President Trump launched a website Monday for new and expectant mothers as part of the administration's plan to reverse the nation's declining birth rate and improve maternal and infant health.
The Trump administration on Wednesday issued emergency orders to keep two set-to-be-shuttered coal plants in Indiana running through the end of the year, providing a lifeline to a favored industry while arguing it would ensure people with secure and affordable electricity. Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced the orders directing the Northern Indiana Public Service Company...
The Quad — the U.S., Japan, India and Australia — was conceived as a strategic coalition to uphold a “free and open Indo-Pacific,” a concept articulated by the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2016 and later elevated to a centerpiece of U.S. strategy. At stake was nothing less than preserving a rules-based order...
The White House will present plans for its ballroom construction at the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) meeting next month. The “East Wing Modernization Project” was added to the agenda of the Jan. 8 NCPC meeting, during which administration officials will give an “information presentation” on its controversial project. The presentation is often seen as...
For some of the world’s poorest people, BRICS — originally Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa — is becoming a Trojan horse for Moscow’s war machine.
The Kennedy Center’s annual Christmas Eve jazz concert was canceled Wednesday after its longtime host declined to perform in protest of the recent changes to the performing arts center's name. Chuck Redd, who’s hosted the holiday “Jazz Jams” since 2006, said he made the decision after seeing President Trump’s name added to the building, which...
The Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program will allow eligible families to use $10,474 for their child's private school tuition and expenses for the 2025-26 school year, but the Comptroller of Public Accounts is asking the Attorney General to bar schools affiliated with CAIR or the Chinese government from receiving funds.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged in his Christmas Eve message that many Ukrainians want to see Russian President Vladimir Putin dead. "'May he perish,' each of us may think to ourselves," Zelensky said in the broadcast. "But when we turn to God, of course, we ask for something greater." "We ask for peace for Ukraine....
Putin’s military forces have bombed children’s hospitals, kindergartens and playgrounds. Russia has also kidnapped more than 19,000 Ukrainian children.
As President Trump's first year back in office comes to a close, two officials in particular are under intense scrutiny, raising questions about how long they will remain in their jobs: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and FBI Director Kash Patel. Trump has publicly expressed support for both officials, but Noem and Patel have each...
Palau, a small archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, signed a memo of understanding with the Trump administration to take up to 75 “third-country nationals,” in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid. The agreement would allow migrants who have never been charged with a crime “to live and work in Palau, helping address local...
Palau, a small archipelago in the western Pacific Ocean, signed a memo of understanding with the Trump administration to take up to 75 “third-country nationals,” in exchange for $7.5 million in foreign aid. The agreement would allow migrants who have never been charged with a crime “to live and work in Palau, helping address local...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) declared a state of emergency in several southern counties on Wednesday, as a powerful winter storm swept through the state. Newsom issued the proclamation in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, and Shasta counties, unlocking additional state resources and assistance to aid in the emergency response. He warned...
