The federal government has run a $711 billion deficit over the last three months of 2024, the Treasury Department reported Tuesday, underscoring the worsening budget picture that President Biden will turn over to President-elect Donald Trump.

Some 388 noncitizens cast ballots in the District of Columbia's local elections in November, according to data released Tuesday by Judicial Watch that suggests the city's groundbreaking experiment in expanding its voter pool saw only tepid interest.

Senate Armed Services Democrats questioned Pete Hegseth about his qualifications to lead the Defense Department, given his limited management experience.

The Biden administration on Tuesday is expected to lift the U.S. designation of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter. The officials were not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the yet-to-be publicly announced move.

Many congressional Democrats don't plan to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday, but this time around, they're not calling it a boycott.

U.S. foreign policy is at its strongest when it is bipartisan. Take, for example, the U.S.-India partnership, developed over a quarter century with the support of every U.S. president since George W. Bush. Its success as a strategic pillar for the 21st century is a testament to the consistency with which successive administrations recognized India’s importance. […]

It must be a tough time to be a regime journalist. Corporate media went all-in to try and stop President-elect Donald Trump, and in the face of the best-funded propaganda machine in human history, voters rejected Democrats and the press, as if any semblance of a distinction remains, with massive Electoral College and substantial popular […]

Where President-elect Trump sees a rivalry, Canada sees a potential friend. America’s neighbor to the north this week is floating an energy and minerals partnership with the U.S., Canadian Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson told The Hill on Tuesday.  “We've also put together, essentially the idea of an energy and minerals partnership that...