Some are thrilled by the number of executive actions. Others see it as executive overreach. What is a U.S. president really ...

Shares of private prison companies have grown since the election. Those facilities could expand under Trump, despite claims ...

President Donald Trump says he is firing members of the board of trustees for the Kennedy Center and naming himself chairman ...

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a conservative blueprint for Trump's second term that the president tried to distance himself from during the campaign. Elsewhere, oil and gas industry executive Chris Wright, a man with no ...

Peter Mandelson, Britain’s new ambassador to the United States, will try to sustain a relationship strained by President ...

As Commander in Chief of the military, shouldn’t Trump himself meet high standards of honesty, humility, and integrity?

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President Trump said he was revoking former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s security clearances on Friday as retribution for ...

As of February 6, 2025, President Donald Trump (R) had signed 54 executive orders, eight proclamations, and 16 memoranda in his second presidential term, which began on January 20, 2025. Each type of ...

A handful of demonstrators gathered outside Trump International Golf Club on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump's ...

China countered President Donald Trump’s across-the-board tariffs on Chinese products with tariffs on select U.S. imports ...