Politics

The U.S. plans to support Syria and its neighbors after rebels toppled Assad’s dictatorship.

It was 1906 when U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt designated the first national monument — Devils Tower in Wyoming.

Trump made his cease-fire proposal after a weekend meeting in Paris with French and Ukrainian leaders, claiming in a social media post that Kyiv “would like to make a deal” to end the more than 1,000-day war.

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Donald Trump to Paris on Saturday with a full dose of presidential pomp as the two held a hastily arranged meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy before celebrating the grand reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral.

The French president and other European leaders are trying to persuade the president-elect not to abandon support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia.

President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump spoke on the phone over the Thanksgiving holiday last week, according to two people familiar with the call.

Former President Donald Trump expressed confidence in his pick to run the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, amid allegations of excessive drinking and abuse of women.

President-elect Donald Trump’s immigration and border team is filling out.

During the 2024 campaign, Donald Trump made threatening comments about people he said had slighted or wronged him.

A Texas man who was the first rioter to go on trial for the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol has been resentenced on Friday to nearly seven years in prison.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen a Miami Homeland Security Investigations special agent in charge as his nominee for deputy homeland security advisor. 

The entrepreneurs are heading up Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency,” advising President-elect Donald Trump on ways to cut down the federal budget.

The head of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s conservative People Power Party reversed his earlier position, signaling openness to his impeachment for declaring emergency martial law.