Trump's Republican Party is increasingly viewing its first-of-a-kind midterm convention next month as crucial to regaining momentum.
- Craig Mauger The Detroit News
Trump floated the idea of changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America in a Tuesday social media post amid an intensifying feud with Canada.
- Jessica Guynn USA Today
Target apologized for a Halloween circus clown costume that critics said appeared to conjure Blackface and 19th-century minstrel shows.
- Christopher Cann, Clayton Park and Erick Trevino USA Today Network
The cost of a typical school supply list is nearly $175. Some essentials like lunch boxes, notebooks and tissues cost 20% or more than they did a year ago.
- Dawn Kopecki Reuters
U.S. companies spent an unprecedented $517 million on U.S. House and Senate races in the 15 months through the end of the first quarter of 2026.
- John Geddie, Yukiko Toyoda, Ben Blanchard and Aftab Ahmed Reuters
Trump's olive branch to North Korea's Kim Jong Un at the expense of a long-standing ally comes at a pivotal moment for U.S. security ties in Asia.
- Andrew Chung Reuters
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted a judicial decision blocking President Donald Trump's administration from implementing his executive order to restrict the use of mail-in ballots.
The immigrant father of a U.S. sailor on board the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier was taken into federal immigration detention, the sailor said in a Facebook post.
Fifteen years after the government set out to replace the FBI鈥檚 headquarters, taxpayers are still paying to maintain the deteriorating building and work on a new site is delayed.
Lindsay Clancy's fate will soon be in the hands of a Massachusetts jury to deliberate a verdict in the highly publicized triple murder trial.
* US Army sergeant's wife detained in July, deported to Honduras * Trump has pursued hardline immigration crackdown * Trump's crackdown, deportation drive condemned by rights advocates By Kanishka
Russia launched overnight airstrikes on Ukrainian targets, killing two at a steel plant in Kryvyi Rih. Kyiv responded with a heavy drone attack on the Moscow region, killing one person and damaging a warehouse belonging to Russia鈥檚 leading e-commerce retailer, Wildberries.
From an executive order cutting the number of childhood vaccinations to the death of a beloved eagle, here鈥檚 what made headlines this past week.
Seven active and retired firefighters cited concerns over a Trump administration policy and the effects of U.S. Forest Service staffing cuts.
NEW YORK 鈥 Under the sweltering New York sun ahead of an Indiana Fever and New York Liberty matchup, the Barclays Center in Brooklyn stood at the center of a national debate on transgender athletes in sports that has engulfed the WNBA over the last month.
From record national debt to a failed NASA rescue mission and scrutiny of a Trump aide, here are stories that made headlines this past week.
About 21,000 Haitian TPS holders worked in the U.S. as caregivers, serving roughly 77,000 patients.
After years of intensive agriculture designed to cheaply feed the most people, this year's extreme weather has added urgency to the debate over whether climate change has transformed the economics.
Scammers count on us tapping without checking how much is being charged or the business name receiving the payment, experts warn. And they're going to rush you through the process.
The companies said their vaccine helped prevent the return and spread of melanoma in a trial that involved more than 1,000 patients.
President Donald Trump led an insurgent takeover of the Republican Party. Now, conservative war critics could use the same playbook.
The judge said the policy, suspending the issuance of immigrant visas to applicants from 75 countries, exceeded Secretary of State Rubio's authority.
The Pentagon fired the editor-in-chief of the military newspaper Stars and Stripes on Friday after he condemned "hypothetical censorship" in an interview, multiple news outlets reported.
Navy officials might name a new aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump instead of a World War II sailor who heroically saved lives when Pearl Harbor was bombed, according to media reports.
The move gives justices additional time to consider the administration's formal request to let it continue working on the $400 million project.
U.S. Senate Democrats requested the USDA clarify the cause of a significant overstatement in beef export sales and whether staffing reductions contributed to the error, reflecting growing concerns about the accuracy of market-driving agricultural data.
What happened to Amelia Earhart? That question eluded countless researchers, biographers and devoted enthusiasts for almost 90 years.
Higher temperatures accelerate ripening and produce grapes with a higher sugar content, making it harder to preserve champagne's flavor and acidity.
It generated questions over a push-pull between the Fed and the Treasury over influencing general credit conditions.
Trump deployed thousands of National Guard troops to Washington last summer as the centerpiece of what he describes as a no-holds-barred effort to combat crime, especially in Democrat-run cities.