President Donald Trump praised Walmart Inc. for lowering prices on some products on Monday and urged other retailers to follow suit, touting the move as a boon to US consumers.

“I have just been informed that one of the biggest, best, and smartest Retailers in America, Walmart, will be lowering prices, by a lot, at my Administration’s ...Read more

The Trump administration’s plan to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve has been complicated by two government departments vying to run it, alongside questions about which has the legal authority to do so.

President Donald Trump ordered the reserve to be created last year as part of his promise to turn America into the “crypto capital of the ...Read more

BOGOTA, Colombia — Colombia’s outgoing leader said he doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of the incoming government of President-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, escalating tension as the nation prepares for a transfer of power on Aug. 7.

“Abelardo didn’t win the election,” President Gustavo Petro wrote in a lengthy post on X.

Petro ...Read more

LANSING, Mich. — President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has informed Michigan officials it intends to send election monitors to three cities in the battleground state for the Aug. 4 primary.

Letters from the federal department about the plans have mentioned Detroit, Lansing and East Lansing, said two sources who had knowledge of the ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is touting its tax-advantaged investment accounts for those under 18, but critics say the accounts may only reach those who are already set in life.

Parents can contribute up to $5,000 annually to what Republicans have dubbed Trump Accounts and children born between 2025 and 2028 receive a $1,000 federal ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The sweltering Fourth of July weekend is over, but for both parties in House and Senate leadership, the heat is still cranked up.

Both chambers are likely to return next Monday to the same sweat-inducing tangle of legislative problems that left them stumped as they headed out of town at the end of June.

Speaker Mike Johnson, R-...Read more

Kendall Qualls delivered an unusual closing message to a crowd of Republicans deciding whether he should be the party’s endorsed candidate for governor.

“I’m the one candidate that’s a nobody‚" Qualls said.

“And God likes nobodies,” he continued from the stage at the GOP convention in Duluth in May. “I don’t have an office ...Read more

BALTIMORE — When Maryland voters in northwest Baltimore opened campaign mailers from outgoing state Sen. Dalya Attar ahead of last month’s Democratic primary, they saw a smiling photo with Gov. Wes Moore and language emphasizing that he appointed her to the Senate.

Although Moore appointed Attar to the vacant Senate seat in District 41, the...Read more

WASHINGTON — The leaders of Europe are bracing for another turbulent summit with President Donald Trump this week as NATO members gather for their annual meeting in the Turkish capital.

European diplomats view Trump’s decision to attend as a positive sign of his continued commitment to the alliance. But the president’s grievances with ...Read more

WASHINGTON — The most recent Supreme Court term has left Congress grappling with how to respond to a court that experts say has grabbed considerably more power for itself.

Conservatives were rankled by a Supreme Court decision quashing President Donald Trump’s effort to limit birthright citizenship, for example. Democrats, meanwhile, were ...Read more

Donald Trump, now 80 years old and seeking riches his whole life, has realized his dream by debasing the once-solemn duties of the U.S. presidency.

After decades of bankruptcies and losses and inflating his own wealth as he mismanaged his companies, Trump has finally found profit, with his financial disclosure statements showing he pulled in at...Read more

WASHINGTON — Over the past year and a half, the Trump administration has turned repeatedly to the Supreme Court for clearance on its sweeping immigration enforcement plans. While the administration lost its bid this week to do away with birthright citizenship by executive order, its strategy has, in large part, been a success.

In a White ...Read more

Antidepressants didn’t do David Johnson’s oldest daughter any favors. Or maybe they did. It’s difficult to say when assessing his daughter’s decadelong struggle with depression.

“(She) cycled on and off a lot of the first-line drugs, the second-line drugs, and even some older drugs that they tend not to use anymore, just trying to ...Read more

Politics is personal for Ruth Fortune — very personal.

As a 12-year-old girl, she moved with her family from Haiti to the United States in 2000 and suddenly became undocumented. After a years-long journey in search of the American dream, she eventually received her law degree, bought a home at the age of 30, and is now raising three children ...Read more

President Donald Trump will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a NATO summit in Turkey on Wednesday that will be charged with tension over the U.S. leader’s views on Greenland, European defense spending and the Iran war.

Trump arrives in Turkey on Tuesday, when he will meet with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan before a summit...Read more

Questions about political conflicts of interest have surfaced days ahead of a civil trial that experts say could hamstring the state’s top water regulator and cost taxpayers billions of dollars.

The trial over water rights at Coyote Springs, what was once a proposed satellite city northeast of Las Vegas, is the final act of a long saga ...Read more

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump discussed Ukraine and the upcoming NATO summit in Turkey in a phone call Saturday, while Trump also spoke with his Ukrainian counterpart.

Putin congratulated Trump on the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in the call that lasted 85 minutes, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri ...Read more

President Donald Trump put himself centerstage for U.S. Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that celebrated the nation’s 250th anniversary and highlighted his own political priorities.

Trump spoke after 11 p.m. at the National Mall after thunderstorms earlier in the evening prompted the area to be cleared out of...Read more

President Donald Trump was set to headline U.S. Independence Day celebrations on Saturday with a speech and a show that seek to place him at the center of the nation’s 250th anniversary.

Trump has made no secret of his joy at presiding over the July 4 festivities, portraying the timing as a side benefit of winning a second term starting in ...Read more