Magan Crane

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said he had officially canceled 83% of USAID’s contracts and that his agency will administer its few remaining programs.

President Donald Trump reasserted his vision for a “spectacular” development in the Gaza Strip, led by the US and without Palestinians, in a social media post early Thursday.

Amazon.com Inc. is donating $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s inaugural fund, a company spokesperson said, joining Meta Platforms Inc. in contributing to the festivities as tech companies look to build positive relationships with the administration.

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentences of almost 1,500 people, the largest one-day act of presidential clemency. He also issued pardons to 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, several of whom would get lighter sentences if convicted now, the White House announced Thursday.

Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Department of Defense, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, was forced to resign from two veterans’ advocacy groups amid allegations of personal and financial misconduct, the New Yorker reported.

Republican Senator Thom Tillis predicted former President Donald Trump will win the storm-ravaged state of North Carolina in his White House bid, despite polls showing the race to be increasingly close there.

The US Coast Guard seized a shipment of weapons from Iran in the Persian Gulf that was headed to Houthi rebels in Yemen, the US announced Thursday.

Former President and likely Republican nominee Donald Trump said Friday he would not appoint Jerome Powell to head the Federal Reserve if he is reelected in November, saying the chairman was looking to lower interest rates to help President Joe Biden return to his position.

Former President Donald Trump has support from more than half of voters likely to attend the Iowa caucuses next month, far more than any rival for the Republican presidential nomination, a new poll from the key state showed.

The federal charges against Donald Trump will test his supporters’ tolerance for the growing scandals weighing on his White House comeback bid, as Republican rivals look to wrest the 2024 nomination from the former president.

Former US President Donald Trump urged the conservative House members to back beleaguered Representative Kevin McCarthy for House speaker Wednesday as his humiliating struggle to secure enough votes from his own party stretched into a second day.

GOP’s Oz Overtakes Fetterman in Key Senate Race in Pennsylvania

It’s crunch time. Inflation is foremost in the mind of voters and that will favor Republicans.

The Libertarian candidate running for Senate from Arizona, Marc Victor, is dropping out and endorsing Blake Masters, offering the Republican a potential boost in the close race that could determine control of the chamber.

First lady Jill Biden apologized on Tuesday for comments at an event comparing members of the Latino community to traditional food.

Police have arrested a suspect in a string of shootings of homeless men in Washington and New York that increased already-spiking concerns about public safety, officials announced early Tuesday.

Democrat Terry McAuliffe conceded the Virginia governor’s race to Republican Glenn Youngkin Wednesday morning, a day after the suburban and independent voters who had handed the state to President Joe Biden fled to the GOP.

Democratic Representative Val Demings of Florida launched a run for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday, looking to unseat Republican Marco Rubio in the battleground state.

President Joe Biden agreed that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “killer,” and said in an interview with ABC News that Russia would pay for alleged interference in U.S. elections.

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who worked as former President Donald Trump’s press secretary, launched a bid Monday for governor of her home state of Arkansas, a job once held by her father, Mike Huckabee.