President Donald Trump’s promise to pay U.S. troops a “warrior dividend” bonus is not a new White House program but a rebranding of a military housing stipend already approved by Congress, according to senior administration and congressional officials. The $1,776 payments Trump unveiled during a nationwide address Wednesday night will …

President Donald Trump used an 18-minute prime-time address Wednesday to deliver a rapid-fire review of the first year of his second term, offering sweeping claims about wages, inflation, immigration, energy prices and drug costs. Some of his assertions aligned partially with available data, but others were misleading or plainly incorrect, …

The White House has installed a series of new plaques along its colonnade that sharply attack President Donald Trump’s predecessors — including Presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama — using inflammatory language, personal insults and claims that critics say promote disinformation about their administrations. The plaques were mounted beneath presidential …

The U.S. government acknowledged in court filings Wednesday that its failures contributed to the January midair collision between a passenger jet and an Army helicopter near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people. In a filing responding to wrongful-death lawsuits, government attorneys admitted that federal agencies breached their …

President Donald Trump used a rare prime-time address from the White House on Wednesday to argue that Democrats are responsible for Americans’ economic struggles, delivering a 17-minute speech that was billed as an economic update but often sounded more like a campaign rally. Speaking rapidly from the Diplomatic Room, Trump …

The Senate on Wednesday delivered a sweeping bipartisan rebuke to President Donald Trump’s national security agenda, approving a massive defense policy bill that would force the Pentagon to turn over footage of controversial military strikes and sharply limit the administration’s ability to reduce U.S. troop levels overseas. The 77-20 vote …

Defying their party’s leadership, four House Republicans on Wednesday joined Democrats in signing a rarely successful discharge petition, giving lawmakers the votes needed to force a floor vote on extending enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year. The move hands Democrats …

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he will not allow a vote to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the month, effectively guaranteeing higher health insurance premiums next year for millions of Americans who buy coverage through the law’s marketplaces. Johnson, R-La., announced …

U.S. senators left a closed-door meeting Tuesday with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio split over the Trump administration’s strikes on alleged drug-running vessels near Venezuela, particularly an early September follow-up strike that killed two survivors clinging to boat wreckage. Hegseth and Rubio delivered the …

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles offered a series of strikingly candid — and at times unflattering — assessments of President Donald Trump, his second-term agenda and several of his closest allies in wide-ranging interviews published Tuesday by Vanity Fair, comments that sent shock waves through Trump’s inner circle …

The U.S. job market showed clear signs of strain this fall, shedding jobs in October and posting only modest gains in November as unemployment climbed to its highest level in more than three years, according to government data released Tuesday after weeks of delay caused by a federal shutdown. The …

The Trump administration’s response to the mass shooting at Brown University was swift — and wrong. President Donald Trump announced Saturday night that the shooter was in custody, a claim he reversed less than 20 minutes later. The error was not an isolated misstep, but the latest example of a …

President Donald Trump’s administration is looking “very strongly” at reclassifying cannabis from the strictest category of controlled substances, Trump said Monday. In a brief affirmative response to a reporter’s question in the Oval Office, the president confirmed he is considering a reclassification of marijuana to unlock research funding. “A lot …

President Donald Trump on Monday blamed actor and filmmaker Rob Reiner’s outspoken opposition to him for Reiner’s killing, issuing an unsubstantiated and incendiary claim as authorities were still investigating the apparent homicide — a remark that drew condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike and underscored the president’s continued willingness to …

Authorities said Sunday that a person of interest detained overnight in connection with a deadly shooting at Brown University will be released, after investigators determined that evidence no longer supports holding the individual as the focus of the case. Two students were killed and nine others were wounded Saturday afternoon …