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President Trump's lawyers urged the Supreme Court to block a judge's order requiring the government to 'immediately' rehire 16,000 federal employees.

Just as President Trump is facing multiple cases in court aimed at curtailing his presidential powers, Rep. Darrell Issa introduced a bill to rein in federal judges.

An Orange County couple was deported to Colombia after living in the U.S. for decades with no criminal record.

Han Duck-soo was reinstated as acting president Monday. He was handed the reins to the country after President Yoon Suk Yeol, who declared martial law, was impeached.

President Trump and his allies consistently frame his policy agenda around the concept of fairness, which experts say is a potent political message in America right now.

The families of two Venezuelans deported to El Salvador say the Trump administration wrongly branded them as Tren de Aragua gang members.

Eric Swalwell has received countless death threats, been physically accosted and sneezed on. Republican colleagues tell him they fear similar reprisals if they stand up to the president.

The Trump administration ends federal contract that provides legal representation to nearly 26,000 migrant children who entered the U.S. alone, leaving them vulnerable to rapid deportation.

In an all-hands company meeting broadcast on X, Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk urged employees to hold on to their shares, which have fallen in value by 34% year to date.

A Trump-appointed appellate court judge broke with his colleagues in a California gun case by posting a "dissent video" to YouTube of him manipulating firearms in his judicial chambers.

Former Lakers player Butch Carter has joined a class action lawsuit alleging Dr. Bradford Bomba Sr. sexually abused him at the University of Indiana in the 1970s.

Jiyeon Lee, 33, Taehee Kim, 59, and Junghee Kim, 54, disappeared while driving from the Grand Canyon toward Las Vegas on March 13.

Once the darling of alternative energy advocates, the electric vehicles are now the unlikely target of political violence.

A ranch used as a training camp by a Mexican drug cartel was littered with burned bodies and discarded possessions. The discovery has sparked calls for justice.

The dismantling of the department has been unofficially in progress for weeks, but Trump's impact on education already has been substantial in California.

What should the American people believe -- Trump's denials that he's defying court orders or the evidence that can be seen and heard?

Mexico's transfer of 29 cartel figures — including Rafael Caro Quintero and accused Zeta members — has led to jockeying by attorneys willing to defend them.

An article highlighting baseball and civil rights hero Jackie Robinson's U.S. Army career was back on the Department of Defense website after being removed in a DEI purge.

A cease-fire between Hamas and Israel allowed many Gaza residents to return to their devastated homeland. But now many are fleeing once more.

The U.S. has played an important role in Taiwan-China relations for decades. Trump's 'America First' ideology could subvert efforts to preserve a tenuous peace in the region.

U.S. support for Taiwan has ebbed and flowed throughout the decades. Here's what's at stake as Trump rewrites the rules of diplomacy.

Democrats do not want to repeat the mistakes of last week, when they split over the GOP's stopgap measure to avoid a federal government shutdown.

Stations that need to fill time are now using the broadcasting services of Russia and China. This is a fiasco for U.S. global standing.

Arms are a global business, so it's little surprise that at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference, discerning quartermasters had a world buffet of weaponry before them, be it Brazilian ballistic munitions, Indian patrol boats or the latest in AI-enabled drones from the U.S.