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After saying earlier in the day that he was "in no rush" to finish trade deals, President Donald Trump said he thought he could wrap up tariff talks "over the next three or four weeks." That timeline would be ambitious, as Trump's tariffs have sent nations scrambling to Washington. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni met with Trump earlier Thursday.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Southern Republicans are pushing their states to formally embrace the name Gulf of America -- the name President Donald Trump has bestowed on the Gulf of Mexico -- and require its use on maps, textbooks and signs.
In a Thursday meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, President Donald Trump said he's "in no rush" to reach trade deals with foreign nations. Meloni met with Trump as Italy's premier.
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is the first European leader to have a face-to-face with President Donald Trump since he announced, and then suspended, 20% tariffs on European exports.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell' s termination "cannot come fast enough" as he reiterated his frustration that the Fed hasn't aggressively cut interest rates.
A 30-year-old community service program that sends young adults to work on projects across the U.S. was the latest target of the campaign by President Donald Trump's administration to slash government spending.
A federal judge on Wednesday said he has found probable cause to hold President Donald Trump's administration in criminal contempt of court for violating his orders to turn around planes carrying deportees to El Salvador.
President Donald Trump's administration announced a lawsuit Wednesday against Maine's education department for not complying with the government's push to ban transgender athletes in girls sports, escalating a dispute over whether the state is abiding by a federal law that bars discrimination in education based on sex.
A federal judge has said she'll order sworn testimony by Trump administration officials to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to a notorious El Salvador prison.
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) -- A suspect accused of attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump last September in South Florida can hire an expert to examine the rifle recovered from the scene, but only to determine its operability, a federal judge said Tuesday.
A federal judge in Maryland will order sworn testimony by officials in President Donald Trump's administration to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.
A federal judge in Maryland questioned members of President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday about its continued refusal to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison, even after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to facilitate his release.
A federal judge in Maryland is expected to question members of President Donald Trump's administration Tuesday about its continued refusal to retrieve Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison, even after the Supreme Court ordered the administration to facilitate his release.
The federal government says it's freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the institution said it would defy the Trump administration's demands to limit activism on campus.
President Donald Trump has suggested he might temporarily exempt the auto industry from tariffs he previously imposed on the sector, to give carmakers time to adjust their supply chains.
President Donald Trump 's top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
President Donald Trump 's top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month.
President Donald Trump is hosting Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, at the White House on Monday as the small Central American nation becomes a critical lynchpin of the U.S. administration's mass deportation operation.
Trump administration officials have been out in force across the television networks, defending President Donald Trump's economic policies after another week of reeling markets that saw the Republican administration reverse course on some of its steepest tariffs.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) -- Oregon's DMV says it has found new cases of people being registered to vote despite not showing proof of U.S. citizenship, as it continues to review voter registration records following the disclosure of the errors last fall.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Homeland Security officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a welfare check on migrant children, not for immigration enforcement, the department said Friday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Homeland Security officers visited two Los Angeles public elementary schools this week to do a welfare check on migrant children, not for immigration enforcement, the department said Friday.
BOSTON (AP) -- A Democratic state lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged Friday with defrauding a trade association of tens of thousands of dollars and then falsifying records to cover up the scheme.
A federal judge on Friday lambasted a government lawyer who couldn't explain what, if anything, President Donald Trump's administration has done to arrange for the return of a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported last month to a notorious prison in El Salvador.
BOSTON (AP) -- A Democratic state lawmaker in Massachusetts was arrested and charged Friday with defrauding a trade association of tens of thousands of dollars and then falsifying records to cover up the scheme.
China announced Friday that it will raise tariffs on U.S. goods from 84% to 125% -- the latest salvo in an escalating trade war between the world's two largest economies that has rattled markets and raised fears of a global slowdown.
The Supreme Court on Thursday said President Donald Trump's administration must facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, rejecting the administration's emergency appeal. Abrego Garcia is a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local...
A federal judge is allowing President Donald Trump's administration to move forward with a requirement that everyone in the country illegally register with the federal government. The move will have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country.
House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework on Thursday, a political turnaround after Speaker Mike Johnson worked into the night to satisfy GOP holdouts who had refused to advance trillions of dollars in tax breaks without deeper spending cuts.
The European Union's executive commission said Thursday it will put its retaliatory measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump 's pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated solution.
The European Union's executive commission said Thursday it will put its retaliatory measures against new U.S. tariffs on hold for 90 days to match President Donald Trump 's pause on his sweeping new tariffs and leave room for a negotiated solution.
Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed down on his tariffs on most nations for 90 days but raised his tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that Trump was pausing his so-called 'reciprocal' tariffs on most of the country's biggest trading partners, but maintaining his 10% tariff on...
President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with nearly all of America's trading partners. And there's no end in sight.
President Donald Trump has launched tariff wars with nearly all of the United States' trading partners. And there's no end in sight.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell University and around $790 million for Northwestern University have been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both schools, the White House says.
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that has been in decline for decades.
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- A waiver issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction to add more barriers along the U.S-Mexico border in Southern California even as illegal crossings have plummeted.
TORONTO (AP) -- Retired NHL great Wayne Gretzky downplayed his influence on Donald Trump in his first public comments since the U.S. president began his second term and began making references to making Canada the 51st state.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders Tuesday aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's $9 congestion toll on drivers entering the most traffic-snarled parts of Manhattan appears likely to remain through the summer and possibly into the fall as a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's authority to end the program moves forward.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked an order for President Donald Trump's administration to return to work 16,000 probationary federal employees who were let go in mass firings.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's $9 congestion toll on drivers entering the most traffic-snarled parts of Manhattan appears likely to remain through the summer and possibly into the fall as a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's authority to end the program moves forward.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A waiver issued Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security allows the federal government to bypass environmental regulations and begin construction immediately on stretches of the border wall in Southern California.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign executive orders aimed at boosting coal, a reliable but polluting energy source that's long been in decline.
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's $9 congestion toll on most drivers entering Manhattan appears likely to remain through the summer and possibly into the fall as a lawsuit seeking to stop the Trump administration from ending the program moves forward.
The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuelan migrants, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump 's administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.
The Supreme Court on Monday lifted an order blocking President Donald Trump 's administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used 18th-century wartime law.
President Donald Trump said Monday that the U.S. is holding direct talks with Iran about its nuclear program, warning that Tehran would be in "great danger" if the talks aren't successful.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he unleashed tariffs on countries around the world.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump welcomed Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and the reigning champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House on Monday to congratulate them for winning the World Series last season.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to visit Trump since he unleashed tariffs on countries around the world.
President Donald Trump remained defiant Monday as global markets continued plunging after his tariff announcement last week.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Opponents of President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk plan to rally across the U.S. on Saturday to protest the administration's actions on government downsizing, the economy, human rights and other issues.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Columbia University must give detained activist Mahmoud Khalil and other students 30 days' notice before handing over any more documents to Congress as it investigates antisemitism on college campuses, a federal judge in New York ruled Friday.