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WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that his long-promised " gold card " was officially going on sale, offering legal status and an eventual pathway to U.S. citizenship for individuals paying $1 million and corporations ponying up twice that per foreign-born employee.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has finally met with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is finally meeting with his Mexican counterpart, Claudia Sheinbaum.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says he's enlisting the help of legendary golfer Jack Nicklaus to spruce up the courses at Joint Base Andrews -- adding a site long known as the "president's golf course" to his long and still- growing list of construction projects.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has made hardline immigration policies a signature issue, but acknowledged on Wednesday that he's been criticized for recently saying some skilled immigrants should be allowed into the country from his "Make America Great Again" supporters.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump loves offering outlandish ideas and then repeating them until they start to become mainstream -- even if they don't always come to fruition.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump says his $300 million White House ballroom will be paid for "100% by me and some friends of mine."
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has pardoned former New York Mets great Darryl Strawberry of tax evasion and drug charges, citing the 1983 National League Rookie of the Year's post-career embrace of his Christian faith and longtime sobriety.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump has pardoned the former Tennessee House speaker and a onetime aide of public corruption charges after the White House said the Biden administration Justice Department "significantly over-prosecuted" both for a minor issue.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump hosted hundreds of costumed guests -- from superheroes to dinosaurs and even a few children dressed as the first couple -- as part of Thursday night's Halloween celebration at the White House.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump isn't curtailing travel. He's not avoiding golf or making do with a skeleton staff in the West Wing. Even hamburgers served at the White House aren't from McDonalds, this time.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded America's highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation's politics further to the right.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to relocate World Cup matches set to be played next year in Boston, parts of which he'd suggested had been "taken over" by recent unrest.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Tuesday is posthumously awarding America's highest civilian honor to Charlie Kirk, the assassinated activist who inspired a generation of young conservatives and helped push the nation's politics further to the right.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is declaring Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip over and has already barreled ahead toward far larger goals -- arguing that the fragile ceasefire his administration helped broker is a chance to bring a lasting peace to the greater Middle East.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- AstraZeneca on Friday became the second major pharmaceutical manufacturer to announce it had agreed to lower the cost of prescription drugs for Medicaid under a deal struck with the Trump administration that avoided its threats of steep tariffs.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump was holding a roundtable event with conservative influencers about antifa Wednesday when Secretary of State Marco Rubio, standing in the back corner of the White House's Blue Room, caught his eye.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump isn't a doctor. But he played one on TV Monday, offering copious amounts of unproven medical advice that he suggested -- often without providing evidence -- might help reduce autism rates.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump defended his order that flags be lowered to half-staff after last week's slaying of conservative activist Charlie Kirk by suggesting he would have done the same following the assassination of a Minnesota Democratic state lawmaker this summer had he been asked by the state's governor.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday signed an order sending the National Guard into Memphis to combat crime, constituting his latest test of the limits of presidential power by using military force in American cities.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is hosting Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee in the Oval Office on Monday after suggesting that he's ready to send the National Guard into Memphis to help combat crime.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation's capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation's capital.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is having dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an effort to crack down on crime in the nation's capital.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday and was booed by the crowd at a men's final, which was delayed due to the extra security associated with his visit.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday and briefly stepped out from a luxury box to wave at a main court crowd mostly still arriving for the men's final. He drew mixed cheers and boos.
NEW YORK (AP) -- President Donald Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker's home country and with organizers seeking to keep off-court disruptions -- like audience members booing him -- from being seen on the TV broadcast.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Saturday amplified his promises to send National Guard troops and immigration agents to Chicago by posting a parody image from "Apocalypse Now" featuring a ball of flames as helicopters zoom over the nation's second-largest city.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump will attend Sunday's men's final of the U.S. Open, returning to a tournament he once frequently attended for the first time in a decade.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Demolition to build President Donald Trump's new ballroom off the East Wing of the White House can begin without approval of the commission tasked with vetting construction of federal buildings, the Trump-appointed head of the panel said Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday marked the fourth anniversary of the suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members during the chaotic withdrawal at the end of the Afghanistan War by signing a proclamation honoring the fallen.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that the draw for the 2026 World Cup will take place on Dec. 5 at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House said Thursday night that there will be increased presence of federal law enforcement in the nation's capital to combat crime for at least the next week, amid President Donald Trump 's suggestions that his administration could fully take over running the city.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a warning to Russia, President Donald Trump said Friday he's ordering the repositioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines "based on the highly provocative statements" of the country's former president Dmitry Medvedev.
