Live Nation lawyers have revealed that President Donald Trump spoke personally with the chief executive of Live Nation in the weeks before the Justice Department abruptly settled its longstanding antitrust lawsuit against the entertainment giant and its Ticketmaster subsidiary.

President Donald Trump's visit to Capitol Hill is rekindling a feud with one Republican senator.

Congressional Democrats are calling for investigations into renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, as the ongoing drama over the president’s problem-plagued, $16 million rehabilitation project continues to roil the capital.

A sprawling legislative package aimed at lowering the cost of housing and spurring more home construction won broad bipartisan approval from Congress this week, but it’s hit a major roadblock in becoming law.

The White House has formally requested $87.6 billion, mostly to replenish the Pentagon after the U.S. war against Iran, submitting the request to Congress at a politically difficult time, as a majority of lawmakers have objected to any further military action.

Federal bribery charges against former New York Mayor Eric Adams' onetime chief of staff are just the latest allegations against members of the ex-mayor's inner circle.

Michigan can keep a lid on the personal information of registered voters.

Civil society organizations in South Africa says that adolescent girls and women are among the first to feel the impact of U.S. foreign aid cuts.

Abelardo de la Espriella, set to be Colombia’s president, has intensified debate over the future of the Amazon.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Justice Department from executing subpoenas in a criminal probe that sought transgender care records for patients treated at New York hospitals.

A federal judge has permanently barred President Donald Trump’s administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections.

Trillionaire Elon Musk bought the assets of Jacksonville-based APR Energy, according to a Federal Trade Commission filing.

Abelardo de la Espriella, a millionaire political newcomer, has been declared Colombia’s next president.

The Trump administration has reached a multi-state settlement with chemical giant Chemours Co. over years-long, illegal discharges of synthetic “forever chemicals” used to make products resistant to water, grease and stains.

A federal judge has permanently blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from enforcing most of his first executive order on elections.

Mallory McMorrow is trying to turn the delayed opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge into a campaign issue in Michigan’s Senate race.

President Donald Trump sees America’s 250th anniversary as a chance to get the country excited again — about Donald Trump.

A new AP-NORC poll finds that about 4 in 10 U_S_ adults feel “proud” about the country's 250th anniversary, while about 3 in 10 feel “excited.”.

President Donald Trump has insisted that the United States is the only nation to guarantee citizenship to children born within its borders.

U.S. Representatives Steny Hoyer and Jerrold Nadler are retiring in January, but they are passing the torch to former aides who won the Democratic primaries to replace them.

Olympian Jessie Diggins visited Capitol Hill with her four medals in hand to advocate for clean air, clean water and a healthy planet.

President Donald Trump has berated Senate Republicans during his visit to the Capitol for allowing a vote to block his war in Iran, further escalating a feud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to a halt.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte is meeting with President Donald Trump, advocating for the military alliance that the U.S. leader has sharply criticized.

A recently opened, first of its kind Chinese queer museum in San Francisco is already having an impact on the surrounding community.

The Army’s commander of its forces in Europe and Africa is unexpectedly stepping down after just 18 months in the job.

A judge has barred the federal government from making arrests at immigration courts, a practice that took hold shortly after President Donald Trump took office last year.

The Kennedy dynasty won’t be returning to Congress next year.

A U.S. official says one of Anthropic’s artificial intelligence models identified vulnerabilities in highly sensitive and secure U.S. government computer systems during a testing exercise.

Olympic gold medalist skier Bode Miller has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor drug charges.

The House has given final approval to a broad bipartisan bill aimed at lowering the cost of housing, with lawmakers in both parties eager to show progress on affordability issues ahead of this year’s midterm elections.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance say their interim deal to end the war with Iran will deliver a financial windfall to American farmers.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is retreating from a plan to use warehouses to hold up to 10,000 people on a single site, jettisoning a key piece of former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s $38-billion plan to rapidly expand detention capacity this year.

Republican senators say they hope that a closed-door meeting with President Donald Trump is about unity, not disagreement.

California intends to sue the Trump administration over its deal to end an offshore wind project proposed off the state’s central coast.

The latest round of primary elections is underway in four more states.

A federal appeals court has allowed the Trump administration to resume carrying out speedy deportations of undocumented migrants across the United States.

A federal judge has dismissed a Justice Department lawsuit against Maryland that sought access to the state’s detailed voter records.

Georgia will stick with an embattled vote-counting method that relies on QR codes for this year’s midterm elections after state lawmakers passed legislation that put off making changes until 2028.

The Senate for the first time has approved a war powers resolution to block U.S. military action against Iran.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is in the United Arab Emirates on the first leg of a three-nation tour of Gulf countries aimed at easing their concerns about the result of an agreement intended to end the war with Iran.

President Donald Trump says six people have been arrested over recent damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

The U.S. government has slapped additional sanctions on Cuban companies that are expected to spook foreign investors and deepen a severe economic crisis.

The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers.

Eight people accused by the Justice Department of having ties to antifa have been sentenced to decades in federal prison over a shooting outside a Texas immigration detention center during a protest.

The Justice Department has withdrawn subpoenas that sought to compel reporters at The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to testify before a grand jury.

A judge has ruled that the U.S. government cannot stop people enrolled in the biggest food aid program from using benefits to buy candy and soda.

The Justice Department has announced criminal charges against 455 people as part of a two-week healthcare fraud crackdown that officials say involved more than $6.5 billion in false claims submitted to insurers.

