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The Trump administration has drafted a sweeping 28-point peace framework that would end the war in Ukraine by requiring Kyiv to surrender the eastern Donbas region and Crimea, abandon its bid to join NATO and accept long-term security guarantees enforced jointly by the United States and Russia, according to a …

In a remarkable display of political detente, President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani met face-to-face at the White House on Friday, setting aside months of bitter campaign-trail attacks to discuss affordability, crime and the future of the nation’s largest city. Trump, who had spent months warning …

A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to halt its ongoing deployment of thousands of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital, ruling that President Donald Trump’s months-long military mission unlawfully encroaches on Washington, D.C.’s authority to direct its own law-enforcement operations. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb concluded …

The U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday night issued a sharply worded policy banning the display of hate symbols at all of its installations, hours after public revelations that an earlier draft had described swastikas, nooses and other extremist imagery as merely “potentially divisive.” The wording prompted swift criticism from lawmakers, …

Top Democrats in Congress on Thursday sharply rebuked President Donald Trump after he posted on social media that Democratic lawmakers who urged military service members to reject illegal orders should be arrested and face trial for “seditious behavior,” language the president later escalated by reposting comments calling for their execution. …

Democratic Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick of Florida was indicted Wednesday on allegations that she helped steal millions of dollars in federal emergency funds and covertly routed some of that money into her congressional campaign, the Justice Department said. According to federal prosecutors, the alleged scheme dates back to 2021, when Trinity …

The U.S. House Ethics Committee opened an investigation Wednesday into Florida Republican Rep. Cory Mills for numerous allegations, including violations of campaign finance laws and sexual misconduct or dating violence. The investigative subcommittee will look into six different possible rule violations, including that Mills: Didn’t disclose required information to the …

The federal shutdown has erased the government’s October jobs report and delayed the November release, eliminating a major data point just as sluggish hiring and persistent inflation have stoked fears of a broader economic slowdown. The Bureau of Labor Statistics confirmed Wednesday that October’s employment report — one of the …

President Donald Trump signed into law late Wednesday a bill compelling the release of unclassified investigative files from the case against convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, with whom he shared a well-documented friendship, though Trump denies any involvement in the financier’s crimes. Epstein, who surrounded himself with the rich and …

Indiana’s Republican-dominated Senate voted Tuesday to adjourn until January, defying mounting pressure from President Donald Trump and Gov. Mike Braun to redraw the state’s congressional districts before the 2026 session begins. The 29–19 vote on “organization day,” the ceremonial kickoff of the legislative year, amounted to an explicit rejection of …

Democrats on Capitol Hill are renewing a long-stalled push to let Americans sue federal law enforcement officers for violating their constitutional rights, seizing on recent allegations of excessive force and unlawful conduct by agents carrying out President Donald Trump’s intensified immigration crackdown. The legislation — reintroduced Tuesday by Rep. Hank …

Texas cannot use its new congressional map for the 2026 election and will instead need to stick with the lines passed in 2021, a three-judge panel ruled Tuesday. The decision is a major blow for Republicans, in Texas and nationally, who pushed through this unusual mid-decade redistricting at the behest …

In his first visit to the White House since the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received an effusive welcome Tuesday from President Donald Trump, who again rejected U.S. intelligence conclusions and insisted the prince “knew nothing” about the 2018 killing. “You’re mentioning somebody that …

Congress moved with rare speed and near unanimity Tuesday to force the Justice Department to publicly release its files on the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, delivering a sweeping bipartisan rebuke to months of resistance from President Donald Trump and Republican leaders. The House voted 427-1 to approve the …

David Richardson, the acting administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, resigned Monday after roughly six months at the helm, ending a short and tumultuous tenure defined by budget battles, internal unrest and criticism of the agency’s response to catastrophic summer flooding in Texas. Two administration officials confirmed the resignation, …