WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the attorney general to hunt for instances of campaigns during the Biden administration against perceived political opponents, as the White House on Monday outlined misleading or unproven arguments over government “weaponization.”

The language of the order dovetails with long-standing ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump plans to visit Western North Carolina on Friday in one of the first trips of his second term, The New York Post first reported.

The western part of the state is still grappling with the devastation of Helene, which left 104 people in North Carolina dead and was a point of criticism against Democrats for ...Read more

President Donald Trump was poised to enact hefty tariffs against Mexico and Canada as early as the end of next week as he continued a blitz of right-wing policy priorities on day two of his historic second term.

After signing a first-day blizzard of executive orders cracking down on immigration and transgender rights and granting pardons to ...Read more

NEW YORK — Amid sharp debate over President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration, gender identity and other issues, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday he has made a deal to not publicly criticize President Trump and has been assured he’ll have a direct line to him.

Adams said they made that agreement while he met privately with Trump...Read more

The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the U.S. troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said, as relations between Kabul and the Donald Trump administration start on a wobbly note.

Instead of taking back the weapons, the U.S. should provide Taliban with more advanced weapons ...Read more

Word began to spread quickly in the Tijuana migrant shelter Monday, even as President Donald Trump continued to deliver his inauguration speech.

Nidia Montenegro, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, checked her cellphone to see if the asylum screening appointment she’d waited so long to secure was still good for Wednesday morning. Those around ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed an executive order seeking to halt federal recognition of transgender individuals late Monday as part of broader executive actions rolling back efforts to promote diversity and combat discrimination enacted during the Biden administration.

The order specifies that the federal government would recognize only two, ...Read more

California, a coalition of other states and the city of San Francisco sued the federal government Tuesday over President Donald Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship via executive order — calling it an unconstitutional directive that flies in the face of long-standing legal precedent.

“I have one message for President Trump: I’...Read more

President Donald Trump was poised to enact hefty tariffs against Mexico and Canada as early as the end of next week as he continued a blitz of right-wing policy priorities on Day Two of his historic second term.

After signing a first day blizzard of executive orders cracking down on immigration and transgender rights and granting pardons to ...Read more

WASHINGTON — It’s official: There’s now a Department of Government Efficiency and it reports directly up to Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump’s chief of staff.

Trump late Monday issued an executive order — one of many Day 1 executive actions — formally establishing DOGE as an agency housed within the Executive Office of the ...Read more

Judge Aileen Cannon on Tuesday blocked the release of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report into President Donald Trump’s now-defunct classified documents case, raising the odds it will ever see the light of day.

The Florida federal judge, who has delivered a string of Trump-friendly rulings in the case, ordered the Department of ...Read more

Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said she plans to ask the state Legislature for additional funding this budget season in anticipation of legal battles with President Donald Trump’s incoming administration.

The funds would be used to beef up staffing, Campbell, a Democrat, told the Herald Monday at an unrelated event held around...Read more

Donald Trump promised “shock and awe” during the first days of his presidency. He didn’t disappoint the majority of Americans who understood that the country has been on a distressing course over the past four years.

Historians will record that Monday was an eventful day. Donald J. Trump, after a four-year hiatus, took the oath of office ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took swift action Monday to put his stamp on the federal government by quickly signing a spate of executive orders that address his administration’s top priorities and set the stage for other changes to come.

Hours after his swearing-in ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda, Trump issued directives that ...Read more

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is among the first four presidential appointees from the Biden administration fired by President Donald Trump the day after he was sworn in to office.

In a Tuesday post just after midnight on Trump’s social media platform, Truth Social, the president entering his second term in office made the ...Read more

Word began to spread quickly in the Tijuana migrant shelter Monday, even as President Donald Trump continued to deliver his inauguration speech.

Nidia Montenegro, an asylum seeker from Venezuela, checked her cellphone to see if the asylum screening appointment she’d waited so long to secure was still good for Wednesday morning. Those around ...Read more

Ten years after being laid off from Disney, Leo Perrero still views a visa program for skilled international workers as deeply flawed, blaming it for disrupting his information technology career and putting him in the unsettling position of having to train his foreign replacement.

“The whole thing is just a terrible scam on Americans,” said...Read more

Americans recently endured another grueling election season, offering plenty of reminders of just how polarized the U.S. has become.

Consider, for example, the fact that President Donald Trump survived two assassination attempts during the 2024 election; numerous judges and public officials have faced rising threats to their safety ...Read more

Philadelphia’s plans to expand its use of police-operated drones signals a pivotal shift in how the city seeks to protect – and surveil – its citizens.

According to the city’s Citizen Police Oversight Commission, the Philadelphia Police Department had two drones as of early 2024. These were, the commission says, primarily used...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s flurry of first-day executive actions included a slew of orders related to health, energy, international relations and the federal workforce.

That’s in addition to the nearly across-the-board pardons of those convicted of offenses related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol and Trump’s ...Read more