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El secretario de Defensa, Pete Hegseth, comparece ante la subcomisión de Asignaciones Presupuestarias de la Cámara de Representantes para una audiencia presupuestaria del Departamento de Defensa, el martes 12 de mayo de 2026, en Washington. (AP Foto/Alex Brandon)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has stolen the government-efficiency playbook from Elon Musk and President Trump's DOGE, repackaging it as the "Commission on Government Efficiency." This comes as the far-left mayor is grappling with a large budget deficit.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth testifies at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee on defense hearing on the budget request for the Department of Defense, Tuesday, May 12, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Ryan Fournier, 30, was charged with simple assault and attempted threats to do bodily harm
SAO PAULO (AP) — The U.S. State Department designated two Brazilian criminal groups as foreign terrorist organizations on Thursday.
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When Representative Haley Stevens of Michigan was asked on Thursday during a Democratic primary debate for Senate what it meant that she had accepted campaign contributions from donors to AIPAC, the pro-Israel lobbying group, she spoke 160 words without coming remotely close to answering the question.
Former US First Lady Jill Biden has said she thought her husband was having a stroke during his disastrous 2024 debate with Donald Trump. The remarks have revived scrutiny of Joe Biden’s decline and the efforts by his inner circle to defend his fitness for office.
The Guatemalan government has denied reports that it agreed to allow the United States to carry out strikes against drug traffickers in the Central American country, while confirming that it has sought security cooperation with Washington.
E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
A United States judge has declined to immediately block President Donald Trump’s executive order tightening rules on mail-in voting.
Two political appointees at the Treasury Department spent months pressing Bureau of Engraving and Printing staff to develop prototypes for a $250 bill bearing Donald Trump's portrait, even as bureau officials repeatedly warned them the project had no legal foundation and could take nearly a decade to execute properl…
US President Donald Trump has reportedly pushed for his portrait to be printed on a $250 banknote.
First lady Jill Biden speaks during an event at the White House in Washington, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
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SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's exports of non-information technology (IT) products to the United States fell more than 10 percent after Washington imposed a series of tariffs early last year, but their share of the U.S. market declined only modestly, a central bank report showed Friday.
The Department of Justice has opened a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the veteran advice columnist and author who won two major civil lawsuits against President Donald Trump, CBS News reports. Carroll accused Trump of sexually abusing her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and then de…
Treasury secretary says banknote would celebrate US’s 250th anniversary but Democrats vow to block move
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The 250th anniversary of the US is approaching, and some in President Donald Trump's administration want to celebrate by putting his face on a new $250 bill.
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In his second term, President Donald Trump has turned extortion and coercion into central features of American statecraft, deploying tariffs, sanctions and other forms of economic pressure against adversaries and allies alike. With each passing day, the damage caused by this gangster-like approach — for both the US …
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Washington Wizards’ John Wall reacts after NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum announced that the Washington Wizards won the first pick in the NBA basketball draft lottery in Chicago, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
John Wall, de los Wizards de Washington (izquierda), y el comisionado adjunto de la NBA, Mark Tatum, posan para fotos después de que Tatum anunciara que los Wizards ganaron la primera selección en la lotería del draft de baloncesto de la NBA en Chicago, el domingo 10 de mayo de 2026. (Foto AP/Nam Y. Huh)
Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani discussed regional developments in a phone call with US President Donald Trump, according to a statement from the Qatari leader’s office.
The administration of United States President Donald Trump has filed lawsuits against four Democrat-leaning states for refusing to issue confidential licence plates for vehicles carrying federal immigration agents.
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This image released by CBS News shows Bari Weiss at the CBS News/Politico reception ahead of the White House correspondents dinner in Washington on April 25, 2026. (Mary Kouw/CBS News via AP)
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Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo speaks to reporters in Guatemala City, March 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo, File)
Cody Campbell, the co-CEO of Double Eagle Energy, introduces President Donald Trump at a Double Eagle Energy oil rig, July 29, 2020, in Midland, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)
Washington Wizards’ John Wall, left, and NBA Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum, pose for photos after Tatum announced that the Wizards had won the first pick in the NBA basketball draft lottery in Chicago, Sunday, May 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Oman’s ambassador to Washington, Talal Alrahbi, assured him the Gulf state has “no plans for tolling the strait”.
WASHINGTON — In the next five years, the Earth is overwhelmingly likely to surge again and again past the international climate threshold set as safe and shatter its hottest-year record along the way, according to new United Nations climate projections.
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Gov. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio, arrives to an event at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting on Feb. 19, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Allison Robbert, File)
Diana Winther, left, and Kellie Webber, embrace in a hug during an evening prayer and vigil in support for the victims and their families impacted by Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. tank implosion, at R.A. Long Park in Longview, Wash., on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. (Karen Ducey /The Seattle Times via AP)
AP review finds unprecedented number of suicide deaths as critics attack failures of Trump’s immigration crackdown
Tourists ride bicycles near the Lincoln Memorial, as a blue protective coating as part of a renovation project to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, is seen in the background, Friday, May 22, 2026, in Washington. The Washington Monument stands in he background. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
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El presidente Donald Trump escucha durante una reunión de gabinete en la Casa Blanca, el miércoles 27 de mayo de 2026, en Washington. (Foto AP/Jacquelyn Martin)
US President Donald Trump's administration is preparing to print a new $250 bill that could feature a portrait of him, if lawmakers allow the move.
Washington: The US and Iran have reached an agreement to extend the ceasefire in the war by 60 days, but President Donald Trump has yet to approve it, according to sources familiar with the matter.
When US President Donald Trump warned Iran on April 7 that “a whole civilization will die tonight,” a European diplomat in Washington said his government wanted an urgent answer to a chilling question: Was the US president contemplating the use of a nuclear weapon?
The White House has confirmed reports that a memorandum of understanding exists regarding a possible deal with Iran, though President Donald Trump has not yet signed it.