As the first year of President Donald Trump's second term comes to a close, two new polls from the Pew Research Center find that Hispanic adults are increasingly unhappy with the way his administration is handling the economy and immigration, issues that were key for voters during last year's election.
As part of a Trump diplomatic team that features heavyweights like Secretary of State Marco Rubio and special envoy Steve Witkoff, it's easy to overlook Dan Driscoll, who at 38 is the youngest secretary of the Army in the nation's history.
The barn in Mississippi where 14-year-old Emmett Till was tortured and killed will open to the public as a "sacred" memorial site by 2030, the new owner announced.
The Trump administration plans a review of all refugees admitted to the U.S. during the Biden administration, according to a memo obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
The White House is circulating a proposal that would extend subsidies to help consumers pay for coverage under the Affordable Care Act for two more years, as millions of Americans face spiking health care costs when the current tax credits are set to expire at the end of the year.
Vice President Vance said Sunday that six Democratic lawmakers violated the law by telling service members to disobey illegal orders. “If the president hasn’t issued illegal orders, then members of Congress telling the military to defy the president is by definition illegal,” Vance said on the social platform X. Earlier this week, Democratic Sens. Elissa...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Sunday that recent Russia-Ukraine war peace talks were “meaningful” and “productive.” “So, it is in my personal view that we’ve had probably the most productive and meaningful meetings so far in this entire process since we’ve been involved, from the beginning,” Rubio said in Geneva. “We have a very...
Harvard University is struggling with its latest controversy after multiple faculty members, including prominent economist Larry Summers, were revealed to have connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Harvard announced a probe into the matter this week as Summers, a former president of the school, said he would step away from his teaching obligations...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that President Trump’s sweeping tariffs have “nothing to do” with the rise in inflation. In an interview Sunday on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” moderator Kristen Welker pressed the secretary on the administration’s decision to roll back tariffs on more than 200 food products, just as President Trump...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has joined President Trump in a push to end the Senate's filibuster rule. “The American people are just now emerging from the longest and most devastating government shutdown in U.S. history. And while the blame lies squarely with Senate Democrats, we cannot ignore the weapon they used to hold the country...
Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) on Sunday called on Republicans in Congress to denounce President Trump’s threats against him and five other Democratic lawmakers who said that service members can disobey illegal orders. “We’ve heard very little, basically crickets, from Republicans in the United States Congress about what the president has said about hanging members of...
Organized crime groups in Mexico are threatening U.S. companies and their employees, resulting in a labor shortage of truck drivers and a high rate of violent hijackings, forcing companies to invest in security measures and lobby the Trump administration to address the issue.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) said he has received “very disturbing” threats in the wake of President Trump saying he and other Democratic lawmakers committed sedition after calling on service members to disobey illegal orders. “We’re going to take these seriously, but it’s very disturbing stuff,” Crow told host Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”...
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), chair emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Ukraine should not sign President Trump’s 28-point peace plan without ensuring an “ironclad” security agreement. McCaul said on ABC's "This Week" that he’s not sure either side will agree to Trump’s proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war, but the foreign policy hawk...
Global food insecurity is increasing, with 319 million people worldwide facing acute hunger, and the cost of nutritious food is making it more difficult for people to eat well, especially for those relying on SNAP, highlighting the need for increased production of nutritious food, reduced food waste and more conscious consumption.
Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy (La.) said that the science on vaccine efficacy should not be undermined, days after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) contradicted its long-standing position that vaccines do not cause autism. “Anything that undermines the understanding, the correct understanding, the absolute scientifically based understanding that vaccines are safe and that,...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called President Trump’s 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine “awful” and a “complete capitulation” to Russian demands. Warner, in an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” compared the U.S. proposal to the appeasement approach of World War II-era British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who...
