President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office while FIFA President Gianni Infantino (R) and Vice President JD Vance (3rd L) look on, on Aug. 22, 2025. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images President Donald Trump announced on Aug. 22 that Washington’s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts will host the 2026 FIFA World Cup draw.
President Donald Trump teased the possibility of implementing a crime crackdown in Chicago that would be similar to the one he started in D.C. last week.
A largely taxpayer funded academy is moving to review a Trump administration push to rollback a key Obama era climate regulation prompting questions about a political motive.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that National Guard troops patrolling the streets of Washington for President Trump’s law enforcement crackdown will be armed, the Pentagon said Friday. The Defense Department didn’t immediately offer any other details about the new development or why it was needed. The step is a escalation in Mr. Trump’s intervention
Illegal immigrants walk alongside the U.S.–Mexico border wall after crossing the Rio Grande into El Paso, Texas, on Feb. 1, 2024. John Moore/Getty Images The foreign-born population in the United States declined by nearly 1.5 million between January and June 2025, according to an analysis of census data by the Pew Research Center released on
The Texas Senate began its session Friday morning debating a controversial GOP redistricting bill that triggered a weeks-long House standoff. The Republican-backed proposal, which passed the House in an 88-52 party-line vote on Wednesday, aims to redraw the state’s congressional map and produce five new GOP-leaning districts. The Texas Senate Committee on Redistricting advanced the bill Thursday with a
Justice Jackson ripped the high court for “Calvinball jurisprudence” in a fractured NIH grants ruling, accusing colleagues of favoring Trump at the expense of science.