A small Irish sport has become the latest battleground for female athletes protesting against their dress codes — in this case “skorts.”.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and executives from Microsoft and chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices testified on Capitol Hill about the biggest opportunities, risks and needs facing an industry which lawmakers and technologists agree could fundamentally transform global business, culture and geopolitics.

Long-threatened tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump have plunged the country into trade wars abroad — all while on-again, off-again new levies continue to escalate uncertainty.

Former President Joe Biden says he’s responsible for Donald Trump’s victory last fall.

President Donald Trump has pulled the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, after a key Republican senator said he could not support Martin for the job due to his defense of Jan. 6 rioters.

U.S. President Donald Trump said from the White House on Thursday that his government has reached a trade agreement with the United Kingdom.

As Republican leaders draft President Donald Trump’s big bill of $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $1.5 trillion in spending cuts, dozens of more moderate Republicans from contested congressional districts have positioned themselves at the center of the negotiating table.

A poll finds that as the Social Security Administration undergoes massive changes and staffing cuts ushered in by the Trump administration, an increasing share of older Americans, particularly Democrats, aren’t confident the benefit will be available to them.

Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman was meeting recently with representatives from a teachers union when things quickly devolved.

Vice President JD Vance says Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States looks to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine.

House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.

The White House says the vice chair of the National Transportation Safety Board has been removed from his position, a rare move that comes as the agency investigates more than 1,000 cases.

A meeting between the leaders of Canada and the United States is not usually considered a high-stakes showdown.

New federal statistics show a steep decrease in the number of times the FBI searched a vast foreign intelligence repository for information about Americans and others in the United States last year.

Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano has been confirmed by the Senate to serve as commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

President Donald Trump says he’s ordering a halt to nearly two months of U.S. airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthis.

The sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs, one of the biggest music moguls and cultural figures of the past four decades, began Monday in New York with jury selection.

A bipartisan group of President Donald Trump’s critics is launching a new organization, dubbed the Cost Coalition, to highlight Trump’s struggle to control rising costs in the early months of his new presidency.

Congress is drafting President Donald Trump’s big bill of tax breaks, spending cuts and beefed-up border security and deportation funds.

A judge has ordered the Trump administration to admit some 12,000 refugees into the United States.

Eleven inmate deaths in less than two months.

Among all U.S. allies being wooed by Beijing in its tariff stare-down with Washington, Japan stands out as a peculiar case.

A prominent Washington attorney has sued the Trump administration over the revocation of his security clearance, calling it an act of “improper political retribution” that jeopardizes his ability to continue representing clients in sensitive national security cases.

Georgia Sen. Jon Ossoff is among many Democrats looking to find the right path to challenge President Donald Trump and Republicans after the GOP won the White House and congressional majorities in 2024.

President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he doesn't know whether U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee.

Democrats are looking for the right message and messengers to lead the opposition to President Donald Trump in his second term.

Former Vice President Mike Pence repeatedly defended the Constitution after receiving the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award.

President Donald Trump has announced he won't recognize Indigenous Peoples Day and will bring Columbus Day “back from the ashes” — another sign some Native leaders say that advocacy for Indigenous representation must continue during Trump’s second term in the White House.

A new mission statement for the Justice Department unit that upholds voting rights shows it's being redirected toward prioritizing President Donald Trump's executive order on elections.

May the 4th be with you.

President Donald Trump has dispatched Vice President JD Vance all over the world in the opening months of the administration.

The United States has given initial approval to sell $3.5 billion worth of air-to-air missiles for Saudi Arabia’s fighter jets, the latest proposed arms deal for the region ahead of President Donald Trump’s planned trip to the region later this month.

President Donald Trump's administration is conducting a massive, multi-agency review of 450,000 migrant children who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border without their parents during President Joe Biden’s term.

A new poll shows Americans are more likely to believe the president is the one overstepping his power, rather than the courts.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long been on a campaign against Iran's nuclear program and his opposition helped convince President Trump to withdraw from an Obama era deal meant to rein it in.

