Iran said it’s waiting for Oman to confirm when there will be a new round of nuclear talks with the U.S., while also saying it had nothing to do with Houthi missile strikes on Israel.

Iranian and U.S. officials were set to meet in Rome for a fourth round of negotiations last weekend, with Oman continuing its intermediary role. But the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Looking to boost the production of Hollywood movies in the U.S., President Donald Trump on Sunday announced a new 100% tariff applied on films produced overseas.

But studio executives on Sunday were surprised by the announcement, saying they had no advance notice of the tariffs plan and didn't know the details of how it would be...Read more

BALTIMORE — Maryland’s elected Republicans are unified in their support for President Donald Trump after his first 100 days, saying that his policies will benefit the state.

“I think, generally, we’ve all been supportive of President Trump’s agenda,” Senate Minority Whip Justin Ready, a representative of Frederick and Carroll ...Read more

Iran said it’s waiting for Oman to confirm when there will be a new round of nuclear talks with the U.S., while also saying it had nothing to do with Houthi missile strikes on Israel.

Iranian and U.S. officials were set to meet in Rome for a fourth round of negotiations last weekend, with Oman continuing its intermediary role. But the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers will be discussing and debating budgets, appropriations and reconciliation this week — and the Senate may open a debate on regulating digital assets known as stablecoins.

When it comes to the budgeting matters, it’s going to be a complicated week on Capitol Hill.

Friday’s release of a “skinny”version of ...Read more

Reports that the White House may propose nearly a 50% cut to NASA’s Science Mission Directorate are both mind-boggling and, if true, nothing short of disastrous.

To make those cuts happen — a total of $3.6 billion — NASA would have to close the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, and cancel the mission that will bring back samples ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours once he was elected has proved to be utter nonsense as experts grade his first 100 days in office. One day, he blames the cause of the war on Ukraine, and then, finally, he criticizes Vladimir Putin after a Russian ballistic missile attack on the Ukrainian city of ...Read more

President Donald Trump said in a Truth Social post that he has ordered the reopening of Alcatraz as a prison to “house America’s most ruthless and violent Offenders.”

Trump said he’s directing the Bureau of Prisons, Department of Justice, the FBI and Homeland Security to rebuild and substantially enlarge the former maximum security ...Read more

President Donald Trump announced Sunday that he plans to impose a 100% tariff on films produced overseas, extending his restrictive trade policies on U.S. imports to the entertainment sector for the first time.

In a post on Truth Social, the American leader said he was directing the Commerce Department and his trade representative to “...Read more

President Donald Trump suggested that his administration could strike trade deals with some countries as soon as this week, offering the prospect of relief for trading partners seeking to avoid higher U.S. import duties.

“It could very well be,” Trump told reporters on Sunday when asked whether any trade agreements were coming this week. He...Read more

A Romanian ultranationalist aligned with Donald Trump will head to a presidential runoff against the centrist mayor of Bucharest later this month after securing victory in a repeat election on Sunday, the latest blow to the nation’s ruling establishment.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians secured 40%, ...Read more

President Donald Trump has twice been sworn in to do the job of leading the country with his vow to uphold the Constitution, but on Sunday he expressed uncertainty about whether or not that included “due process.”

During a wide ranging interview aired Sunday on NBC’s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker, Trump didn’t have an answer when ...Read more

A far-right Romanian opposition leader who aligned himself with Donald Trump secured a first-round victory in a repeat presidential election, dealing a blow to the Black Sea nation’s ruling establishment amid outrage over persistent corruption and poverty.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance for the Union of Romanians secured 40.2...Read more

Romania’s far-right opposition leader won the first round of a presidential election repeat as voters took aim at the ruling establishment over persistent corruption and poverty in the Black Sea nation, exit polls showed.

George Simion of the ultranationalist Alliance of the Union of Romanians secured 30%, according to exit polls released by...Read more

President Donald Trump said he is willing to lower tariffs on China at some point because the levies now are so high that the world’s two largest economies have essentially stopped doing business with each other.

Trump has placed tariffs as high as 145% on Chinese imports. China has retaliated with tariffs of 125% on American imports. The ...Read more

One day after President Trump proposed a budget that would deeply slash the federal government, Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries on Saturday vowed that his party is unified in their opposition to cuts to Medicaid, Social Security, veterans' services and other safety-net programs for vulnerable Americans.

"We are committed to ...Read more

A survey of 38 of Georgia’s OB-GYNs found that nearly half of doctors participating said they have personally encountered cases where care had to be delayed, causing death or health complications for the mother, as a result of ambiguity in the state’s abortion law.

The survey, done by the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology in ...Read more

President Donald Trump insisted he doesn’t plan to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell despite his sustained criticism over the pace of interest rate cuts.

“Why would I do that?” he said in an interview on NBC’s "Meet the Press" with Kristen Welker that aired Sunday. “I get to replace the person in another short period of time.�...Read more

South Korea’s ruling party has selected former labor minister Kim Moon-soo as its presidential candidate to take on opposition nominee Lee Jae-myung, who is leading opinion polls ahead of next month’s election.

The race to become the People Power Party’s candidate had narrowed down to Kim and former PPP leader Han Dong-hoon. Ex-acting ...Read more

The Little Leaguers warming up in a Union Park outfield craned their necks between practice swings Saturday morning to listen to the message shouted by a nearby crowd.

What they heard — the protest chants of an anti-Trump movement trying to grow its ranks in Chicago — was aimed not only at the White House, but anyone frustrated by the ...Read more