The White House said Friday it had no advance knowledge of the federal indictment against former President Donald Trump and refused to weigh in on the case, saying it wanted to respect the Justice Department's independence.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. is investing more than $100 million in the Caribbean region to crack down on weapons trafficking, help alleviate Haiti's humanitarian crisis and support climate change initiatives.

President Joe Biden has picked a longtime government official and current top aide in the Transportation Department to serve as acting administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

Donald Trump's legal problems appear to have escalated significantly on Thursday with federal charges over the retention of top secret documents, but investigators aren't done yet.

Sen. Mitt Romney on Friday said former President Donald Trump brought criminal charges "upon himself" by taking sensitive government documents to Florida.

President Biden next week will hold his first political rally since announcing his 2024 reelection campaign nearly two months ago, his campaign announced Friday.

Steve Laffey, a relatively obscure candidate for the GOP presidential nomination, on Friday called on former President Donald Trump to end his campaign and chastised his party rivals for refusing to criticize the ex-president over a seven-count federal indictment in Florida.

Sen. Sherrod Brown and other Ohio lawmakers have jumped into the fray over whether the Biden administration will reverse a 2021 decision to move U.S. Space Command to Alabama from its current location in Colorado.

For Democrats hoping to best former President Donald Trump by brute force rather than at the ballot box, perhaps the second indictment is the charm. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's norm-shattering indictment of the former president turned out to be more of a bust than a silver bullet, with even lefty legal critics such as Ian Millhiser admitting that Bragg's attempt to turn a hush money payout to a porn star into a felony charge of falsifying business records was "dubious" at best. Now, the Justice Department is taking a second bite at the Trump apple, indicting the GOP front-runner on seven counts related to alleged mishandling and possession of classified documents.