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President Donald Trump on Saturday presented the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees with newly redesigned medals during a ceremony in the Oval Office, praising the group of artists he helped select while marking a significant shift in how the nation’s signature cultural awards are administered. This year’s honorees — actor Sylvester …

The Trump administration has overhauled the list of free-entry days at national parks for 2026, eliminating fee waivers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth while adding President Donald Trump’s birthday — June 14, which coincides with Flag Day — as one of several new “resident-only patriotic fee-free days.” …

A federal appeals court Thursday paused a lower court’s order to remove the National Guard from the streets of Washington, D.C., eight days after two members were attacked in broad daylight in the district. The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted the Trump …

Democratic Gov. Tim Walz on Thursday sharply condemned President Donald Trump for denigrating Minnesota’s Somali community as “garbage” and calling the state a “hellhole,” accusing the president of using inflammatory rhetoric that stigmatizes children and fuels fear among one of the nation’s largest immigrant communities. Walz said Trump “slandered all …

In a major win for President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers, the Supreme Court on Thursday granted Texas’ emergency application to use a new congressional map drawn to increase GOP representation in next year’s midterm elections, pausing a lower-court ruling that had found the plan unlawfully relied on race. The …

U.S. Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced Thursday the chamber will vote next week to extend enhanced tax credits for three years for people who purchase their health insurance from the Affordable Care Act marketplace, though the plan seems unlikely to get the bipartisan support needed to advance. While it …

The FBI has arrested a suspect in the long-running investigation into the pipe bombs planted outside the Republican and Democratic national committee headquarters on Jan. 5, 2021, ending a nearly five-year mystery that has frustrated lawmakers, fueled conspiracy theories and cast a shadow over the government’s handling of the Jan. …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared information marked as classified on a personal Signal chat about a pending U.S. military operation in Yemen, according to a Defense Department inspector general report delivered to Congress this week, raising new questions about his handling of sensitive battlefield intelligence. The findings, described by two …

The Trump administration on Wednesday launched immigration enforcement operations in New Orleans and Minneapolis, expanding a crackdown that has been accompanied by increasingly inflammatory rhetoric from the president and heightened fear in immigrant communities. The Department of Homeland Security said the New Orleans operation was aimed at “criminal aliens roaming …

In a race that drew national attention and brought leaders from both major parties to Middle Tennessee to campaign, Republican Matt Van Epps pulled out a narrow win over Democratic Rep. Aftyn Behn in the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District. Van Epps edged Behn by nearly 9 percentage …

The Justice Department on Tuesday sued six additional states in its expanding effort to obtain detailed voter registration data, escalating a confrontation with state officials who say the Trump administration is overreaching and endangering voter privacy. The latest lawsuits — filed against Delaware, Maryland, New Mexico, Rhode Island, Vermont and …

What began Tuesday as a meandering, unfocused Cabinet meeting marked by a dozing president, rambling speeches and even a senior official’s doodles abruptly transformed into a combustible exchange as President Donald Trump declared he did not want Somalis in the United States and his defense secretary struggled to defend a …

President Donald Trump on Tuesday delivered some of his harshest rhetoric yet toward Somali immigrants and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., calling the congresswoman “garbage” and asserting that Somalis should “go back to where they came from,” remarks that immediately intensified criticism from civil rights leaders and Democrats who say he …

The publisher of the “Franklin the Turtle” children’s books is condemning Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after he posted a doctored image of the beloved character appearing to attack suspected narcotics traffickers, a move that drew fresh criticism as the Pentagon faces scrutiny over lethal U.S. strikes in the Caribbean. The …

Costco Wholesale Corp. has filed a federal lawsuit seeking refunds of the tariffs it has paid on imported goods, becoming one of the largest U.S. companies to mount a direct legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s broad use of emergency powers to impose levies on foreign products. The complaint, filed …