The five universities that were still weighing President Donald Trump's higher-education compact were asked to join a White House call Friday to discuss the proposed deal, according to two people familiar with the matter. By late Friday afternoon, one of the schools - the University of Virginia - had already declined to sign the agreement.
New York City's mayoral candidates duked it out in their first general election debate Thursday night, with contenders Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa sparring over everything from the Israel-Hamas war to the city's education system.
Two days after dozens of journalists left their desks at the Pentagon behind rather than agree to government-imposed rules on how they report about the U.S. military, it's apparent they haven't stopped working.
President Donald Trump announced Friday he had signed the commutation of disgraced former Rep. George Santos after he was sentenced to 87 months in prison.
A reader of Emma Fitzsimmons’s article could be forgiven for assuming that her sources for this piece were drawn exclusively from the Mamdani campaign.
Anti-ICE protests and sanctuary jurisdictions are taking their toll, forcing the agency to divert its personnel and hindering its ability to reach higher arrest and deportation numbers, acting Director Todd Lyons told The Washington Times, putting the blame on political rhetoric.
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought announced Friday that $11 billion in Army Corps of Engineers' projects will be paused and potentially canceled because of the government shutdown.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday proposed the swap of Ukrainian drones for American Tomahawk missiles, yet President Trump signaled he's not ready to commit to providing Kyiv with the long-range weapons it says it needs.
More U.S. adults support President Donald Trump's handling of the conflict in Israel after he brokered a ceasefire deal in Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds - but his approval ratings on domestic issues remain weak.
Republican leaders believe the "spectacle" of left-wing "No Kings" protests in Washington and around the country this weekend are contributing to Democrats' unwillingness to reopen the government.
