In a sit-down interview with Fox News last month, President Trump and his billionaire "efficiency" adviser Elon Musk framed new tariffs on foreign trading partners as a simple matter of fairness.

"I said, 'Here's what we're going to do: reciprocal. Whatever you charge, I'm charging,'" Trump said of a conversation he'd had with Indian Prime ...Read more

President Donald Trump has ramped up his fight with the judiciary as he racks up losses in court over his administration’s efforts to reshape the U.S. government and its approach on everything from immigration to federal spending.

Two months into his term, Trump is already fighting more than 150 lawsuits challenging his executive actions, ...Read more

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called an election for April 28, with polls showing a close contest between his Liberal Party and the Conservatives as the country faces a trade war and taunts about its sovereignty from U.S. President Donald Trump.

Carney requested the dissolution of Parliament on Sunday in a meeting with Governor General ...Read more

Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to plunge Canada into an election campaign on Sunday, as U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war sharpens the focus on fixing long-standing problems that have hindered the Canadian economy.

Carney and his chief rival, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, each will seek to persuade Canadians he’s the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — When Jesse Ugalde, who served in the Vietnam War, entered a Department of Veterans Affairs building Friday, he noticed a difference.

“Already, people are leaving,” Ugalde, 74, who relies on the VA for his health care, said of VA employees. “I was told that they’re going to try to provide services, but it’s going to ...Read more

Before President Donald Trump took office for a second time, European officials thought they had him figured out. He was transactional, they said, a man motivated by a good deal.

Some bragged they knew how to do business with him based on their interactions with the self-proclaimed deal maker in his first term.

They were in for a rude ...Read more

President Donald Trump has revoked security clearances and access to classified information from a slew of his political opponents, including New York Attorney General Letitia James and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg.

“I have determined that it is no longer in the national interest for the following individuals to access classified information,” ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s coming wave of tariffs is poised to be more targeted than the barrage he has occasionally threatened, aides and allies say, a potential relief for markets gripped by anxiety about an all-out tariff war.

Trump is preparing a “liberation day” tariff announcement on April 2, unveiling so-called reciprocal tariffs he...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump revoked security clearances for former President Joe Biden and some key members of his administration, saying it is “no longer in the national interest” for them to continue to have access to classified information.

Those losing access include former Vice President Kamala Harris, former Secretary ...Read more

BOISE, Idaho — Idaho doctors can perform an abortion as stabilizing care during a medical emergency, a federal judge ruled this week — so long as they’re at the right hospital.

U.S. District Court Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Thursday that only St. Luke’s Health System and its medical providers are protected from Idaho’s near-total ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott issued a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump Friday night, claiming that the commander-in-chief’s criticisms of student math scores don’t add up.

“In response to he who shall not be named, let’s talk facts,” Scott posted on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

“...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — A battleground seat in the Michigan Senate has remained vacant for 11 weeks as state political leaders continue to wait for Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to set dates for a special election to fill the opening.

Former state Sen. Kristen McDonald Rivet, a Democrat, was sworn in as a member of the U.S. House on Jan. 3, leaving the ...Read more

The Supreme Court is set to hear arguments Monday over the fate of Louisiana’s second Black-majority congressional district, in a pair of cases that could shape how state lawmakers can use race when drawing new congressional maps.

Parties in the case have urged the justices to clarify the “breathing room” states get between the statutory ...Read more

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday overturned convictions on two counts in the case against former Chicago Alderman Patrick Daley Thompson and remanded the case back to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Thompson — nephew and grandson of Chicago’s two longest-serving mayors — was sentenced to four months in prison in 2022 after he was ...Read more

President Donald Trump reached into the Georgia Legislature for his latest appointment, naming Republican state Sen. Brandon Beach on Friday as his administration’s treasurer, meaning his signature will soon appear on U.S. currency.

The pick rewards a loyalist who was a fixture at just about every major Trump rally in the closing weeks of the...Read more

Elon Musk Friday held talks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon, but President Donald Trump denied reports the world’s richest man was there to get a briefing on top-secret U.S. plans for a potential war with China.

The SpaceX and Tesla mogul came to the Department of Defense headquarters in suburban northern Virginia for what...Read more

President Donald Trump gave no specific reason for firing Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff less than halfway through Brown’s four-year term in office.

Nor did he give an explanation for similarly ousting other senior military leaders, including the only women ever to lead the Navy and the Coast ...Read more

Iran’s supreme leader reiterated a warning to the U.S. and its allies that they won’t be able to force his country into negotiations through threats and vowed “harsh blows” against any American aggression.

“We are never the ones to initiate a conflict,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a televised speech on Friday. “But the U.S., ...Read more