As President-elect Donald Trump staffs his national security team, speculation is swirling about how the incoming Trump administration will manage some of the most difficult international security problems of the day. While much of the attention thus far has been devoted to the war in Ukraine, the Iranian nuclear issue isn’t far behind on the ...Read more

On the campaign trail, Donald Trump disavowed Project 2025. The post-election Donald Trump is humming a different tune.

Perhaps the ditty is called, “No One Should Confuse Campaigning With Governing.” Or maybe Russ Vought’s words are more apt for a song title: The rapture of “Graduate-Level Politics.” Either way, Trump certainly likes...Read more

President Joe Biden on Sunday pardoned his son Hunter, who was convicted of illegally purchasing a handgun in Delaware and pleaded guilty to tax charges in Los Angeles.

In explaining his controversial action — which came weeks before the president's son was to be sentenced by federal judges on both coasts — Biden claimed his son was the ...Read more

Donald Trump announced his intention to cut short the term of FBI Director Christopher Wray and select Kash Patel to lead an agency the president-elect often criticized on the campaign trail.

The pick would be another high-profile test for Senate Republicans, who would be tasked with deciding whether to confirm Patel, a former Trump ...Read more

Ireland is heading for a return of the coalition government led by Prime Minister Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party and Fianna Fail, as voters bucked a recent international trend of ousting incumbent parties.

With more than two thirds of the results announced, Fianna Fail and Fine Gael were together on track to get more than 80 seats. They need ...Read more

Romania’s ruling Social Democrats were on course to win a parliamentary election, with exit polls showing the party ahead of a nationalist group that had threatened to drive home a blow to the Black Sea nation’s political establishment.

The Social Democrats secured 26% of the vote on Sunday, with the far-right Alliance for the Unity of ...Read more

Planned Parenthood of Illinois has repeatedly been hearing the same question from transgender patients since Donald Trump won the presidential election.

Patients want to know how many refills they can get of hormone therapy medications, which they often need to maintain their health and certain physical characteristics.

“We’ve definitely ...Read more

Romania’s ruling Social Democrats were on course to win a parliamentary election, with exit polls showing the party ahead of a nationalist group that had threatened to drive home a blow to the Black Sea nation’s political establishment.

The Social Democrats secured 26% of the vote on Sunday, with the far-right Alliance for the Unity of ...Read more

Nearly two weeks after Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a special session to fund legal battles against the president-elect, the Democratic leader appeared to be trying to tone down and reframe the California-vs.-Trump narrative he set in motion.

"It's not a resistance brand," Newsom said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. "It's around ...Read more

SAN DIEGO — San Diego’s federal courts played a crucial role during Donald Trump’s first presidency, both in the administration’s attempts to implement its border and immigration policies and the legal efforts to block those hard-line practices.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Diego ramped up criminal prosecutions of illegal border ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Canada is studying adding more resources and personnel to its U.S. border after a Mar-a-Lago dinner between President-elect Donald Trump and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau aimed at heading off a tariff fight.

In a pair of social media posts, Trump and Trudeau struck upbeat tones, with Trump calling the meeting “very productive�...Read more

Donald Trump tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief U.S. law enforcement agency — which the president-elect has long derided as corrupt.

Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 ...Read more

Donald Trump tapped Kash Patel to be FBI director, nominating a loyalist to lead the chief US law enforcement agency — which the president-elect has long derided as corrupt.

Patel rose to prominence expressing outrage over the agency’s investigation into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential ...Read more

BALTIMORE — Mayor Brandon Scott says he won’t allow Baltimore’s law enforcement priorities to be influenced by President-elect Donald Trump’s advisers’ threats to cut federal funds to states or cities not cooperating with a mass deportation plan.

Tom Homan, Trump’s pick for “Border Czar,” said on Fox News Sunday that funds could...Read more

Simon Harris’s Fine Gael party and coalition partner Fianna Fail look set to return to government after the Irish election, but the prime minister could face a battle to keep his post after his popular support appeared to drop.

With counting still ongoing, early tallies and the official exit poll showed little to separate the two main ...Read more

WASHINGTON — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump warned the so-called BRICS nations that he would require commitments that they would not move to create a new currency as an alternative to using the U.S. dollar and repeated threats to levy a 100% tariff.

“The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar while we stand...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to working to address the border and fentanyl smuggling, key issues that have led the incoming U.S. president to threaten massive tariffs.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday, called their dinner Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida a “very ...Read more

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau committed to working to address the border and fentanyl smuggling, key issues that have led the incoming U.S. president to threaten massive tariffs.

Trump, in a Truth Social post on Saturday, called their dinner Friday night at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida a “very ...Read more

MEXICO CITY — It would take years, if ever, for Mexico to accomplish what incoming U.S. President Donald Trump is demanding to avoid tariffs: stemming the flow of migrants and drugs over the border.

That’s why Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’s efforts to avoid a full-blown trade war might be more about doing enough for both sides to ...Read more