President Donald Trump says the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz will remain and attacks will resume if no agreement is reached with Iran.

The stories of Black and Indigenous men who fought during the American Revolution are sometimes overlooked.

Carfentanil has experienced a drastic resurgence across the U.S., causing hundreds of unsuspecting drug users to overdose.

An American delegation has met recently with Cuban government officials in the island nation.

A lead prosecutor in the John Brennan investigation has been removed from the case after expressing concerns to Justice Department officials about the viability of a potential criminal prosecution of the former CIA director.

The top election official in Arizona’s most populous county will get more authority in running elections after a judge sided with his office in a prolonged legal fight with the county board that shares responsibility for overseeing voting.

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles has met with Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to discuss the company's new AI model, Mythos.

A West Virginia transgender girl who competes on her high school girls' track team says she's focused on having fun with her friends.

The Supreme Court is handing a win to oil and gas companies fighting lawsuits over coastal land loss and environmental degradation in Louisiana.

President Donald Trump has nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Associated Press and Grist have collaborated on a project to analyze how federal policy changes on energy are affecting farmers.

France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot says the 85-year-old French widow of an American military veteran has returned home from U.S. immigration custody.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk claims a cryptocurrency firm with “Russian money” has sponsored politicians from Poland's former government.

Cameras in U.S. courtrooms have offered the world a portal into the inner workings of notorious criminal proceedings.

A controversy has erupted over prediction markets such as Polymarket and Kalshi.

The small Balkan nation of Kosovo says it wants to commit dozens of its security troops to an international force for Gaza because it appreciates what NATO-led peacekeepers have done for its own security since the 1998-99 war with Serbia.

Cameras in U.S. courtrooms have offered the world a portal into the inner workings of notorious criminal proceedings.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has no plans to resign over the appointment of Peter Mandelson as U.K. ambassador to Washington, despite Mandelson failing security checks.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is starting a two-day visit to Spain where he and his Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez will meet with other leaders, mostly of mid-to-small-sized countries, who are concerned with the fate of the democratic order and the rise of the populist far right.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Iran’s foreign minister say the Strait of Hormuz is now fully open to commercial vessels.

Iran says it fully reopened the Strait of Hormuz to commercial vessels.

Oil prices dropped back to where they were in the early days of the Iran war, and U.S. stocks raced to another record.

Congress has approved a short-term renewal of a controversial surveillance program used by U.S. spy agencies just days before it was set to expire.

France and the U.K. have welcomed the announcement by Iran and the U.S. that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

Democrats running for governor in Georgia are scrambling for attention and cash.

President Donald Trump is more overtly leaning into some of the spoils of his office in his second term, drawing comparisons to French Queen Marie Antoinette from political opponents.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting director Todd Lyons, a key executor of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations agenda, will resign at the end of May, federal officials announced Thursday.

President Donald Trump has offered Cameron Hamilton the role of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's permanent administrator.

The Trump administration has agreed to resume funding a key Manhattan subway project after New York officials sued.

A Venezuelan attends an asylum interview in Southern California while his wife, a doctor, is detained in Texas.

During a contentious era, one of journalism's leading figures says he's concerned about news outlets that may be losing their moral compass.

President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Federal Reserve, Kevin Warsh, is likely to face tough questions about his vast financial holdings at a hearing next week by the Senate Banking Committee.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. defended a more than 12% proposed cut to his department's budget and dodged arrows from angry Democrats as he kicked off an expected sprint of seven hearings in Congress over the next seven days.

New York will lose more than $73.5 million in federal money because the Transportation Department says that state has refused to revoke nearly 33,000 questionable commercial driver’s licenses for immigrants since an audit uncovered problems last year.

Minnesota prosecutors have charged an ICE agent with assault for pointing his gun at the occupants of a car on a Minneapolis highway.

The House has rejected a resolution requiring President Donald Trump to withdraw U.S. forces from the war with Iran unless Congress authorizes military action.

Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel says that while Cuba does not want military aggression from the United States, his country is prepared to fight should it happen.

President Donald Trump has railed against a federal judge’s decision that continues to block above-ground construction of a $400 million White House ballroom.

Diana Padilla has spent a decade teaching Rio Grande Valley residents how to farm and was set to expand across the rest of the state, first in Kaufman County.

Congressional Republicans are sending President Donald Trump a resolution for his signature that would lift a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.

The U.S. military has widened its efforts beyond the blockade of Iran’s ports.

U.S. military forces have struck a vessel in the Eastern Pacific, killing three men the Pentagon says were trafficking drugs.

A federal commission has approved the design concept for the Triumphal Arch that President Donald Trump wants to build at an entrance to the nation's capital.

The House has passed legislation that would extend temporary protections for Haitian immigrants living in the United States.

Like thousands of other migrants, the family entered under the Biden administration’s rules in 2024. With Trump in office, they were locked up in Texas before deciding to abandon asylum.

A South African opposition party leader, Julius Malema, has been sentenced to five years in prison for breaking firearm laws.

Australia's defense minster says the Iran war had greatly complicated the global strategic landscape and the country is significantly increasing its military spending.

Pope Leo XIV's trip to Africa has been marked by an unusual dynamic with U.S. President Donald Trump.

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started.

The U.S. stock market ticked upward to another record high.

A 10-day ceasefire announced by U.S. President Donald Trump and agreed on by Lebanon and Israel has started.

Democrats are boasting of eye-popping fundraising hauls in some of this year's most competitive Senate contests.

President Donald Trump is betting that the tax cuts he signed into law last year will resonate with voters in Las Vegas.