BALMEDIE, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump is opening a new golf course bearing his name in Scotland on Tuesday, capping a five-day foreign trip designed around promoting his family's luxury properties and playing golf.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday used his luxury golf course on Scotland's southeastern coast to host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, mixing critical discussions on the deepening food crisis in Gaza, Russia's war in Ukraine and tariff rates with boasts about the property's opulence.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Monday used his luxury golf course on Scotland's southeastern coast to host British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, mixing critical discussions on the deepening food crisis in Gaza, Russia's war in Ukraine and tariff rates with boasts about the property's opulence.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump seemed to be recalibrating his stance on Gaza on Monday, expressing concern about the humanitarian situation and urging Israel's leader to take action as images of emaciated children have emerged.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- U.S. President Donald Trump met on Monday at one of his Scottish golf courses with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who pressed him on the U.S. taking a larger role in helping quell a growing food crisis in Gaza amid Israel's ongoing war with Hamas in the territory.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump once suggested his golf course in Scotland "furthers" the U.S.-U.K. relationship. Now he's getting the chance to prove it.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump once suggested his golf course in Scotland "furthers" the U.S.-U.K. relationship.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- During sweaty summer months, Abraham Lincoln often decamped about 3 miles (5 kilometers) north of the White House to the Soldiers' Home, a presidential retreat of cottages and parkland in what today is the Petworth section of northwest Washington.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- President Donald Trump played golf Saturday at his course on Scotland's coast while protesters around the country took to the streets to decry his visit and accuse United Kingdom leaders of pandering to the American.
EDINBURGH, Scotland (AP) -- Lashed by cold winds and overlooking choppy, steel-gray North Sea waters, the breathtaking sand dunes of Scotland's northeastern coast rank among Donald Trump 's favorite spots on earth.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for in an attempt to create clearer national standards in the NCAA's name, image and likeness era.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order mandating that federal authorities clarify whether college athletes can be considered employees of the schools they play for -- attempting to create clearer national standards for the NCAA's name image and likeness program.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Make American Coke Great Again?
WASHINGTON (AP) -- As President Donald Trump heads to Texas on Friday for a firsthand look at the devastation caused by catastrophic flooding, he has remained conspicuously quiet about his previous promises to do away with the federal agency in charge of disaster relief.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Turns out Donald Trump gauges his esteem for presidential predecessors by how well their portraits fit into his White House redecorating scheme. Or sometimes how well the frames around those portraits do.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he's "not happy" with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, saying Moscow's ongoing war in Ukraine is "killing a lot of people" on both sides.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump took office in January pledging to "make America the crypto capital of the world." He has since harnessed wide swaths of the federal government to bolster the industry -- all while raking in huge sums of money for his family's business.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump said Friday that his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was "wrong" when she previously said that the U.S. believed Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon, and he suggested that it would be "very hard to stop" Israel's strikes on Iran in order to negotiate a possible ceasefire.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump issued a series of pardons on Wednesday, awarding them to a former New York congressman, a Connecticut governor, a rapper known as "NBA YoungBoy," a labor union leader and a onetime Army officer who flaunted safety measures during the Coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It may start as a casual aside, a wee-hours social post or a much-hyped announcement.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump honored the 2025 NCAA basketball champion Florida Gators at the White House on Wednesday, proclaiming that "lesser teams would have crumbled" during its nail-biting title game victory.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center 's leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he's devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump hosted the Kennedy Center 's leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he's devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump is hosting the Kennedy Center 's leadership at the White House on Monday night, reinforcing how much attention he's devoting to remaking a premier cultural center as part of a larger effort to overhaul the social and ideological dynamics of the national arts scene.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- For generations, official American documents have been meticulously preserved and protected, from the era of quills and parchment to boxes of paper to the cloud, safeguarding snapshots of the government and the nation for posterity.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's not just the "gesture" of a $400 million luxury plane that President Donald Trump says he's smart to accept from Qatar. Or that he effectively auctioned off the first destination on his first major foreign trip, heading to Saudi Arabia because the kingdom was ready to make big investments in U.S. companies.