U.S. President Donald Trump’s representative John Coale speaks with Reuters, on the day prisoners released from Belarus arrive to Vilnius, Lithuania, September 11, 2025. Kacper Pempel/Reuters President Donald Trump on Sunday said John Coale, who helped negotiate the release of prisoners from Belarus, was his choice for special envoy to Minsk and would press for
Some of the Democratic senators who supported advancing the government funding measure, enabling it to proceed, held a presser to defend their votes. “This was the only deal on the table,” said Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire. Sen. Angus King of Maine, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, called the deal “a win
The government shutdown neared its end on Sunday as the Senate cleared the first series of votes, with final House approval and President Donald Trump's signature still required.
The FAA started reducing air traffic by 10% across 40 major airports Friday due to air traffic controller staffing shortages caused by the government shutdown.
Philanthropist Miriam Adelson voiced support for Rep. Elise Stefanik’s New York gubernatorial bid during the Zionist Organization of America’s Justice Louis D. Brandeis Award Dinner.
President Trump became the first sitting president in nearly a half-century to attend a regular-season NFL game Sunday as he took in a portion of the Washington Commanders’ contest against the Detroit Lions. There were loud boos from some spectators in the stands when Mr. Trump was shown on the videoboard late in the first
New York Assemblyman Chuck Lavine, a Democrat first elected to state office in 2005, has become one of a handful of unlikely leaders of state efforts to preserve the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol insurrection. Sitting in front of a bookshelf in his home office in Glen Cove, New York, a historic