President Donald Trump is insistent that U.S.-China relations are good and getting better despite deep differences on key issues.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to relax limits that require coal-fired power plants to prevent the release of toxic heavy metals into streams and rivers.

A top California Democratic political aide has pleaded guilty in a scheme to steal campaign funds from Xavier Becerra when he served as the federal health secretary.

The Justice Department is challenging efforts to sanction attorneys from the first and second Trump administrations, asserting in a lawsuit that the District of Columbia Bar is unfairly playing politics with the legal disciplinary process.

President Donald Trump and several top administration officials are joining with a cast of mostly conservative Christian clergy this Sunday for a prayer gathering.

A global oil bottleneck in the Strait of Hormuz has created a financial windfall on the other side of the world in New Mexico that is both enviable and politically sensitive in a Democratic-dominated state.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has returned to his show after being hospitalized for viral pneumonia.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has signed a law requiring nonpartisan elections for most local officials in Atlanta's five most populous counties.

The Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh as chairman of the Federal Reserve.

Senate Republicans have blocked Democrats' efforts to reverse Trump-era changes to consumer protection laws.

President Donald Trump's visit to Beijing is drawing attention for the spectacle China might present.

American presidents have navigated a verbal tightrope for nearly 50 years regarding official U.S. policy toward Taiwan and China.

President Donald Trump is scheduled to see doctors for a medical and dental checkup later this month.

The Interior Department is canceling a rule that put public lands conservation on equal footing with development.

Google said Monday that it had disrupted a criminal group’s attempt to use artificial intelligence to exploit another company’s previously unknown digital vulnerability, adding to heightened worries across government and private industry about AI’s risks for cybersecurity.

President Donald Trump has demonstrated greater ambivalence toward Taiwan in his second term.

President Donald Trump's Religious Liberty Commission is preparing to make recommendations after more than a year of hearings.

The man charged with assault for spraying vinegar at Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall meeting in Minneapolis has pleaded guilty in federal court after reaching a deal with prosecutors.

Republican Maine Sen. Susan Collins says she has long had a condition called an essential tremor.

The Trump administration plans to weaken some Biden-era limits on "forever chemicals" in drinking water.

Twelve U.S. Democratic senators have asked the U.S. Central Command about coordination with Israel on evacuation zones in Lebanon and Iran.

The federal government doesn't have to return the 2020 election ballots from Georgia’s Fulton County that were seized by the FBI from a warehouse near Atlanta.

The leading candidates for California governor are trying to stand out from the crowded field as mail voting is underway.

The Justice Department has agreed to return Tennessee Republican congressman Andy Ogles’ personal cellphone that was seized during an investigation into his campaign finances, signaling it's abandoning its probe into the President Donald Trump supporter.

The FBI has searched the Virginia state Senate leader’s hometown office and her neighboring cannabis shop.

U.S. health regulators have announced their first authorization of fruit-flavored electronic cigarettes intended for adult smokers.

Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow are suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement.

The Justice Department is seeking the names of every person who worked in the 2020 election in Georgia’s Fulton County, a Democratic stronghold Donald Trump has accused of widespread voter fraud he falsely says cost him victory against Joe Biden in the state that year.

California is investigating one of the Trump administration’s deals to end an offshore wind project.

Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is breathing on his own after being hospitalized with pneumonia and placed on a ventilator.

Voters in a competitive central Michigan district will decide control of the state Senate on Tuesday in a special election to fill the seat last held by Democrat Kristen McDonald Rivet, who's now a congresswoman.

President Donald Trump has taken a shine to the government taking stakes in the private sector.

Building trades unions have long been considered a voice of the American worker.

Federal judges around the country have raised alarms in recent months about the Trump administration’s failure to follow their orders in individual immigration cases.

The Trump administration has been found in violation of court rulings in an extraordinary number of lawsuits on a broad set of issues.

A Trump administration task force has alleged discrimination against Christians during Joe Biden's presidency.

Restless Democratic voters are rejecting their party’s establishment.

President Donald Trump said Friday that he’s “not satisfied” with Iran’s latest proposal in negotiations to end the war.

President Donald Trump has granted a key approval to a major new pipeline that would move oil from Canada into the central U.S. The three-foot-wide Bridger Pipeline Expansion would carry up to 550,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian border with Montana down through eastern Montana and Wyoming, where it would link up with another pipeline.

An order coming from President Donald Trump calls for a new government website where people in the United States can find and compare private-sector retirement savings accounts.

The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s order as it tries to cut the number of vaccines recommended for every child in the United States.

The pastor of the largest United Methodist Church in the U.S. has launched a campaign for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. Senate seat in Kansas.

The Voting Rights Act over its six decades became one of the most consequential laws in the nation’s history, preventing discrimination against minorities at the ballot box and helping to elect thousands of Black and Hispanic representatives at all levels of government.