Vice President JD Vance has visited a steel plant in South Carolina, where he heralded the launch of an “industrial renaissance” in the U.S., in part due to President Donald Trump’s moves to boost domestic industry.

When the stock market was climbing in January 2024, Donald Trump knew exactly who deserved credit: He did.

The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across the South should be eliminated.

Senate Democrats plan to force a vote in the coming weeks on a resolution to require more transparency from President Donald Trump’s administration about deportations to El Salvador.

The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1 billion in school mental health grants, saying the award reflect the priorities of the previous administration.

President Donald Trump is acknowledging that his tariffs could result in fewer and costlier products in the United States.

The U.S. and Ukraine have announced an economic deal after a weekslong press by President Donald Trump.

The federal government is expanding the reasons international students can be stripped of their legal status in the U.S., where thousands have come under scrutiny in a Trump administration crackdown that has left many afraid of being deported.

President Donald Trump has announced a new fighter jet mission for an Air National Guard Base in Michigan.

President Donald Trump has dismissed many of former President Joe Biden’s nominees to the United States Holocaust Memorial Council, including Doug Emhoff, the husband of former Vice President Kamala Harris.

For President Donald Trump's administration, the numbers on executive orders, deportations, reductions in the federal workforce and tariffs in his first 100 days back in the White House point toward a renewed America.

The White House is opening a weeklong celebration of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office.

A former supervisor of the team that prosecuted the 1,500 plus people charged in the attack on the U.S. Capitol says he fears President Donald Trump's pardons could embolden right-wing extremists and encourage future political violence.

Ahead of his second go-around in the White House, President Donald Trump spoke with certainty about ending Russia’s war in Ukraine in the first 24 hours of his new administration and finding lasting peace in the devastating 18-month conflict in Gaza.

The weeks since President Donald Trump returned to office have been a whirlwind of activity to show Americans his administration is relentlessly pursuing his promises.

President Donald Trump says he is bringing back Columbus Day.

In his first 100 days, President Donald Trump has exerted his power on a scale with no easy historical comparison.

Artificial intelligence technology that works well for the world’s billions of people of color was a business imperative for Google when the company asked sociologist Ellis Monk to help make its AI products more inclusive.

The mock battle scenarios under the annual Balikatan military exercises between the United States and the Philippines over the weekend have not only simulated real-life war.

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Three House Republicans from Florida with Cuban roots are carefully navigating President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.

President Donald Trump has paid his respects to Pope Francis, joining more than 50 heads of state and other dignitaries at the funeral of the Catholic Church leader.

A visit to the U.S. by far-right Israeli security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir is prompting fierce protests and exposing rifts in the American Jewish community.

The FBI has arrested Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan, saying she “intentionally misdirected” federal immigration agents away from a man they were trying to take into custody at her courthouse.

Since returning to the White House, President Donald Trump has launched an unprecedented campaign of immigration enforcement that has pushed the limits of executive power and clashed with federal judges trying to restrain him.

The clash in style between Donald Trump and Pope Francis and their positions on migration, the environment and poverty will come into sharper focus with the president in Rome for Francis’ funeral.

An Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll suggests Americans’ trust in President Donald Trump to bolster the U.S. economy appears to be faltering.

President Donald Trump will travel to Michigan next week to celebrate his first 100 days in office.

The State Bar of Texas has rescinded a speaking invitation to the NAACP’s president after the civil rights group challenged the Trump administration’s dismantling of the Education Department.

President Donald Trump is putting his “touches” on the White House with new flagpoles, new artwork and a complete redecoration of the Oval Office.

Florida’s “hanging chads” ballot controversy riveted the nation during the 2000 presidential contest and later prompted Congress to create an independent commission to help states update their voting equipment.

Iowans attending a forum hosted by Sen. Chuck Grassley started to turn on each other as the lawmaker faced heated questions about President Donald Trump’s first months in office.

Jen Psaki is stepping up into a more prominent role at MSNBC, taking over the flagship 9 p.m. time slot on Tuesdays and Fridays as Rachel Maddow returns to a once-a-week television schedule.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a missile toward northern Israel, the first-such attack by the group to reach the area as a monthlong intense U.S. airstrike campaign continues to target them.

