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Former national security adviser Mike Waltz was photographed using a Signal-like messaging app during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, more than a month after he first came under intense scrutiny for accidentally including a journalist in a group chat that discussed military plans.

President Donald Trump has sought to extract concessions and changes from Harvard and other schools by threatening to withhold federal research grants.

The president said public funding of the media networks was “outdated and unnecessary but corrosive to the appearance of journalistic independence.”

President Donald Trump released a 40-page budget proposal including a mix of cuts to domestic programs. Follow along for live updates.

The development could potentially pave the way for the world’s two largest economies to start negotiations to resolve a trade war that has rumbled financial markets.

President Donald Trump’s massive China tariffs are jeopardizing American fireworks shows, threatening to drive up prices and limit supplies.

For the last 14 years, when it rains in Lowndes County, Alabama, contaminated standing water builds up around Annye Burke’s home. When the septic tank breaks down, raw sewage backs up into her toilet, she said.

A federal judge on Thursday barred the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans from South Texas under an 18th-century wartime law.

A former federal employee who was fired, rehired after a judge’s order and then fired a second time says her health insurance coverage was canceled and backdated after she had surgery, leaving her with the bill.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would nominate national security adviser Mike Waltz to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.

Trump said he’s nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz, who was at the center of the Signal chat controversy, to be United Nations ambassador.

Activists around the globe are kicking off May Day demonstrations with workers’ rights rallies and marches for social justice causes.

The corporate updates come shortly after Trump imposed a 25% tariff on automotive imports into the U.S. earlier in the month.

The White House announced an economic partnership with Ukraine that includes an agreement on the ownership and extraction of natural resources from the war-torn nation.

Reshoring more of the U.S. auto industry would require untangling supply chains that leave many components vulnerable to a series of tariffs Trump has repeatedly revised.

The U.S. Education Department is investigating Chicago Public Schools amid allegations that a new program designed to improve academic success and retention among Black students and educators violates federal law.

Trump also appeared to be unmoved by the idea that American consumers will face empty store shelves if his trade war drags on.

The president told ABC News he “could” have Kilmar Abrego Garcia returned from El Salvador but, “we have lawyers that don’t want to do this.”

For as long as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has falsely claimed that vaccines cause widespread harm — from autism to sudden death — he has pointed to the one source he says could immediately prove it.  

Donald Trump acknowledged his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the U.S., but insisted China will suffer more from his trade war.