New Jersey Democrat Analilia Mejía has won a special election to fill the U.S. House seat that was vacated by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill after she was voted into that office.

It’s never been so expensive for Americans to buy a steak or hamburger, but cutting those costs requires ranchers to raise more cattle, and that’s not an easy ask.

The CEO of LIV Golf is seeking to quell speculation about the Saudi-funded league's financial status by saying the rest of the season will go on interrupted.

Human Rights Watch, in a detailed new report, says Chinese authorities are increasing pressure on underground Catholic communities to join the state-controlled official church while tightening surveillance and travel restrictions on all of China’s estimated 12 million Catholics.

West faced opposition after backing countywide polling sites for the runoff, following a chaotic precinct-based primary.

Manvel Mayor Dan Davis wrote a letter to President Donald Trump after the president posted and later deleted an AI-image of himself that appeared to depict him in the likeness of Jesus.

OpenAI executives say they will introduce a new artificial intelligence model for “high-value professional work” as the company faces heightened competition with rival Anthropic in attracting corporate customers to adopt AI assistants in their workplaces.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday that Iran will participate in the World Cup “for sure” despite its war with the United States.

In a story published April 15, 2026, about a French national detained by U.S. immigration agents, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of Marie-Therese Ross.

The Trump administration is setting the stage to shift its war campaign toward a more economically focused effort aimed at choking Tehran into submission rather than relying on bombs alone.

A jury has found that concert giant Live Nation and its Ticketmaster subsidiary engaged in an anticompetitive monopoly.

Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson has delivered an attack on her conservative colleagues’ use of emergency orders to benefit the Trump administration.

The Republican-led Senate has rejected the latest Democratic attempt to halt President Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

President Donald Trump’s budget director is telling Congress that it'll take a massive upfront investment to ramp up U.S. weapons production and build more ships, planes and drones.

A man has been charged in a string of attacks near Atlanta over a matter of hours that left two women dead and a man in critical condition.

The BBC plans to cut up to 2,000 jobs to save 10% of its annual budget.

Nearly 200 organizations are urging the Trump administration and Puerto Rico’s governor to restore $350 million in federal funding that was meant to finance the installation of rooftop solar and battery systems for 12,000 low-income families across the U.S. territory.

Maine’s legislature has passed the nation’s first statewide moratorium on energy-hungry data centers.

A lawyer says guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at a state-run immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Florida Everglades.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni's relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump appears strained.

The World Health Organization says vaccination programs across Africa have saved more than 50 million lives over the past five decades, but progress is slowing in some countries.

Pope Leo XIV is again emphasizing the need for peace and dialogue despite criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump.

New York launched ambitious goals to cut its long-term greenhouse gas emissions with clarion calls about saving the future.

Federal prosecutors made an unannounced visit this week to a construction site at Federal Reserve headquarters that is the focus of an investigation into a $2.5 billion renovation project, according to two people familiar with the visit.

The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering whether facilities that recycle plastic chemically should be held to the same strict air pollution standards as incinerators.

House Democrats are launching what they call an anti-corruption task force in an attempt to strengthen ethics rules and protect voting access.

The tax filing deadline for most Americans is Wednesday, and the Trump administration is highlighting the impacts of Republicans' massive tax and spending law.

A special election in New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District on Thursday will fill the House seat most recently held by Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill.

Melania Trump has made a rare appearance on Capitol Hill to urge Congress to pass a series of bills to update a nearly 30-year-old federal foster care program.

For much of President Donald Trump’s second term, Texas city leaders have avoided opposing his immigration crackdown, but that’s changing — and sparking tensions with the state.

The leader of Iran’s joint military command has threatened to halt trade in the Gulf region if the U.S. does not lift its blockade of Iranian ports, while U.S. Central Command says no vessels have made it past U.S. naval forces during the first 48 hours of the blockade.

Pakistan’s army chief is meeting with Iranian officials for talks in Tehran in the latest diplomatic move to ease tensions in the region and arrange a second round of negotiations between the United States and Iran.

There's been a holdup on Capitol Hill in advancing the renewal of a program that lets U.S. spy agencies pore over foreigners’ calls, texts and emails.

Resignations came quickly this week from two congressmen accused of sexual misconduct toward staff members.

Vice President JD Vance used a Turning Point USA event to defend President Donald Trump’s aggression in Iran and play down the resulting tensions between Washington and the Vatican.

U.S. stocks have hit a record following their big rally over the last two weeks.

Republican Rep. Clay Fuller of Georgia is the newest member of the House.

Energy Secretary Chris Wright raised eyebrows Tuesday after saying the country “looks like we’re going in the wrong direction” in remarks hailing a new natural gas pipeline project.

The Justice Department has asked a federal appeals court to throw out the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were sentenced to prison terms for leading members of the far-right extremist groups in attacking the U.S. Capitol over five years ago.

President Donald Trump has again denied a request from Colorado’s governor to help people affected by wildfires and flooding.

As Ben & Jerry’s celebrated its annual Free Cone Day on Tuesday, one of the brand’s co-founders was focused on a different sort of freedom.

Democrats in Congress are trying to overturn the Trump administration's changes to a student loan forgiveness program.

The Kennedy Center's new executive director, Matt Floca, is leading tours to show the building's need for major repairs.

The Trump administration has fired four Justice Department prosecutors involved in cases against anti-abortion activists.

The timeline is tightening as some states attempt to redraw U.S. House districts ahead of the November midterm elections.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has recently been taking a firmer stance with the U.S., defying pressures where other countries have caved.

An appeals court panel has ruled that a federal judge must end his contempt investigation of the Trump administration for failing to comply with an order over flights carrying Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador last year.