The U.S. military is stationing a vast array of forces in the Middle East, including two aircraft carriers, fighter jets and refueling tankers, giving President Donald Trump the option for a major attack against Iran as he pressures the country to strike a deal over its nuclear program.

The deployment is unlike anything the U.S. has done since ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his Board of Peace received roughly $17 billion in pledges toward humanitarian and reconstruction efforts in Gaza, and that more than half a dozen countries promised personnel to a stabilization force in the war-torn territory.

The announcements made Thursday during the group’s first meeting in ...Read more

President Donald Trump launched his international Board of Peace Thursday with grand talk of global problem-solving and $7 billion in pledges for aid from nine Muslim nations to rebuild Gaza.

With 40 nations but few major traditional U.S. allies represented at the inaugural gathering, Trump ticked off his familiar claims of resolving several ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said his Board of Peace received roughly $17 billion in pledges toward humanitarian and reconstruction efforts in Gaza, and that more than half a dozen countries promised personnel to a stabilization force in the war-torn territory.

The announcements made Thursday during the group’s first meeting in ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Last fall, a breakaway group of Senate Democrats undercut their party to make a deal with Republicans and reopen the government, angering many of their colleagues in the other chamber.

Now, with the Department of Homeland Security shuttered in the midst of a fierce fight over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, some ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has gone more than three months without issuing a decision since it heard oral arguments on the legality of President Donald Trump’s worldwide tariffs, as evidence of the potential fallout has emerged across Washington.

The justices kept the tariffs in place as they weigh Trump’s signature domestic and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Local officials in Kansas City celebrated when a development company abandoned plans last week to sell a warehouse to the U.S. government for the purpose of becoming a 7,500-bed immigration detention center — including Reps. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri.

The Democrats had raised concerns in ...Read more

The U.S. military build-up in the Middle East means Iran’s window to reach a diplomatic agreement over its atomic activities is at risk of closing, according to the head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog.

The International Atomic Energy Agency has discussed concrete proposals with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to inspect sites ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Populist Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday formally kicked off the campaign to place a billionaires tax on the November ballot, framing the proposal as something larger than a debate about economic and tax policy as he appeared at a storied Los Angeles venue.

"The billionaire class no longer sees itself as part of American ...Read more

The president announces an aggressive, controversial policy. Large groups of protesters take to the streets. Government agents open fire and kill protesters.

All of these events, familiar from Minneapolis in 2026, also played out at Ohio’s Kent State University in 1970. In my academic writing about the First Amendment, I have ...Read more

For the first time in more than half a century, there are no binding restraints on the buildup of the largest nuclear forces on Earth. The New START treaty expired on Feb. 5, 2026, ending the last agreed limits on U.S. and Russian nuclear forces.

New START limited the number of strategic nuclear weapons the United States and Russia ...Read more

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un showcased dozens of new rocket launchers designed for a “strategic mission” as the country prepares to hold a rare party congress in the coming days to lay out its key policy agenda for the next five years.

North Korea’s munitions industry presented 50 600mm-caliber multiple rocket launchers to the Ninth ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an order aimed at protecting domestic supplies of elemental phosphorus used by the U.S. military and glyphosate-based herbicides common in U.S. agricultural production, according to a White House official.

The executive order, which Trump signed on Wednesday, invokes the Defense Production Act to protect domestic ...Read more

Rep. Kevin Kiley remains undecided on his looming congressional reelection campaign, but he has ruled out a return to the California Legislature.

Kiley offered the latest update to his reelection campaign at a live event Tuesday night hosted by The Sacramento Bee. The event, held at the Historic Loomis Train Depot Plaza, allowed residents to ...Read more

WASHINGTON ― Detroit U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib and the top Democrat on a key House panel are pressing the owner of the Ambassador Bridge to reveal details about his reported meeting last week with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick about a soon-to-open competing span, the Gordie Howe International Bridge.

Tlaib and U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia of ...Read more

U.S. Senator Ed Markey, D-MA, says he will be boycotting President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address next week and will instead join “The People’s State of the Union,” joining several fellow congressional Democrats in a counterprogramming demonstration against the president.

“The State of the Union should be a reckoning with ...Read more

Sue Altman showed up to a state Senate hearing in 2019 to confront George Norcross and was dragged out by state troopers. Six years later, she’s using that incident as an example of why New Jersey voters should send her to Congress.

“If anything can prepare you for a dogfight that Washington politics is, it’s Jersey politics,” said ...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is having conversations with Raúl Castro’s grandson in Cuba, an overture amid Trump administration efforts to push for changes on the communist island.

Col. Raúl Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, 41, known as “El Cangrejo,” the Crab, was the head of personal security when his grandfather Raúl Castro was ...Read more