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Beijing’s message to America: We’re not afraid of you. You aren’t who you think you are — and we aren’t who you think we are.

Óscar Arias Sánchez, twice president of Costa Rica, has been a vocal critic of President Trump, describing him as acting like a “Roman emperor.”

The New Jersey senator spent much of his speech, which ended after more than 25 hours, assailing the Trump administration. He eclipsed Strom Thurmond’s filibuster of a civil rights bill in 1957.

The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration’s aggressive and at times slapdash tactics.

The disclosure of the tab so far came after five senators visited the offshore operation, which they condemned as a waste of resources.

The speaker tried to use an unprecedented parliamentary maneuver to deny a bipartisan majority the chance to hold a vote on their proposal to allow new parents to vote remotely in the House.

Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was in the U.S. legally, is now in prison in El Salvador, and federal courts have no jurisdiction to order his release, the Trump administration said in a court filing.

The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.

The staff of the independent Institute of Museum and Library Services, the largest source of federal funding for museums and libraries, were put on leave.

The government says it tightened citizenship rules because of a deluge of applications from the descendants of emigrants who only coveted an Italian passport.

The Irving family businesses dominate Saint John, New Brunswick. They are a major employer, but residents say those jobs have come with a steep cost.

Markets around the world have wavered as fear and uncertainty over tariffs and trade wars rattle investors. The S&P 500 just recorded its worst month since 2022, shedding 5.8 percent in March.

President Trump has described his new in-office requirement as a way to ensure workers are doing their jobs. He sees potentially leading more employees to quit as an added benefit.

A surge in U.S. wealth has been driven by stock and home values. But the gains are concentrated at the top, leaving others in a sour economic mood.

President Trump, in an interview with NBC News, said there were “methods” that would allow a third term. The 22nd Amendment prohibits a person from being elected to more than two terms as president.

Trust is very hard to build and easy to destroy. America and its partners are caught in a spiral of distrust.

Elon Musk campaigned on Sunday in Green Bay for a state Supreme Court candidate he has spent lavishly to support — but who did not attend his event.

In wide-ranging remarks to “Meet the Press,” Mr. Trump said “a lot of people” wanted him to serve a third term and vowed to impose tariffs on global rivals, according to a transcript of the interview provided by NBC News.

The New York progressive believes economic populism is the path forward for Democrats. Can she unite her party around that?

A region near the Canadian border, whose mines provide most of the new ore used in producing domestic steel — and cars — has a lot at stake as trade wars intensify.

New tremors rattled survivors of Friday’s earthquake, which killed more than 1,600 people, while the government continued its bombing campaign elsewhere in the country.