President Donald Trump has launched his second bid to oust all transgender troops from the military, and once again it will be headed to the courts to sort it out.

Lee Zeldin said Americans deserve a clean environment "without suffocating the economy" during his Senate confirmation hearing Thursday to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, a department likely to play a central role in President-elect Donald Trump's pledge to slash federal regulations and promote oil and gas development.

President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law on Wednesday, giving Homeland Security more legal tools to take even relatively low-level criminal illegal immigrants off the streets.

President Trump said Wednesday he will sign an order directing the Defense Department to use up to 30,000 beds at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to hold illegal immigrants.

Howard Lutnick, President Trump's choice to be the next secretary of commerce, accused China's DeepSeek of stealing U.S. technology to make the sophisticated artificial intelligence app that shook investors and erased many billions of dollars in market capitalization for American rivals.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified Wednesday he is not a conspiracy theorist and that vaccines are a critical component of health care, using a high-stakes Senate confirmation hearing to defend his "Make America Healthy Again" agenda and accuse Democrats of misconstruing his views or turning on him for partisan reasons.

President Trump's political opponents have called him cruel and authoritarian and dictatorial. They've accused him of rewriting the Constitution and trampling on basic rules of government. But one thing that's been missing in all the early vitriol over his first 10 days is the I-word.

Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley is shooting down the idea that he could throw his support behind one of his rivals in the race to become Democratic National Committee chair, saying he sees a viable path to victory in the eight-person race.