President Donald Trump is leveling a new threat against NATO ally Germany by suggesting he could soon reduce the U.S. military presence there.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency is back on Capitol Hill defending the administration's plan to cut in half the EPA's budget.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has decades of experience in public office and the backing of the party establishment as she seeks the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate.

A federal appeals court says the Trump administration cannot jail immigrants without a chance for a bond hearing, citing “serious constitutional questions.”.

A jury in Virginia is deliberating in the trial of an alleged Islamic State militant accused of helping plan a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

President Donald Trump has lifted a federal ban on mining near Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, clearing the way for a Chilean company eying the region's precious metals to begin applying for permits.

An appeals court has ruled that the Defense Department can require journalists to be escorted on Pentagon grounds while the Trump administration appeals a judge’s decision to block its enforcement of a press access policy challenged by The New York Times.

The Trump administration has announced two more payouts for energy companies to walk away from U.S. offshore wind projects under development.

President Donald Trump is calling for unity after what he says he feels was a third assassination attempt.

A proposal that would require California to verify proof of citizenship when a person registers to vote — and require voters to provide identification at polling places — will appear on the November ballot.

U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody made it official Thursday, paying the qualifying fee to run for the federal office she was appointed to last year.

The Trump administration’s historic move to reclassify state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug was cheered by some advocates but for others, it fell far short for the thousands incarcerated for federal cannabis-related convictions.

The Justice Department will adopt firing squad as a permitted method of execution as the Trump administration moves to ramp up and expedite capital punishment cases.

A U.S. appeals court has blocked President Donald Trump's executive order suspending asylum access at the southern border.

A Republican congressman has introduced legislation that would expand the borders of Washington, D.C., and cost Virginia Democratic voters.

President Donald Trump says he is weighing a taxpayer takeover of Spirit Airlines and would aim to resell the troubled carrier after oil prices drop.

A cannabis industry group calls President Donald Trump’s reclassification of state-licensed medical marijuana as a less-dangerous drug “the most significant federal advancement in cannabis policy" in decades.

The Trump administration is in discussions to potentially send more than 1,000 Afghans who assisted America’s war effort and relatives of U.S. service members stuck in Qatar to a third country.

Authorities say a man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead has died in jail.

In a story published April 21, 2026, about a Justice Department case against the Southern Poverty Law Center, The Associated Press erroneously reported that an informant was allegedly paid more than $270,000 between 2015 and 2013.

Rachel Goldberg-Polin has written a book about her son, Hersh, who was kidnapped during Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack and killed in a Gaza tunnel.

A trial is underway in Virginia for an alleged Islamic State militant charged in a deadly suicide bombing at a Kabul airport during the American military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.

Virginia voters are considering a ballot measure Tuesday that would give the Democratic-majority legislature temporary power to redraw the state’s congressional districts.

Authorities have charged Olaolukitan Adon Abel with killing two people and injuring another in the Atlanta area.

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.

The U.S. government plans another oil and gas lease sale for Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A California attorney who aided President Donald Trump’s efforts to stay in power following his 2020 election loss is no longer licensed to practice in California.

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

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.

Federal health officials will meet this summer to consider easing restrictions on a controversial group of drugs popular with followers of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again movement.

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.

Dearborn, Michigan, home to the nation's largest Arab American community, is grappling with ongoing crises.

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.

Kim Kardashian is adding Broadway producer to her resume.

The big election over the weekend was in a small European country nearly half a world away from Washington, but the defeat of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has significant reverberations in the United States.

President Barack Obama in 2011 declared it was time to leave behind the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and “pivot” to Asia to counter China's rise.

A federal judge has been instructed to reconsider the possible national security implications of halting construction of President Donald Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom.

Former U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, a New York Democrat who chaired the Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, has died at 79.

President Donald Trump has shared a video of a deadly attack at a Florida gas station, using it to justify his mass deportation agenda.

Prediction markets let people wager on just about anything — from basketball games to elections.

A federal judge from Massachusetts has blocked the Trump administration's decision to end Temporary Protected Status for over 5,000 Ethiopians.

The Environmental Protection Agency has gutted rules that target waste from burning coal.

The Democratic Party’s leading 2028 presidential prospects are warning African Americans that President Donald Trump is actively working to undermine their right to vote in 2026.

Republican Clay Fuller has won Marjorie Taylor Greene’s former U.S. House seat in Georgia.

Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has won a Supreme Court order that’s expected to lead to the dismissal of his criminal conviction for refusing to testify to Congress.

Donald Trump won the presidency by promising to lower costs and end wars.

The Trump administration has scaled back its plans to dismantle the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

President Donald Trump sought to explain his rationale for the war against Iran in a primetime address Wednesday.

A judge has granted Luigi Mangione only a slight delay of his federal trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

A federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump isn’t immune from civil claims that he incited a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.