Kenyan Health Minister Aden Duale has ordered the suspension of the construction of an Ebola quarantine center for Americans after he was held in contempt by a court that had halted the project.

The Supreme Court is siding with the Trump administration in an immigration case dealing with the government’s power over green card holders accused of crimes.

The Supreme Court has ruled that ExxonMobil can sue Cuban state-owned companies in American courts over property on the island nation that was seized after Fidel Castro took power.

The Supreme Court has barred a former Louisiana inmate from suing prison officials who cut his dreadlocks in violation of his Rastafari religious beliefs.

The Senate for the first time has approved a war powers resolution seeking to block U.S. military action against Iran.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is calling on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon, water and land used to power their systems.

The U.S. and Iran disputed whether Tehran had agreed to allow U.N. inspections of its nuclear sites.

Security forces in Turkey have detained over 200 people with suspected links to extremist groups, including the Islamic State.

President Donald Trump visited a battleground congressional district in the swing state of Pennsylvania to tour a Mack Trucks facility.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History highlights the complexities of the American story.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has successfully backed three allies in Democratic U.S. House primaries.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the GOP runoff election for governor, defeating the candidate President Donald Trump had initially backed.

Top allies of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani have defeated establishment-backed Democrats in New York's congressional primary elections.

Maryland Democrat Adrian Boafo has advanced to November’s general election in the race to succeed his retiring former boss, U.S. Rep. Steny Hoyer.

Ship traffic has picked up in the Strait of Hormuz since Iran and the U.S. signed an interim deal to end a war that's constricted global oil supplies.

The Pentagon has told lawmakers it needs roughly $80 billion, mostly to cover the cost of the war in Iran.

The top U.S. auto regulator has opened an investigation after a Tesla using an automated driving feature slammed into a Texas home at high speed and killed a 76-year-old woman standing inside.

Authorities have arrested two more people in Missouri and Washington state in connection with a planned attack targeting President Donald Trump’s UFC event at the White House earlier this month.

Tucker Carlson says he won't support the Republican Party ahead of the November midterm elections.

A federal judge has ruled that a revamped federal tool that state election officials have used in their efforts to identify illegally registered noncitizen voters is unlawful and cannot be used.

The Senate has passed a bipartisan housing bill that aims to bring down home prices and increase supply.

Legislation to keep Georgia’s embattled vote-counting method in place for this year’s midterm elections is facing strong opposition from state Democrats.

National Guard members and U.S. Park Police are patrolling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her country seeks to restart oil shipments to Cuba soon, a move that could provide much needed relief as the island’s crises deepen given a lack of petroleum.

A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov_ Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”.

A federal judge has denied a request to disqualify top Justice Department officials from supervising the prosecution of the man charged with trying to kill President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Many homeowners hit by devastating Michigan floods had no insurance and no idea they were at risk — underscoring vulnerabilities throughout rural America as climate change causes more extreme weather.

Vice President JD Vance says peace talks with Iran created a “good foundation for a successful final deal” to end the war that began at the end of February.

Former U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Alan Greenspan has died at the age of 100.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore seeks the Democratic nomination for a second term in Tuesday’s primary for federal, state and local offices.

Utah voters will nominate candidates for Congress Tuesday using a new map that created a Democratic-friendly district in Salt Lake City and scrambled the reelection plans of the state’s all-Republican delegation.

Two of South Carolina’s top officeholders will compete one-on-one for the Republican nomination for governor in a primary runoff election on Tuesday.

Democratic nomination contests for New York’s seats in the closely divided U.S. House take center stage Tuesday in a state primary.

Pope Leo XIV says wars are being sustained more easily than people are fed.

The Utah judge in the murder case of Charlie Kirk’s killing has denied a defense request to force Tyler Robinson’s former roommate to testify in person during the preliminary hearing.

Vice President JD Vance says his lengthy talks with senior Iranian officials in Switzerland created a good foundation for a final deal to end the Iran war.

New York’s congressional candidates are delivering closing arguments ahead of primary elections Tuesday, as an ascendent progressive left takes on establishment Democrats.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has announced his resignation, forced out by his party after losing voter support.

Abelardo de la Espriella is poised to become Colombia’s next president.

China has announced sanctions on 10 American defense companies.

The U.S. military has conduced another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the Caribbean Sea, immediately killing two people and leaving six survivors amid an ongoing campaign against alleged traffickers in Latin America.

Police say a spate of shootings in Chicago has led to at least 38 injuries and seven deaths since Friday evening.

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war ended with lower-level talks planned for the rest of the week.

Political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella holds a razor-thin lead in Colombia’s presidential election with nearly all the votes counted, in a runoff vote marked by people’s fears of a renewed internal conflict.

High-level negotiations in Switzerland seeking a permanent end to the Iran war have ended.

President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.

A Spanish investigative judge has ruled that the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will face trial on charges of influence peddling and corruption.

Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency to empower the military to remove road blockades.

President Donald Trump is lashing out at Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni once more.

The question hangs in the halls at the Capitol: Was the war with Iran worth it.

U.S. and Iranian negotiators are on their way to a venue in Switzerland to discuss details of their interim agreement to halt the war.

Pope Leo XIV holding up America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today because of her care for migrants in need.

The Kennedy Center's management isn't committing to new shows or staff expansion, even as it considers options short of a full two-year closure that a federal judge blocked last month.