Meta Platforms Inc. agreed to pay $25 million to resolve Donald Trump’s claims that his ban from the company’s social media networks after the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol was illegal censorship, a lawyer for the president said.

Meta will contribute $22 million to the presidential library and the remainder to other users of Meta’s...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has boasted about bringing a more transactional approach to his relationship with world leaders. Just over a week into his second term, many have shown they’re eager to make the deals he treasures.

Saudi Arabia offered to invest more than $600 billion in the next four years while European governments will...Read more

A second federal judge said he plans to put a hold on President Donald Trump’s federal funding freeze that sparked chaos and panic across the U.S.

The move comes after a lawsuit filed Tuesday by 22 Democratic state attorney generals, including New York’s Letitia James, argued the bombshell memo by the Office of Management and Budget ...Read more

Maryland leaders on Wednesday found little comfort in President Donald Trump’s decision to rescind an order to freeze all kinds of federal grants — a move that sparked panic in the state and across the country on Tuesday before a federal judge suspended it.

Gov. Wes Moore, members of Congress and others continued to highlight the potential ...Read more

President Donald Trump on Wednesday waded into the contentious “parental rights” debate, with an executive order to target the federal funding of schools that affirm transgender children.

The order is the latest anti-transgender action from Trump, who also has moved to ban trans Americans from serving in the military and also prohibiting ...Read more

Alaska's campaign ethics commission has fined the embattled backers of an anti-ranked choice voting ballot initiative nearly $157,000 on the heels of previous fines totaling around $90,000.

The Alaska Public Offices Commission order, issued Monday, is the latest development in a monthslong effort to require the backers of the ballot initiative ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House is considering challenging the constitutionality of a 50-year-old law limiting the president’s control over federal spending, easing the firing of civil servants, curbing pay and reining in independent agencies, according to a document seen by Bloomberg News.

The ideas, detailed in a slide presentation labeled ...Read more

President Donald Trump signed a presidential memorandum Wednesday to ready a detention facility for migrants in the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that could hold as many as 30,000 people as his administration ramps up deportations.

The memo directs the secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security to take “all appropriate actions”...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed into law a measure designed to slap stricter penalties on undocumented immigrants who commit crimes on U.S. soil, giving him a platform to push his top issue during the first bill signing of his whirlwind second term.

Speaking at the bill signing ceremony in the White House’s ornate ...Read more

Melania Trump is back in the White House, but she still isn’t on the same page as Vogue, which mocked the first lady’s official portrait as tacky.

“Indeed, Trump looked more like she was guest starring on an episode of ‘The Apprentice’ than assuming the role of first lady of the United States,” Anna Wintour’s fashion mag wrote in ...Read more

Opinion polling shows President Donald Trump still has his head above water, but by a slimmer margin than he did upon taking office a week ago.

Trump’s approval rating is 49% and his disapproval rating is 43%, according to FiveThirtyEight’s average of polls.

Meanwhile, the RealClearPolitics polling average shows the president’s approval ...Read more

The Justice Department moved on Wednesday to dismiss the Palm Beach, Florida, classified documents case against two employees of President Donald Trump, following the agency’s firing of more than a dozen federal prosecutors on the former special counsel’s team that had filed the original indictment.

The department’s motion to drop the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The White House budget office has rescinded its controversial freeze on federal financial aid, lifting the pause that would have gone into effect next Monday evening barring court intervention.

The pause on agency funds, which has been subject to an administrative stay until Feb. 3, was lifted in a memo that acting White House ...Read more

President Donald Trump said Wednesday he plans to sign an executive order to ready a detention facility for migrants in the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that could hold as many as 30,000 people as his administration ramps up deportations.

“We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening ...Read more

The Trump administration’s decision to revoke the recent extension of Temporary Protected Status granted to Venezuelans by former President Joe Biden could affect hundreds of thousands living and working in the United States, setting the stage for possible deportations.

Here is a look at some of the key questions and answers about the issue. ...Read more

WASHINGTON — When Vince Fong applied for his first congressional role, he could type about 75 words per minute, thanks to a high school class.

“I think that was probably the reason why I got it,” he said of his internship with Bill Thomas, the hard-charging California Republican who became chairman of the Ways and Means Committee.

One ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Trump has begun his second term pressing his power to reshape the government by firing federal officials, ending diversity policies and deporting immigrants who are in this country illegally.

Despite fierce criticism, he is likely to succeed on those fronts because the Constitution and the laws generally put those ...Read more

Several California highway projects could be delayed indefinitely after President Donald Trump last week signed an executive order — titled “Unleashing American Energy” — aimed at rolling back pair President Joe Biden-era infrastructure laws, which Trump has termed the “Green New Deal.”

“In recent years, burdensome and ...Read more

WASHINGTON — On the heels of getting locked out of power in Washington, Democrats will take a first step toward deciding the future of their party on Saturday when members of the Democratic National Committee elect a new chair.

Yet many top Democrats, including most members of Congress, have refrained from publicly weighing in on a contest ...Read more