President Trump arrived on Monday in Japan where new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is banking on building a friendly personal relationship with the U.S. leader to ease trade tensions.

If the test accomplishes anything, it likely will subtly favor Trump-friendly immigrants, and disfavor MAGA skeptics. 

A judge handed down a maximum sentence Monday morning to Bionca Ellis, the woman accused of killing a 3-year-old boy in an unprovoked attack in the parking lot of a local Giant Eagle last summer.

Israel matters because it stands as the lone democracy in an undemocratic region. Warts and all, it is worth defending.

Trump claimed that the events had been “very small” — while every person with a smart phone or television could see that he was lying. 

CNN is denying a recent report that its head Mark Thompson recently met with officials in President Trump's administration and afterward urged staff at the network to ease up on its coverage of the White House renovation project, which has torn down the East Wing. The report, published in the media-news outlet Status, cited people...

The largest union representing federal workers is calling for an end to the government shutdown, as it hits Day 27. In a Monday release, American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) National President Everett Kelley said “it’s time” for Congress to immediately pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) to reopen the government.  “No half measures, and...

A group of Chinese bombers conducting “confrontation drills” recently flew near Taiwan, Beijing’s state media claimed Sunday, just days ahead of a meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea. Without giving a date or specific location for the war games, the Weibo account for Chinese state television’s military channel said “several J-10...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story of the revolution, and the war itself, could "put the 'us' back in the U.S." “We were divided, really divided back then,” Burns told ITK of the time leading up to the Revolutionary War...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) directed their ire at President Trump on Sunday evening as they rallied in support of their progressive ally in New York City, Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The high-profile figures addressed a large crowd of Mamdani supporters at a rally in Queens, where they both directly...