Japan is looking into reviewing its car safety standards as the country seeks to strike a trade deal with U.S. President Donald Trump, Japanese business daily Nikkei reported on Sunday.

The report comes after Japan’s chief negotiator Ryosei Akazawa kicked off tariff discussions with U.S. counterparts in Washington last week. Preparations are ...Read more

DENVER — Two of Colorado’s newly seated Republican congressmen have been forced to bob and weave across an increasingly tricky political minefield amid a flurry of Trump administration executive orders and policy shifts that could complicate their midterm elections next year.

President Donald Trump’s actions so far have spooked global ...Read more

NEW YORK — As the Trump administration escalates its campaign against international students and Palestinian activists, Jewish New Yorkers are increasingly refuting the idea that the president’s efforts are actually about fighting antisemitism.

After Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested at his U.S. citizenship test in Vermont, a ...Read more

A Bucks County, Pennsylvania, congressman took his support for Ukraine to the country this past week, visiting soldiers on the front lines, meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and signing a missile addressed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as the role the U.S. could play in any peace negotiations remains nebulous.

Rep. ...Read more

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court to roll back its decision to block the deportation of Venezuelans to a notorious prison in El Salvador, arguing that the early-morning order was overbroad and premature.

In 15-page filing, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the detainees’ lawyers were wrong to turn to ...Read more

President Donald Trump would put the credibility of the dollar on the line and destabilize the U.S. economy if he fired Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, French Finance Minister Eric Lombard warned.

“Donald Trump has hurt the credibility of the dollar with his aggressive moves on tariffs — for a long time,” Lombard said in an ...Read more

A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more

A divided Supreme Court temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The order, issued around 1 a.m. Saturday in Washington, came after detainees filed urgent requests in four courts to block their ...Read more

Iran’s foreign minister said his country has a “better understanding” with the U.S. on a range of principles after talks Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear program, with negotiations to continue next week.

“It was a good session, and the negotiations are moving forward,” Abbas Araghchi told Iran’s state TV on the Oman-mediated talks in ...Read more

Harvard University said it had no reason to doubt the seriousness or authenticity of a letter it received from the government this month despite it containing demands that were “astonishing in their overreach.”

What’s more, even if it was sent in error, as the New York Times reported, the administration has only intensified its attack on...Read more

Masked guards march the captives in, holding their heads pressed down to waist level. They are forced to kneel while guards shout at them and shave their heads before they are stripped down to shorts. Their overcrowded and squalid cells, meant to hold about 80 men, are often crammed with nearly twice as many. Only two toilets per cell, no ...Read more

Early this month, the U.S. Department of Education issued an ultimatum to K-12 public schools and state education agencies: Certify that you are not engaging in discrimination under the banner of diversity, equity and inclusion, or risk losing federal funding — including billions in support for low-income students.

The backlash was immediate....Read more

David Walt received a presidential medal in January for inventions that have enabled genetic screening for in vitro fertilization, better disease diagnosis and improved crop resistance. His latest work involved early detection of Lou Gehrig’s disease, or ALS, with the goal of developing new drugs to manage the debilitating loss of muscle ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump is studying whether he’s able to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, his top economist said Friday, a day after the president publicly criticized the head of the central bank for not moving fast enough to slash interest rates.

“The president and his team will continue to study that,” National Economic ...Read more

The U.S. Department of Justice has asked to move Gov. Gavin Newsom’s lawsuit over President Donald Trump’s tariffs from a California federal court to the U.S. Court of International Trade in New York.

In a 22-page motion filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court of Northern California, DOJ attorneys argued that the federal trade court based...Read more

BALTIMORE — Following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Rep. Glenn Ivey is the next member of Maryland’s congressional delegation who says he will visit the Central American nation to see the mistakenly deported man.

In an X post Thursday before news of Van Hollen’s meeting broke, Ivey alluded to his plans to ...Read more

PHILADELPHIA — Mark Levin is heading to Washington, at least for part of the time.

The longtime syndicated talk show host and Fox News personality is joining President Donald Trump’s administration as a member of his new Homeland Security Advisory Council, led by Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem.

“I am proud to announce the ...Read more