U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped Russia’s Vladimir Putin would move toward ending the war in Ukraine but admitted the Kremlin leader may not want a deal at all—something Trump suggested would create a “rough situation” for Putin.

A sweeping hack of the federal judiciary’s case filing system exploited unresolved security holes discovered five years ago—allowing hacking groups to steal reams of sensitive court data in the ongoing breach.

A directive signed last week by President Donald Trump gives the Pentagon authority to use military force against Latin American drug cartels designated as terrorist organizations.

World leaders are mocking Donald Trump for welcoming Vladimir Putin onto U.S. soil with “a literal red carpet.”

President Donald Trump failed to secure an agreement from Vladimir Putin to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, falling short in his most significant effort yet to stop the bloodshed—even after rolling out the red carpet for the man who started it.

The Library of Congress removed two and a half sections of the U.S. Constitution from its website sometime after President Donald Trump ousted the library's longtime leader in May.

Ukrainians must have the freedom to determine their own future, European Union (EU) member states said Tuesday, weighing in ahead of talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

President Donald Trump is promising new steps to tackle homelessness and crime in Washington, including the deployment of the National Guard, prompting the city’s mayor to protest and question who will be patrolling the streets of the nation’s capital.

A prominent Al Jazeera journalist, who had previously been threatened by Israel, was killed along with four colleagues in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday in an attack condemned by journalists and rights groups.

Gov. Greg Abbott has asked the Texas Supreme Court to remove House Democratic Caucus Chairman Rep. Gene Wu of Houston—just hours after Attorney General Ken Paxton issued a similar threat.

The Kremlin has urged Donald Trump to be extremely “careful” after the American president said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be repositioned in response to statements made by former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev.

Australia said it has accepted a Japanese company’s bid for a lucrative and hotly contested contract to build 11 Australian warships, valued at about 10 billion Australian dollars ($6.5 billion).

From the European perspective, the best that can be said of the new EU–U.S. trade deal is that it could have been worse.

This week’s Joseph Welch Award—given to a person who stands up to tyranny in America, echoing the courage attorney Joseph Welch showed when confronting Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s—has been awarded to Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.

Senators are preparing to remain in Washington through the weekend as Republicans seeking to speed up confirmations of President Trump’s nominees struggle to reach an agreement with Democrats demanding concessions.

The Trump administration’s immigration agenda suffered another setback as an appeals court has upheld a decision temporarily halting federal agents from making immigration-related arrests in the Los Angeles area without probable cause.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that India’s relationship with Moscow remains a “point of irritation” in its ties with the United States.

The Senate left Washington for its monthlong August recess without reaching a deal to advance dozens of President Donald Trump’s nominees, ending days of contentious bipartisan negotiations.

Kamala Harris has announced that she will not run for California governor next year.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced that Canada will recognize a Palestinian state unless Israel agrees to a cease-fire in Gaza.

Faced with a criminal president and a GOP congressional majority wholly devoted to shutting down any and all transparency and accountability for him, Democrats will need to get resourceful in their efforts to break through that wall.

U.S. and Chinese officials may be able to resolve many of their differences to reach a trade deal and avert punishing tariffs, but they remain far apart on one issue—the U.S. demand that China stop purchasing oil from Iran and Russia.

Texas Democratic lawmakers fled the state Sunday in a bid to block passage of a new congressional map designed to give the GOP five additional seats in the U.S. House next year.

An obviously fake image purporting to show Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s resignation letter has circulated in MAGA circles on X.