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WASHINGTON − The Trump administration signaled it is retreating from a heavily criticized $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization" fund that was designed to compensate Americans who say they were unfairly prosecuted during the Biden and Obama presidencies.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Federal Reserve Governor Jerome Powell on Sunday warned about the impact of a politicized Fed and made a broader call for the defense of democratic institutions in his first public remarks since the ​end of his eight-year stint as head of the central bank.

Ken Paxton, the Texas Republican Senate nominee, will visit Senate GOP leaders in Washington to ease their concerns about his viability in the most populous red state in the U.S. Top Senate Republicans backed fellow Senator John Cornyn over Paxton, the state attorney general who settled a criminal securities-fraud charge and was impeached by the GOP-led Texas House. But President Donald Trump ...

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump unveiled yet another purported justification for his controversial plan to build a massive new ballroom and bunker under the East Wing of the White House he demolished: a rooftop "DronePort" that he says is needed to defend the nation's capital from modern threats.

President Donald Trump said he’s expanding the scope of his special envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, to include Iraq. Barrack, the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, became Trump’s Syria envoy in 2025, soon after President Ahmed al-Sharaa took power. His now-renewed appointment to that post had expired on Friday. 

Sen. Maria Cantwell on Wednesday unveiled a bipartisan bill she negotiated with Sen. Ted Cruz that proposes a sweeping set of regulations for college sports that address athlete pay, transfers between schools and more.

The Department of Justice acknowledged that it has removed webpages that detail charges, convictions, and other information related to the myriad defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.

WASHINGTON – Sen. Patty Murray expressed outrage Tuesday after President Donald Trump sued the government he runs, then settled the lawsuit with his own Justice Department and created a nearly $1.8 billion fund to compensate people who say they were mistreated by the federal government.

WASHINGTON – The U.S. is pursuing a second criminal investigation into ousted Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, raising the possibility that he could face additional charges, according ​to a Justice Department official and another source familiar with the matter.

WASHINGTON – The Trump administration announced Monday it will drop some limits on “forever chemicals” in drinking water that officials had determined can cause cancer and other serious health problems – angering some key activists who had supported President Donald Trump’s campaign.

A devastating wildfire will happen again, Ken Johnson said. “It’s just a matter of time."

WASHINGTON – A U.S. Senate official on Saturday removed security funding that could be used for President Donald Trump's planned White House ballroom from a massive spending package, Democratic lawmakers said, imperiling Republican efforts to devote taxpayer money to the contentious project.

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump landed in China with a coterie of American business executives on Wednesday, ahead of two days of meetings with President Xi Jinping and other Chinese leaders that are expected to focus on trade amid rising tension between two global superpowers.

The Justice Department is holding internal discussions about settling President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service in coming days, according to three people familiar with the deliberations, a move that could involve the government directly providing taxpayer funds or another public benefit to the president. Whether to settle the suit and on what terms remains up in the air. One of the settlement options the Justice Department and White House officials are reviewing is the possibility of the IRS dropping any audits of Trump, his family members or businesses, according to two of the people.

A federal appeals court has temporarily paused a ruling that declared President Donald Trump’s latest global tariffs unlawful, as the judges weigh the administration’s request to allow officials to keep collecting the levies while the legal fight continues. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a brief order on Tuesday entering what’s known as an administrative stay, and set ...

WASHINGTON – Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday pressed FBI Director Kash Patel over a media report that episodes of excessive drinking interfered with his ability to lead the premier U.S. law enforcement agency, drawing an angry response from Patel.

WASHINGTON – FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigned, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, after weeks of clashing with top White House and health advisers and drawing scrutiny for a series of controversial agency decisions, according to several people familiar with internal dynamics.

The Trump administration said Sunday it was moving on an effort to expand access to fertility benefits to more Americans, announcing a new proposed rule aimed at making it easier for employers to offer in vitro fertilization services among other benefits.