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The news comes about a month after the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic was mistakenly added to a separate Signal chat with national security leaders.

U.S. VP JD Vance will have a four-day visit to India Monday as the two countries seek to unlock opportunities and negotiate a bilateral trade deal.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met briefly with Pope Francis on Easter Sunday as the pontiff recovers from pneumonia.

Experts recommend seeking an immigration attorney and collecting documentation to prove your U.S. citizenship, like birth certificates and passports.

Three former senior advisers to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are decrying what they called “baseless attacks” after each was escorted from the Pentagon in an expanding probe on information leaks. Dan Caldwell, Colin Carroll and Darin Selnick were among four officials in Hegseth’s inner circle who were ousted this past week. Former Pentagon spokesman John Ullyot also departed this week....

A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr..

A large number of people gathered near the White House on Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s agenda, building on a widespread effort by anti-Trump organizers to galvanize voters concerned with the administration’s policies and significant use of executive authority.

The president is registering the worst economic approval numbers of his presidential career, according to the latest CNBC All-America Economic Survey.

As U.S. officials track plummeting tourism numbers, reports say some potential attendees have decided to skip the race over Trump’s rhetoric.

Historians and others look to balance any celebrations with questions about slavery, women and Indigenous people and what their stories say about the U.S. overall.

The Holy See has expressed alarm over Trump’s crackdown on migrants and cuts in foreign aid while insisting on peaceful resolutions to the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.

The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. In a brief order early Saturday, the court directed the Trump administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.” Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented. The high court acted...

Trump says Ukraine-Russia talks ‘coming to head’ and insists that ‘no one is playing’ him in push to end war.

The Department of Homeland Security appeared Friday to be preparing to send a new group of Venezuelan men from the U.S. to El Salvador and its notorious CECOT prison, even as lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union scrambled in the courts to stop the administration from moving forward.

A federal judge ordered that a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration authorities in Louisiana be brought to Vermont by May 1 for a hearing over what her lawyers say was apparent retaliation for an op-ed piece she co-wrote in the student newspaper.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen revealed new details about his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man who the Trump admin says was mistakenly deported.

The fight over Abrego Garcia is the latest partisan flashpoint as Democrats have struggled to break through and push back during the opening few months of Trump’s second time in office.

A federal website that used to feature information on vaccines, testing and treatment for COVID-19 has been transformed into a page supporting the theory that the pandemic originated with a lab leak.

President Trump’s executive order requested an implementation plan from the Pentagon for the next-generation missile defense shield “against ballistic, hypersonic, advanced cruise missiles and other next-generation aerial attacks from peer, near-peer and rogue adversaries.”