Sen. Chris Van Hollen said that if a departed illegal immigrant was not returned to U.S. from an El Salvador mega-prison, he would travel to El Salvador to check on the man.

President Trump said Monday he will not back off his sweeping tariff plan but will be "flexible" in how he taxes imported electronics and car parts, cheering Wall Street investors.

A man who allegedly scaled an iron security fence in the middle of the night, eluded police and set fire to the Pennsylvania governor's mansion was in police custody at a hospital after an unrelated medical event, state police said Monday.

China is blocking -- or at least slow-walking -- the export of rare earth minerals used in military equipment, cars and other materials, adding a serious wrinkle to the emerging trade war between the U.S. and China.