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President Donald Trump said Saturday that the two survivors of a U.S. military strike on a suspected drug-carrying submersible in the Caribbean will be returned to Ecuador and Colombia, their home countries, for detention and prosecution. The announcement came two days after the military destroyed the vessel — the sixth …

Tens of thousands of protesters marched and rallied in cities across the United States on Saturday for “No Kings” demonstrations denouncing what organizers called a slide toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump. Crowds packed into New York City’s Times Square, filled Boston Common and Chicago’s Grant Park, and marched through …

The Trump administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately allow the deployment of National Guard troops in Illinois, arguing that federal agents conducting immigration enforcement face threats and assaults in the Chicago area. The emergency request follows multiple rulings by lower courts — including the 7th U.S. …

Federal prosecutors have charged voting technology firm Smartmatic with money laundering and other crimes, alleging that company executives paid more than $1 million in bribes to election officials in the Philippines to secure contracts and payments for the country’s 2016 presidential election. The superseding indictment, filed Thursday in federal court …

More than 7,200 federal employees filed new jobless claims last week as the Trump administration’s layoffs began taking effect during the ongoing government shutdown, according to new Labor Department data. The department’s Unemployment Compensation for Federal Employees (UCFE) program reported 7,224 initial claims for the week ending Oct. 11, a …

The U.S. military carried out a strike Thursday on a boat in international waters in the Caribbean suspected of belonging to a Venezuelan drug cartel, according to a U.S. official — marking the fifth such operation under President Donald Trump and the first to leave survivors. Previous strikes targeting suspected …

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in Budapest to discuss ending Russia’s war in Ukraine, following what he described as a “lengthy” and “very good” phone call with the Russian leader. Mr. Trump did not specify when the meeting would take place, …

President Donald Trump said Friday that he had signed a commutation order immediately releasing former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from prison, calling his treatment “horrible” and “unfair.” “George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” Trump wrote on Truth …

Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani opened Thursday night’s New York mayoral debate promising to lower costs for city residents — then spent the next 50 minutes in a fierce and often personal fight over integrity, experience, crime, the war in Gaza, and President Donald Trump’s influence on the race. The …

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced new steps to make in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments more affordable, unveiling a deal with major drug and pharmacy companies to lower the cost of a key fertility medication. The announcement marks the administration’s first major policy move on IVF since February, when Trump …

A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on Thursday, making him the third outspoken critic of President Donald Trump to face criminal charges in recent weeks, a senior Justice Department official confirmed. Prosecutors allege Bolton improperly retained classified materials after his bitter split from …

Members of the Supreme Court’s conservative majority appeared strikingly open Wednesday to raising the bar for challenges to voting maps under the Voting Rights Act, signaling a potentially sweeping shift that could weaken the landmark civil rights law and sharply limit how race can be considered in redistricting. The deeply …

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration to stop firing federal employees during the ongoing government shutdown, calling the mass layoffs politically driven and unlawfully executed. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, sitting in San Francisco, issued a temporary restraining order blocking further job cuts, saying she believed the …

Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday defended young Republican leaders whose private group chat contained racist and antisemitic messages, arguing that the backlash is disproportionate and warning against “ruining kids’ lives” over “stupid jokes.” Speaking on The Charlie Kirk Show — the podcast founded by the late conservative activist and …

President Donald Trump and FBI Director Kash Patel claimed victory Wednesday in what they said was a months-long surge of law enforcement in major cities and pledged to continue sending federal authorities to address violent crime in U.S. cities. The FBI arrested more than 8,700 suspects during an initiative Trump …