The Education Department will begin collection next month on student loans that are in default, including the garnishing of wages for potentially millions of borrowers, officials said Monday.

China will sanction U.S. officials, lawmakers and leaders of non-governmental organizations who Chinese officials say have performed poorly on Hong Kong issues in a retaliatory move against Washington.

Pope Francis changed the Catholic Church’s teaching in areas such as the death penalty and nuclear weapons.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says that rental assistance for some 60,000 Americans fleeing homelessness or domestic violence will run out of money by the end of next year.

As Big Tech kicks off its quarterly earnings season this week, the industry’s bellwether companies have been thrust into a cauldron of uncertainty and turmoil that they didn’t anticipate when Donald Trump re-entered the White House less than 100 days ago.

Google on Monday began confronting an existential threat as the U.S. government tries to break up the company as punishment for turning its revolutionary search engine into a ruthless monopoly.

Some of the rioters who tried to take over the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are now considering running for office after being pardoned by President Donald Trump.

At least $1.6 million in federal funds for projects meant to capture and digitize stories of the systemic abuse of generations of Indigenous children in boarding schools at the hands of the U.S. government have been slashed due to federal funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s administration.

A federal judge has partially blocked the Trump administration from enacting a policy that bans the use of “X” marker used by many nonbinary people on passports as well as the changing of gender markers.

An IRS agent who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden's taxes and was promoted to be acting IRS commissioner is out of the job just days after he got it.

For Democrats, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case is about fundamental American ideals, including due process, following court orders and preventing government overreach.

Donald Trump has stepped up his attacks on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at the same time that the Supreme Court is considering a case that could make it easier for the president to fire him.

A Wisconsin Elections Commission discussion of uncounted ballots in Madison devolved into a shouting match, with the Democratic chair threatening to kick a Republican commissioner out of the meeting.

Google has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion.

President Donald Trump's escalating trade war with China means hopeful solar buyers may have a much harder time getting systems installed in the U.S. in coming months.

After saying earlier in the day that he was “in no rush” to finish trade deals, President Donald Trump said he thought he could wrap up tariff talks “over the next three or four weeks.”.

A federal judge won't yet decide on a request from Democrats and voting rights groups to block parts of President Donald Trump's recent executive order on elections.

President Donald Trump has attacked Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates.

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS’ Direct File program.

A federal judge says some nonprofits awarded billions for a so-called green bank to finance clean energy and climate-friendly projects cannot have their contracts scrapped and must have access to some of the frozen money.

New Jersey Transit train engineers rejected a labor agreement with management, raising the potential for a strike or a lockout next month.

The Army has restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.

The White House has put forward a new media policy that sharply curtails access to Donald Trump by the news agencies that serve media outlets around the world.

An IRS whistleblower who testified publicly about investigations into Hunter Biden’s taxes is expected to be promoted to IRS acting commissioner, two sources familiar with the plan tell The Associated Press.

The Trump administration has granted nearly 70 coal-fired power plants a two-year exemption from federal requirements to reduce emissions of toxic chemicals such as mercury, arsenic and benzene.

With the Trump administration expected to reverse a controversial 2023 decision on the permanent location of U.S. Space Command, a review by the Defense Department inspector general could not determine why Colorado was chosen over Alabama.

The two attorneys representing Harvard University in a pitched fight with the Trump administration are no strangers to the spotlight or to Washington investigations that reach into the White House.

Elon Musk's federal cost-cutting team is touting its latest finding: Hundreds of millions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent unemployment claims.

South Africa’s new special envoy to the United States is already under scrutiny for calling U.S. President Donald Trump a racist, homophobic and narcissistic “right-winger” in a speech in 2020.

A federal judge in Maryland will order sworn testimony by Trump officials to determine if they complied with her orders to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.

Former President Joe Biden warns that President Donald Trump has “taken a hatchet” to Social Security, weighing in on a critical issue for millions of Americans.