President Trump is backing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth following reports that he included his wife, brother and lawyer in a private chat on the Signal app about planned military strikes in Yemen, White House officials said Monday.

Congressional Republicans have set conflicting goals that will make negotiating a budget reconciliation package for enacting President Trump's agenda a difficult task.

China on Monday threatened to retaliate against any nation that agreed to isolate Beijing as part of trade negotiations with the Trump administration.

The Trump administration shut off federal funding through Medicaid for non-healthcare-related services such as housekeeping, groceries, and internet earlier this month. It’s about time. Medicaid exists to provide health benefits to the nation’s neediest, not to subsidize a laundry list of liberal priorities. Over the last two decades, it has increasingly served as a slush fund […]

The U.S. military prides itself on discipline, merit, and readiness. But when politics infects leadership, even the strongest institutions can be compromised. As a Navy service member serving under multiple administrations, I saw firsthand how misguided policies can ripple through the force long after the headlines fade. Nearly four years after the failed Biden administration […]

Markets nosedived on Monday as President Donald Trump blasted Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates amid waning economic sentiment spurred by Trump’s tariff policies. Trump escalated his war of words against Powell in a Truth Social post on Monday morning. Trump called Powell “a major loser” after nicknaming him “Mr. Too...

Donald Trump Jr. said Monday that the former Pentagon official who publicly detailed the department's “chaos” under Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership in a new op-ed is “officially exiled” from President Trump's political movement. “This guy is not America First,” Trump Jr. wrote on social platform X. “I’ve been hearing for years that he works...

Trump and Vance prefer comfort to hardship, dislike Ukraine and feel some guilt for the crimes they are abetting.

President Trump on Monday directed all federal and state flags to fly at half-staff in commemoration of Pope Francis, who died at the age of 88 earlier that morning. The president said he signed an executive order to put the flags at half-staff just before exiting the White House for the traditional Easter Egg Roll...

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an appeal from Minnesota seeking the revival of the state's ban on gun-carry permits for young adults. The justices said they would not consider whether the state's law barring 18-to-20-year-olds from obtaining permits to carry firearms in public violates the Second Amendment, leaving intact a lower court's ruling that...