In one of his first acts in office, President Trump issued an executive order promising to end government censorship and restore free speech.

The order accused the outgoing Biden administration of harassing social media companies and violating the rights of average Americans "under the guise" of combating disinformation online, and said federal...Read more

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pledged to review penalties the Biden administration imposed on Hungary, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said after holding talks with his U.S. counterpart.

“My new foreign minister colleague assured me that we will rebuild Hungarian-American political relations and for him this includes a review by ...Read more

More people watched President Donald Trump’s second inauguration than watched any other inaugural event in history, according to the president.

According to the new commander-in-chief, while his Oath of Office was administered inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda where only a crowd of several hundred could be seated, almost twice as many Americans...Read more

Two Republican senators urged President Donald Trump to reverse a decision to end government security details for his former aides who are at risk of revenge from Iran for the U.S. killing of an Iranian senior commander in 2020.

Trump last week appeared to shrug off the decision to cut off the security details for John Bolton, one of Trump’s ...Read more

With two top Trump administration officials in Chicago, federal law enforcement began a “targeted” immigration blitz Sunday, according to a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The agency did not say how many arrests have taken place so far.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with federal partners ...Read more

Two months after her plan to build a new garbage incinerator came under attack by President Donald Trump’s son, Miami-Dade’s mayor is dropping her longtime fight for a new trash-burning facility and instead wants the county to explore building a new landfill somewhere else in Florida.

In a weekend memo, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava explained ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s declaration of an energy emergency opens the door to wield sweeping Cold War-era powers and little-known authorities to fast-track pipelines, expand power grids and save struggling coal plants.

By invoking the country’s national and economic security, the plan lays the foundation for energy projects to move forward ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Tighter border security. More oil and gas production and exports. And dismantling a power structure in Washington that Republicans say is beholden to a progressive agenda.

President Donald Trump begins Week 2 of his second administration focused on clearing the path to keep a host of campaign promises. Claiming a mandate to ...Read more

Four weeks before Germany’s snap election, the political temperature is rising as the campaign shifts onto the contentious terrain of migration and Elon Musk steps up his support for the far-right AfD party.

Tens of thousands marched in Berlin, Cologne and other cities over the weekend to protest against the AfD, and to oppose plans to clamp...Read more

Harriet Tubman was barely 5 feet tall and didn’t have a dime to her name.

What she did have was a deep faith and powerful passion for justice that was fueled by a network of Black and white abolitionists determined to end slavery in America.

“I had reasoned this out in my mind,” Tubman once told an interviewer. “There ...Read more

I learned a lesson when conducting research for my book, “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century.” I had discovered the story of a young Jewish man forgotten to history until now, a story that taught me that neither cultural affiliation nor family history is a reliable predictor of future behavior. In short, ...Read more

Luis Campos, the legal director of The Alliance of Idaho, said that in the first few days of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, he met with local churches, schools and employers.

Since taking office on Monday, Trump has issued several executive orders regarding immigrants and immigration, along with other actions. Some of those ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ended a Biden administration hold on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel and called on Egypt and Jordan to accept more Palestinian refugees following the devastation of the conflict in Gaza.

The decision on the bombs is in line with Trump’s pledges on the campaign trail and since assuming the ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — Leaders of the University of California, the nation’s top higher education recipient of federal research funding, are raising questions and voicing concerns about the ramifications of a temporary Trump administration pause on research grant reviews announced this week.

The administration abruptly canceled some National ...Read more

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A West Palm Beach man was arrested Friday night after police say he made a series of Facebook posts suggesting that President Donald Trump should be assassinated.

Shannon Depararro Atkins, 46, is now charged with written threats to kill or do bodily injury as well as smuggling contraband and possession of a controlled ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration ordered the Pentagon to release a hold on supplying 2,000-pound bombs to Israel imposed by his predecessor Joe Biden, a White House official said.

Under Biden, the U.S. paused delivery of about 3,500 bombs to Israel — including the 2,000-pound explosives — in May in a bid to limit ...Read more

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson invited President Donald Trump to address a joint session of Congress on March 4, seeking to set the stage for his first major speech to lawmakers since he returned to the White House.

Johnson portrayed his invitation as seeking to capitalize on Trump’s early flurry of policy measures, including a ...Read more

LAS VEGAS — President Donald Trump vowed to work with Congress to eliminate taxes on tipped income during a Las Vegas rally Saturday — a campaign promise he made in the same city seven months before.

“Any other worker that relies on tipped income, your tips will be 100 percent yours,” Trump said to a crowd of hundreds at Circa in ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump surveyed destruction in Pacific Palisades on Friday, spoke with residents who had lost their homes and expressed shock at the level of devastation.

But across town in Altadena, some residents watching those sober scenes hoped the staggering losses in their own community would not be forgotten.

Both ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump show is back in Washington, with familiar set pieces. The new president held court for hours with the press, trolled bankers at Davos, feuded with a bishop and danced with a sword, all with cameras rolling. He signed decree after decree, pulling presidential Sharpies from the wooden cradle on his desk.

The executive ...Read more