WASHINGTON — The four most powerful Republicans in Washington addressed the nation’s largest annual anti-abortion rally Friday, vowing to inject new energy into the abortion debate.

“In my second term, we will again stand proudly for families and for life,” President Donald Trump said in a video message to attendees of the March for ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s executive order to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska’s Denali, the tallest peak in the country, has resulted in lots of discussion. While for some, such renaming might seem less important than the big problems the country faces, there is a formal process in the United States for renaming places, and that ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Donald Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles Friday afternoon to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county. It will be his first presidential visit since taking office — and a potentially contested one after his repeated threats to withhold federal aid to California.

The trip to Los ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration would examine sweeping changes to the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and possibly even terminate it via an executive order.

During a hurricane recovery briefing near Asheville, North Carolina, the president floated an executive order “to begin the process of ...Read more

CHICAGO — The city of Evanston is investigating an incident in which four Evanston firefighters wore Donald Trump masks while at work, according to the city’s spokesperson, who also said a photo taken of the incident is genuine. The investigation will look at whether it violated the city’s code of ethics.

The photo of the four employees,...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed to rebuild communities in North Carolina ravaged by hurricanes last year during the first trip outside Washington of his second term, saying he would ask Congress to provide additional funding for clean-up efforts and pledging to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“We’re going to supply the money....Read more

RALEIGH, N.C. — President Donald Trump proposed eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a Friday visit to Hurricane Helene-ravaged Western North Carolina.

It was Trump’s first visit to the state since the start of his second term and his second trip to Western North Carolina since the tropical storm hit in September. ...Read more

Donald Trump has already issued a slew of dramatic proclamations, but it isn’t yet clear how many will come to fruition. In foreign policy, at least, the message is crystal clear, even if the impact isn’t yet.

That message is: Do what I demand or face the consequences. Trump has demonstrated that he intends to threaten his way to his ...Read more

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s plans to seal the U.S.-Mexico border and conduct mass deportations might soon run into a major roadblock: Mexico and the countries where the immigrants come from might not accept some of them back.

Trump on Monday signed an order to revive of the “Remain in Mexico” policy, which requires asylum-...Read more

President Joe Biden’s record of handling the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is decidedly mixed. He succeeded in reducing the detainee population he inherited by more than half, but he compounded problems in the military commissions that the Bush administration had invented in the wake of the 9/11 attacks to try people ...Read more

President Donald Trump vowed to rebuild communities in North Carolina ravaged by hurricanes last year during the first trip outside Washington of his second term, saying he would ask Congress to provide additional funding for clean-up efforts and pledging to overhaul the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

“We’re going to supply the money....Read more

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided a seafood distributor in Newark, N.J., detaining three workers, including a military veteran, sparking fear in the food industry and drawing ire from city officials.

It comes amid President Donald Trump’s vow to crack down on immigration, which has sent shockwaves throughout communities ...Read more

Orange County Public Schools says if federal immigration officers show up on campuses to interrogate or arrest students, administrators will follow the law and allow it — but will also seek permission to contact parents and refuse to hand over records without a subpoena.

President Donald Trump’s administration on Monday issued a directive ...Read more

Two orphaned Karen children, a Somali family of five in Kenya and a Congolese woman are among the people whose trips to Minnesota were canceled after President Trump issued an executive order suspending refugee admissions.

Jane Graupman, executive director of the International Institute of Minnesota, said the resettlement agency had been ...Read more

LOS ANGELES — President Trump is expected to visit Los Angeles on Friday to survey the devastation from the firestorms that swept through the county.

The trip is expected to take place on Friday afternoon but few details were provided. He is reportedly also traveling to North Carolina to inspect hurricane damage.

The California firestorms in...Read more

On a typical day, you can’t turn on the news without hearing someone say that Congress is broken. The implication is that this dereliction explains why the institution is inert and unresponsive to the American people.

There’s one element often missing from that discussion: Congress is confounding in large part because its members ...Read more

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, “It’s all about common sense.”

For over a century, presidents have pursued initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government, couching those efforts in ...Read more

The current Supreme Court has upended historic precedent on abortion protections and drawn scrutiny for ethics conflicts, while its docket remains packed with high-profile cases set to dominate headlines in the months ahead.

Yet one of its lesser-known departures from the past lies in its approach to punctuation.

Justice Neil ...Read more

The Holocaust was the first mass atrocity to be heavily photographed.

The mass production and distribution of cameras in the 1930s and 1940s enabled Nazi officials and ordinary people to widely document Germany’s persecution of Jews and other religious and ethnic minorities.

I co-direct an international research project to ...Read more