President Trump said Thursday there would be 'no choice' but to eliminate members of Hamas if they continue carrying out mass executions in Gaza as the terrorist group desperately tries to retain control of the enclave.

President Trump's tariffs have helped to tame the federal deficit, the Treasury Department reported Thursday, with the extra $118 billion in customs revenue helping to limit the damage from surging federal spending.

Most Senate Democrats on Thursday rebuffed the GOP's attempt to consider a package of bipartisan full-year appropriations bills that could help fund the government a handful of agencies at a time.

An American flag with stripes shifted to form a swastika was spotted in the office of Rep. Dave Taylor, Ohio Republican, who reported it to the U.S. Capitol Police.

Three labor unions sued the Trump administration on Thursday in connection with a program that searched social media posts of visa holders, arguing that it violates the First Amendment. The unions — the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Communication Workers of America; and American Federation of Teachers — called...

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Navy Adm. Alvin Holsey, who is overseeing the U.S. military’s strikes against boats in the Caribbean that the Trump administration argues are smuggling drugs into the country, will retire at the end of the year, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Thursday.  Holsey, a four-star admiral who is the commander of U.S. Southern Command (Southcom),...

Most Americans pinned the blame on the government shutdown on all parties involved — Republicans, Democrats and President Trump — according to a poll released Thursday by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. Roughly three-quarters of Americans surveyed said Republicans, Democrats and Trump deserve "a moderate amount" of blame over the shutdown, with...

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday stood by the Democrat running for attorney general in Virginia, suggesting Jay Jones should remain in the race following revelations that he had mused about violence against a Republican lawmaker and his children. Asked whether the Democrat should step aside, Jeffries signaled that Jones’s apologies for the...

A federal grand jury indicted former national security adviser John Bolton on charges of transmitting and retaining national defense information, bringing another criminal case against a critic of President Trump. Bolton faces eight transmission counts and 10 retention counts. Prosecutors allege that, beginning in April 2018 until at least August this year, Bolton “abused...