The Trump administration announced it has launched an investigation into whether schools in Maine are violating federal law by continuing to allow transgender athletes to compete in high school sports against biological women.

A federal judge lifted his order that had blocked President Trump from carrying out a mass shakeup at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Howard Lutnick was sworn in as Secretary of Commerce, adding to the list of President Trump's Cabinet picks to become official.

President Trump pushed back on reports that have surfaced in European newspapers that he's headed to Moscow in May to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Even if most people had not heard of the 4 Nations hockey tournament that concluded this week, they were thrilled by the national anthem faceoff that accompanied the matches. Part of this was catharsis: For a while, one would be hard pressed to find a crowd singing along in full to the U.S. National Anthem […]

A federal judge on Friday extended an earlier decision barring employees with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from accessing a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department. U.S. District Judge Jeannette Vargas partially granted the request of 19 Democratic attorneys general, who are suing to block the DOGE team from the Bureau of...

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) was coy while discussing his potential Florida gubernatorial bid during a Friday interview while also expressing gratitude for landing an early endorsement from President Trump.  When asked if and when he might enter the race during his appearance on NewsNation’s show “The Hill,” Donalds said that he is not “going to...

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New York City sued President Trump on Friday after his administration clawed back $80 million sent to the city for housing migrants. Citing concerns of “illegal activity,” the Trump administration took back the sum as it seeks to crack down on the program, which is funded by Congress and administered by the Federal Emergency Management...

The Supreme Court stiffed President Trump in his administration’s first high court appeal by punting Friday on a request to greenlight the firing of the head of a whistleblower protection office.  The administration filed an emergency application asking the justices to wipe a lower court’s temporary reinstatement of U.S. special counsel Hampton Dellinger, whose office is tasked with protecting...