally from countries as far away as Vietnam.

The Republican-controlled Federal Trade Commission has voted to dismiss a lawsuit against PepsiCo that the previous commission filed in the waning days of the Biden administration.

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville plans to run for governor of Alabama in 2026, according to people familiar with his plans.

The Supreme Court has declined to reinstate independent agency board members fired by President Donald Trump.

The U.S. National Security Agency says hackers working for Russian military intelligence tried to access the systems of Western technology and logistics companies involved in shipping assistance to Ukraine.

Between a barrage of executive orders, foreign trips and norm-shattering proclamations, President Donald Trump has also been busy raking in cash.

The budget reconciliation bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday would gut clean energy tax credits that Democrats approved three years ago.

The Organization of American States is coming under pressure to help quash gang violence in Haiti as a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police in the troubled Caribbean country struggles with a lack of funds and personnel.

The Trump administration has revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school.

A judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal status of international students nationwide while a court case challenging previous terminations plays out.

The Trump administration is seeking to end an immigration policy cornerstone that since the 1990s has offered protections to child migrants in federal custody, a move that will be challenged by advocates.

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House of Representatives would rearrange the U.S. social safety net.

Five organizations that had grants terminated by the U.S. Justice Department in April are suing the department and Attorney General Pam Bondi, calling the cancellations unconstitutional and asking that the money be reinstated.

A new government-issued report reflects some of the most controversial views on vaccines, the nation’s food supply, pesticides and prescription drugs held by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out.

The Senate has voted to block California’s first-in-the nation rule banning the sale of new gas-powered cars by 2035.

A woman accused of spitting on the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital has been arrested on a federal assault charge.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs.

Authorities say a security incident outside CIA headquarters has led to a shooting.

The Supreme Court has effectively ended a publicly funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma, dividing 4-4.

Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim were colleagues, and they were a couple, days away from a marriage proposal.

Government advisers are split on whether drugmakers should update their COVID-19 vaccines to better protect Americans this fall and winter.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package, with Speaker Mike Johnson defying the skeptics and unifying his ranks to muscle President Donald Trump’s priority bill to approval.

After a bitter loss to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Kamala Harris is thinking hard about her next job.

Iran’s top diplomat has warned that his country would take “special measures” to defend its nuclear facilities if Israel continues to threaten them, raising the stakes further ahead of a new round of talks with the United States.

Global reactions are pouring in after two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum.

House Republicans have taken a major step forward on President Donald Trump’s agenda.

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.

Iran and the United States held a fifth round of talks in Rome over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program.

Two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington were fatally shot while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested.

President Donald Trump has hosted top investors for one of his cryptocurrency projects at his luxury golf course in Northern Virginia.

Republicans have made several late changes to their tax cut and immigration bill.

House Republicans stayed up all night to pass their multitrillion-dollar tax breaks package.

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 man charged with fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington as they were leaving an event at a Jewish museum told police after his arrest, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza.”.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is talking to the U.S. about joining President Donald Trump’s future Golden Dome missile defense program.

The sentiment in South Africa ahead of its leader’s meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House was one of trepidation.

The U.S. Institute of Peace has retaken control of its headquarters, two days after a federal judge said the firing of its board and employees by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency was illegal.

All but a few of the nearly 400 books that the U.S. Naval Academy removed from its library because they dealt with anti-racism and gender issues are back on the shelves.

President Donald Trump has honored the 2025 NCAA basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House, proclaiming that “lesser teams would have crumbled” during its nail-biting title game victory.

Carrying out mass deportations was a key rallying cry during Donald Trump’s campaign for the presidency.

The top U.N. official for Syria is warning of the “real dangers of renewed conflict and deeper confrontation” in the war-battered country.

A much-anticipated White House report about childhood diseases has provoked a tug-of-war that’s pitted farmers and some prominent Republican lawmakers against health secretary Robert F.

The Justice Department announced Wednesday it was canceling proposed consent decrees reached with Minneapolis and Louisville to implement policing reforms in the wake of high profile police killings.

Short-term lender Klarna says more customers are having trouble repaying their “buy now, pay later” loans.

President Donald Trump used a video shown in the Oval Office to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with claims that white farmers are being targeted and killed in the country.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency clashed angrily with Democratic senators Wednesday, accusing one of being an “aspiring fiction writer” and saying another does not “care about wasting money.

A federal magistrate judge has ordered the pretrial detention of a man charged with stealing a purse from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem while she dined at a restaurant under the protection of Secret Service agents.

The Army has started loading up some of the tanks that will take to the streets of the nation’s capital during the 250th anniversary celebration of the service next month.

The U.S. Coast Guard is facing its largest readiness crisis since World War II.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s firing of two Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board.

The Pentagon says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has accepted a gifted Boeing 747 from Qatar for President Donald Trump to use as Air Force One.

President Donald Trump has used a White House meeting to confront South African President Cyril Ramaphosa with baseless claims of the systematic killing of white farmers in that country.

The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to block court orders requiring Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to turn over documents about its operations to a government watchdog group.

House Republicans are getting closer to passing President Donald Trump’s tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security.

The United States has imposed sanctions on two members of the Mexican drug trafficking organization Cartel del Noreste, the Northeast Cartel, which was formerly known as Los Zetas.

The United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan.

The Justice Department has moved to cancel settlements with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, that called for an overhaul of policing following the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.

A federal judge says the White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with a flight linked to the chaotic nation of South Sudan.

U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly has died at age 75.

Iran’s top diplomat is insisting that Tehran will never stop enriching uranium.

A federal judge in New Jersey ordered Democratic Rep. LaMonica McIver released on her own recognizance during the congresswoman’s first court appearance on assault charges stemming from immigration officials’ attempt to arrest Newark’s mayor at a detention facility.

Wisconsin could go down as billionaire Elon Musk’s last big spend on a political campaign.

U.S. President Donald Trump will host South Africa’s leader at the White House for a meeting that might be tense.