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Last month's contentious town hall in Yucca Valley was among several events across the U.S. in which GOP lawmakers were shouted down while touting the Trump administration's first month in office.

Unable to seek asylum in the U.S. because of President Trump's crackdown on immigration, thousands of migrants are applying for asylum status in Mexico.

The actions of the Trump administration's FTC and FCC are oddly out of step with the positions on free speech JD Vance staked out in Europe last month.

The House speaker says Tuesday evening's speech before a joint session of Congress will be a 'triumphant return.' Democrats strategize about how to avoid becoming a foil to Trump on live TV.

The Oscar winner and his wife, Betsy Arakawa, were found dead with one of the family's three dogs by maintenance workers last week.

Sacrificing Ukraine and capitulating to Russia diminishes American power that has stabilized the world for 80 years.

Elon Musk has rampaged across the federal bureaucracy to President Trump's cheers. But if disaster strikes, it could blow up in Trump's face.

Then-Gov. Jerry Brown signed the California Values Act into law in 2017, limiting state and local law enforcement's cooperation with federal immigration agents.

Korean Americans are finding themselves on the hook for service in the South Korean military — all because a rapper dodged it.

A rancher living on the border with Mexico says life is less fearful now that hundreds of migrants aren't crossing his property each day. The latest installment in series on Trump's America.

Studies show kicking out thousands of transgender service members, a tiny fraction of the armed forces, would do nothing to help the military's mission.

President Trump says he'll impose tariffs on Mexico and Canada on Tuesday. Mexico is working hard to persuade Trump to hold off on the threat.

Authorities said there were no obvious signs of foul play, but that the circumstances of their deaths warranted further investigation.

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance publicly berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as an ungrateful ally risking global war in its ongoing defense against Russia.

Utah's strict laws blocking diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives have been playing out to mixed reviews on its flagship campus.

ACLU attorneys filed a lawsuit Wednesday alleging the Border Patrol's January raid in Kern County indiscriminately targeted Latino laborers and that the immigrants detained were coerced into signing voluntary deportation agreements.

The buyouts and the Feb. 14 firing of probationary employees has cost the National Park Service at least 1,700 permanent staff members this month, roughly 9% of its workforce.

The House on Tuesday night narrowly approved a budget resolution that paves the way for trillions of dollars in tax and spending cuts key to the Trump agenda.

Advocates on the scene said the Border Patrol raids in Kern County last month indiscriminately targeted Latino farmworkers commuting from the fields and day laborers soliciting work in the parking lots of big box stores.

In 5-3 decision, the justices set aside Richard Glossip's conviction, saying it may have been based on false testimony.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other allies of President Trump won't state a plain fact about the war. Politics has a way of making simple truths harder to tell.

Thailand's Phuket Island has become a refuge for Russians fleeing military conscription, political oppression and Western sanctions.